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Sincerely to aspire after virtue, is to gain her; and zealously to labour after her wages, is to receive them.
Wal-Mart has always paid low wages, or, as Sam Walton put it, 'as little as we could get by with at the time.'
I've seen the same promises -- more jobs, higher wages, the jobs don't materialize ... the promises are remade.
Servers make very little in regular wages and largely rely on tips to pay the bills and budget for weeks ahead.
We must defend the rights of working people to bargain collectively for fair wages and safe working conditions.
If people expect high inflation and raise wages to reflect the high inflation, then it becomes self-fulfilling.
I want to make sure that the American worker has an opportunity to see their wages rise and their incomes increase.
Companies prefer to put money in the pockets of shareholders or to hoard cash rather than to raise wages or invest.
Listen, if you're a hardworking steelworker or truck driver, that drives down your wages. That takes away your jobs.
Friendship is not to be sought for its wages, but because its revenue consists entirely in the love which it implies.
We are in the midst of a protracted wage slump, ... a troubling trend that is largely going unnoticed by policymakers.
The lowest stage of humanity is experienced when the individual must labour for a small pittance of wages from others.
Players earn their wages, their livelihoods, and their right to compete to win things out on the pitch and not off it.
Public employees should have the right to bargain for better wages and working conditions, just like all employees do.
Each of us wages a private battle each day between the grand fantasies we have for ourselves and what actually happens.
We know that the wages of secrecy are corruption. We know that in secrecy error, undetected, will flourish and subvert.
Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.
Those who claim that they need cash because they are unable to pay labourers are those who are not paying minimum wages.
Back in the day, when the emperor or the king or whatever waged war, they went to war, too. But that's been lost in time.
We can't continue to look on, when there are entire sectors where there are wages that don't provide a secure livelihood.
I don't care about wages or fees, I just want to improve my football, which is a side to me that the fans aren't aware of.
Firms are not always willing to cut wages, even if there are people lined up outside the gates to work. So why don't they?
What we have to do is support business, but also support our workers with job training programs and with reasonable wages.
Masters are always and everywhere in a sort of tacit, but constant and uniform combination, not to raise the wages of labor.
Uncontrolled, mass immigration displaces British workers, forces people onto benefits, and suppresses wages for the low-paid.
Productivity is driven at the enterprise level. Better wages, better performing workplaces, are driven at the workplace level.
Henry Ford, in a sense, was the first Keynesian. He paid his assembly workers high wages so they could afford to buy his cars.
You pay more in wages, get more in in tax, you get people living a higher standard, you get more money. It's a kind of circle.
No matter what the figures are in the workplace in terms of wages, you either feel a valued member of your staff, or you don't.
This is a sensible response to employer concerns that the minimum wage is starting to have a damaging impact on competitiveness.
Nearly every study shows that competition from cheap foreign labor undercuts the wages of American workers and legal immigrants.
I'm not for the sort of trade deals that hollow out our standards while they hollow out our middle class and middle class wages.
The caretaker needs to be taken care of, in wages and benefits. Not enough emphasis is put on the importance of these caretakers.
With limited shifts, low wages, and scarce benefits, it feels almost impossible for many Americans to get their slice of the pie.
It would be better to incentivise people into work with secure jobs and decent wages, than to try to starve them into submission.
What we must seek is a plan by which the men will receive high wages when the employers are receiving high prices for the product.
The wages of sin are the hardest debts on earth to pay, and they are always collected at inconvenient times and unexpected places.
I have read all that has been written by the gravest authorities on political economy on the subject of rent, wages, taxes, tithes.
Costco pays their workers good wages with benefits while selling good products at competitive prices and remaining quite profitable.
Legalizing betting would create over a hundred thousand new jobs, over $6 billion in wages, and inject $25 billion into our economy.
American workers won't be able to compete fairly for jobs until companies have to pay higher wages in countries like China and India.
It is but a truism that labor is most productive where its wages are largest. Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over.
Too many families are working incredibly hard, but their wages never seem to go up and their health care bills only get harder to pay.
I've never believed in lower wages. Never. Never believed in lower wages, I've never believed in lower wages as an economic instrument.
Illinois will only get economically healthy if we stop focusing on growing minimum wages and start focusing on growing everyone's wages.
Under neoliberal governance, workers have seen their wages stagnate and their working conditions and job security become more precarious.
Every economist knows that minimum wages either do nothing or cause inflation and unemployment. That's not a statement, it's a definition.
Nafta has been responsible for a race to the bottom in standards across North America, with working conditions declining along with wages.
It stands to reason: Higher wages means higher loyalty and morale, which means higher productivity, which means a more profitable business.
Lesser-skilled workers suffer the entire burden of lower wages but capture only a portion of the benefits from lower-priced offshore goods.