Sentences with phrase «increased minimum»

Following the rally, Brewer praised the increased minimum wage.

The renewed progressive declared that «this state has the mantle of being the progressive capital of the country» and emphasized the «dignity» of workers receiving an increased minimum wage.

Suffolk County has increased the minimum age for buying tobacco and e-cigarettes from 19 to 21 years old.

«I don't see [the increased minimum amount] as a deterrent.»

Krueger said that by using the wage board in the fight for an increased minimum wage, Cuomo spotlighted a power that past governors did not utilize.

We increased the minimum wage to $ 15 an hour.

Blair Horner, with the New York Public Interest Research Group, says real change will happen only if Cuomo himself makes a strong push, as the governor did when he successfully won passage of an increased minimum wage and partial paid family leave in the new budget.

The state last increased the minimum wage in 2013, approving a three - year rollout that pushed the hourly rate to $ 8.75 from $ 7.25.

Although the legislature did pass an increased minimum wage in 2016, substantial campaign finance reform bills, for example, have failed to get through both legislative chambers.

They delivered an increased minimum wage, free UPK and Paid Family Leave.

Just last week we increased the minimum wage for city employees to $ 15 and offered 6 weeks paid parental leave to 20,000 city employees.»

They also have more influence with the GOP than the other Democrats, and they take credit for helping pass an increased minimum wage and paid family leave last year.

Increased Minimum Wage Increases Unemployment By Frank Vernuccio, Jr., J.D..

In this proposal, part of the 2018 State of the State, Governor Cuomo directed the Commissioner of Labor to schedule public hearings to examine industries and evaluate the possibility of ending minimum wage tip credits in New York State, with an eye toward replacing tipping with an increased minimum wage.

«It is going to be the first program like it in United States of America,» Cuomo told the audience as they cheered, outlining his recent liberal achievements, including an increased minimum wage which began phasing in yesterday.

«We increased the minimum wage.

With public financing and the alignment of the governor with the legislature, Connecticut passed mandatory paid sick days, increased the minimum wage, adopted an Earned Income Tax Credit, passed in - state tuition for undocumented students, and reversed a nearly 30 - year trend that gave bottle deposits back to distributors and redirected the money to public programs.

New York last increased the minimum wage to $ 8.75 an hour on Dec. 31, 2014.

The former had increased its minimum wage by 18.8 % and most economists expected employment to fall, all other things being equal between the neighbouring states.

Increased minimum wage will stifle job growth because companies will not be willing to move their businesses to the state due to the high taxes in different forms, he said.

Johnson's introduced 33 bills that have passed the Council, mostly related to LGBT issues, affordable housing and health, including one law that increased the minimum price of a pack of cigarettes in the city from $ 10.50 to $ 13.

Espaillat outlined his platform, which includes an emphasis on immigration reform in Congress, debt relief for student loans, job creation and an increased minimum wage.

Sanders praised Cuomo's push to enact an increased minimum wage in New York to $ 15 downstate and $ 13.50 upstate, as well as paid family leave, but he indirectly chided New York when he said voting needs to be more accessible.

In March, the Legislature and Gov. Andrew Cuomo increased the minimum wage to $ 9 an hour over the next three years, up from the current minimum wage of $ 7.25.

However, they note that not only is the state's last wage wage increase not fully implemented, but that the Labor Department also just increased the minimum wage for tipped workers in February.

It will drive employers with part - time and / or lower - income employees to significantly modify their scheduling practices, at a time when they are also absorbing the costs of an increased minimum wage and dealing with the complexity of the new paid family leave act.»

The only shift came with the increased minimum wage.

The Bank of Ghana increased the minimum capital requirement of universal banks from GH cents 120m to GH cents 400m, and all such banks have up to December 2018 to meet the minimum capital requirements.

Easily the most publicized factor is the fight for increased minimum wage.

Studies have shown that every dollar increase for a minimum - wage worker results in $ 2,800 in new consumer spending by household, and of the 13 states that have increased the minimum wage since 2014, including New York, all but one experienced employment growth.»

The authorities have expressed concern about speculative activity, and have raised the effective minimum mortgage rate, and increased the minimum downpayment ratio in those cities experiencing the most rapid house price growth.

To address concerns about overheating in the property sector, the People's Bank of China (PBC) increased the minimum loan rate of a five - year mortgage from 5.31 per cent to 5.51 per cent.

The only major difference is that I increased the minimum market capitalization to $ 1 billion to better match the size of companies in the S&P 500 equal weight benchmark that I use for these backtests.

If the 13 states that increased minimum wage levels in 2014, including California, Ohio and New York, introduced similar legislation, or if such legislation were taken up at the federal level, that gap, which sits at around 273:1, might begin to narrow.

Last December, Morneau increased the minimum down payment for homes over $ 500,000 to 10 per cent from five per cent, a measure aimed specifically at the Toronto and Vancouver markets.

Over the winter, he increased the minimum down payment for homes over $ 500,000 to 10 per cent from five per cent, a measure aimed specifically at cooling off the Toronto and Vancouver markets.

Between 2013 and 2014, 13 states increased the minimum wage.

But Congress has pushed back against the federal wage increase, with legislation to increase the minimum wage to $ 10.10 an hour stalling in the Senate last April.

Among their demands was increasing the minimum wage from $ 153 to $ 208 per month.

Yet the national dialogue about increasing the minimum wage to the $ 15 level makes her slightly uncomfortable.

On the other hand, increasing the minimum to that amount two years ago might have cost the economy about 500,000 jobs, or 0.3 percent of the workforce, by 2016, the CBO found.

Similarly, California and New York recently passed legislation that would increase their minimum wage levels to $ 15 in phases over the next few years.

He also laid out four other measures for Congress to consider: preventing people on the no - fly list from purchasing firearms, subjecting every gun buyer to a full background check, banning high - capacity magazines, and increasing the minimum age requirement to buy a rifle to 21.

As fast food employees push to increase the minimum wage, the former CEO of one chain tells CNBC that could be counterproductive.

President Obama has similarly made increasing the minimum wage to $ 10.10 an hour a national concern.

The Vermont senator supports increasing the minimum wage to $ 15 an hour, and changing the Affordable Care Act to make health care universally available through a single - payer system administered by the federal government.

Given this data, there does appear to be room to increase the minimum wage without causing significant job loss.

Generally, increasing the minimum wage does not drive jobs away — any claim to the contrary ignores the basic reality that job creation reflects the growth of the economy.

Somewhere between 40 percent and 60 percent of business owners favor increasing the minimum wage, according to various surveys.

But Congress has pushed back hard against the federal wage increase, with legislation to increase the minimum wage to $ 10.10 an hour stalling in the Senate last April.