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It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.

Henry Ford

There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.

Henry Ford

No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Most men would feel insulted if it were proposed to employ them in throwing stones over a wall, and then in throwing them back, merely that they might earn their wages. But many are no more worthily employed now.

Henry David Thoreau

The market has been trying to push a rate cut, but the Governor has remained steadfast, saying there is no scope for lower rates. The Reserve Bank does have a tightening bias and is concerned by wages pressure.

Brian Redican

As long as the growth in health insurance premiums far outpaces the growth in wages, the erosion in the workplace will continue.

Larry Levitt

A lot of workers who were on the fence are off the fence. They're ready to defend their wages.

Todd Jordan

Fuel, wages, health care, utilities and aircraft leases.

Bradley Belt

There are a lot of reasons why California is no longer as strong a location of choice for international migrants as it once was. Housing is one. In California and in San Diego, wages for low-skilled jobs aren't very different than those in Arizona and Nevada, but the cost of housing is much higher here.

Hans Johnson

Despite the payroll employment number being higher than expected, the fact that average hourly wages were so small means that there are not a lot of wage pressures, not a lot of demands to add new workers and, therefore, not a lot to worry the (Federal Reserve) in this report.

Ronald Hill

Most workers took a 20 percent cut on wages.

Rick Chilson

It's a good place to work. It has good wages but it takes a lot of skill to do (the job).

Jerry Stayton

Imposing a ratio doesn't help you hire another nurse. What it does is create demand that drives up wages.

Danny Chun

There is better confidence in Asia. Corporate profitability is improving, unemployment is falling, wages are rising, interest rates are low, and there's a willingness to buy into assets. People are getting their money out of saving and into assets; otherwise they're competing with inflation.

Chris Reilly

While we saw a pick-up in spending at the beginning of the year, that was just a one-off as consumers spent on sales and on seasonal goods. Given the softness we're seeing in spending in February, there isn't evidence that rising wages are feeding into consumption.

Yasukazu Shimizu

We're out here working hard and we just want honest wages and medical you know. We're not asking for too much.

Larry Pope

The ship was no longer fit. The ship was being sued by its crew for payment of back wages, which they never received. There was, in fact, a lawsuit -- which the crew won.

James Dodson

The labor market is very healthy, with both jobs and wages advancing at a nice clip. This means that households will have plenty of cash to support consumption in 2006.

Stephen Stanley

Annual wages growth is still accelerating. It is premature to talk of interest-rate cuts while such stretched capacity still exists.

Annette Beacher

With little excess capacity left in the labor market, we expect continued upward pressure on wages.

Joseph Abate

The U.S. economy is performing so admirably right now, it is hard to believe how good it is. We have strong growth, declining inflation, strong profits, rising real wages. All of these things are happening at the same time and there is no sign that any of this is about to end.

Bruce Steinberg

The improvement in jobs and wages means we can expect spending to be pretty good this year. High stock prices have also boosted the value of consumer assets, supporting consumption.

Satoru Ogasawara

Wages aren't keeping up with skyrocketing energy, housing, medical, and education costs. What's more, companies are laying off in one division while hiring?mostly contract workers?in others.

Jeff Anderson

Why would employers care if immigration didn't affect wages?

George Borjas

They are very disappointed that the hospital did not continue to pay the wages that they earned the last few weeks.

Gil Gall

An unexpected surge in wages would likely see the bank raising its inflation forecast and needing to tighten rates, so keeping a close eye on wages and inflation data in the coming quarters will be important.

Tom Kenny

[The productivity report is] a good thing for corporations because it means wages are being kept down and efficiency is going up and that should improve profitability, ... We should be able to rally from here to the end of the year.

Tim Woolston

Basically any Japanese stocks can be bought. Strong output is having a ripple effect on other things such as wages and consumption.

Takashi Kamiya

This is a wake-up call for Palm Beach County that we need to start looking at our wages and the gap with what's affordable.

Kathryn Schmidt

You've got employers who are facing the highest energy costs, the highest wages, the highest unemployment insurance, the highest real estate costs -- and to now put this on? You're going to be in a position where the job growth isn't there, where people aren't making a decision to grow their business.

Bill Vernon

Whether we were doing the minimum-wage increase or not this year, the wages were still going to go up because of the market. There always will be people who need to start at minimum wage, but there are not many people that have to in this market.

