Sentences with phrase «income workers already»

To achieve this goal, higher - income workers already receive a lower return on the taxes that they pay than do lower income families.

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The net effect of the Ontario government's new policy is to subsidize jobs in an already strong labour market, increase the wages of already high - income workers and give hundreds of millions of dollars in corporate welfare to one of the largest and most profitable companies in the world.

Those jobs are already very well compensated, so this is acting as a wage subsidy to high - income workers, paid for by the general population.

«Giving minimum wage workers a small increase over three years and linking it to a business tax break that will actually encourage the creation of more minimum wage jobs is unconscionable, especially in a state that already has the most inequitable income distribution in the nation,» said Donohue.

1) They chose to study wages in wealthy states where a rise in the national minimum wage may only reflect the already prevailing wage for low income workers in the state.

If that is the case, then current farmers and migratory workers will have to find income somewhere else, in an economy that is already tight.

(Thomson Reuters Foundation)-- In Peru, where two weeks of U.N. climate talks begin Monday, melting glaciers and more extreme weather such as hot spells and flash frosts are already harming crops and incomes, and keeping people in poverty, aid workers say.

These equity concerns include: the regressive impact of potential energy price increases on low - income households; the potential for carbon pricing policies to allow some fossil fuel - fired power plants or refineries to continue to operate and emit air and water pollutants in neighborhoods already burdened by pollution; and the economic hardship to workers and communities dependent on fossil fuel industries for livelihoods or for their tax base as we transition away from these resources.

Described as offering «discussions with some of the economy's brightest thinkers and on - the - ground interviews with workers around the U.S., all grappling with change,» the relatively new series (only four episodes in as of this writing) has already tackled such topics as automation, universal basic income, and the challenges Walmart faces as it ramps up its physical retail presence as many storefronts are shuttered — all with interviews with real people behind them.