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

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

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.

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.

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.

Surely she'd heard voices like his, so low-pitched as to make every commonplace utterance seem of the deepest intimacy, every cliche a delicious secret.

Could we ever know each other in the slightest without the arts?

My parents made us dream that we could be anyone that we wanted to.

Since I'm in a band, and I'm not usually in situations where I need to read, it doesn't come up as often, and I don't rely on it as much.

This particular type of human carries weapons slightly more lethal than your beloved pink monstrosity

I can ski out of my back door.

You won't acquire external Haters until you've conquered the internal Hater.

To all my critics, you get paid to be negative.

Jesus showed patience and love to all who came to Him seeking relief for their physical, emotional, or spiritual illnesses and who felt discouraged and downtrodden.

The war is relentless: it puts the alternative in a ruthless relief.