#wage

I'm not going to raise taxes; I'm not going to have a wage increase for public employees. ↗

— Andrew Cuomo

#going #i #increase #public #raise

These vessels are out of sight, out of mind. They are exempt from minimum-wage requirements, from Coast Guard inspections, OSHA regulations and other safety laws. ↗

— Steve Finley

#coast guard #exempt #guard #inspections #laws

They do believe that if we do not wage this war against terror in places like Baghdad and Kabul, we are more likely to have it waged in Baltimore and Kansas. ↗

— Ed Gillespie

#baghdad #baltimore #believe #kansas #like

There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible. ↗

— Henry Ford

#cost #goods #highest #lowest #make

I think that wealthy white people would like to have a country that resembles the Fifties, when all the minorities were tucked away in ghettos and paid in very low wages but on the surface it was very bright and shiny and free and the rest of the world would look on it longingly. ↗

— Alice Walker

#bright #country #fifties #free #ghettos

You know, this is a business where only 15% make a living wage and only 9% of those are women. But I figured somebody has to be that 15%, somebody's got to be one of those women. ↗

— Marcia Wallace

#figured #got #i #know #living

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

One man's wage increase is another man's price increase. ↗

— Harold Wilson

#increase #man #price #wage

A study of the history of wages back through the years indicates clearly that when the cost-of-living rises appreciably wages have shortly been adjusted upward also. ↗

— Charles E. Wilson

#also #back #been #clearly #history

If workmen are denied any increase in real wages and they can look forward only to a better standard of living through reduction of prices, progress for them is terribly slow, and they become impatient and dissatisfied. ↗

— Charles E. Wilson

#become #better #denied #dissatisfied #forward