Beth Busch

Hunger has no guidelines on the Peninsula. These people are working for the same wages, fighting to pay the same bills and trying to support their families and children.

Loretta Jones

That's the key. Nobody's planning on decreasing. It's an interesting market, definitely an employee market. Wages need to come up a little bit to attract talent.

Andy Katz

The proliferation of part-time jobs and higher unemployment undermine the power of workers to bargain for higher wages and demand for security of tenure. Contractual workers are not allowed to join the union. So, Mrs. Arroyo?s appeal to employers to reach a middle ground with workers in granting a wage hike is a hoax.

Josua Mata

Average wages in Mexico will eventually rise enough to hold people here. It will take time. But huge labor migrations have been stopped before by economic opportunities. Look at Portugal and Spain.

Federico Estevez

They have to pay people competitive wages and competitive benefits.

Lee Cobb

Minimum wages would destroy at least a part of these jobs, which are occupied primarily by people with few qualifications and in eastern Germany.

Dieter Hundt

There has been absolutely zero enforcement since President Bush took office, and it's costing legal, honest citizens good jobs and fair wages.

Greg Serbon

For the wages of sin is death.

Bible

I'm glad to see there's movement after having my wages frozen for three years. But it's not going to cover a lot for me.

Richard Rainey

Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.

H. L. Mencken

And it is going into wages, which should boost spending.

Heizo Takenaka

If you put yourself in the shoes of Minnesota workers who are facing layoffs, or have seen their wages stagnate, the idea of the immigrant as the scapegoat, there's a certain resonance to that.

Larry Jacobs

These are certainly the kind of quality jobs with attractive wages we want to lure to our community. We're confident that we've put together a very good competitive package.

Mike Frey

Now there's been a settling back down back to what it was 15, 20 years ago. The gap between the wages has got to the stage now that not only are Hearts getting closer to the Old Firm because they are spending less, but Hearts are going up the way with wages.

Craig Levein

Concerns over (higher energy prices) feeding into higher wages have so far not materialized, which has dampened the risk of a rise in inflation expectations.

Michael Penn

The one saving grace would be if it ushers in a new era of reform. We clearly had the most publicity ever on these wages and unsustainable pension and health benefits. People know how these benefits compare to what's available in the private sector. Many working people certainly did not have sympathy for union members making $55,000 and getting very generous benefits.

Nicole Gelinas

I'm not a player who will just sit and pick up my wages if I am not playing.

Arjen Robben

Their statement was: if you reduce my wages by 60 percent, take my health care, take our pensions ... we'll strike your plant.

Keith Bailey

We're paying a reasonable wage compared to other wages available in the community. I don't know what it would take simply through paying more.

George Krawzoff

Our main message to employees is Dana is open for business and will continue to operate in the normal course of business throughout the reorganization process. Dana expects to provide its employees wages, healthcare coverage, vacation and sick leave and similar benefits without interruption.

Chuck Hartlage

If (Saxton) thinks he can get rid of prevailing wages, he can think again, because the Democrats won't let him do it. However, let's redefine 'prevailing wages' so that it means a real wage for our economy.

Kevin Mannix

We can't pass the costs along. We can't control the market. We don't really have any place to go if wages spiral out of control.

Luawanna Hallstrom

We have attempted many times to organize Wal-Mart employees into unions, ... And every time the employees organize, they just close the store. So instead, we are taking the information to the public. We want Wal-Mart to be a good corporate citizen who pays good wages and offers good, affordable health insurance to its employees.

Bill Roberts

The main threat to Democracy comes not from the extreme left but from the extreme right, which is able to buy huge sections of the press and radio, and wages a constant campaign to smear and discredit every progressive and humanitarian measure.

George Seldes

Competition is a consumer's best friend. It offers better prices, better variety and better quality. There are also more employers competing for the services of workers, and it makes it better for workers in terms of wages and benefits.

Ralph Brown

Growth like this should be accompanied by rapid growth in jobs and wages, but neither has materialized this far into the recovery.

Pete Stark

Delphi has essentially said: 'We need competitive wages.' Those wages currently are being set in China, not Flint, (Michigan).

Harley Shaiken

Entrepreneurship drives innovation. Innovation drives productivity. Productivity drives higher wages and higher standards of living.

