Robert Casey actually said...

A worker should be able to support a family from the wages earned. It is shocking that people in the richest nation on earth would work full-time and still live in poverty.

Context

Emphasizes the need for a living wage to combat poverty.

03/11/2014

https://www.congress.gov...

More Robert Casey Quotes

It is important that we have hearings, like this and others, to change policy and to try to do our best to be responsive to this tragedy.
4/26/2010
What should the U.S. Senate do, and the Administration do, in the next 6 months, to make sure that this kind of tragedy does not happen or w...
4/26/2010
Those who say, 'Oh, gee, laws don't work,' that's not true.
4/26/2010
If it means changing policy, we need to do that. If it means amending or adjusting, we've got to do that.
4/26/2010

View All Robert Casey Quotes