#wage

We used to have food picked and used to have houses built and we used to have chicken properly processed and it was Americans that did it. If we are going to continue to utilize those goods, then what's going to have to happen is that the employers are going to have to elevate the wages in order to attract American workers to do those jobs. ↗

— Mo Brooks

#american workers #attract #built #chicken #continue

Anyone who's tried to pay a heating bill, fill a prescription, or simply buy groceries knows all too well that the current minimum wage does not cut the mustard. ↗

— Sherrod Brown

#bill #buy #current #cut #does

Raising the minimum wage means raising the living wage - and that's good news for Ohio. ↗

— Sherrod Brown

#good news #living #living wage #means #minimum

An increase in the relative price of products from the low wage manufacturers in Asia and Latin America will also make those products less attractive to American consumers. ↗

— Martin Feldstein

#america #american #american consumers #asia #attractive

Now when the two armies met, many and fierce were the combats waged between them, and blows were given and received, and swords flashed and showers of arrows descended on all sides. ↗

— Ferdowsi

#arrows #between #blows #descended #fierce

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