Michelle Lujan Grisham Quotes

Americans shouldn't have to hold down two or three jobs to make ends meet.

How can anyone live off of minimum wage?

People can't live on $7.50 an hour.

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

Thousands of Ohio families are going deeper and deeper in debt just trying to pay their heating bills, fill prescriptions, and buy groceries. The current minimum wage is simply not enough.

The working poor is a growing population in this country.

There are far too many people who get up early in the morning, and work hard, who cannot make ends meet.

Anyone who's tried to pay a heating bill, fill a prescription, or simply buy groceries knows all too well that the current minimum wage does not cut the mustard.

Today a minimum wage earner has to work a day and a half just to pay for a full tank of gas. That is simply shameful.

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

Most poor people earn more than minimum wage when they are working; their problem is not low wages. The problem comes when they are not working.

… there are a great many people who not only can make no budget but can barely manage to exist with their families on what they earn from day to day

Too many jobs don't pay enough to get by, let alone get ahead.

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.

No family gets rich from earning the minimum wage. In fact, the current minimum wage does not even lift a family out of poverty.

In New Orleans, where I'm from, the average household income, with two working parents, two kids, a dog and a little fence is $16,000 a year, so $15,000 for a movie sounds pretty good.

The President also talked at length about how well the American economy is doing. Apparently, he got his information on this topic from his millionaire supporters. For the average working family, these are trying economic times.

The current minimum wage simply is not supporting Ohio's working families.

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

Let me tell you something: I have members in my charter who, after paying their rent and house bills and taking care of their families, don't even have enough money left over to pay the fifteen dollars a week dues.

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

An enormous number of mothers in the U.S. are working double time, graveyard shifts, and more than one job just to put food on the table for their kids.

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

[In the 1924 presidential election, campaign contributions from workers to the senator were not as high as had been hoped for by the campaign staff. Those pay checks are all that stand between starvation for those workers and their families. You are asking too much of them.

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