Eric Schneiderman Quotes

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

People believe that if they work, they should be paid a living wage…. Work has to pay.

We must ensure American workers get the long-overdue raise they deserve.

When I travel around the country and talk about the need to raise the minimum wage or expand access to paid leave, I often talk about the need for us to reject false choices.

American workers deserve a raise. I fully support the push for $15 an hour and a union. We also must raise wages for low and middle income families.

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

At a time when families are incredibly squeezed, it's essential that we provide a living wage for people who work hard and that women realize equal pay for the work they're doing.

If you look at the future of the Democratic Party, things like raising the minimum wage - Democrats need to get behind raising the minimum wage and be clear on where we stand on trade deals.

We've always been in favor of improved wages for workers. When you have a strong middle class, they want to buy more stuff at Costco.

Plain and simple, Congress must act to meet the needs of our constituents. We can do that by strengthening families, increasing the minimum wage, and ensuring equal pay for equal work.

Most of America doesn't pay dishwashers $10.

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.

If every other store in town is paying workers $9 an hour, one offering $8 will find it hard to hire anyone - perhaps not when unemployment is high, but certainly in normal times. Robust competition is a powerful force helping to ensure that workers are paid what they contribute to their employers' bottom lines.

The most that somebody in Mexico City will get paid for a job in construction is 100 pesos a day.

Those of us in the Congress must confront and overcome Republican intransigence to increasing the minimum wage, extending unemployment insurance and protecting food stamps.

If a man or a woman puts in an honest day's work, they should to be able to earn a living wage.

We never accept low wages as the driving force for employment or growth.

An industry that can not pay its workers a decent living wage has no right to exist.

Ten cents a day is adequate pay for a workingman.

If Donald Trump wants to raise the minimum wage to $15, yes, I will work with Donald Trump.

To improve the standard of living for working folks, we have to raise the minimum wage and empower workers to fight for their interests in an economic and political system that's stacked against them.

The 'Living-Wage Campaign' at Harvard is like a Boston winter: you know it's going to strike, but wonder only when and how hard.

Regardless of what the minimum wage is, you really have the market wage. And if we're not taking care of our people, then we're going to lose good talent, at every level.

The people who serve your fast food lunch or your after-work drinks deserve dignity - and if big companies don't start paying them enough for a decent standard of living, they have the power to close these businesses. But no one goes on strike lightly.