Sentences with phrase «create living wage jobs»

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With the intention of showing that there is an alternative to the 9 to 5 indoctrination, I have decided to interview 10 people who have taken control of their own lives, 10 people who don't care about minimum wage nor government social programs because they have created their own jobs.

Developers pitch their plans partly in terms of the number of «living wage» jobs that they will create.

Plus, forcing people to work part - time creates «more», «good - paying» (meaning minimum wage) jobs, none of which anyone can actually live on.

Our Healthy School Food venture brings award - winning, farm - to - school menus to low - income schoolchildren across DC, all while creating living - wage careers for unemployed adults who have completed our Culinary Job Training program.

We've worked to create a situation where the middle class is suddenly within reach of gaming workers... not a bunch of minimum - wage jobs where people have to live on the dole to survive.»»

During separate and recent evenings on the campaign trail, the candidates offered up the usual political fare: use environmental technologies to create jobs (Kessner); give teachers more time to implement the Common Core teaching standards (Stott); ensure more workers have a living wage.

«The hard cash argument I don't entirely buy because I don't think it takes into account the dynamic effect, it doesn't take into account the extra hours that people work, it doesn't take into account the extra opportunities that you're giving people by creating jobs that through the National Living Wage are paid better than they were previously being paid.»

«Unions and the working poor have opportunities to come together and create a society where everybody has an opportunity for a good, solid - paying Living Wage job and everybody has an opportunity to reap the benefits of the social programs that are administered by government and particularly by the State of New York,» Peoples - Stokes explained.

«Our law will require developers who receive major taxpayer - funded subsidies pay a living wage for the jobs they create,» she said.

That's why Labour needs to offer hope: a living wage, for instance; letting councils build Britain out of its housing crisis; an industrial strategy to create the renewable energy jobs of the future; turning the bailed - out banks into accountable public investment banks; tax justice; and public ownership of our key utilities.

Aurora students should be able to access the jobs being created in the community, and earn a living wage.

And in the Bay Area, where we will soon launch a ten-fold expanded bike share system, Ford GoBike, we're well on our way to creating over 200 living - wage, «green collar» jobs.

To create «2,000 living - wage jobs in Seattle and retrofitting 2,000 homes in poorer neighborhoods.»

For starters, that means reconstruction that doesn't just create jobs but jobs that pay a living wage.