Conor Lamb Quotes

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

How can anyone live off of minimum wage?

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.

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.

Does anyone really believe it is possible to make even the most basic ends meet on $5.15 an hour?

It is shameful that millions of Americans are suffering the economic injustice of working a full-time job and earning a wage that leaves them below the poverty line.

It is unacceptable that someone can work full time - and work hard - and not be able to lift themselves out of poverty.

The bottom line is that five million low-income Americans working full time for minimum wage, deserve a raise.

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

America's vast population of working poor can only get so poor before even Walmart is out of reach.

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.

There's a lot of journalism about poverty, but sometimes it just helps to see that there's a real person who becomes a real mom, who is working with unsustainable wages that could eventually destroy her.

Income inequity has to be addressed.

It's morally wrong, and economically self-defeating, that so much wealth flows upwards towards the richest of Americans, while millions work full time but still can't provide for their families.

Every day, families in the United States face the stark choice between a roof over their heads and food on the table. Buying health insurance, owning a home, and saving up for college are just too far out of their reach.

In the wealthiest nation on Earth, no one who works a full time job should have to live in poverty. That's a fundamental value proposition, an article of faith in our country that I know an overwhelming majority of Americans agree on.

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

Nobody who works 40 hours a week should have to live in poverty.

People who work full-time in America should not have to live in poverty - simple as that. Too many jobs don't pay enough to get by, let alone get ahead. Too many people are finding the rungs on the ladder of opportunity further and further apart.

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

These Americans are among the working poor with full-time jobs earning $5.15 an hour. Millions fall into this boat, even more when you consider that the poverty line has not been adequately adjusted to reflect the true level of poverty in this country.

Americans feel squeezed between prices that are rising and wages which are not.

General well-being is incompatible with lowness of wages.

Nobody who works full time should have to live in poverty.

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