Thom Tillis Quotes

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

One of the biggest disagreements between Sen. Hagan and I - I don't believe we should be building an economy that's founded on making ends meet on minimum wage. It's impossible; it's a stepping stone.

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

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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.

I think I'd work on making sure that Canadians have opportunities to find good jobs, to grow, to gain stability in terms of pensions. The reality is that Canadians don't feel that our economy is working for us.

6.6 million people will benefit from a rise in the minimum wage.

When we talk about the kind of folks whose lives will be made better by raising the minimum wage, we're not talking about a couple teenagers earning extra spending money to supplement their allowance. We're talking about providers and breadwinners. Working Americans with bills to pay and mouths to feed.

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.

The increase in inequality in income is a longtime trend, but the pressure on middle- and low-income workers is going up rapidly. Especially if they live in an area where there are high housing and gas prices, like California.

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

Prohibiting Poverty

I think, in this country, if you work 40 hours a week, and you work hard, you ought to be able to afford an apartment somewhere.

Minimum wage laws have never worked in terms of having the middle class attain more prosperity.

We focus sometimes too much on the minimum wage, and we should be talking about living wages and middle class wages and pensions and benefits and the kind of thing that people in the industrial Midwest talk about all the time.

If you paid Americans a living wage, they would be able to pay for products made by Americans in America.

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

I believe in $15 as a minimum wage.

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

I want to create an economy where minimum wage is a very brief stepping stone to higher-paying jobs so people can realize their dreams.

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.

Increasing minimum wage doesn't build a stronger economy.

There is no question that we, as a country, need to deal with economic inequality across the country, and we need to make sure we have good-paying jobs for everyone.