Sentences with phrase «living wage jobs as»
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.
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In WILTW May 26, 2016, we pointed out that more Americans in the 18 to 34 - year old age group were more likely to be living with their parents (32.1 %), the highest percentage since the 1930s, as opposed to living with their spouse or partner in a separate household (31.6 %)-- the unfortunate result of too little high - wage job creation and too much student loan debt.
It is in corporate CEO interest to keep racing to the bottom for labor, so those jobs aren't coming back here until we're living a third - world lifestyle and will accept a dollar a day as a wage.
On top of that, the same right - wing cons who praise capitalism as the reason that millions of people have, truthfully, found a way out of poverty, support politicians who keep wages stagnated, attack the very CONCEPT of a minimum wage despite the skyrocketing inflation and general cost of living, and support one war after another that makes a handful of people VERY rich while millions suffer, and thousands of troops come home with no legs (and thus, lose their jobs and often never recover).
«As I have said many times, no one who works a full - time job should have to live in poverty, and by increasing the minimum wage we can dramatically improve the lives of so many workers and their families.»
Rafael Espinal, who represents the neighborhood that is the litmus test for de Blasio's affordable housing plan, said retail businesses that open as part of the plan should be required to pay a living wage, hire local residents and offer job training.
Just as the Tories were forced to accept the national minimum wage, which they had once declared an apocalyptic destroyer of jobs, so all future governments will have to embrace the national living wage.
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.
While supporters argue tax dollars should not be used to subsidize poverty - level wages, Bloomberg has repeatedly slammed the bill, as well as a related living - wage bill, threatening they will kill jobs and border on communism.
To open dialogue with affiliated trade unions to win support at Labour Party conferences for democratic rule changes and for pro-working-class policies on issues such as cuts, the living wage, jobs, and trade union rights.
The Office for Budget Responsibility has estimated that by 2020 there will be 60,000 fewer jobs as a result of the National Living Wage.
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.
«As long as those are the jobs that are growing, we can't build a strong economy unless those jobs pay a living wage.&raquAs long as those are the jobs that are growing, we can't build a strong economy unless those jobs pay a living wage.&raquas those are the jobs that are growing, we can't build a strong economy unless those jobs pay a living wage.»
If, as educators, we feel powerless to address bigger issues such as living - wage jobs and health care reform, Gorski (2008) proposes that we ask ourselves, «Are we willing, at the very least, to tackle the classism in our own schools and classrooms?»
At the same time, through the Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy (LAANE), we joined forces with local community members and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers to build RePower LA, a program in which low - income residents lower their neighbors» utility bills and receive a living wage as they make businesses and homes more energy efficient, train for jobs with the local utility, and get on a path to union membership.
People working three jobs for a little over minimum wage tend to live paycheck to paycheck, and it doesn't help that businesses such as PayDay Loans tend to prey on them to get them stuck in debt.