Sandy K. Baruah

We have to do something more than serve tourists. Their needs do not command high wages.

Richard Anderson

It's important to note that the initiative provides an exemption for small businesses. It's also been established that when minimum wages are increased, there is actually a savings to the employer because there's lower turnover rates and lower costs of training new employees.

Bob Schwartz

We want to work with the unions. We want to give them a reasonable increase in wages.

Richard Riordan

In 2005, health insurance premiums rose by 9.2 percent, which was three times the increase in wages. Certainly, there are no signs of that abating. It's very likely that in 2006, health care costs will continue to squeeze out wage increases.

Larry Levitt

By protecting the wages of all workers, that brings up wages for everyone.

Minsun Ji

The improvement in jobs and wages means we can expect spending to be pretty good this year. Consumer spending will be reliable source of growth that will support the economy.

Satoru Ogasawara

I tell people in New Jersey that you can get by with less wages in Florida because your cost of living is less.

Roberto Rodriguez

[Barry (D-Ward 8) said he changed his mind after he realized that the plan could bring as much as $1 billion in new investment to his ward and provide more than 3,000 units of housing, some of which would be set aside for first-time homeowners and those earning low wages.] It makes sense, ... A stadium by itself didn't make sense.

Marion Barry

Demand is growing along with wages. Wages are growing, and pensions will be indexed next year to make up for the last two years' inflation, which will give people more spending power.

Ryszard Petru

Wages appear to be at the top of the Reserve Bank's watch- list.

Scott Haslem

There's a general view that farmers just want to hire cheap labor, and they could find plenty of workers if they were just willing to pay better wages. But the wage data show that the average farm worker already makes nearly twice the minimum wage, with benefits on top of that.

Patrick O'brien

That puts further pressure on the [low] wages in the U.S..

Sarah Anderson

You're seeing manufacturing wages that used to be recycled through our country now being recycled through the Chinese market, ... Can we afford not to regain these jobs?

Lloyd Wood

We want better wages, better benefits. It's not just about that. We think those things are necessary in order to keep an experienced workforce in place. Experienced drivers and monitors mean safer drivers and monitors on the roads.

Darrell Braden

Average wages are now growing at about the same level of inflation. And as the economy continues to expand, we expect this trend to continue to improve.

Tom Potiowsky

She was a philanthropist. She kept all these people working in times of great depression, often at top wages.

Leonard Mckay

That's not to say that the deficit isn't a concern. In the end, the desire is for this to balance out and bring up India and China and the wages there so their ability to purchase goods and products will increase and as a result these trade imbalances won't become so one-way.

Matthew Kazmierczak

The driver market is the tightest it has been in 20 years. It's a major limitation to the amount of freight that motor carriers can haul. It's critical that we find ways to tap a new labor pool, increase wages and recruit new people into the industry that keeps our national economy moving.

Bill Graves

And the alcoholic bastard waved his finger at me, His voice was filled with evangelical glee, Sipping down his gin and tonics, While preaching about the evils of narcotics, And the evils of sex, and the wages of sin, While he mentally fondles his nex.

Danny Elfman

The cost of fuel and wages now are running parallel as our largest expenses.

Patrick Gallagher

The caretaker needs to be taken care of, in wages and benefits. Not enough emphasis is put on the importance of these caretakers.

Chad Stokes

I thought we discussed wages and COLAs in our closed session and the board established bargaining guidelines last week. I'm somewhat at a loss that this is a continuing discussion.

Michael Lombardo

Stagnant wages and skyrocketing healthcare, education and housing costs, plus greater job instability has pushed America's families right to the limit, and they're borrowing on high-cost credit just to make ends meet.

Tamara Draut

As a consequence, they do not harm wages in law, education and the social sciences, where most native-born Americans thrive. Foreign-born engineers and scientists have particularly been interested in working in the U.S. In contrast, U.S.-born employees with doctorates are more likely to specialize in law, education and the social sciences.

Giovanni Peri

Obviously, there are always service jobs, however, those are not always self-sustaining wages. And, for our organization, our goal is to match job seekers with appropriate self-sustaining employment.

Kathy Lively

We do very little advertising -- most of our business is through word of mouth. We're a nonprofit, so our prices are very low. We're not here to make money, we're here to give people decent employment and good wages.

