Sentences with phrase «living wage jobs»

There is a better way forward and it begins by replacing our free trade agreements with fair trade deals that create living wage jobs.

The most important thing we can do for children is to make sure their parents have meaningful living wage jobs.

Sadly, our current political leaders place more importance on increasing corporate profits than increasing living wage jobs.

They suggest that investing in clean energy will create living wage jobs and lower future energy costs while improving health by eliminating air pollution.

We must not back away from supporting the importance of mental health services for children, fighting for living wage jobs for the families of our students, speaking out against the wrongful deaths of black people by the hands of the police, and calling for more black empowerment within the education reform movement.

But he added, «We will work with the City Council to increase the number of living wage jobs offered by employers that the city subsidizes, reaching tens of thousands of additional New Yorkers.

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.

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.

Hawkins also wants NY to go carbon free with a 100 %, clean renewable energy by 2030, while providing a public living wage job to any New Yorker who needs one.

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.

The simple fact of the matter is that the US does not have anywhere near enough living wage jobs for its population.

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.

De Blasio said he would tackle that challenge head - on, in part by expanding the reach of the city's living wage standards, increasing the number of living wage jobs offered by city - subsidized employers and pushing Albany to allow the city to raise its minimum wage.

Howie Hawkins won the Gubernatorial nod, calling to tax Wall Street to bail out Main Street, and to turn the unemployment office into an employment office where NYers can get a public works living wage job when there are not job openings in the private sector.

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.

«There's no doubt about it: if we want living wage jobs, stronger hospitals and schools, more affordable rents, lower property taxes, a cleaner environment, and a state government that actually gets things done, politicians like Pedro Espada have got to go.»

«Our endorsement is based on Senator Larkin's ongoing commitment to quality health care and good living wage jobs in the Hudson Valley.

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.

«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.

«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.

Brad has fought successfully to reform discriminatory practices in the NYPD (including establishing the first NYPD Inspector General), win living wage jobs and paid sick days for low - wage workers workers, to protect manufacturing jobs in New York City, and to reform tax and zoning regulations to create affordable housing for low - income and working class New Yorkers.

Hawkins said that this would provide enough living wage jobs to put all New Yorkers to work.

Michael DeVito, 44, a Marine Corps veteran and nonprofit executive, is focused on universal health care, green infrastructure, transportation, education and more living wage jobs.

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.

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.

Our living wage jobs are exported.

By preparing adults with high barriers to employment for culinary careers and creating good, living wage jobs for our culinary graduates here at DC Central Kitchen, we target the root cause of hunger by offering pathways out of poverty.

«Whether it was standing with us in our fight at Duane Reade, fighting for living wage jobs or standing up for immigrant rights, Francisco has been and continues to be a strong advocate for issues facing the working men and women in his community and across the city.»

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.

Five million people, mostly women were in low paid, dead end jobs earning less than the living wage

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.»

He added, «People of conscience can not allow this to become a profit center,» and he echoed KARA's demands for a Community Benefits Agreement and living wage jobs.

When communities with common interests are not kept together in the same district, residents can not organize effectively to advocate for the issues most important to them, such as fighting for living wage jobs, preserving affordable housing units, curbing racial violence in public schools, or getting Asian - language access to health care.

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.

Living wage jobs were something the Kingsbridge Armory Redevelopment Alliance has been pushing to be included in a Community Benefits Agreement since the project became a reality more than two years ago.

«We are a microcosm of middle America if you look at the landscape of the district and the reality of our district is that we don't have living wage jobs,» DeVito said.

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.

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-...]

«The goal of city government must be to end poverty and create opportunities for all families to have a dignified life — with living wage jobs, fully funded schools and a responsive city government.»

Hawkins also said that the state should guarantee every New Yorker a living wage job.

This project will bring $ 300 million in private development funds, living wage jobs and the strongest possible community benefits agreement ever written to our borough.

This innovative program model is designed to equip graduates with skills they need that give access to living wage jobs.

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.

Are they engaged in a postsecondary experience that's meaningful, like working at a living wage job with upward mobility or attending a college or technical school?