#wag

I grew up taking piano lessons and liking Wagner when I was in second grade. ↗

— Tom Verlaine

#grew #i #lessons #liking #piano

It's a tragedy, but with your support and your help we will wage this fight and we're going to win it. ↗

— Michael D. Barnes

#going #help #support #tragedy #wage

I don't pay good wages because I have a lot of money; I have a lot of money because I pay good wages. ↗

— Robert Bosch

#good #i #lot #money #pay

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

— Sherrod Brown

#families #minimum #minimum wage #ohio #simply

The market tends to pay as a wage what an individual laborer is worth. But the case last studied suggests the question how accurately the law operates in practice. May it not be an honest law, but be so vitiated in its working as to give a dishonest result? ↗

— John Bates Clark

#case #dishonest #give #honest #how

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

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

Some campaigns are not worth waging if you can't win; others have to be fought on grounds of principle regardless of the chances for success. ↗

— Patricia Ireland

#chances #fought #grounds #others #principle

An acting assistant stage manager in a theater in Canterbury, a rep theater. A small wage but just enough to get by on, and I made props and I walked on, and I changed scenery, and I realized that I just loved it. ↗

— Jeremy Irons

#assistant #canterbury #changed #enough #get

Behind a smoke screen of high-profile female appointees and soothing slogans, George W. Bush is waging war on women. ↗

— Molly Ivins

#bush #female #george #george w #high-profile