Elizabeth Warren

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

It is important that they be aware of the impact of fees on the bottom line.

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

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

Will that put her above the poverty level?

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

There was no adverse employment effect from wage differences.

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

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

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.

The miracle of compounding is very powerful when you are talking about a savings tool, and it is absolutely damning when you are talking about compounding fees that you are paying.

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

I absolutely do not think there is any principled reason why we should not require that disclosure.

It sounds like such a small point, but getting not just disclosure, as you rightly say, Mr. Hiltonsmith, disclosure that is clear.

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

I thank Senator Udall. I am proud to join with my colleagues in speaking on climate change. Senators have been speaking on this issue since yesterday, all through the night, to add their voices to the millions of voices around the country…

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.

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

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