Annual earnings in the fast-food industry are well below the income needed for self-sufficiency, and fast-food industry jobs are also much less likely than other jobs to provide health benefits.

When families can afford the basics, they can reinvest in their communities, and higher wages means a broader consumer base for businesses.

Income inequality and wage stagnation finally took their place among the principal moral issues of our time.

Today, the gap between productivity and compensation for the typical worker is larger than at any time since World War II.

The vast majority (over 80 percent) of fast-food and similar low wage service jobs (<$9.24/hr) are held by adults. A quarter are adults over 40. Another quarter are moms raising kids.

People decide what markets should do - they are not a force of nature.

The free market hasn't done a very good job "figuring out" how to pay workers enough. If it was solely up to the market, the people with the least power would be paid pennies ... or less.

We've created more wealth in the past 30 years than the rest of human of human history combined. But half of Americans make less than $17 an hour.

Fast food also has a uniquely difficult business structure for workers to achieve better wages and working conditions.

The fast-food industry is notorious for employing millions of Americans at poverty wages.

A September 2015 poll found that, by a 3-1 margin, voters are more likely to support political candidates who favor raising the minimum wage.

No matter how bleak and black her existence became, the familiar sight of the moon restored something within her, small as it was—like tiny fluttering wings of flame beating back the darkness.

solder. this is meand you together

Had we taken ten sails, and let the eleventh to escape, being able to get at her, I could never have called it well done.

I COULD CARE LESS ABOUT CRITICS, LIKE I SAID THEY DONT BUY TICKETS.

Our hypotheses are initially rooted in theoretical consistency and elegance, but...ultimatel y it is experiment not rigid belief that determines what is correct.

It's a shame that creativity and sloth look exactly the same.

They're out there protesting what they actually wish would happen to them sometimes.

If I don't like it, I don't want to rant about it. There will be things that I vent about if I'm passionate enough, but there are plenty of scathing voices out there already. Who needs another?

I'm a comedian so I'm not waiting around for someone to write a part for me. I don't have to wait for somebody else to create my next job; I have the ability to basically write my own ticket.

One has to be willing to face the fact that what has transpired in Iraq is not exactly a very successful exercise.