#wage

The decree of a coercive tribunal would not need to conform to the true standard of wages, the final productivity of social labor. It would introduce into distribution a genuinely arbitrary element, with a very large ultimate power to pervert the natural system. ↗

— John Bates Clark

#coercive #conform #decree #distribution #element

When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager than the man, If not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on. ↗

— Henry Fielding

#against #always #day #fixed #i

My home policy: I wage war; my foreign policy: I wage war. All the time I wage war. ↗

— Georges Clemenceau

#foreign policy #home #i #policy #time

The bottom line is that five million low-income Americans working full time for minimum wage, deserve a raise. ↗

— Jim Clyburn

#bottom line #deserve #five #full #line

Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business - which at least does us all some good. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#does #entering #good #journalism #least

Let me tell you the story about Massachusetts under Governor Romney. It did fall to 47th out of 50 in jobs creation. Wages went down when they were going up in the rest of the country. He left his successor with debt and a deficit, and manufacturing jobs left that state at twice the rate as the rest of the country. ↗

— Stephanie Cutter

#country #creation #debt #deficit #did

Men who do things without being told draw the most wages. ↗

— Rodney Dangerfield

#draw #men #most #things #told

It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages. ↗

— Henry Ford

#employer #employers #handle #money #only

If you look at the US economy over the last 15-20 years wages have been stagnating or even declining. ↗

— David Korten

#declining #economy #even #last #look

Hospitals are closing across the country due to the burden of illegal immigration, college students find that summer jobs have dried up due to illegal immigration, and wages across the board are depressed by the overwhelming influx of cheap and illegal labor. ↗

— Elton Gallegly

#board #burden #cheap #closing #college