Wages Quotes
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So what are the effects of increasing minimum wages? Any Econ 101 student can tell you the answer: The higher wage reduces the quantity of labor demanded, and hence leads to unemployment.
Paul Krugman -
A man working for wages his whole life is not really free. That is why Jefferson said, you have to own land. Southerners said, - and they weren't being hypocritical - they said slavery is the foundation of freedom because if you own slaves, you are freer yourself.
Eric Foner
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God's slavation is not a purchase to be made, nor wages to be earned, nor a summit to be climbed, nor a task to be accomplished; but it is simply and only a gift to be accepted, and can only be accepted by faith.
Hannah Whitall Smith -
I want to imagine a country where people's wages reflect their hard work, where we have healthcare for everyone, and where every child gets to live up to his or her potential.
Hillary Clinton -
Capital has its proper place and is entitled to every protection. The wages of men should be recognized in the structure of and in the social order as more important than the wages of money [interest].
Abraham Lincoln -
The caretaker needs to be taken care of, in wages and benefits. Not enough emphasis is put on the importance of these caretakers.
Chad Urmston -
Destroy or take away the employment and wages of those artisans - which the corn laws in a great measure do - and you will, ere long, render the land in Great Britain of as little value as it is in other countries.
Joseph Hume -
Fast food also has a uniquely difficult business structure for workers to achieve better wages and working conditions.
David Rolf
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Why would employers care if immigration didn't affect wages?
George J. Borjas -
You could increase farmworker wages significantly and not change the price to the consumer at all - for instance, if you redistribute how revenue is paid out across the food chain. Labor costs, particularly farm labor, is a tiny portion of the price we pay at the supermarket.
Anna Lappe -
The wages of pedantry is pain.
Carroll O'Connor -
The internal and external ethics of an organization must be the same; you cannot talk about minimum wages for poor people and not pay minimum wages to your own workers.
Aruna Roy -
We should never be allowed to forget that it is the customer who, in the end, determines how many people are employed and what sort of wages companies can afford.
Alfred Robens -
You get paid more at McDonald's than you do under the existing minimum wage.
Norm Coleman
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Heaven never defaults. The wicked are sure of their wages, sooner or later.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin -
The wages of Gin is Debt.
Ethel Watts Mumford -
If the price of everything is going down, that's going to include wages as well. People will have an incentive to sit on their cash and not spend it.
Paul Krugman -
In restaurants across America we see Latino workers in the kitchen who are being paid substandard wages. The saddest thing to me is that if we think about these workers, these are the people with the least access to good food. Yet they're often suffering from the highest rates of obesity and diet-related illnesses.
Bryant Terry -
A fair day's wages for a fair day's work.
Thomas Carlyle -
I've seen the same promises -- more jobs, higher wages, the jobs don't materialize ... the promises are remade.
Sherrod Brown