Sentences with phrase «living wage advocates»

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Many of the policies that Barack Obama has advocated - the Affordable Care Act (ACA), banking reform, and changes to tax rates, the minimum wage, and regulations - make life more difficult for small - business owners.

In their report Towards a Living Wage, CUPE advocates an immediate increasing to the Ontario minimum wage to $ 14 an hWage, CUPE advocates an immediate increasing to the Ontario minimum wage to $ 14 an hwage to $ 14 an hour.

Still, many economists and public policy advocates argue that in states where minimum wage is higher than the federal mandate, the economies fare better than in states where businesses stick to the federal minimum wage, which is currently not indexed to inflation and hence forces some workers to live below poverty level.

In Baltimore even conservative politicians and advocates have adopted the living - wage framework.

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.

Johnson has been a long term advocate of the living wage.

In races against Gov. Andrew Cuomo in 2010 and 2014, he advocated for issues like a living wage for workers, a ban on fracking and a millionaires» tax.

Public Advocate Bill de Blasio has come out in support of the Living Wage legislation, sending a letter yesterday to Christine Quinn, the Council speaker.

At 11 a.m., advocates for people with developmental disabilities will hold a rally in front of the #bFair2DirectCare electronic billboard in Times Square to highlight the need to for the state to cover the cost of paying direct service providers a living wage, Manhattan.

At noon, advocates for people with developmental disabilities and the #bFair2DirectCare campaign urge Cuomo and the state Legislature to provide funds so direct care workers can be paid a living wage, Duffy Square, 47th Street and Seventh Avenue, Manhattan.

Also at noon, advocates for people with developmental disabilities, including Assembly members Angelo Santabarbara, Patricia Fahy and James Tedisco, state Sens. George Amedore and Neil Breslin, and former Assemblymen Harvey Weisenberg and Tom Reynolds, highlight the need to for the state to cover the cost of paying direct service providers a living wage, Senate lobby, state Capitol, Albany.

Jeremy Corbyn has also advocated installing a «real» living wage and announced that companies with more than 21 employees to publish earnings data in a bid to close the gender pay gap.

Advocates and opponents in the heated debate over a «living wage» bill pressed their case at a City Council hearing Tuesday, but the lawmaker who controls its immediate fate, Speaker Christine Quinn, didn't take a stand.

As Walmart argues it will bring jobs to New York City, advocates and officials question the quality of those jobs, whether they will provide health insurance and whether they will pay a living wage.

Advocates for raising the minimum wage say that's not enough, and a more accurate minimum wage that people could actually live on would be closer to $ 15 an hour.

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.

In the latest feud, council members and advocates will gather on the steps of City Hall tomorrow to denounce a $ 1 million city - funded study on the effectiveness and success of living wage policies.

In the wake of Council Speaker Christine Quinn's decision not to support paid sick leave, some City Council members and advocates are attempting to make waves on another issue: the living wage.

We continued to advocate for a Living Wage and Paid Sick Leave legislation.

Supporting a Living Wage: A $ 15 living wage is now guaranteed to every City worker and employee of nonprofit organizations contracted with the City, and the Mayor and Council have advocated for higher wages for all workers across the Living Wage: A $ 15 living wage is now guaranteed to every City worker and employee of nonprofit organizations contracted with the City, and the Mayor and Council have advocated for higher wages for all workers across the stWage: A $ 15 living wage is now guaranteed to every City worker and employee of nonprofit organizations contracted with the City, and the Mayor and Council have advocated for higher wages for all workers across the living wage is now guaranteed to every City worker and employee of nonprofit organizations contracted with the City, and the Mayor and Council have advocated for higher wages for all workers across the stwage is now guaranteed to every City worker and employee of nonprofit organizations contracted with the City, and the Mayor and Council have advocated for higher wages for all workers across the state.

Dean pledged to push for changes in state law to allow Nashville to adopt a living wage and also pledged to use his considerable clout with the General Assembly to advocate for a $ 10 an hour state minimum wage.

Injured workers and their advocates have long called for wage loss compensation to be based on the worker's «real life» employment situation.