#living wage

Raising the minimum wage means raising the living wage - and that's good news for Ohio. ↗

— Sherrod Brown

#good news #living #living wage #means #minimum

Practically, the desirable situation ought to be one in which any reasonably responsible person willing to accept available employment can find a job paying a living wage within 48 hours. ↗

— William Vickrey

#any #available #desirable #employment #find

Positive rights are the right to shelter, the right to education, the right to health care, the right to a living wage. These things are - these are, I would call them, more properly, political rights rather than positive rights. And they are extremely tricky, because now we are dealing with things that are zero sum. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#call #care #dealing #education #extremely

You know, this is a business where only 15% make a living wage and only 9% of those are women. But I figured somebody has to be that 15%, somebody's got to be one of those women. ↗

— Marcia Wallace

#figured #got #i #know #living

There's enormous progressive activism and, more often than not, success at the grassroots level - everything from living wage campaigns to efforts to finance our elections are having terrific success. ↗

— Jim Hightower

#campaigns #efforts #elections #enormous #everything

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

#day #earn #honest #living #living wage

It's tough to figure out how do we compete in Europe and North America, when obviously a living wage for us is very different than a living wage in Indonesia. ↗

— John Malkovich

#compete #different #europe #figure #how