Steve Hanke Quotes

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.

President Obama believes that income inequality is one of the most pressing matters facing the nation. If we are going to be a country that provides ladders of opportunity and believes in a thriving middle class, then we have to raise the minimum wage.

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

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

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

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

People who go to work every day and perform the services essential to keeping our economy functioning deserve to live above the poverty level.

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.

Raising the minimum wage is the right thing to do, but it's a popular thing to do as well.

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.

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

Unless you’re at the very top, you need a more equitable economy.

We need to see the FLSA and the minimum wage as part of a larger struggle to cut poverty and to address the challenge of income inequality.

Working-class Americans want a clear champion, and there is nothing radical about moral clarity in 2018.

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

I'm trying to stand up so that the middle class, the working class, can finally have a say. I put them as my No. 1 priority.

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.

Income inequity has to be addressed.

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.

The most important social welfare program in America is a job.

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.

President Obama has made a minimum wage increase a focal point of his economic agenda.

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.