We need to have the best-educated workforce in the world. It is absolutely counter-productive to the best interests of our country that hundreds of thousands of bright young people...
If your minimum wage goes up, you're going to lose food stamps, you may lose part of the earned income tax credit.
So we remove the incentive to work by having adequate social programs, so you're opposed to that.
We have more income and wealth inequality than any major country on earth.
They're getting 20 hours a week. They're getting 30 hours a week. They are desperately trying to bring themselves out of...
Food stamps is an expensive, old-style program that rewards idleness.
I have really not heard almost anybody suggest that raising the minimum wage to the level that we have in Vermont has be...
We have the highest rate of childhood poverty of any major country on earth, somewhere around 22 percent.
We have almost as many people living in poverty, somewhere around 46 million, than at any time in the last 60 years.
With all due respect, Mr. Sherk, I think you--whether or not you're here representing the Heritage Foundation--are reall...
If somebody is going to work, that person has got to receive at least a wage that they can go out and live with dignity ...