“Four years ago when I was here and talked about raising the minimum wage, it was a radical idea. Since then, seven states and the Congress have done it. Four years ago when we talked about climate change being an existential threat to the planet, again, that was deemed to be pretty outside the box.…”— Bernie Sanders, capitalandmain.com
“The Republicans favor a minimum wage — the smaller the minimum the better.”— Harry S Truman, amazon.com
“Minimum wage? Just a fancy term for industrialized slavery.”— Etan Frankel, Frank Gallagher, William H. Macy, imdb.com
“EVERY ‘millenials are killing businesses’ article is a ‘millenials have no disposable income because they aren’t paid fair wages’ article.”— Ty Schalter, twitter.com
“In an hour a sex worker in Medellín, Colombia can make the equivalent of a month’s minimum wage in Venezuela”— The Economist, twitter.com
“On this idea, the first part of the Act proposes to our industry a great spontaneous cooperation to put millions of men back in their regular jobs this summer. The idea is simply for employers to hire more men to do the existing work by reducing the work-hours of each man's week and at the same time…”— Franklin D. Roosevelt, docs.fdrlibrary.marist.edu
“No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By 'business' I mean the whole of commerce as well as the whole of industry; by workers I mean all workers, the white collar class as well as the men in overalls; and by…”— Franklin D. Roosevelt, docs.fdrlibrary.marist.edu
“But I think having a low minimum wage is not a bad thing for this country.”— Donald Trump, politifact.com
“Let’s free entrepreneurs to do what they do best: innovate, grow and hire and make sure that the new service and care giving jobs being created today are jobs that pay well, too. And that does mean raising the national minimum wage.”— Hillary Clinton, time.com