Sentences with phrase «for living wage jobs»
Press release from the Office of the Bronx Borough President — 2/8/14 Stuart Appelbaum, Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr., Annabel Palma and Ritchie Torres Jointly Announce New Living Wage Bill Today Bronx, NY — The historic campaign for living wage jobs that grew -LSB-...]
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Last year, the City Council (with the strong support and leadership of Diaz) killed a proposal to turn the Armory into a shopping mall because the project didn't include guarantees for living wage jobs.
Diaz, the entire Bronx Council delegation, along with members of the Northwest Bronx Comnunity and Clergy Coalition and the city's biggest retail workers union, fought for living wage jobs as part of a Community Benefits agreement with the developer, the Related Companies, but a deal couldn't be worked out.
Some form of training or college is required for any living wage job (unless you believe in the Bill Gates syndrome - good luck to you!)
Not exact matches
For people who decide not to pursue a college degree, it might seem challenging to find a job that both is appealing and pays a living wage.
Myerson suggests the government guarantee jobs for all at a living wage.
From the vantage point of 2016, when all those angry Trump voters are asking for is better jobs and more affordable healthcare, paying everyone a living wage not to work sounds extreme.
In that sense, the Fed has the potential to make a huge structural difference in the economic lives of blacks and other minorities by heavily weighting the full employment part of the their mandate relative to the inflation part, especially since there's still considerable slack in the job market, with lower - wage, minority workers facing the brunt of it, and — importantly — little evidence of inflationary pressure (if anything, the Fed has missed their inflation target on the low side for a few years running now).
«People have been squeezed before 2008 and they're gradually being squeezed more, and what it translates into is more people who are working or living in poverty having to go to food banks, trying to get two or three jobs, or going without basic necessities like food or heating,» said Michael McCarthy Flynn, spokesperson for the Living Wage for Families Camliving in poverty having to go to food banks, trying to get two or three jobs, or going without basic necessities like food or heating,» said Michael McCarthy Flynn, spokesperson for the Living Wage for Families CamLiving Wage for Families Campaign.
By continuing to spur the creation of new small businesses and providing high - quality living wage jobs, solar's dramatic growth under the Obama Administration enables more Americans to provide for their families while also helping the United States to achieve its clean energy and climate goals.
The only solution i see is a new federal jobs program with a living wage, that then forces the private sector to compete for skilled labor.
It is in corporate CEO interest to keep racing to the bottom for labor, so those jobs aren't coming back here until we're living a third - world lifestyle and will accept a dollar a day as a wage.
You can't pull yourself up by your bootstraps unless somebody recognizes the value of your work and has the deep pockets to reward that ability with a «living - wage» job that allows for advancement..
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 fight hunger differently by providing the high - quality nutrition kids relying on school meals need to learn and grow while sustaining meaningful, living - wage careers for at - risk adults who have completed our Culinary Job Training program.
«The keys to keeping our economy growing are to keep investing in infrastructure, so we have a better climate for job growth, and to make sure workers all get safe working conditions and a wage they can live on.
Hawkins and the Green Party have long advocated for a Green New Deal, which is a full employment program with a public guarantee of a living wage job that begins with transitioning to 100 % clean energy by 2030.
This is a wise investment of tax dollars that will help rebuild our region's infrastructure while at the same time providing living wage construction jobs for people who want to work,» said Buffalo NAACP President Rev. Mark Blue.
The simple fact of the matter is that the US does not have anywhere near enough living wage jobs for its population.
Regardless of how the WFP pyschodrama plays out, the Green Party will remain the choice this November for progressives who support a $ 15 an hour minimum wage, living wage jobs, climate action, strong public schools, and an end to corruption at the State Capitol.»
What we need instead is to build a party of the 99 % to win living wage jobs for all, action on climate change, an end to the new Jim Crow, and making health care a right,» said Hawkins.
What we want to make sure is that we raise the minimum wage and we've got a radical plan to do it, that doesn't cost jobs, so in addition to raising the minimum wage we've got a plan to provide tax breaks for employers for the first time, to raise the living wage.
We're going to demand living - wage jobs in exchange for public investment.
«Eric's public support for good, well - paying jobs with a living wage, equal rights and social justice reform, plus his innovative approaches to reducing our city's reliance on incarceration, make him the right choice to continue moving Brooklyn forward,» Gresham said.
Rafael Espinal, who represents the neighborhood that is the litmus test for de Blasio's affordable housing plan, said retail businesses that open as part of the plan should be required to pay a living wage, hire local residents and offer job training.
«Given the developers commitment to «living wage» jobs, local hiring and community programming, it is clear that the Kingsbridge National Ice Center project is the right fit for our borough,» Diaz said in a statement.
