Elizabeth Warren

I really think getting more small employers into retirement systems is the key to getting more employees into retirement systems.

Absolutely. And that is driving down costs which means helping people have more secure retirements.

I am hopeful that we can move this legislation along after the next break period and give every American a raise that deserves it.

Does she earn below the poverty level?

I just want to ask Dr. Boushey about this. We have 10 States that have indexed their minimum wage.

There was little or no employment response to increases in the minimum wage.

Any adverse employment effect would be, 'of a small and policy irrelevant magnitude.'

There was no adverse employment effect from wage differences.

The sky did not fall because we guaranteed workers a minimum level of basic economic security.

There's no reason to believe we can't and shouldn't do it in 2014.

My legislation, the Minimum Wage Fairness Act, introduced along with Majority Leader Reid, will raise the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour in three annual steps.

Momentum is gathering in favor of a higher minimum wage, and it is coming from the grass roots.

We can make work a way out of poverty again by raising the minimum wage--one of our Nation's simplest and most effective means to lift working families out of poverty.

We need a level playing field and that includes our tipped workers.

These are the Americans who serve our meals, pour our drinks, staff our hotels, cut our hair, and wash our cars. They deserve better.

A fair minimum wage ensures that someone who chooses to work... is not consigned to live in desperate poverty.

For more than 20 years, the minimum wage for tipped workers has been frozen at $2.13.

But raising the minimum wage is an essential component of any effort to reduce poverty and income inequality.

Will that put her above the poverty level?

When it is fully implemented, the minimum wage will no longer be a poverty wage.

It's like telling someone hit with a disaster in Boston that they have to move somewhere out past Worcester if they want relief.

We have got to have long-term funding, as you say, but we have got to have adequate funding.

Investing in infrastructure is critical to our future, but we should not be doing it on the backs of retirees.

When Congress says no more spending no matter what even on important things like mass transit, like roads and bridges, what they are really saying is they would rather preserve tax loopholes that primarily benefit a few people.

We all want to spend our Federal dollars in the most effective way possible, and I am just concerned about the move to formulate funding.