A job should lift workers out of poverty, not keep them in it."
~ Sen. Bernie Sanders

"In my view, we need a massive federal jobs program which puts millions of our people back to work. We must end our disastrous trade policies. We need to raise the minimum wage to a living wage. And we have to fight for pay equity for women."
~ Sen. Bernie Sanders

"I want to applaud those workers rallying to raise the minimum wage to $15 per hour. I believe strongly that a great nation will not survive when so few have so much and so many have so little. Every worker in America should be given respect, dignity and the wages and benefits they need to take care of their family."
~ Sen. Bernie Sanders

"I want to applaud the workers who are organizing today in the fight to raise the minimum wage to $15/hour. The truth is that by putting more money into the pockets of workers in underpaid jobs, we can put more money back into our neighborhoods, strengthen the economy and create more good jobs."
~ Sen. Bernie Sanders

"It's time to raise the minimum wage so that a minimum-wage job will lift a person out of poverty, not keep them in it." ~ Sen. Bernie Sanders

"Nobody who works 40 hours a week should be living in poverty."
~ Sen. Bernie Sanders

"The current federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour is a starvation wage and must be raised. The minimum wage must become a living wage - which means raising it to $15 an hour over the next few years." ~ Sen. Bernie Sanders

"The largest private sector employer in the United States used to be General Motors, which paid unionized workers good wages and good benefits. Today the largest private-sector employer is Wal-Mart, which opposes unionization and pays low wages with minimal benefits. For the sake of our kids, this path downward must be reversed."
~ Sen. Bernie Sanders

"The truth is that by putting more money into the pockets of workers in underpaid jobs, we can put more money back into our neighborhoods, strengthen the economy and create more good jobs."
~ Sen. Bernie Sanders

"There is no justice when all over this country people are working long hours for abysmally low wages, $7.25 an hour or $8 an hour, while 58 percent of all new income being created today goes to the top one percent."
~ Sen. Bernie Sanders

"This campaign is about ensuring that nobody who works 40 hours a week is living in poverty."
~ Sen. Bernie Sanders

"...wages in this country are just too damn low." ~ Sen. Bernie Sanders

"We are living in the richest country in the history of the world, yet we have the highest rate of childhood poverty of almost any major] country and millions of people are struggling to put food on the table. It is my absolute conviction that everyone in this country deserves a minimum standard of living and we've got to go forward in the fight to make that happen."
~ Sen. Bernie Sanders

"We need to change outdated overtime rules so that businesses can't shirk their responsibility simply by labeling workers earning as little as $24,000 a year as supervisors. "
~ Sen. Bernie Sanders