Top Story: The Related Companies, the designated developer for the Kingsbridge Armory revamp project, say they will not guarantee living wage jobs ($ 10 an hour, plus benefits) at retail stores that will eventually occupy the Shops at the Armory.
«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.
Be careful — look at this YouGov poll which shows a majority of people would support renationalisation of the utilities, increasing the minimum wage to # 10 and the top rate of tax to 60 %... but also a total ban on immigration and benefits for anyone who turns down a job, making life mean life with no parole in prison sentences and stopping all international aid.
The hearing followed the release of a study on Monday by the Economic Development Corp., which argued the living wage proposal would result in between 33,000 and 100,000 job losses for the city.
«We told the mayor that while he was telling us he was against the project, Deputy Mayor Alicia Glen was having private email conversations with FreshDirect lobbyists promising support for the $ 140 million subsidy if the company could deliver on living wage jobs, but more than half of FreshDirect's workforce remains below living wage,» Harry Bubbins, member of the group, said in the press release.
To open dialogue with affiliated trade unions to win support at Labour Party conferences for democratic rule changes and for pro-working-class policies on issues such as cuts, the living wage, jobs, and trade union rights.
«Taking decent paying, middle class jobs with benefits away from experienced, dedicated, and caring state employees and replacing them with private, not - for - profit companies who fail to pay their direct care workers a decent wage hurts local economies and the quality of life for all New Yorkers, not just those receiving care,» CSEA's testimony stated.
Her policy goals if she wins are to provide more living wage jobs, to advocate for equal work for women and to support small business through Merchant Associations and / or Business Improvement Districts.
«The Bloomberg administration's top - down approach to economic development has disproportionately relied on ill - conceived mega-projects and re-zonings that produced wealth for developers but few living - wage jobs,» he said in the Staten Island speech.
We are simply asking that, in a borough that has the highest poverty rate in the nation and has consistently seen the highest unemployment numbers in New York State, Related and their future tenants provide living wage jobs with benefits that allow Bronxites a chance to provide for their families and to build a better life.
His trickle - down economic policies don't trickle down to working - class women, who need living wage jobs, a closing the male - female pay gap, affordable child care, paid family leave, and increased cash assistance and job and educational opportunities for single mothers in poverty,» added Hawkins.
Regardless of how the WFP pyschodrama plays out, the Green Party will remain the choice this November for progressives who support a $ 15 an hour minimum wage, living wage jobs, climate action, strong public schools, and an end to corruption at the State Capitol,» said Howie Hawkins, the Green nominee for Governor.
«These jobs are not giving New Yorkers the adequate resources needed to provide for their families,» he said, arguing that the bill specifically targets «jobs that can be living - wage jobs without impairing economic development.»
«There's a reason that our friends in labor have coalesced around my campaign, because they know I'm the candidate that will fight for a real $ 15 living wage, fair working conditions, better jobs and continued rights to collectively bargain,» responded Rafael Salamanca in a statement.
The Office for Budget Responsibility has estimated that by 2020 there will be 60,000 fewer jobs as a result of the National Living Wage.
Howie Hawkins is running on a Green New Deal platform, calling for the state to invest in the transition to a carbon neutral economy as a way to provide living wage jobs to put New Yorkers back to work.
«Our law will require developers who receive major taxpayer - funded subsidies pay a living wage for the jobs they create,» she said.
«To be able to pull people living in Amherst to their jobs in the medical campus, not just sort of the hourly wage jobs, but professionals being able to pull people to the medical school and, vice versa, to be able to provide people working in the Town of Amherst access for their commute from other places, that's important,» Kulpa 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.
And, worryingly, the factory jobs that now provide a decent living for those with minimal training are moving from China to lower - wage countries.
EAST HANOVER, N.J. January 18, 2017 — Kessler Foundation has awarded a two - year, $ 200,000 Signature Employment Grant to the Mayor's Fund to Advance New York City to launch NYC: AT WORK — an initiative to connect people with disabilities to meaningful, living - wage jobs across the city's five boroughs by working with the Mayor's Office for People with Disabilities (MOPD) to build partnerships and expand coalitions.
I agree that from perception point it is better not to notice how young Americans who went in debt to pay for their education in college or university have no job at all or paid a low wage which will force them to dedicate themselves to repaying debt through the long period of life.
These studies showing the direct positive effects of raising household income — even by small amounts — on student achievement make it plain that reducing poverty through stable, living wage jobs for all working families would also help improve educational outcomes.
But with a stressed economy and a lack of jobs that pay uncredentialed workers a living wage, the situation is bleaker for dropouts now than in the past.