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Living Wage Quotes

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

People are so cheap. Everyone wants quality, no one wants to pay for it. Here's the suburban dream-- to hire great workers who are such meek morons that they don't have the guts to ask for a living wage.
- Joan Bauer

Raising the minimum wage means raising the living wage - and that's good news for Ohio.
- Sherrod Brown

If a man or a woman puts in an honest day's work, they should to be able to earn a living wage.
- Richard J Codey

New Orleans is a city whose basic industry is the service industry. That's why it makes its money. That's - it brings people to the city. People come to the city and experience the wonders of this extraordinary city and everything else. The question is that, how do we create jobs which are the jobs that have pay, that - living wages?
- Danny Glover

There's enormous progressive activism and, more often than not, success at the grassroots level - everything from living wage campaigns to efforts to finance our elections are having terrific success.
- Jim Hightower

Positive rights are the right to shelter, the right to education, the right to health care, the right to a living wage. These things are - these are, I would call them, more properly, political rights rather than positive rights. And they are extremely tricky, because now we are dealing with things that are zero sum.
- P J Orourke

It paid barely a living wage, but he stayed with itgradually and in the end gratefully arriving at the point in life when you understand there are no great changes ahead.
- Ann Packer

Practically, the desirable situation ought to be one in which any reasonably responsible person willing to accept available employment can find a job paying a living wage within 48 hours.
- William Vickrey

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