Wages Quotes
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Can I work for God, though there were no wages?
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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.
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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.
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Look for the enemies of Medicare, of higher minimum wages, of Social Security, of federal aid to education and there you will find the enemy of the Negro, the coalition of Dixiecrats and reactionary Republicans that seek to dominate the Congress.
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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.
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Why would employers care if immigration didn't affect wages?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Some prideful people are not so concerned as to whether their wages meet their needs as they are that their wages are more than someone else’s. Their reward is being a cut above the rest. This is the enmity of pride.
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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.
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Fast food also has a uniquely difficult business structure for workers to achieve better wages and working conditions.
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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].
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The wages of Gin is Debt.
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Heaven never defaults. The wicked are sure of their wages, sooner or later.
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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.
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You get paid more at McDonald's than you do under the existing minimum wage.
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The wages of pedantry is pain.
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The caretaker needs to be taken care of, in wages and benefits. Not enough emphasis is put on the importance of these caretakers.
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I've seen the same promises -- more jobs, higher wages, the jobs don't materialize ... the promises are remade.
