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How can anyone live off of minimum wage?

Raising the minimum wage isn't just pro-worker; it's pro-economic growth.

Improving the outlook for U.S workers isn't about creating millions of minimum-wage jobs. It is about creating sustainable, skilled employment that allows Americans to earn a fair wage with benefits that allows them to pay for housing and food on the table and sustain a middle-class lifestyle.

We have to raise the minimum wage.

Literally, if we took away the minimum wage - if conceivably it was gone - we could potentially virtually wipe out unemployment completely because we would be able to offer jobs at whatever level.

If you're not willing to work, you're never going to be able to experience the American Dream.

The only area that I would agree with minimum wage is in immigration reform, the guest worker program.

The minimum wage is something that F.D.R. put in place a long time ago during the Great Depression. I don't think it worked then. It didn't solve any problems then and it hasn't solved any problems in 50 years.

We took the position we wanted our people to be better than minimum wage, so we're going to pay better than minimum wage, and we still do that.

In the general economy, you get government involved in making market decisions - first of all, they're going to get it wrong. For a minimum wage, you will actually reduce the number of jobs available.