#wage

Obviously, people with low or even moderate incomes could not afford such savings rates, and even diligent savings from their low wages would not be enough to pay for either retirement or healthcare. ↗

— William Greider

#could #diligent #either #enough #even

And with the money from your corn, from your rents, and from the issues of pleas in your courts, and from your stock, arrange the expenses of your kitchen and your wines and your wardrobe and the wages of servants, and subtract your stock. ↗

— Robert Grosseteste

#corn #courts #expenses #issues #kitchen

It is enough that we set out to mold the motley stuff of life into some form of our own choosing; when we do, the performance is itself the wage. ↗

— Learned Hand

#enough #form #into #itself #life

There never has been a time in our history when work was so abundant or when wages were as high, whether measured by the currency in which they are paid or by their power to supply the necessaries and comforts of life. ↗

— Benjamin Harrison

#been #comforts #currency #high #history

Besides paid white laborers, there was everywhere a class of white servants bound without wages for a term of years, and a more miserable class of Negro slaves. ↗

— Albert Bushnell Hart

#bound #class #everywhere #laborers #miserable

Today, the Federal minimum wage purchases less than it has at any point in the last 50 years. Let me repeat: The Federal minimum wage purchases less than it has at any point in the last 50 years. ↗

— Alcee Hastings

#federal #last #less #me #minimum

We know, in other words, the general conditions in which what we call, somewhat misleadingly, an equilibrium will establish itself: but we never know what the particular prices or wages are which would exist if the market were to bring about such an equilibrium. ↗

— Friedrich August von Hayek

#bring #call #conditions #equilibrium #establish

The minimum wage was due for an increase, but it was important that we offset its cost to small businesses. ↗

— J. D. Hayworth

#cost #due #important #increase #minimum

The power to wage war is the power to wage war successfully. ↗

— Charles Evans Hughes

#power #successfully #wage

I don't know of a Democrat - whether they're a conservative, a centrist or a liberal Democrat - that doesn't think that it's important to have quality jobs that pay decent wages so that families can support themselves, so that they can have the dignity of being able to afford health care, put money aside for pension, buy a home. ↗

— Tom Vilsack

#afford #aside #being #buy #care