John Freeman Quotes

The minimum wage now in our country, I think we've set that, so there are a lot of people have benefited from it in our country, but I think we ought to review how much it ought to be, and whether or not we ought to have increases in the minimum wage.

The minimum wage is something that F.D.R. put in place a long time ago during the Great Depression. I don't think it worked then. It didn't solve any problems then and it hasn't solved any problems in 50 years.

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

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

I thought I was answering a question that I had heard that was about increasing the minimum wage - would I consider that. So let me just go on record and say this: I am not for decreasing the minimum wage. I did not say that and that is not something I would consider.

The minimum wage is important for many nations

I've been very outspoken that the minimum wage needs to rise.

I have said, on a number of occasions, that we could have a lower minimum wage or no minimum wage.

The minimum wage should be a living wage.

The state of Alaska has a minimum wage which is higher than the federal level because our state leaders have made that determination.

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

During Seattle's successful campaign for a $15 an hour minimum wage, our opponents would sometimes roll their eyes and snort, 'If $15 is so good, why not $50?' It was a straw man argument: Nobody was proposing a $50 minimum wage; it would have been too high, and we said so.

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

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.

Raising the minimum wage means we have workers paying more in to support the Social Security system.

There are very few people at the decision-making table to argue for minimum-wage workers. Very few people.

Wages ought not to be insufficient to support a frugal and well-behaved wage earner.

Now all of you know that right now the federal minimum wage is a starvation wage.

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

I will advocate moving the Illinois minimum wage back to the national minimum wage.

Instead of raising the minimum wage, let's lower taxes for the working poor.

One of the biggest disagreements between Sen. Hagan and I - I don't believe we should be building an economy that's founded on making ends meet on minimum wage. It's impossible; it's a stepping stone.

I do not support a federal minimum wage. I think every state has a different economy, a different cost of living. I don't believe that's the role of the federal government.

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.

Our minimum wage is too low. So we need to raise it.