I was at the forefront of the effort to pass $15 minimum wage in Seattle, and have been collaborating with the people who are trying to make that hap….

My message is that the counterclaim - which is that if wages go up, employment will go down - is a scam. It's a con job. It's an intimidation tactic.….

But can we please stop insisting that if low-wage workers earn a little bit more, unemployment will skyrocket and the economy will collapse? There is….

Raising the minimum wage allows business people to stop thinking about workers simply as costs to be cut and allows you to start thinking about worke….

Raising the minimum wage is very efficient. Everybody's on the same playing field, it's a very simple rule, it doesn't require a lot of administratio….

The only reason to have a 300-foot-long boat is because they're bigger than 200-foot-long boats..

I was more conservative when I was younger. But I don't think that I've moved left - I think the country has moved right..

The overtime threshold is to the middle class as the minimum wage is to low-wage workers..

Raising the overtime threshold - something that is about to happen. This is more complex so not as many people understand it, but it's equally conseq….

The person earning the federal minimum wage of $7.25 isn't going out to eat at restaurants. They're not taking piano lessons. They're not going to th….

When businesspeople take credit for creating jobs, it's a little like squirrels taking credit for creating evolution. In fact, it's the other way aro….

Raising the minimum wage a lot across the board would make a big difference. It's not the only thing, but it's an indispensable part of solving the p….

The fundamental law of capitalism is: when workers have more money, businesses have more customers, and need more workers. The idea that high wages e….

The most pro-business thing you can do is to help middle-class people thrive..

You can go back 150 years and literally find the same people saying the same thing in the same way. "If we have to pay you more, it will be bad for y….

If it was true that lower taxes for the rich and more wealth to the wealthy leat to job creation, today we would be drowning in jobs..

I think the idea that giant profitable corporations should pay their workers enough so that they don't need food stamps - since when is that left win….

Fast food workers are all the governor has power to enact. Your state legislature is held hostage by the same nitwits that hold hostage the federal [….

If you care about real change, deep structural change, that involves politics, and all politics is friction. It takes leadership, and the willingness….

Now one person doing the job of one and a half. So as an employer I can get two people to do the work of three, and think about what that does for pr….

The idea that high wages equals low employment, it's absurd..