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Politicians must decide: either they open up the low-wage sector and offer a new chance to the long-term unemployed and those with few qualifications, or they introduce a legal minimum wage. Both together won't work.


Dieter Hundt

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KENNETH WATERS JR We don't want more short-term, politically expedient solutions. We must increase and index the minim...
ART PULASKI It's very difficult to find either big benefits or big costs associated with raising the minimum wag...
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KELLY JONES The minimum wage should be a living wage.
JON OSSOFF The national minimum wage has not been increased in 9 years. By year's end, 21 States across Ame...
SHERWOOD BOEHLERT If the senator really wants to support an increase in the minimum wage, we should pass the minimum w...
DON NICKLES Increasing the minimum wage would be a good thing. You can't eat off the minimum wage. You can't aff...
DANNY THOMPSON It has now been over 7 years since Congress last raised the minimum wage to its current level of $5....
JON CORZINE Any job that pays you is a real job, but unless you can make a living on minimum wage, do not settle...
ALI BABAR It has now been over 7 years since Congress last raised the minimum wage to its current level of $5....
JON CORZINE Given the fact that Maine has raised its minimum wage each year for the last five years, that our mi...
DAVID BOWLES Legal immigration is the primary source of low-wage immigration into the United States.
JEFF SESSIONS Unfortunately, the real minimum wage is always zero, regardless of the laws, and that is the wage th...
THOMAS SOWELL There's a statute in the minimum wage law that allows municipalities and cities home rule to [set th...
GERRY BRADLEY The bottom line is that five million low-income Americans working full time for minimum wage, deserv...
JIM CLYBURN Raising the minimum wage means raising the living wage - and that's good news for Ohio.
SHERROD BROWN Rhode Island is the latest in what's shaping up to be a minimum wage revolution in the states. I can...
JEN KERN No family gets rich from earning the minimum wage. In fact, the current minimum wage does not even l...
JON CORZINE I think a lot of the business owners are already paying above the minimum wage. The minimum wage is ...
BUCK LAYNE The real minimum wage is zero.
THOMAS SOWELL These wage costs show that there are real wage increases going on in the community, but they are res...
PETER COSTELLO There are very few people at the decision-making table to argue for minimum-wage workers. Very few p...
ELIZABETH WARREN Home Depot has never hired one human being for minimum wage, not one. We have always paid a premium ...
KENNETH LANGONE Increasing the minimum wage is a bad move economically, philosophically and politically.
MARC FREEDMAN As a small business, I have to compete with the larger businesses, so in reality I hire very few peo...
CHEF LOU AARON Working-class Americans have waited too long, close to a decade in fact, for an increase in the mini...
BILL PASCRELL If you're a friend to the working people of New York, and you're a friend to the labor movement, the...
ANDREW CUOMO Our organization is opposed to any increase in the minimum wage. The marketplace should set the mini...
GREGG THOMPSON A minimum wage leads to higher levels of unemployment.
STEVE HANKE Raising the minimum wage isn't just pro-worker; it's pro-economic growth.
THOMAS PEREZ The value of the minimum wage shouldn't be eroded, and it has been.
ROBERT J. GARAGIOLA [Minimum Wage. In] Free to Choose, ... . . . the minimum wage law to be one of the most, if not the ...
MILTON FRIEDMAN At the current $5.15 an hour, the federal minimum wage has become a poverty wage. A full-time worker...
BERNIE SANDERS These victories are the latest in what's shaping up to be a minimum-wage revolution in the states.
JEN KERN The real minimum wage is zero unemployment.
THOMAS SOWELL We don't want the minimum wage increase.
ANGELA JONES You need to know that a member of Congress who refuses to allow the minimum wage to come up for a vo...
WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON You need to know that a member of Congress who refuses to allow the minimum wage to come up for a vo...
BILL CLINTON Mr. Speaker, the time for an increase in the minimum wage has not just arrived; it is long overdue.
SHERWOOD BOEHLERT On balance, I am a supporter of the minimum wage going up. We've got to be very careful what we ...
HOWARD SCHULTZ Plain and simple, Congress must act to meet the needs of our constituents. We can do that by strengt...
PAUL TONKO Hillary Clinton understands that if someone in America this country works 40 hours a week, that pers...
BERNIE SANDERS The Republicans believe in the minimum wage -- the more the minimum, the better.
HARRY TRUMAN The vast majority are high school students or college students, working part-time. So when you talk ...
ALLEN DOUGLAS Eleven states and the District of Columbia have a higher minimum wage than we have here in New York,...
ANDREW CUOMO Increasing minimum wage doesn't build a stronger economy.
KAREN HANDEL Raising the minimum wage is the right thing to do, but it's a popular thing to do as well.
NANCY PELOSI Whether we were doing the minimum-wage increase or not this year, the wages were still going to go u...
BETH BUSCH I think the companies are indicating a willingness to give strong wage increases. If they can cut fi...
