Sentences with phrase «income workers by»

The White House argues that it ultimately will result in higher wages and, thus would benefit middle - income workers by encouraging companies to keep profits and operations in the U.S.

Less appreciated, associates say, is how he would encourage banks and other financial companies to serve lower - and middle - income workers by more tightly regulating fees and by ensuring that banks are lending to needy communities and deserving borrowers.

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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.

Another of the participants in VanHacks, as the event is known, is Knack by Potluck Café, a non-profit with the goal of building an online platform to help workers and employers in low - income neighbourhoods (starting with the Downtown Eastside) connect quickly and efficiently.

Not only does self - employment offer increased flexibility and uncapped income, workers don't want to be swallowed up by the politics and paper shuffling of large corporations.

Additionally, as the nature of work continues to change, prodded by technological advances that maximize worker efficiency at the expense of regular work schedules, more workers are seeking supplementary income.

In fact, volatile income is the biggest challenge cited by independent workers in a recent survey by Everlance, with 44 percent of respondents saying it's the most difficult part of being an independent contractor.

Long hours, for example, may be acceptable if workers believe the loss of leisure time is justified by the extra income.

• Created the Working Income Tax Benefit — WITB — to help ensure that low - income workers are better off by taking Income Tax Benefit — WITB — to help ensure that low - income workers are better off by taking income workers are better off by taking a job.

A different approach would strengthen individual savings accounts by requiring workers to contribute out of pre-tax income, combined with a redistributive means - tested safety net for those who fall into poverty in old age.

The typical young Pittsburgh worker has also seen household income grow by an impressive 14.1 % in the past five years, while the supply of entry - level homes has shot up 8 % to roughly 3,300.

A 30 hour work week is seen by some as a way to more evenly distribute the shrinking pool of labor among workers, and reduce the potential of automation to increase income inequality.

Ontario joins cities such as Seattle and New York in the U.S. seeking to address years of income stagnation and inequality by boosting wages for workers at the bottom of the pay heap.

Incomes for younger workers may have fallen less, but their pay has either continued to fall or grown by only minuscule amounts since then.

There's a good reason we do so: The median wage actually shows the experience of workers in the middle of the distribution, whereas average wages are distorted by super-salaries paid at the very top of the income spectrum.

Posted by Iglika Ivanova under education, income distribution, inequality, labour market, privatization, public infrastructure, public services, student debt, taxation, user fees, young workers.

By contrast, consider a young worker with a long time horizon to save for retirement, expectations of growing employment income over time, and an aggressive portfolio allocation of 80 % stocks and 20 % bonds.

But closing down unnecessary capacity can pay for itself, even if unemployed workers are temporarily put on the government payroll (causing debt to rise, but usually by less than it had before), but only temporarily as Beijing takes other measures to boost household income through wealth transfers from the state and so to boost consumption, a form of demand which is likely to be more labor intensive than the demand created in the process of over-capacity.

In this example, the «inflation portfolio» improved the average real returns of both the conservatively positioned income - oriented retiree's and the young worker's portfolios by 0.7 percentage points per year during the extremely inflationary period from 1965 to 1980.

If women, seniors and immigrants, collectively, were employed at their level of education, earning equal pay to men born in Canada, personal incomes would increase by $ 174 billion, or an equivalent of 1.6 million more workers.

Posted by Nick Falvo under BC, Conservative government, employment, immigration, income, income support, Indigenous people, Job vacanices, labour market, migrant workers, poverty, skill shortages, social policy, temporary workers, unemployment, wages, workplace benefits.

Educated professionals like scientists and architects could use their skills more productively, while many less - educated workers, like bank tellers and travel agents, saw their jobs being displaced by technology.6 This led to bigger employment shares for high - and low - skilled jobs at the expense of middle - skilled jobs in Canada, along with a modest increase in income inequality.7

What is particularly important to consider this time is the impact that technological progress could have on income inequality.5 Technological advances may lead to higher incomes for workers whose skills are complemented by the technology, but not for those whose skills are substituted by it.

Posted by Nick Falvo under Austerity, CPP, demographics, employment, income, income support, inequality, labour market, media, OECD, Old Age Security, older workers, part time work, pensions, population aging, poverty, privatization, progressive economic strategies, retirement, Role of government, self - employed, seniors, small business, social policy, taxation, unions.