Rosemarie Dougherty

Government ought not to be telling employers what they should be paying. The market should be dictating the wages.

David Daniel

Now, the railroad is in the top five employers in the city. They pay very good wages for employees, they're stable. When you look at our portfolio of businesses and diverse business activities, this is one of our bedrock companies.

John Sprague

The consumer is making a lot of money, employment is high, wages are starting to go up. People have money in their pockets.

Ross Margolies

A core part of the global market is what might be called the 'Nike Economy' - footloose companies that play countries against one another while seeking subcontractors with the lowest wages and cheapest conditions.

John J. Sweeney

The company got notification from the IRS that Michael McDermott had been delinquent on his taxes and in a fairly routine procedure they asked the company to assist with garnishment of his wages, taking a percentage but obviously not all to pay off his back taxes.

Martha Coakley

It will drive up wages. You'll see an interesting mix of people working.

David Hamilton

TV rights are just the trigger, ... For a long time Italian football financially hasn't had the structure to support the profligate spending, both in terms of transfer fees and player wages.

Keir Radnedge

Between the growing need for information security experts, highly-knowledgeable ERP and Internet-based technology professionals, and advanced healthcare technology to help answer the call of aging baby boomers, our outlook for the technology employment market and its wages is optimistic for 2006.

Jim Lanzalotto

It supports a sustainable livelihood and fair wages for the farmers.

Rod Moyer

People fought and died to win the benefits and wages that we've gotten over the years. It wasn't just handed to us. So now we'll probably have to take to the streets again to keep what we've won or get it back.

Al Benchich

We cannot have these lower wages dragging everyone else down. We've got to bring Connecticut workers up.

John Dugan

After that, there's not much positive about the outlook. There are no job gains, and wages aren't rising at the moment.

Carey Leahey

It's absurd that we continue to allow those who have broken the law by entering this nation illegally to then enjoy the benefit of collecting wages illegally and then sending those funds to a foreign nation.

Howard Kaloogian

We're just saying that there are things in her (contribution and expenditure report) that are questionable. We don't even know who the wages were paid to.

Tom Chamberlain

Our families and communities depend on the good wages and benefits provided by the successful manufacturers. We recognize how technology and work reorganization can improve productivity, but we expect management to become efficient as well, while recognizing our expertise. The most important key to enhancing productivity is investing the money necessary to keep plants modern.

Ron Hoover

This money doesn't go into the music fund and the drama fund. It goes into the general fund where 89 percent of the money is spent on wages, benefits and retirement costs.

Fred Birchard

Native workers are not stupid, they move to where there are higher wages and fewer immigrants.

George Borjas

Wages are really slow to move. The are really the last thing to adjust in a tightening labor supply.

Shelley Allen

Wages aren't at a level that's going to prompt the central bank to raise interest rates. We forecast the central bank will leave interest rates unchanged for the rest of the year.

Joseph Capurso

Upon closer inspection many of the allegedly negative implications of rising international trade and investment for jobs, wages and living standards are belied by the evidence.

Joaquin Almunia

Germany is a split economy. Wage moderation made German companies internationally competitive in the first place. If wages only rise moderately, people may feel optimistic, but they simply don't have that much to spend.

Matthias Rubisch

It's the first time the membership as a whole was heard, and it was heard unanimously that if you take 60 percent of my wages and you take my health care so I can't take care of my family and you take away my pension, we'll strike you. How many people are going to care about Delphi when their homes are being foreclosed?

Keith Bailey

We are still seeing strength in the labor market with wages rising. We are waiting for further declines before buying.

Masatsugu Yamamoto

At this point, real wages are falling [and] profit margins are rising, so the offset to the stupid behavior on the part of the governments is that business profitability is improving, and that's all connected to the euro going down.

Charles Dumas

That's certainly going to be the critical number. A number indicating employment growth, particularly increases in wages, could prompt the Fed to move by the end of this month.

Michael Gregory

We have provided competitive salaries, affordable wages and good pensions to our employees and remain committed to do that.

Joe Mcinerney

People have anxieties about globalization, illegal immigration, low wages, job insecurity, and they see day laborers as in some way representing all of these things.

Amy Sugimori

Consumption is strong and wages are rising, so the CPI trend is improving. In six months, deflation will be over.

