Bernie Sanders Quotes

Raising the minimum wage means we have workers paying more in to support the Social Security system.

I'm not sure there's another way to help move more people out of poverty than to raise the minimum wage.

The most important social welfare program in America is a job.

We believe that the federal government is responsible to give every man employment or a guaranteed income.

I want to give people a basic income, so that if you're working hard, doing the best you can, that you can not just survive, but you can have a decent life.

Expanding the EITC can get us close to a universal basic minimum income.

Instead of a universal basic income, we could have a basic income guarantee. Or, as economists prefer to call it, a negative income tax.

The claim that if people had a basic income they would become lazy is prejudiced and has been refuted many times in many places.

The minimum wage was enacted in 1937 during the Great Depression and it has been increased 16 times. It's a well-established economic policy to help families.

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Nothing helps families make end meet than higher wages.

How will we deal with a world where leisure is abundant and there aren't enough good-paying jobs to go around? To meet this political and economic meta-challenge, the hot new idea is the universal basic income — using some of the wealth generated by all this new technology to guarantee everyone a baseline income, whether they are working or not.

We've got to do more to ensure that people who work full time are not living in poverty and that the massive gap between rich and poor - which is fundamentally un-American, as far as I'm concerned - is somehow dealt with.

Hillary Clinton understands that if someone in America this country works 40 hours a week, that person should not be living in poverty. She understands that we must raise the minimum wage to a living wage.

The people at the bottom who are working but working at relatively low wages need some help.

The most important thing is guaranteed livable income, which will take a while to bring in because it means all the provinces have to participate.

I don't see basic income as a panacea, but we must have a new income distribution system. The old one has broken down irretrievably.

Chronic insecurity will not be overcome by minimum wage laws, tax credits, means-tested benefits, or workfare.

I think it's fair to set limits, so that people cannot receive more than the equivalent of the national average wage while living on benefits.

The minimum wage should be a living wage.

The minimum wage can play a vital role in lifting hard-working families above the poverty line.

Our minimum wage is too low. So we need to raise it.

While it won't solve all the world's ills - and ideas such as a rent cap and more social housing are necessary in places where housing is scarce - a basic income would work like venture capital for the people.

A multi-tier social protection system must be based on a modest basic income so as to enable the precariat to build lives involving a balance of different types of work, not just labour in jobs.

I've always thought my main concern is to alleviate the burdens on people, who were earning less money, perhaps than £80,000.