Mark Mellman Quotes

While prices of goods continue to rise, American worker's wages remain stagnant.

It's very difficult for the middle class in America to keep up because of the inflationary pressure and the devaluation of the dollar.

The increase in inequality in income is a longtime trend, but the pressure on middle- and low-income workers is going up rapidly. Especially if they live in an area where there are high housing and gas prices, like California.

Median compensation in America has been stagnant over 25 of the last 30 years, the only exceptions being the last 5 years of the 1990s.

One man's wage rise is another man's price increase.

Rent and the cost of essentials like food and child care are rising so fast that wages are not keeping up.

We need to do more to help the men and women across the country who are working hard but still struggling to make ends meet due to low wages and high healthcare costs.

How can anyone live off of minimum wage?

The way things are going, we are not too far from the day when it will take an hour's labor just to pay for the gasoline to get to the job.

Today a minimum wage earner has to work a day and a half just to pay for a full tank of gas. That is simply shameful.

Inflation outstripped real wages for people who work for pay from others.

We never had it as rough as the kids have it today. Look at the price of a gallon of gas or a piece of real estate or a college education.

Millions of people are falling out of the middle class into the ranks of the poor.

The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down.

A rise of prices necessarily results in a diminution of the enjoyments of the laboring class until they can force the employers, through a long process of agitation, to make an increase in their wages.

There’s been an economic war going on in this country and the middle class and the poor have been losing..

The middle class today would be poor by the standards of the 1950s. Today, with two people working, they would still live paycheck to paycheck.

Americans shouldn't have to hold down two or three jobs to make ends meet.

Nonstop taxes killed the middle class.

Of course you've got a low unemployment rate when people have got to work two and three jobs just to make ends meet.

Workers' wages are not keeping up with inflation. Their wages are not on pace with the amount of work that they do. We work harder and longer in America and still people's wages are not keeping up with that.

In the richest country in the history of the world, this Obama economy has crushed the middle class. Family income has fallen by $4,000, but health insurance premiums are higher, food prices are higher, utility bills are higher, and gasoline prices have doubled. Today more Americans wake up in poverty than ever before.

Anyone who's tried to pay a heating bill, fill a prescription, or simply buy groceries knows all too well that the current minimum wage does not cut the mustard.

For too many, to work means having less income.

It must be awfully frustrating to get a small raise at work and then have it all eaten by a higher cost of commuting.