Sherrod Brown Quotes

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

Even if we raised the minimum wage to $15 an hour, it's still hard to prosper on that wage.

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

The sad fact is that in communities such as mine, the minimum wage is the maximum wage.

How can anyone live off of minimum wage?

Emotional appeals about working families trying to get by on $4.25 an hour are hard to resist. Fortunately, such families do not exist.

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

America's vast population of working poor can only get so poor before even Walmart is out of reach.

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.

I live in a working-class community that is struggling at the poverty line, where people who work full-time jobs still at my corner bodega use food stamps. Do you think they care what the stock market's doing today or what the GDP number is? No.

The minimum wage can play a vital role in lifting hard-working families above the poverty line.

Working-class Americans have waited too long, close to a decade in fact, for an increase in the minimum wage. This has been the second longest period without a pay raise since the Federal minimum wage law was first enacted in 1938.

People can't live on $7.50 an hour.

In New Orleans, where I'm from, the average household income, with two working parents, two kids, a dog and a little fence is $16,000 a year, so $15,000 for a movie sounds pretty good.

Raising the minimum wage means raising the living wage - and that's good news for Ohio.

At the current $5.15 an hour, the federal minimum wage has become a poverty wage. A full-time worker with one child lives below the official poverty line.

Thousands of Ohio families are going deeper and deeper in debt just trying to pay their heating bills, fill prescriptions, and buy groceries. The current minimum wage is simply not enough.

When we talk about the kind of folks whose lives will be made better by raising the minimum wage, we're not talking about a couple teenagers earning extra spending money to supplement their allowance. We're talking about providers and breadwinners. Working Americans with bills to pay and mouths to feed.

I've still got family members living below the poverty line in New York.

The minimum wage was enacted in 1937 during the Great Depression and it has been increased 16 times. It's a well-established economic policy to help families.

The typical minimum wage earner is a provider and a breadwinner - most likely a woman - responsible for paying bills, running a household and raising children.

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

In the 1960s, a minimum wage job would keep a family of three afloat.

The bottom line is that five million low-income Americans working full time for minimum wage, deserve a raise.

No one who works full time and has children should be poor in America.