Masaaki Kanno

It is taking about 20 a week straight out of our wages.

Billy Murray

The services sector is showing some inflationary pressure, and wages are starting to climb.

William Hummer

We still feel like we're far apart on key issues, namely the two-tier system on wages and benefits, and wage parity with the rest of the industry.

John Dugan

We find no evidence that the American-born workers leave the city, but we do find evidence that they earn higher average wages. The increase in immigrants' share of employment is associated with higher wages as well as employment of U.S.-born workers, overall in the cities with more immigrants.

Giovanni Peri

The most critical issue we have on the table is the issue of job security. What we're saying to our members is if they don't have a job, it does no good to negotiate wages and benefits and pensions.

Dick Schneider

The fact that hourly wages were so small and, in fact, the work week was down -- it is very positive. It means there are not a lot of wage pressures, not a lot of demands to add new workers.

Ronald Hill

The wages, benefits and pensions are not going to be as lucrative. We know that. But what they've put on the table is not acceptable.

George Anthony

These low health insurance rates and the persistent wage gap limit women's ability to move out of poverty. Women continue to sacrifice almost a quarter of their earning power every year to gender inequalities in the labor market. We need strong legal protections against discrimination and public policies that reduce poverty, increase wages, and extend health benefits to the uninsured.

Heidi Hartmann

Wages growth is, from what we hear, firmer than you would see in the official statistics.

Anthony Richards

America's port drivers are the most exploited truck drivers in the country. Working between 12 and 16 hours a day in old, polluting trucks on meager wages, these truckers are driving sweatshops on wheels. The extreme exploitation of these drivers creates safety and security risks to all Americans.

Jim Hoffa

Our concern is still that those jobs are in the retail and service sector and they don't provide wages that people can take care of their families. The unemployment rate is not telling us what kind of jobs people are getting.

Rich Templin

God pays, but not weekly wages.

Polish Proverb

Employees are anxious and concerned about losing their jobs and benefits and lowering wages.

Jon Lewis

We believe the market should rule what wages are paid to workers.

John Dougherty

Part of the equation is that there are a lot of people moving into the area not worried about the wages here.

Guy Tauer

It was partly due to more people voluntarily leaving to look for better jobs as wages are rising, as opposed to companies laying off workers.

Naoki Iizuka

It (minimum wage increase) artificially inflates wages. For example if you raise the lower rate to maybe $7 an hour, then the person making $10 before now wants to make $12 or $13 dollars an hour.

Michelle Bolton

We're saying our state is not about low-wage, low-skill jobs. And we're going to push to keep corporations from using immigrants as a mechanism to push down wages in this state.

Mike Gronstal

Of course competitive wages in order to attract the best and the brightest teachers and keep them here.

Charles Walters

The good news is that it's a slower rate of increase than last year. But it's still substantially higher than where wages are going.

Gary Claxton

This [offer] does not address our needs – the wages, benefits and working conditions – that the members have told us are very important.

Bob Simpson

The basic items included are wages and salaries, but we also count Social Security benefits and dividends and interest income. We also include earnings from the self-employed, health care benefits and contributions to retirement accounts.

David Lenze

Consumers have more buying power due to the continued fall in unemployment, as well as higher wages.

Daniel Chan

It will be a good long time before there's upward pressure on prices or wages.

Alice M. Rivlin

This strike is about wages and some other aspects of being a human being.

Moses Memela

This is a good place to work, no question about it. You get good wages and the benefits are great. We just want to keep it that way.

Brian Gross

Extremely strong for tech -- the best place in the economy. My belief is that everyone is working, real wages are going up and people are feeling good. Consumers spend in that environment.

John Chadwick

We have some good companies that pay good wages with good benefits.

Buck Layne

The slower increase of wages for migrant workers, to a large extent, hinders rural families' income growth.

Ma Xiaohe

The estimate is just that, an estimate. The supplementary estimate of expenditure will more accurately reflect the level of wages.

Fitz Jackson

Our labor agreement was one that the membership overwhelmingly ratified, and it turned out to be a pretty decent labor agreement. We gained wages, gained benefits — pensions were status quo — and we redesigned and restructured the workforce to be more efficient, as we have all across the industry.

