Adam Cohen Quotes

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.

I'm not sure there's another way to help move more people out of poverty than to raise the minimum wage.

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

Minimum wage laws have never worked in terms of having the middle class attain more prosperity.

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

The current minimum wage simply is not supporting Ohio's working families.

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.

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.

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

The most insidious thing about trickle-down economics is not the claim that if the rich get richer, everyone is better off. It is the claim made by those who oppose any increase in the minimum wage that if the poor get richer, that will be bad for the economy. This is nonsense.

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

This is the middle-class equivalent of raising the minimum wage.

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

If you work, you should not be poor.

The minimum wage is important for many nations

Nothing helps families make end meet than higher wages.

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.

The minimum wage should be a living wage.

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.

The value of the minimum wage shouldn't be eroded, and it has been.

How can anyone live off of minimum wage?

Most arguments for instituting or raising a minimum wage are based on fairness and redistribution. Even if workers are getting a competitive wage, many of us are deeply disturbed that some hard-working families still have very little.

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.