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.

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.

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.

Reinvent new combinations of what you already own. Improvise. Become more creative. Not because you have to, but because you want to. Evolution is the secret for the next step.

I like physics. I think it is the best science out of all three of them, because generally it's more useful. You learn about speed and velocity and time, and that's all clever stuff.

Before journalism, I had worked doing medical aid work in conflict zones. Then, as a journalist, I had written about hospitals in war zones.

All children have creative power.

And so Fannie Mae produces very strong results for investors in - when interest rates are high and when interest rates are low, in recession and during booms.

It is impossible to give a soldier a good education without making him a deserter. His natural foe is the government that drills him.

Truth is not what you want it to be; it is what it is, and you must bend to its power or live a lie.

I never believed that one big bill is the way to go.

To assess the intelligence of a committee, divide the IQ of its stupidest member by the number of members.

The benefit of living in a free society is that we all have the choice to be rich, poor, or middle class. The decision is up to you.