Sentences with phrase «cause of the minimum wage increase»

Asked what he thought Silver was championing the cause of the minimum wage increase this year, Skelos chalked it up to politics.

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For example, the Church does not know whether the planet is getting warmer, whether such change would be good or bad, or whether human activity is the cause; nor does she know whether minimum - wage laws do more good to the poor by increasing the income of those who work, or more harm to the poor by throwing those with marginal skills out of work.

In his message to the WFP convention — delivered via pre-taped video and a brief phone call — Cuomo embraced the cause of a Democratic senate, signed on to increasing the minimum wage and giving cities a say in setting it and vowed to pursue campaign - finance reform, the DREAM Act, marijuana decriminalization and other goals.

Gianaris noted that when it comes to causes the governor approves of — womens reproductive rights, the environment, increasing the minimum wage — he's firmly in the Senate Democratic camp.

The video then notes that a 2015 study by the conservative Empire Center found hiking the minimum wage to $ 15 - an - hour in New York — a 67 percent increase, when fully phased in — would cause a loss of as many as 200,000 jobs.

In this case, however, he embraced some of the language of the business community, basically saying it would be unwise to boost the minimum wage to a point the economy can not sustain, causing a loss of the very jobs held by low - income workers this increase is trying to assist.

ALBANY — With elections over, a coalition of business groups announced its united opposition to a proposed minimum wage increase they say will cause job losses upstate at a time when more of its factories are closing.

The Center on Wage and Employment Dynamics at the University of California at Berkley published a paper this week that concludes Gov. Andrew Cuomo's proposed $ 15 an hour minimum wage would cause a modest 0.04 percent increase in employment across the state by 2Wage and Employment Dynamics at the University of California at Berkley published a paper this week that concludes Gov. Andrew Cuomo's proposed $ 15 an hour minimum wage would cause a modest 0.04 percent increase in employment across the state by 2wage would cause a modest 0.04 percent increase in employment across the state by 2021.

«The onset of [increased worker benefits] in anything except increments causes a great burden to small businesses,» Cornegy warned in a hearing on raising the minimum wage in 2014.