DAVID BRADLEY When you think of the amount of turnover and profit made by most companies in this country - and esp...
CHRISTINA ENGELA There's a statute in the minimum wage law that allows municipalities and cities home rule to [set th...
GERRY BRADLEY If the price of a burger goes up 5 cents, and the minimum wage that you have received is going up fr...
THOMAS E. PEREZ Today a minimum wage earner has to work a day and a half just to pay for a full tank of gas. That is...
BILL PASCRELL All you really need to know about this junk data study is that it was done by the same people who op...
DAN CANTOR Fixing a broken immigration system. Protecting our kids from gun violence. Equal pay for equal work,...
BARACK OBAMA I am quite uncomfortable using legislation to peg the minimum wage.
GRACE POE I used to work at McDonald's making minimum wage. You know what that means when someone pays you min...
CHRIS ROCK In the 1960s, a minimum wage job would keep a family of three afloat.
ELIZABETH WARREN There is a definite need to increase the minimum wage in Pennsylvania. I was hoping the state would ...
PAUL COSTA Eighty percent of participants pay all their staff above the minimum wage, and many of them are conc...
DAVID LOWE Some people are unemployed because they lack the minimum required education. Others are unemployed b...
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA I'll say it will hurt minimum wage workers the most.
JAMES COLLINS For many young people, the minimum wage is a stepping stone to higher employment levels.
BRUCE RAUNER If cheap immigrant labor is made unavailable, employers can hire Americans at a higher wage, or repl...
JAN C. TING No person can maximize the American Dream on the minimum wage.
BENJAMIN TODD JEALOUS People come to Northwest Arkansas because they hear about the economy. But they end up working a min...
HEATHER THORDSEN What I want to do is create jobs that make the minimum wage irrelevant.
THOM TILLIS Inequalities at the bottom of the US wage distribution have closely followed the evolution of thee m...
THOMAS PIKETTY It's tough when you're working for minimum wage and have four kids.
ANDY PAYNE We know it will be an uphill battle. Establishing a state minimum wage higher than the federal wage ...
FARRELL QUINLAN Most arguments for instituting or raising a minimum wage are based on fairness and redistribution. E...
CHRISTINA ROMER If you're making the minimum wage you want it raised. If you're an employer it's going to affect you...
BUCK LAYNE If a man or a woman puts in an honest day's work, they should to be able to earn a living wage.
RICHARD J. CODEY When I was young, I had minimum wage jobs as a busboy, flipping burgers and parking cars.
BRUCE RAUNER Less than 3 percent of workers make straight minimum wage.
JAMES HARDWAY By and large the people we see coming here are coming because they can't feed their families and the...
JOAN HARPER By tying minimum wage to money supply, the poor's income would rise and fall with the rise and f...
MAX KEISER We don't need 50 different minimum wages. Even some cities have their own minimum wage.
JACK CAMPER I do not support raising the minimum wage, and the reason is as follows. When the minimum wage is ra...
JOHN SUNUNU Once again, the Republicans in the Senate have rejected an increase in the minimum wage. They suppor...
MARK DAYTON Choteau is a minimum-wage town. Montana is not all that great for wages,
SUSAN MILLER Choteau is a minimum-wage town. Montana is not all that great for wages.
SUSAN MILLER President Obama has made a minimum wage increase a focal point of his economic agenda.
THOMAS PEREZ The minimum wage can play a vital role in lifting hard-working families above the poverty line.
ADAM COHEN McDonald's does not close down and move across the state line when you raise the minimum wage.
DAN CANTOR Both political parties have moved to the right during the neoliberal period. Today’s New Democrats...
NOAM CHOMSKY It's pretty amazing what they are trying to do. It's a complete slap in the face to our workers. We ...
JULIAN POSADAS These January numbers are strong. The fact that the number of unemployed persons is down to 7,400, o...
STEVE COCHRANE There are some businesses that will be affected by this, but the majority of businesses are definite...
MARSHA GORDON Working for minimum wage is like slavery but easier on the slave owner.
JASON CASE The current minimum wage simply is not supporting Ohio's working families.
SHERROD BROWN You can't earn enough money getting paid minimum wage to pay your rent, utilities and eat.
JAN PRUITT Raising the minimum wage represents a substantial financial burden for employers, particularly start...
FABRIZIO MOREIRA Despite low unemployment, wage growth remains contained. With job gains slowing, the risks from wage...
BILL EVANS Raising the minimum wage to $10.10 will benefit about 28 million workers across the country. And it ...
THOMAS PEREZ [The GMB has welcomed news of tomorrow's increase in the minimum wage to more than £5 an hour for a...
PAUL KENNY Let me just go on record and say this: I am not for decreasing the minimum wage.
LINDA MCMAHON Today, the Federal minimum wage purchases less than it has at any point in the last 50 years. Let me...
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