[158] Other causes include the rise in non-cash benefits as a share of worker compensation (which aren't counted in CPS income data), immigrants entering the labor force, statistical distortions including the use of different inflation adjusters by the BLS and CPS, productivity gains being skewed toward less labor - intensive sectors, income shifting from labor to capital, a skill gap - driven wage disparity, productivity being falsely inflated by hidden technology - driven depreciation increases and import price measurement problems, and / or a natural period of adjustment following an income surge during aberrational postwar circumstances.

The weakness in household income has been largely a result of firms» efforts to restrain average wages growth by substituting part - time for full - time workers.

Instead of showing leadership by improving retirement income security for all Canadians, it wants to «level down,» threatening young workers and seniors across the country.

A token income - tax cut was offset by F.I.C.A. withholding that, for many workers, now exceeds their income - tax liability.

Eroding pension plans by shifting risk onto vulnerable employees and retirees with limited ability to absorb income cuts is quite in keeping with the Harper government's determination to lower the boom on public sector workers and improve the profitability of their corporate friends in the private sector.

Or should these trading gains — a zero - sum activity where one party's gain is, by definition, another's loss (usually one's customers)-- be taxed more highly than poverty - level income of workers?

The initial costs to communities affected by natural disasters can be great; however, after a natural disaster there is usually a surge of economic activity that continues for an extended period as people and communities rebuild and money and workers flow into the area — increasing income tax and sales tax revenues to municipalities.

Posted by Nick Falvo under BC, competition, Conservative government, corporate income tax, debt, demographics, education, fiscal federalism, fiscal policy, household debt, income distribution, income tax, inequality, macroeconomics, Newfoundland and Labrador, P3s, part time work, post-secondary education, privatization, productivity, public infrastructure, Quebec, rankings, regulation, Role of government, social policy, student debt, student movement, taxation, user fees, working time, young workers.

According to statistics supplied by the Economic Policy Institute, a 25 - year - old male worker in 1953 or 1963 could expect to more than double his income over a period of ten years.

At this center, former sex workers come to earn a dignified income by making handcrafts sold through local churches.

The demagogues and flakes have many vices, but at least they don't pretend that our problems will be solved by reducing the top income - tax rate and increasing low - skill guest - worker programs.

In Mike's view, successive Federal Governments wanted «to keep the lid on industrial unrest by keeping the gap between a worker's income and the cost of living apart».

Home - based neonatal care by community health workers for preventing mortality in neonates in low - and middle - income countries: a systematic review.

Is one child's lunch being mistakenly deemed «insufficient» by a misguided daycare worker really that big a deal, when every day over 31 million low income kids are eating school meals?

The Paid Family Leave law spearheaded by Cuomo will start to make things a little easier on new parents — but it's still not enough, especially for lower - and middle - income restaurant workers.

LITRG has now taken this further by highlighting the significant challenges low - income care workers face when dealing with the tax and benefits systems, using queries they have received from workers as illustrations of the issues.

The protection afforded by a regularly paid Basic Income would enable many workers to reject undesirable situations convincingly and effectively.

The plan would reduce a worker's salary by the amount they pay in income taxes and convert the money to a payroll tax paid by the employer.

How much money will low - income workers lose by delaying the minimum wage hike to $ 9 an hour over three years — without indexing to the rate of inflation?

«It is far too easy for employers in Britain to undercut wages and working conditions by recruiting temporary workers from elsewhere in Europe on very low pay and with no job security, knowing that the benefit system will top up their income.

Ministers and officials use the term «hidden economy» to describe behaviour by businesses and workers to avoid paying tax on their income.

Though technological developments might put downward pressure on labour's share of national income, workers would be compensated for this by their greater access to the return on capital.

With just a few hours to go before President - elect Donald Trump take office, New York's Working Families Party is using what it anticipates will be «wholesale attacks on working people» by the incoming administration and its allies to highlight the plight of several hundred striking workers at Momentive Performance Materials, a chemical plant in Waterford.

In the July Budget, Osborne also planned to cut tax credits, which top up pay for low - income workers, prompting claims that this represented a breach of promises made by colleagues before the general election in May.

He talked about a buccaneering Britain, where working parents will be given 30 hours of free childcare, where workers on the minimum wage will not pay personal income tax and where the NHS will be miraculously saved by new investment.

«And his persistent work against wage theft by employers violating laws for prevailing wage, minimum wage and overtime, has recovered millions of dollars that have made a huge difference for many low - income workers in the state.