Elvis Duran Quotes

People can't live on $7.50 an hour.

And of course I didn't make any money from stand up for years, so I had temp jobs. That was the way I made money.

I was very poor and I was a waitress, and it's hard to be a poor waitress in New York.

While some people are certainly seeing economic benefits, many others are unemployed, underemployed, without health insurance and struggling to make ends meet.

For too many, to work means having less income.

In reality, most of America's poor work hard, often in two or more jobs.

It's hard for me to understand how working-class people support themselves.

Nobody wants to sit where I'm sitting and say, 'Hey, this is the reality. I did two movies, six guest-star spots and I starred in a one-woman show, and I'm not making any money. I'm on TV every day in every country in the world, and I don't make any money.'

You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by.

Most poor people earn more than minimum wage when they are working; their problem is not low wages. The problem comes when they are not working.

… there are a great many people who not only can make no budget but can barely manage to exist with their families on what they earn from day to day

It's wrong that so many hardworking people - people working full-time, or even multiple jobs - need public assistance just to survive.

Too many jobs don't pay enough to get by, let alone get ahead.

I had held titles in all the major U.K. organisations, but we were struggling to make ends meet. There were times you don't have a fight lined up, and the bills are stacking up.

I was working at Lowes and Target, then FedEx, and still did not have enough money to pay rent on my own.

I've known what it's like to survive without a steady job. Growing up in the Philippines, I watched my parents juggle part-time jobs at the corner shop and as tailors, barely able to make ends meet for my three brothers and me.

My parents are not of this world. I've had to work multiple jobs, been in a position where I cannot pay off student loans.

My mum was working in Walmart for €350 per month, about £280. My father was working as a house painter. We had a difficult situation with money.

Some people welcome the flexibility of a zero-hours contract. But their growth is symptomatic of a wider issue - increasing job insecurity and falling living standards in David Cameron's Britain.

It's so difficult to make the money we produce at Jimmy John's.

Being unemployed - or working at minimum wage - is rough in the best of circumstances.

Low pay is a serious problem, and its victims need a genuine solution.

I do not support a livable wage.

We don't make enough in our job to live the way that we would want to and to have the support that we would need. Most of our income doesn't even come from our salary from our employer and we have to find income from other places.

Coronavirus has exposed for all what many of us already knew - some of our most important workers have barely enough to live on, and millions are condemned to financial insecurity, inequality and food poverty.