“I don’t think most Americans, in their heart, want to be given something.”
In an interview with Fox News on Monday night, Ivanka Trump said most Americans do not support a guaranteed minimum wage because they don’t “want to be given something.”
“I don’t think most Americans, in their heart, want to be given something. I’ve spent a lot of time traveling around this country over the last four years. People want to work for what they get,” she said. “So, I think that this idea of a guaranteed minimum is not something most people want. They want the ability to be able to secure a job. They want the ability to live in a country where there’s the potential for upward mobility.”
The president’s eldest daughter, who along with her husband Jared Kushner earned at least $82 million in outside income while serving as senior White House advisers in 2017, was responding to a question about Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s (D-NY) Green New Deal legislation, which offers a blueprint on how to rapidly decarbonize the U.S. economy in roughly a decade. The proposal also includes a job guarantee program that would provide a living wage to workers.
View the complete February 26 article by Elham Khatami on the ThinkProgress website here.