David Mccall

We could take a big hit with wages, work rules and not get any pension at all.

Bobby De Pace

We believe the tentative agreement is an essential step toward ensuring that G.M. is a competitive and financially sound corporation that can continue to provide good wages and benefits for decades to come.

Ron Gettelfinger

Signs of slowing growth and wages moving sideways rather than picking up, and of course the currency showing some signs of life, suggest that the Reserve Bank has probably administered enough monetary medicine for the time being.

Michael Blythe

While productivity was 55% higher in 2005 than in 1988, wages for most workers of course have not risen by that rate.

Peter Conway

The main issues were wages and duration, and we dealt with those.

Jan Ellis

Clinical research professionals in particular are seeing major jumps in wages, as orders for skilled workers in the biotech and pharmaceutical fields grow with industry demands and market dynamics for pipeline improvement.

Jim Lanzalotto

Choteau is a minimum-wage town. Montana is not all that great for wages.

Susan Miller

The cost of health care is going up much faster than people's wages. Families are paying about (on average) $1,000 more now just for health care premiums than they were five years ago.

Andrew Altman

The folks at Del Monte should be ashamed of themselves. A Fortune 600 company certainly has enough money to make sure everyone working for them receives the legal wages due them.

Mary Bauer

The core reading gives no evidence to substantiate the bank's concern over energy prices feeding through into higher wages.

Richard Mcguire

Union jobs are particularly good because they come with high wages and a package of benefits.

John Huggins

High-tech industries are important for a country with high wages as Germany is, so there are good points which can be used for Germany as a whole. But of course it will be difficult to duplicate all the measures.

Gernot Nerb

This area needs a well-trained and well-educated workforce for business and industry. Industry that is environmentally friendly. Workers need fair wages. The minimum wage needs to be raised. Healthcare costs need to be lowered. The long awaited wage increases cannot be eaten up by an all-encompassing 5 percent regressive sales tax.

Christopher Shropshire

The cost of living is increasing and there is a lot of pressure to increase faculty and staff wages.

Robert Cooper

The latest GDP figure confirms Japan's economy is now on a solid recovery trend with consumer spending, wages and employment all showing improvement. There are more than enough reasons to expect that domestic demand-related stocks will rise further.

Hideo Arimura

We want the government to stand up and defend the rights of people coming into the U.S.. We want to make it illegal to exploit people and not pay them fair wages.

Felipe Aguirre

They (the players) put the show on and they should be well paid, but the league needs to adequately compensate our wages bill.

Greg Swann

What's new about the global economy is First World productivity combined with Third World wages. That can create some real downward pressure on high-wage countries.

Harley Shaiken

Union leaders aren't talking about wages and benefits because they know our offer is generous and fair.

Patty Hefner

They say that the wages of sin is death. But after taxes its just a tired feeling really.

Paula Poundstone

We're looking for a relatively good year in 2006, given that wages are up and the labor market is fairly tight.

John Anania

We think it would usher in a period in which employers are increasingly weaned off of exploiting illegal aliens, and wages and working conditions for the poorest would increase.

Jack Martin

Change to Win wants to grow and that means recruiting service workers and non-professional white collar workers, who are often women and minorities. Those people are going to be concerned as much about the value of what their wages are going to buy as about the wages they make.

Robert Korstad

This is a huge issue for Michigan farmers. Without a workable guest worker program for agriculture, countries like China, which pay extremely low wages, will step in and replace the American farmer. Once that production is gone, it is gone forever.

Megan Wheaton

When we benchmark, we take the hard data from the quarterly census of employment and wages. If their method is consistent, this is the first year in some time that we've shown a positive increase. . . . But it does support what we've been saying all along that the economy is booming, booming, booming.

Bob Ball

They need to talk to me and they need to talk to other support folks who are making poverty wages. Most of them are working so they can have health care benefits.

Sharon Scott

They probably would have to offer considerably higher wages to staff those positions. The long-term impact on the industry may be to reduce expansion in the future, there may be some plants that would be located outside the country.

Paul Aho

We're not even getting the $10-an-hour jobs. We're still putting an emphasis on retail stores. They don't provide living wages for families.

Bob Schmidt

We remain confident we will continue to see an increase in wages if we can successfully bring in more companies that pay higher wages. Our ultimate goal is to get ahead of inflation.

