#minimum wage

Mr. Speaker, the time for an increase in the minimum wage has not just arrived; it is long overdue. ↗

— Sherwood Boehlert

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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. ↗

— Sherrod Brown

#bill #buy #current #cut #does

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

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

— Jim Clyburn

#bottom line #deserve #five #full #line

The minimum wage is the black teenage unemployment act. It is the guaranteed way of holding the poor, the minorities and the disenfranchised out of the mainstream is if you price their original services too high. ↗

— Arthur Laffer

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House Republican leadership have refused to allow a clean minimum wage vote. Close to 15 million Americans will be affected if we did this. Do Republicans really expect a family to live on less than $11,000 a year? ↗

— Bill Pascrell

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The real minimum wage is zero. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

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I do not support raising the minimum wage, and the reason is as follows. When the minimum wage is raised, workers are priced out of the market. That is the economic reality that seems, at least so far, to be missing from this discussion. ↗

— John Sununu

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The minimum wage now in our country, I think we've set that, so there are a lot of people have benefited from it in our country, but I think we ought to review how much it ought to be, and whether or not we ought to have increases in the minimum wage. ↗

— Linda McMahon

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At the current $5.15 an hour, the federal minimum wage has become a poverty wage. A full-time worker with one child lives below the official poverty line. ↗

— Bernie Sanders

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