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

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.

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.

One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.

Shallow are the souls that have forgotten how to shudder. Leon Cass

I just reminded myself that she didn't say it mean. She wasn't making fun of me. She wasn't comparing. Or criticizing.

There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.

I had to learn how to chop wood actually - I don't think my dad would have let me go chop wood in the backyard growing up.

But facts always convince, and another man's opinion rarely convinces.

Whatever shall be to the advantage of all, may that prevail!

Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in California.

Only one thing can conquer war-that attitude of mind which can see nothing in war but destruction and annihilation.

This work is either useless or harmful, because there is nothing good about populism. If you wanted to hear my opinion on this issue, that is what I think.