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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


#allow #clean #close #did #expect

The real minimum wage is zero.


Thomas Sowell


#minimum wage #real #wage #zero

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


#country #how #i #i think #increases

You get paid more at McDonald's than you do under the existing minimum wage.


Norm Coleman


#get #mcdonald #minimum #minimum wage #more

The concept of minimum wage is crazy, if you really stop to think about it. If $8 an hour seems right, why not $20 an hour? If it's coming by order of the government, why stop at any level? Why not just say everyone should get what Gates gets?


Malcolm Wallop


#any #coming #concept #crazy #everyone

The national minimum wage has not been increased in 9 years. By year's end, 21 States across America will have a minimum wage exceeding the Federal minimum wage.


Sherwood Boehlert


#america #been #end #exceeding #federal

It has now been over 7 years since Congress last raised the minimum wage to its current level of $5.15 per hour. Since that last increase, Congress's failure to adjust the wage for inflation has reduced the purchasing power of the minimum wage to record low levels.


Jon Corzine


#been #congress #current #failure #hour

Over the last 10 years a huge amount has been achieved in getting people into work. Measures such as the New Deal, tax credits, the minimum wage and improved childcare have brought about record numbers of people in work, a number that is still rising despite the global economic slowdown.


Lucy Powell


#achieved #amount #been #brought #childcare

Congress has not raised the minimum wage since 1997. The minimum wage is now at its lowest level in 50 years adjusted for inflation.


Russ Carnahan


#congress #inflation #level #lowest #minimum

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


#below #child #current #federal #full-time






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