Sentences with phrase «because lower income workers»

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The exact size and growth of this workforce is debated, but workers employed under precarious work conditions make up a significant portion of the larger workforce, with estimates that 4 out of every 10 workers are now employed in precarious situations.49 These workers typically face higher income volatility than workers in traditional employment relationships because they spend more time unemployed or underemployed and some have low earnings.50

(I understand that there are steps I can take to lower my income tax - marriage is rewarded that way in my country, for instance) So in some sense, the employer pays both «my taxes» and my net earnings, because if they don't, they don't get a worker.

It is the Wal - Mart's of the business world who are profiting most from the low minimum wage standard and also relying on taxpayer subsidies to keep their poverty wage workers fed, housed, and health enough to work for them because these minimum wage workers are paid so low they qualify for food stamps, Section 8 and public housing rent subsidies, Medicaid, and the Earned Income Tax Credit,» Hawkins said.

The Low Incomes Tax Reform Group (LITRG) has welcomed a recommendation in a report by the House of Commons Work and Pensions Committee that the «self - employed» should be given at least «worker» employment status unless the engager of their labour can prove otherwise.1 This is a recommendation that LITRG made in written evidence to a separate inquiry.2 LITRG believes that the denial of employment rights to people working in the «gig economy» and the exploitation of other flexible workers regarding their taxes share a common cause: the workers» own lack of knowledge, their reluctance to challenge their treatment because they lack confidence or just need the work and the businesses involved apparently having little fear of action being taken against them by public bodies.

Establishing such a union would require the state legislature's approval, because the workers receive child - care subsidies for low - income children and food reimbursements from the government.

Tens of millions of individuals and families previously classified as «middle class» — including many white - collar workers — are now considered «low income» because they:

However, the auto - enrollment of employees is also a concern, because low - income workers are generally better off saving in TFSAs so they won't face clawbacks in government benefits in retirement.

For middle - aged workers, returns will also be low because much of their retirement income will come from scaled - back Social Security benefits.

I wanted to limited risk because my income is low (small factory worker) and I wanted some predictability of expected returns.

And because benefits are progressive, low - income workers will continue to receive a positive return.

False claims that businesses don't come to Illinois solely because of our workers» compensation costs are nothing more than a ploy to get lawmakers on board for taking away even more rights and protections that help lower and middle - income Illinoisans.