Labor Movement, Minimum Wage, Social Security, Middle-Class, Barack Obama

"It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label." - Barack Obama

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Thirty-Seven, Paper Route, Social Security, Affair, Erma Bombeck

“I was thirty-seven, too old for a paper route, too young for social security, and too tired for an affair.” - Erma Bombeck, on her transformation from housewife into humorist.

Found in Wild Words from Wild Women: An Unbridled Collection of Candid Observations & Extremely Opinionated Bon Mots, Compiled by Autumn Stephens, page 163.