#minimum

It has now been over 7 years since Congress last raised the minimum wage to its current level of $5.15 per hour. Since that last increase, Congress's failure to adjust the wage for inflation has reduced the purchasing power of the minimum wage to record low levels. ↗

— Jon Corzine

#been #congress #current #failure #hour

The sad fact is that the same terrorist scenarios, if they occurred in five different States, there could be five different sets of responses to the American people. We need, at a minimum, a level of coordination on communicating threats to the public. ↗

— Vito Fossella

#american people #communicating #coordination #could #different

Now, occasionally I will still have that quarter pounder because I love fast food, but you have to keep it to a minimum. ↗

— Aretha Franklin

#fast #fast food #food #i #i love

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

Without going to what I think is my limit. I always say that my ideal is to get pole with the minimum effort, and to win the race at the slowest speed possible. ↗

— Alain Prost

#effort #get #going #i #i always

I want minimum information given with maximum politeness. ↗

— Jackie Kennedy

#i #information #maximum #minimum #politeness

In an open adoption agreement, you agree to a minimum number of visits - a floor, not a ceiling. It's enforceable. ↗

— Dan Savage

#agree #agreement #ceiling #enforceable #floor

Good generalship is a realization that... you've got to try and figure out how to accomplish your mission with a minimum loss of human life. ↗

— Norman Schwarzkopf

#figure #good #got #how #human

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