#wage

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

I am now going from a prison to a palace: I have finished my work, and am now going to receive my wages. ↗

— Christopher Love

#finished #going #i #i am #now

I thought I was answering a question that I had heard that was about increasing the minimum wage - would I consider that. So let me just go on record and say this: I am not for decreasing the minimum wage. I did not say that and that is not something I would consider. ↗

— Linda McMahon

#am #answering #consider #decreasing #did

Finally, I told them I'd drop out of the management program if they'd give me an entry-level job in the newsroom for union wages, about fifty dollars a week. ↗

— Andrea Mitchell

#dollars #drop #fifty #finally #give

It is shameful that millions of Americans are suffering the economic injustice of working a full-time job and earning a wage that leaves them below the poverty line. ↗

— Bill Pascrell

#earning #economic #full-time #full-time job #injustice

Today a minimum wage earner has to work a day and a half just to pay for a full tank of gas. That is simply shameful. ↗

— Bill Pascrell

#earner #full #gas #half #just

Working-class Americans have waited too long, close to a decade in fact, for an increase in the minimum wage. This has been the second longest period without a pay raise since the Federal minimum wage law was first enacted in 1938. ↗

— Bill Pascrell

#close #decade #enacted #fact #federal

But a rise in the wages of labour would not equally affect commodities produced with machinery quickly consumed, and commodities produced with machinery slowly consumed. ↗

— David Ricardo

#commodities #consumed #equally #labour #machinery

The smartest thing we can do to create high-wage jobs and grow our economy is to keep our focus on education. ↗

— Bill Richardson

#economy #education #focus #grow #high-wage

Nearly every study shows that competition from cheap foreign labor undercuts the wages of American workers and legal immigrants. ↗

— Lamar S. Smith

#american workers #cheap #competition #every #foreign