Jim Clyburn Quotes

Hillary Clinton understands that if someone in America this country works 40 hours a week, that person should not be living in poverty. She understands that we must raise the minimum wage to a living wage.

Nobody who works full time should have to live in poverty.

Anyone who's tried to pay a heating bill, fill a prescription, or simply buy groceries knows all too well that the current minimum wage does not cut the mustard.

Does anyone really believe it is possible to make even the most basic ends meet on $5.15 an hour?

Nobody who works 40 hours a week should have to live in poverty.

I thought in this country, the best social program was a job. Yet minimum wage jobs aren't paying enough to keep families out of poverty.

It is unacceptable that someone can work full time - and work hard - and not be able to lift themselves out of poverty.

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Too many jobs don't pay enough to get by, let alone get ahead.

I was on the committee that helped raise the minimum wage here in Seattle. I introduced a statewide bill to raise the minimum wage in Washington state my first year in the state senate, and I really believe that raising the federal minimum wage, while not the answer to everything, addresses a lot of the issues at the very bottom.

We should raise the minimum wage so that no one who works full time has to live in poverty

How can anyone live off of minimum wage?

House Republican leadership have refused to allow a clean minimum wage vote. Close to 15 million Americans will be affected if we did this. Do Republicans really expect a family to live on less than $11,000 a year?

No family gets rich from earning the minimum wage. In fact, the current minimum wage does not even lift a family out of poverty.

No person can maximize the American Dream on the minimum wage.

In the wealthiest nation on Earth, no one who works a full time job should have to live in poverty. That's a fundamental value proposition, an article of faith in our country that I know an overwhelming majority of Americans agree on.

Today a minimum wage earner has to work a day and a half just to pay for a full tank of gas. That is simply shameful.

It is time this Congress listened to the American people and minimum-wage workers, and it is time that we act.

We have to raise the minimum wage.

6.6 million people will benefit from a rise in the minimum wage.

No woman who works full time and plays by the rules should have to raise her family in poverty.

People who work full-time in America should not have to live in poverty - simple as that. Too many jobs don't pay enough to get by, let alone get ahead. Too many people are finding the rungs on the ladder of opportunity further and further apart.

Full-time workers earning the current federal minimum wage of $7.25 only earn about $14,500 a year in wages - below the poverty line for a family of two. That's unacceptable.

It is shameful that millions of Americans are suffering the economic injustice of working a full-time job and earning a wage that leaves them below the poverty line.

The working poor is a growing population in this country.