#wag

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

The battle was first waged over the right of the Negro to be classed as a human being with a soul; later, as to whether he had sufficient intellect to master even the rudiments of learning; and today it is being fought out over his social recognition. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

#being #classed #even #first #fought

It is fatal for any body of workers to have forever hanging from the fringes of its skirts other bodies on a level just below its own; for that means continual pressure downward, additional difficulty to be overcome in the struggle to maintain reasonable rates of wages. ↗

— Florence Kelley

#any #below #bodies #body #continual

The workingmen have perceived that women are in the field of industry to stay; and they see, too, that there can not be two standards of work and wages for any trade without constant menace to the higher standard. ↗

— Florence Kelley

#constant #field #higher #higher standard #industry

Taxes on capital, taxes on labor, inflation, bureaucratic regulation, minimum wage laws, are all - to different degrees - unnecessary slices of the wedge that stand between an individual's effort and reward for that effort. ↗

— Jack Kemp

#bureaucratic #capital #degrees #different #effort