Wage Quotes
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The minimum wage was due for an increase, but it was important that we offset its cost to small businesses.
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When we talk about the minimum wage, we have to ask ourselves what it is that we owe both our workers and employers. I think clearly we owe them fairness.
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I am essentially someone who comes from the theatre. I love the theatre. Unfortunately, theatre doesn't pay the bills. Only in theatre abroad, I get a wage.
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Statistical studies are all over the lot about the pluses and minuses of raising the minimum wage.
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Superior and inferior wage one hundred battles a day.
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I needed to pay for my horses in Warwickshire, and I couldn't do that off a waitress' wage.
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I do not support a livable wage.
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Prosecutors and public defenders deserve to make a living wage.
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I have been hired by Allah to get a wage, which if the space between the Earth and sky is filled up with pearls, still (the wage) would be more than it, for each of the questions I may answer you. Therefore, I deserve it that I must not feel tired or exhausted (in answering your questions).
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Raising the minimum wage is the right thing to do, but it's a popular thing to do as well.
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The wage-earning class the world over are the victims of society.
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You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.
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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.
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One day I said to my dad, 'Are you disappointed that I'm working a minimum-wage job and I didn't go to college?' I'll never forget his response. He said, 'It's not about how much money you make or what your job is, but it's more about your character. For that, I'm proud of you.'
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Paying people a fair wage is a sign of respect and acknowledgement of the value of people's contributions to the business. When people are treated fairly and with respect, they will provide unparalleled levels of support and commitment inside the business, and to clients and customers. Everyone is more successful when people are paid a living wage.
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If you look at the housing market and say, are housing prices going up where job growth is high, where wage growth is high, where demographic movement brings people into the housing market? All of those things seem to be true.
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We would see lower levels of investment, lower economic growth, and as a result, lower wage gains.
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Our attitude is that if you hire good people and pay them a fair wage, then good things will happen for the company.
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Raising the minimum wage and lowering the barriers to union organization would carry a trade-off - higher unemployment. A better idea is to have the government subsidize low-wage employment. The earned-income tax credit for low-income workers - which has been the object of proposed cuts by both President Clinton and congressional Republicans - has been a positive step in this direction.
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We are moving into that phase where we expect that wage growth will catch up and take productivity over.
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The minimum wage now in our country, I think we've set that, so there are a lot of people have benefited from it in our country, but I think we ought to review how much it ought to be, and whether or not we ought to have increases in the minimum wage.
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We know of no more crucial civil rights issue facing Congress today than the need to increase the federal minimum wage and extend its coverage.
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A fair day's wage for a fair day's work": it is as just a demand as governed men ever made of governing. It is the everlasting right of man.
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Where one despises, one cannot wage war.
