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#minimum wage

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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


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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

Once again, the Republicans in the Senate have rejected an increase in the minimum wage. They support tax breaks for multi-millionaires, but they oppose helping the working poor to earn a decent income.


Mark Dayton


#breaks #decent #earn #helping #income

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

The minimum wage was enacted in 1937 during the Great Depression and it has been increased 16 times. It's a well-established economic policy to help families.


John Freeman


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Today a minimum wage earner has to work a day and a half just to pay for a full tank of gas. That is simply shameful.


Bill Pascrell


#earner #full #gas #half #just

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


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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






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