Nick Hanauer Quotes

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.

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

If you think about $7.25 an hour, that's $290 a week. It's inhumane to have that kind of wage.

Once again, the Republicans in the Senate have rejected an increase in the minimum wage. They support tax breaks for multi-millionaires, but they oppose helping the working poor to earn a decent income.

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.

I must say that I do wrestle with the amount of money I make, but at the end of the day what am I gonna say? I took less money so Rupert Murdoch could have more?

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

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

The minimum wage is the black teenage unemployment act. It is the guaranteed way of holding the poor, the minorities and the disenfranchised out of the mainstream is if you price their original services too high.

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

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

It is unjust to let any starve, when we think it just to limit the wages of the poor, so as they can lay up nothing against the time of their impotency and want of work.

The battle to right the wrongs of income inequality is not – and cannot be – just a union issue. It is an issue for every American, union or non-union, white or of color, young or senior, straight or gay, income inequality is a battle for the very heart and soul of the nation.

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

There’s been an economic war going on in this country and the middle class and the poor have been losing..

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

The people at the bottom who are working but working at relatively low wages need some help.

Coronavirus has exposed for all what many of us already knew - some of our most important workers have barely enough to live on, and millions are condemned to financial insecurity, inequality and food poverty.

Chronic insecurity will not be overcome by minimum wage laws, tax credits, means-tested benefits, or workfare.

We got CEOs making 200 times the worker's pay, but they'll fight like hell against raising the minimum wage.

Selling $500 shoes when you make $12 an hour is just an awkward economic juxtaposition.

I feel sympathy for the working class lad. I've always championed about ticket prices and try to equate that to people's salaries.

Income inequity has to be addressed.

It's morally wrong, and economically self-defeating, that so much wealth flows upwards towards the richest of Americans, while millions work full time but still can't provide for their families.