Barack Obama Quotes

The bottom line is that five million low-income Americans working full time for minimum wage, deserve a raise.

Hillary Clinton understands that if someone in America this country works 40 hours a week, that person should not be living in poverty. She understands that we must raise the minimum wage to a living wage.

The minimum wage should be a living wage.

I want us to raise the national minimum wage, because people who live in poverty should not - who work full-time should not still be in poverty.

We have to raise the minimum wage.

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People working full time should not have to raise their children in poverty.

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

I think that people need a livable wage.

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

To everyone in this Congress who still refuses to raise the minimum wage, I say this: If you truly believe you could work full-time and support a family on less than $15,000 a year, go try it. If not, vote to give millions of the hardest-working people in America a raise.

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.

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.

I thought in this country, the best social program was a job. Yet minimum wage jobs aren't paying enough to keep families out of poverty.

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

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

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

Through periodic increases over the next three decades under Democratic and Republican administrations alike, the nation achieved one of the fundamental goals of a just society, which is that no one who works for a living should have to live in poverty.

[A] family with two kids that earns the minimum wage still lives below the poverty line. That's wrong. That's why, since the last time this Congress raised the minimum wage, 19 states have chosen to bump theirs even higher. Tonight, let's declare that in the wealthiest nation on Earth, no one who works full-time should have to live in poverty, and raise the federal minimum wage to $9 an hour.

My mother saved our home with a minimum wage job. But in the 1960s, a minimum wage job would support a family of three above the poverty line. Not today. Not even close. I understood right then that people can work hard, they can play by the rules, and they can still take a hard smack.

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

In reality, most of America's poor work hard, often in two or more jobs.

Does anyone really believe it is possible to make even the most basic ends meet on $5.15 an hour?