#wage

The war we are fighting today against terrorism is a multifaceted fight. We have to use every tool in our toolkit to wage this war - diplomacy, finance, intelligence, law enforcement, and of course, military power - and we are developing new tools as we go along. ↗

— Richard Armitage

#along #course #developing #diplomacy #enforcement

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

Most of the slaves, who were thus unconditionally freed, returned without any solicitation to their former masters, to serve them, at stated wages; as free men. The work, which they now did, was found to better done than before. ↗

— Thomas Clarkson

#before #better #did #done #former

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

#depression #during #economic #economic policy #enacted

Wild animals are just as confused as people are now. You've got toxins in the water, oil, sewage, all sorts of things. ↗

— Jack Hannah

#got #just #now #oil #people

In our modern world of interdependent nations, hardly any state can wage war successfully without raising loans and buying war materials of every kind in the markets of other nations. ↗

— Arthur Henderson

#buying #every #hardly #interdependent #kind

Destroy or take away the employment and wages of those artisans - which the corn laws in a great measure do - and you will, ere long, render the land in Great Britain of as little value as it is in other countries. ↗

— Joseph Hume

#away #britain #corn #countries #destroy

The very fact that women now form about one-fifth of the employes in manufacture and commerce in this country has opened a vast field of industrial legislation directly affecting women as wage-earners. ↗

— Florence Kelley

#affecting #commerce #country #directly #fact