When minimum wages go up, workers have more money. And when workers have more money, they buy things from the very companies that raised those wages.

This is a big ticking time bomb because people can get out of other kinds of debt through bankruptcy, but as you know, they cannot get out of student debt.

low wages have been one of the reasons that we have hollowed out America's middle class.

If I was God and could do anything I wanted, I would raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour over 3 years, starting tomorrow.

State schools, they were supported back then.

It is about our opportunity. It is about how we build.

I was on the floor talking about the approaching increase in student loan interest rates and how Congress needs to take action now.

I want to say thank you, Mr. Chairman. I am going to go fight about student loans for a little while now.

I am a big supporter of unions. I am. But raising the minimum wage is a far more economically efficient way to generate growth.

the major argument for not raising the minimum wage, that is, it will cost jobs, at least the academic studies seem to show is not right.

Twenty years, and you are still paying for this.