“ When you think of the amount of turnover and profit made by most companies in this country - and especially the big chains, it's a shame that they pay their employees minimum wage and no more than tha… Christina Engela
“ Any dictatorship takes a psychological toll on its subjects. If you are treated as anuntrustworthy person-a potential slacker, drug addict, or thief-you may begin to feel less trust worthy yourself. I… Barbara Ehrenreich
“ A person's right to a job is as specious as his boss' right to success in business. There is no right to a minimum wage, just as there is no right to success in self-employment. Rex Curry
“ Today a minimum wage earner has to work a day and a half just to pay for a full tank of gas. That is simply shameful. Bill Pascrell
“ Unfortunately, the real minimum wage is always zero, regardless of the laws, and that is the wage that many workers receive in the wake of the creation or escalation of a government-mandated minimum w… Thomas Sowell
“ Clockers asks--almost in passing, and there's a lot more to it than this--a pretty interesting question: if you choose to work for the minimum wage when everyone around you is pocketing thousands from… Nick Hornby
“ The cry for an equality of wages rests, therefore, upon a mistake is an inane wish never to be fulfilled. It is an offspring of that false and superficial radicalism that accepts premises and tries to… Karl Marx
“ Exploitation. Now, there’s a word that has been scrubbed out of the poverty debate. 42 It is a word that speaks to the fact that poverty is not just a product of low incomes. It is also a product of e… Matthew Desmond
“ Both political parties have moved to the right during the neoliberal period. Today’s New Democrats are pretty much what used to be called “moderate Republicans.” The “political revolution” that Bernie… Noam Chomsky
