Goran Persson Quotes

We didn't start this war - the right wing did. We're tired of seeing good-paying jobs shipped overseas. This fight is about the economy, it's about jobs and it's about rebuilding America.

We have to raise the minimum wage.

Ten cents a day is adequate pay for a workingman.

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.

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.

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.

It is time this Congress listened to the American people and minimum-wage workers, and it is time that we act.

Raising the minimum wage isn't just pro-worker; it's pro-economic growth.

The only way to grow the economy in a way that benefits the bottom 90 percent is to change the structure of the economy. At the least, this requires stronger unions and a higher minimum wage.

You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.

The issue isn't just jobs. Even slaves had jobs. The issue is wages.

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

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

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

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

To reduce inequality, employment must be sustained by appropriate macroeconomic policy.

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

General well-being is incompatible with lowness of wages.

I am always astonished that conservatives want to save money by paying workers less—driving down the wages of working people.

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The most important family policy, urban policy, labor policy, minority policy, and foreign policy America can have is an expanding entrepreneurial economy of high-wage, high-skilled jobs.

We have faster growth rates for low wage industries than for high wage industries

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.

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.