Rocky Johnson Quotes

The typical minimum wage earner is a provider and a breadwinner - most likely a woman - responsible for paying bills, running a household and raising children.

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

The current minimum wage simply is not supporting Ohio's working families.

In West Virginia, the most vulnerable people we have are people who get up every morning and go to work.

If you work, you should not be poor.

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

I think, in this country, if you work 40 hours a week, and you work hard, you ought to be able to afford an apartment somewhere.

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.

I worked on minimum wage; I didn't go to college out of school. I worked multiple jobs, and it's probably not something Sen. Hagan's not had to worry about because we grew up in very different life circumstances.

A job should lift workers out of poverty, not keep them in it.

I'm from a working-class background, and I've experienced that worry of not having a job next week because the unions are going on strike. I know that because I don't come from a wealthy background.

I am still waiting for the day that they say, 'Time's up, Blanco. Back to your shift at Walmart.'

Many blue-collar families struggling to pay rent would be happy to skip paying optional union dues.

Thirteen thousand dollars a year is not enough to raise a family. That's not enough to pay your bills and save for their future. That's barely enough to provide for even the most basic needs.

House Republican leadership have refused to allow a clean minimum wage vote. Close to 15 million Americans will be affected if we did this. Do Republicans really expect a family to live on less than $11,000 a year?

No family gets rich from earning the minimum wage. In fact, the current minimum wage does not even lift a family out of poverty.

No person can maximize the American Dream on the minimum wage.

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.

In New Orleans, where I'm from, the average household income, with two working parents, two kids, a dog and a little fence is $16,000 a year, so $15,000 for a movie sounds pretty good.

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

When you grow up with a mother who has to wash dishes and clean hotel rooms, you know the importance of having a job, and you can't be without a job for any length of time, or you will be without anything.

6.6 million people will benefit from a rise in the minimum wage.

People who go to work every day and perform the services essential to keeping our economy functioning deserve to live above the poverty level.