Nina Turner Quotes

Workers in the United States are making less than they were almost 20 years ago, and yet they are working harder.But so am I working harder, that I can tell you.

While prices of goods continue to rise, American worker's wages remain stagnant.

Americans feel squeezed between prices that are rising and wages which are not.

Median compensation in America has been stagnant over 25 of the last 30 years, the only exceptions being the last 5 years of the 1990s.

The way things are going, we are not too far from the day when it will take an hour's labor just to pay for the gasoline to get to the job.

Inflation outstripped real wages for people who work for pay from others.

One man's wage increase is another man's price increase.

A rise of prices necessarily results in a diminution of the enjoyments of the laboring class until they can force the employers, through a long process of agitation, to make an increase in their wages.

The middle class today would be poor by the standards of the 1950s. Today, with two people working, they would still live paycheck to paycheck.

The average household income has really stagnated since 1971.

Alas few socialists are either benevolent enough to work hard at these occupations out of benevolence or self-interested enough to work hard at them for money.

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.

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.

Median wages of production workers, who comprise 80 percent of the workforce, haven't risen in 30 years, adjusted for inflation.

Today, the Federal minimum wage purchases less than it has at any point in the last 50 years. Let me repeat: The Federal minimum wage purchases less than it has at any point in the last 50 years.

Millions of people are falling out of the middle class into the ranks of the poor.

If workmen are denied any increase in real wages and they can look forward only to a better standard of living through reduction of prices, progress for them is terribly slow, and they become impatient and dissatisfied.

One man's wage rise is another man's price increase.

Where the minimum wage would be if it tracked the changing incomes of the top 1 percent: $22.62

Inflation appears to affect the entire electorate, though in reality those able to increase their earnings at the same rate of inflation would not suffer unduly.

Hard-working men and women who have made America the strongest nation in the world are betrayed by Washington's trade policy.

I remain deeply concerned about falling wages and the lack of good jobs for Americans. Too many of our citizens are either stuck in place or falling behind, and too often their needs are forgotten.

It's very difficult for the middle class in America to keep up because of the inflationary pressure and the devaluation of the dollar.

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

People at the very top of the income scale also benefited from globalization and automation. But the income of working- and middle-class people in the developed world has stagnated.