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In an open adoption agreement, you agree to a minimum number of visits - a floor, not a ceiling. It's enforceable.
I don't know of a single economist who disagrees that when you raise the minimum wage, you kill jobs for the poor.
I have no issue with raising minimum wage, but then the customer can't say to us, 'Why are you raising your prices?'
By tying minimum wage to money supply, the poor's income would rise and fall with the rise and fall in money supply.
I am a very simple cook, I just do the minimum amount. I'm mostly a vegetarian, so I just steam a lot of vegetables.
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.
Everyone's favorite breakfast dish can be prepared in a moment's time with just a few ingredients and minimum effort.
The team that wins makes minimum mistakes, and the one which loses, that one makes more mistakes than the other team.
I've been told I'm a good guest. I don't take up much space, I don't eat a lot, and I keep my complaints to a minimum.
Home Depot has never hired one human being for minimum wage, not one. We have always paid a premium over minimum wage.
I was a waitress at a local pub. I was really bad with money and it taught me the value of it as I was on minimum wage.
Now, occasionally I will still have that quarter pounder because I love fast food, but you have to keep it to a minimum.
Those who claim that they need cash because they are unable to pay labourers are those who are not paying minimum wages.
We adapt to technological progress by raising our minimum standards of living and working to stay above this rising threshold.
I walk in hotel halls late at night while listening to audiobooks if I haven't yet achieved a minimum of 12,000 steps that day.
No family gets rich from earning the minimum wage. In fact, the current minimum wage does not even lift a family out of poverty.
Good generalship is the realisation that you've got to figure out how to accomplish your mission with the minimum loss of human life.
The state of Alaska has a minimum wage which is higher than the federal level because our state leaders have made that determination.
White fragility is a state in which even a minimum amount of racial stress becomes intolerable, triggering a range of defensive moves.
Well, for me the canning factory was minimum wage, which at the time I believe was $3.40 or something. I was just happy to have a job.
Just making 'Black Rainbow' was like my minimum requirement before death, so that I could die with some honour and not in total shame.
Out of many evils the evil which is least is the least of evils. [Lat., E malis multis, malum, quod minimum est, id minimum est malum.]
I don't leave my house - I don't care if it's raining or scorching hot out - without a face cream with a minimum of SPF 15, if not more.
If I were in charge of the government, I would index the minimum wage to inflation, so that way, everybody knows what they can count on.
I don't give my body the chance to stop and do nothing, just in case it likes it too much. I train five days a week, minimum once a day.
I'd like to give zero out capital gains tax and zero out the dividends tax, zero out alternative minimum tax, and zero out the death tax.
I thought in this country, the best social program was a job. Yet minimum wage jobs aren't paying enough to keep families out of poverty.
As for the British churchman, he goes to church as he goes to the bathroom, with the minimum of fuss and no explanation if he can help it.
The only thing I didn't like as a kid was I was required to do a minimum of 3 hours of schoolwork every day, and there was a tutor on set.
One essential object is to choose that arrangement which shall tend to reduce to a minimum the time necessary for completing the calculation.
In terms of emerging economies, we absolutely believe that the prescription is social protection and a minimum wage on which people can live.
Working 40 hours a week used to mean a minimum standard of living and a foothold on the first rung of the economic ladder to the middle class.
No evidence compels the conclusion that the minimum required intake of any vitamin comes close to the optimum intake that sustains good health.
A minimum precaution: keep your anti-malware protections up to date, and install security updates for all your software as soon as they arrive.
I just think it's so outrageous that fifteen years is the kind of minimum amount of time that any wrongfully convicted person spends in prison.
America has historically met the challenges to its national security with decisive actions that defeated or, at a minimum, contained the threat.
Mandatory minimum sentencing has disproportionately affected blacks, Hispanics and others who often don't have the financial means to fight back.
Raising the minimum wage would be a positive step in reducing poverty, the humiliation of living in poverty, and dependence on public assistance.
If we reduce the minimum voting age to 16, as we should, then people could be auto-registered when they are issued with a national insurance card.
Mandatory minimum sentences give no discretion to judges about the amount of time that the person should receive once a guilty verdict is rendered.
For me the most important is on the pitch, I don't like too much speaking in the press. I will do the minimum. I will do it because I have to do it.
I completely believe in the lean startup and minimum viable product; I just I think that people are setting the threshold for minimum viable too low.
I was considered the most progressive person the whole time I was in the legislature. I negotiated health care, I negotiated a minimum wage increase.
If you know anything about writing biographies, or what is regarded as a good biography, you have minimum input from the person you are writing about.
Before the government decides to raise the minimum wage, it must consider the effects of the tax and benefits merry-go-round that affects the low-paid.
The Japanese have a wonderful sense of design and a refinement in their art. They try to produce beautiful paintings with the minimum number of strokes.
The alternative minimum tax was designed to prevent the very wealthiest Americans from overusing certain tax benefits to avoid most of their tax burden.
In seeking comfort, we generally find a quiet corner in life where there is a minimum of conflict, and then we are afraid to step out of that seclusion.
The American people are much more practical than Republican lawmakers on equal pay, on the minimum wage, on same-sex marriage, and on basic civil rights.
Open all the debates that you want, but I think that the players that I select, and in whom I have total confidence, deserve a minimum amount of respect.