#wage

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

The issue isn't just jobs. Even slaves had jobs. The issue is wages. ↗

— Jim Hightower

#had #issue #jobs #just #slaves

There's enormous progressive activism and, more often than not, success at the grassroots level - everything from living wage campaigns to efforts to finance our elections are having terrific success. ↗

— Jim Hightower

#campaigns #efforts #elections #enormous #everything

All the time, I've felt that life is a wager and that I probably was getting more out of leading a bohemian existence as a writer than I would have if I didn't. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#existence #felt #getting #i #leading