Nick Hanauer Quotes

The theory that if wages go up, employment goes down isn't a physical law like F=MA. It's a moral law, like 'Bedtime is 9:00 P.M.'

Raising the minimum wage seems to all economists to, at the very least, fail to 'raise' employment, and we'd all like to see better inclusion of low-skilled workers into good-paying jobs.

Firms are not always willing to cut wages, even if there are people lined up outside the gates to work. So why don't they?

The fundamental law of capitalism is: when workers have more money, businesses have more customers, and need more workers. The idea that high wages equals low employment, it's absurd.

There are genuine questions to be asked about why we now have the highest level of employment in many decades, contrary to the position during the boom-bust years of the Conservatives.

When you raise the price of employment, guess what happens? You get less of it. Why do we want to make it harder for small employers to hire people?

Nothing could be further from the truth than the claim that we have a choice between cutting tax and cutting unemployment, for the two go hand in hand.

If there are not sufficient jobs to go around then government must create jobs to give everyone an opportunity

We never accept low wages as the driving force for employment or growth.

To reduce inequality, employment must be sustained by appropriate macroeconomic policy.

Employment no longer responds to governments …

The question today is whether we should be creating millions of new jobs at present wages or fewer new jobs at better wages.

When you have 7 percent unemployed, you have 93 percent working.

The first duty of this government is to give the workers work.

You cannot be pro-jobs and anti-business at the same time. You cannot love employment and hate employers.

The most important family policy, urban policy, labor policy, minority policy, and foreign policy America can have is an expanding entrepreneurial economy of high-wage, high-skilled jobs.

The former apostles of class hatred now begin to preach one of the commonplaces of classic political economy: the quicker capital is developed the more profitable it will be for labor, for it will be so much the easier for the labor that is for hire to find employment.

Don't let anybody tell you it's corporations and businesses create jobs. You know that old theory, 'trickle-down economics.' That has been tried, that has failed. It has failed rather spectacularly.

If we get a tax system that is competitive, we will hire people. When you hire people, you have to compete for labor. When you compete for labor, you drive wages.

Americans underemployed or unemployed and a President Trump will put them back to work.

If you want to get wages up in America for middle income Americans, there's only one way I know how to do that in real terms... by having more businesses want to hire more people.

One of the great constraints on economic growth and employment is that the tax and benefits system has grown up over generations and does not give the right incentives. Increasing the minimum wage does not solve this problem.

If you get the government off our back, there's no economy in the world that can create more jobs in the long-term for everybody.

As a believer in the free market, the sooner you have people with a job - the better chance they have a job, the sooner they are employed - the sooner they become consumers. And the sooner they become consumers, the sooner they become deciders about their own health care decisions.

The Trump Administration is working from all angles to bring jobs back to our country by making it a better place to do business.