#minimum wage

When we talk about the minimum wage, we have to ask ourselves what it is that we owe both our workers and employers. I think clearly we owe them fairness. ↗

— Dalton McGuinty

#ask #both #clearly #employers #fairness

I thought in this country, the best social program was a job. Yet minimum wage jobs aren't paying enough to keep families out of poverty. ↗

— Barbara Mikulski

#country #enough #families #i #job

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

The current minimum wage simply is not supporting Ohio's working families. ↗

— Sherrod Brown

#families #minimum #minimum wage #ohio #simply

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

Ohio is one of only two states that have a minimum wage below the federal level of $5.15 an hour. ↗

— Sherrod Brown

#federal #federal level #hour #level #minimum

Thousands of Ohio families are going deeper and deeper in debt just trying to pay their heating bills, fill prescriptions, and buy groceries. The current minimum wage is simply not enough. ↗

— Sherrod Brown

#buy #current #debt #deeper #enough

Working-class Americans have waited too long, close to a decade in fact, for an increase in the minimum wage. This has been the second longest period without a pay raise since the Federal minimum wage law was first enacted in 1938. ↗

— Bill Pascrell

#close #decade #enacted #fact #federal

No family gets rich from earning the minimum wage. In fact, the current minimum wage does not even lift a family out of poverty. ↗

— Jon Corzine

#does #earning #even #fact #family

I thought I was answering a question that I had heard that was about increasing the minimum wage - would I consider that. So let me just go on record and say this: I am not for decreasing the minimum wage. I did not say that and that is not something I would consider. ↗

— Linda McMahon

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