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Tag Name "Wage" (385)

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It is impossible to forget the sense of dignity which marks the hour when one becomes a wage-earner... I felt that I had suddenly acquired value to myself, to my family, and to the world.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
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You know, this is a business where only 15% make a living wage and only 9% of those are women. But I figured somebody has to be that 15%, somebody's got to be one of those women.
Marcia Wallace
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Where one despises, one cannot wage war.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Let's also, my friends, let's raise the minimum wage and support the 5 for 15 so you don't live in poverty.
Hillary Clinton
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If you wage war, do it energetically and with severity. This is the only way to make it shorter and consequently less inhuman.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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If we are the greatest nation the sun ever shone upon, it would seem to be mainly because we have been able to goad our wage-earners to this pitch of frenzy.
Upton Sinclair
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To wage a war for a purely moral reason is as absurd as to ravish a woman for a purely moral reason
H. L. Mencken
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Minorities have never been given their rights. They have always had to wage a political and legal battle to win them.
Gloria Allred
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If a man or a woman puts in an honest day's work, they should to be able to earn a living wage.
Richard Codey
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The Republicans believe in the minimum wage -- the more the minimum, the better.
Harry S. Truman
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There's no question raising the minimum wage excessively causes a loss of jobs.
Mitt Romney
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Most Americans are on a downward escalator. Median wage in the United States, adjusted for inflation, keeps on dropping.
Robert Reich
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It would help the poor people who need jobs. Minimum wage is a mandate. We're against mandates so why should we have it? It would be very beneficial.
Ron Paul
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6.6 million people will benefit from a rise in the minimum wage.
Russ Carnahan
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You can't receive a living wage unless you work.
Mark Winne
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If, on our own account, we do not intend to wage war, we are much less willing to do so for interests which do not concern Germany and are alien to it.
Adolf Hitler
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Unskilled and inexperienced workers are the ones most often deprived of employment opportunities by increases in the minimum wage.
Ron Paul
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The wage earner relies upon the ventures of confident and contented capital. This failing him, his condition is without alleviation, for he can neither prey on the misfortune of others nor hoard his labor.
Grover Cleveland
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Taking the politics out of setting the minimum wage provides fairness for workers and predictability for businesses. This legislation will also protect the most vulnerable workers and level the playing field for employers who play by the rules. These are the right steps to take they will make Ontario a better place to work and run a business.
Kevin Flynn
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Most poor people earn more than minimum wage when they are working their problem is not low wages. The problem comes when they are not working.
Joseph Stiglitz
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Taxes on capital, taxes on labor, inflation, bureaucratic regulation, minimum wage laws, are all - to different degrees - unnecessary slices of the wedge that stand between an individual's effort and reward for that effort.
Jack Kemp
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Let others wage war. You, lucky Austria, shall marry.
Scott Westerfeld
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Like all wage slaves, he had two crosses to bear: the people he worked for and the people he worked with
Stephen Vizinczey
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The bottom has fallen out of America's wage floor. And the erosion of the minimum wage has lowered pay and working standards for all of us.
Richard Trumka
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