Ken Dey

These guys seem to appreciate what I've done. I can't pay a whole lot in wages at the restaurant, but at least I can provide a clean living place.

Jackie Gentry

But that transformation is not about improving health care. It is about saving money on the wages and benefits of workers and on lower quality care.

Sharleen Stewart

Years ago it was a really good way of making a living, and we're finally trying to correct that as an industry to get the cost back up (for wages).

Brandon Cox

They influence our average wages.

Joel Wagher

Everyone's making living wages, nobody's earning less than that, and they work with respect and dignity. We've done everything possible to show other restaurant owners how things could be better for them and for their workers.

Saru Jayaraman

The modern developments of economic science in relation to rent indicate progress. For we are learning that what is commonly called the rent of land is really a very complex thing made up of many elements, some of which differ more widely from one another than it, as a whole, differs from profits, or than some elements of it differ from wages.

Alfred Marshall

There's really little you can do. We might have to lay off people or reduce the wages of some of the new hires.

Alan Wong

It does take a lot of pressure off the Reserve Bank. It's hard to get persistent inflation without wages pressure, and hard to get wages pressure with employment easing.

Stephen Roberts

Consumer spending will remain strong in the first quarter following the final quarter of last year. Supporting this is improving employment and wages.

Azusa Kato

The key number for the Fed was actually the unemployment rate and it went down and has been declining steadily. Wages continue to rise and the Fed has to continue to raise interest rates. This isn't weak enough to stop them.

Kurt Karl

I am looking for a 25-basis-point increase in the federal funds rate. The primary reason is because the unemployment rate has moved to a low level, and that low unemployment rate is starting to push the growth of wages higher. That is an early warning sign.

Michael Moran

From falling wages and increasing health care costs, to sky-high gas prices and climbing poverty rates, the Bush economy is failing America's working families. The only thing worse than this Bush economy is the last Bush economy.

Karen Finney

I am now going from a prison to a palace: I have finished my work, and am now going to receive my wages.

Christopher Love

These days, the wages of sin depend on what kind of deal you make with the publisher.

Ivern Ball

Everyone's watching the agreement Yum has with the coalition, and it seems to be working well. But the concern is that down the road, if there are additional wages that will end up making Florida farms the higher-cost alternative, and they'll be undercut by other states or Mexico, since most farms don't have these agreements.

Ray Gilmer

What it comes down to is this: the grocer, the butcher, the baker, the merchant, the landlord, the druggist, the liquor dealer, the policeman, the doctor, the city father and the politician -- these are the people who make money out of prostitution, these are the real reapers of the wages of sin.

Polly Adler

People can't live on poverty wages and no benefits. Can't figure out whether you're going to feed your child or go to the doctor.

Darrell Braden

People are receptive to the idea of protecting their wages and benefits, especially since the auto industry seems to be in a downturn. People are concerned here about what's going to take place in the future. The primary issue is job protection, seniority protection.

Don Barker

All of the three issues - work rules, wages and health care - are being discussed tonight.

Bob Bedard

He can't and he knows he can't because it's about cutting wages.

George Campbell

These losses may reflect the fact that consumers facing higher energy prices and falling real [inflation-adjusted] wages are cutting back on discretionary spending.

Jared Bernstein

Some positions, such as that of bellman, have seen a doubling of wages. But in every position, there has been a significant increase.

Randy Pullen

That companies are making money and still can't pay a living wage seems obscene, ... (Corporations) will say they have to suppress wages to provide low-cost consumer products and services, but they don't tell you about the unbelievable profits they enjoy and the huge paychecks being reaped at the top.

Karen Nussbaum

It's a community with big-city housing costs and small- town wages. Because it's a fairly trapped community, in terms of limited job opportunities, employers have been free to suppress wages.

Nora Hochman

We were told that if we managed to lose, each player involved in the 'fix' would be paid £100. It may seem like a piffling amount to receive in exchange for your football soul, but back then it was the equivalent of ten weeks' wages.

St John

A lot of people are afraid that increases in the PPI will eventually spill over to the CPI but it's important to put things into perspective. The majority of the average cost of goods is from labor and wages are still under pressure.

Michael Cheah

That's just a fact - that union members have higher wages and better benefits, and collective bargaining works for the workers.

Bernie Horn