In today's economy, it is almost impossible to earn
a living wage without some postsecondary education after high school.
One solution could be a uniform salary for state legislators, pinned to a state's cost of living, that guarantees a basic
living wage without enriching legislators from wealthy backgrounds.
Councilman Steven Matteo (R - Mid-Island) said it was «difficult» to support any expansion of
the living wage without hearings, testimony, public debate or investigations into potential impacts of the change.
«The CIOB welcomes the rise in employment allowance to # 3,000, which will allow small firms to employ four people on the national
living wage without paying any national insurance.
Recall the statement in the first paragraph on past decisions that was predicted to come to haunt us, minimum
living wage without optimal size of the public service.
Not exact matches
«People have been squeezed before 2008 and they're gradually being squeezed more, and what it translates into is more people who are working or
living in poverty having to go to food banks, trying to get two or three jobs, or going without basic necessities like food or heating,» said Michael McCarthy Flynn, spokesperson for the Living Wage for Families Cam
living in poverty having to go to food banks, trying to get two or three jobs, or going
without basic necessities like food or heating,» said Michael McCarthy Flynn, spokesperson for the
Living Wage for Families Cam
Living Wage for Families Campaign.
That millions of workers around the world are now toiling long hours
without receiving a
living wage is a direct consequence of globalization.
Paying minor leaguers a
living wage, especially when most of them are going to be spit out on the other side, 10 years older and
without any transferable job skills, shouldn't be a radical concept.
Here in Islington, the company that delivered ground maintenance moved to pay the
living wage,
without extra cost to the local taxpayer or any job losses.
At the January 12th membership meeting the Village Independent Democrats endorsed a letter to Speaker Christine Quinn applauding her support of the Fair
Wage For New Yorkers Act as a first step toward ensuring a living wage, but calling on her to move quickly to expand the act to cover the substantial number of minimum wage workers who remain unprotected and without enough of a weekly paycheck to afford food and shelter in our c
Wage For New Yorkers Act as a first step toward ensuring a
living wage, but calling on her to move quickly to expand the act to cover the substantial number of minimum wage workers who remain unprotected and without enough of a weekly paycheck to afford food and shelter in our c
wage, but calling on her to move quickly to expand the act to cover the substantial number of minimum
wage workers who remain unprotected and without enough of a weekly paycheck to afford food and shelter in our c
wage workers who remain unprotected and
without enough of a weekly paycheck to afford food and shelter in our city.
CITY HALL — Bypassing the City Council, Mayor Bill de Blasio signed an executive order on Tuesday expanding the
living wage law to cover thousands of more workers and raising the hourly
wage from $ 11.90 to $ 13.13 for those
without benefits.
She was also asked whether she is concerned that the mayor is taking important actions on his own, such as the expansion of the
living wage law,
without going through the City Council.
«It's regrettable that
without fully assessing the facts, the Comptroller would try to obstruct the City's efforts to reach more New Yorkers with a
living wage.»
The current
living wage rates are $ 15.08 per hour
without benefits, or $ 12.77 with benefits.
Address the state's scandalous disregard of low -
wage human services employees of not - for - profit agencies under state contract who received a cost - of -
living increase this year after enduring years
without one.
Under the bill projects like the Coney Island redevelopment, the Hudson Yards, the Intrepid, all built with city tax breaks, would have to pay their workers a so - called «
living wage» of $ 10 a hour with benefits, or $ 11.50
without benefits, instead of the federal minimum
wage of $ 7.25.
«These jobs are not giving New Yorkers the adequate resources needed to provide for their families,» he said, arguing that the bill specifically targets «jobs that can be
living -
wage jobs
without impairing economic development.»
At a hastily - called press conference at City Hall, Quinn, who was joined by fellow council members and the head of the retail workers» union, announced plans to introduce a new «
living wage» bill that will force developers receiving more than a $ 1 million in city subsidies to pay their workers at least $ 10 an hour, plus benefits, or $ 11.50
without — significantly more than the $ 7.25 minimum
wage.
The
living wage bill would force developers receiving more than a $ 1 million in city subsidies to pay their workers at least $ 10 an hour, plus benefits, or $ 11.50
without — significantly more than the $ 7.25 minimum
wage.
If kids from all walks of
life — wealthy, poor, white, black, Hispanic, Asian, gay, straight, immigrant, native born, Native American, with and
without special needs, bilingual, monolingual, rural, suburban, urban — even if kids from all of these groups got equally high test scores, would that satisfy us that we could stop
waging this civil rights struggle?
The implication, quoth the Journal reporters: «
Without better educated Americans, economists say, the U.S. won't be able to maintain high -
wage jobs and rising
living standards in a competitive global economy.»
What these workers have in common — besides earning wages that make it impossible to support a family
without relying on public assistance — is that they all work for employers who can easily afford to pay their workers a
living wage.
Here's why: The probability of making a
living wage in today's economy
without some form of postsecondary education is already low and will only diminish.
In these hard economic times, too many Metro Vancouver, Fraser Valley, Lower Mainland people, and British Columbians who
lived free of financial crisis until now, find themselves facing the shame of debt they can not repay after taking out too much easy credit just to
live, pay for necessities such as housing, food, medicine, etc., a reflection of our ever growing senior and minimum
wage population funded with insufficient pensions and facing rising
living costs
without corresponding increase in earnings.
4 in 10 households
without any
life insurance would have immediate trouble paying
living expenses if they were to lose their primary
wage earner
They can result in
wage garnishments
without the lender going to court, intercepted tax refunds, not enough money left each myth to
live safely, few payment accommodations, and massive collection fees tacked on.
The endeavor to affirm the dignity of human
life can not be
waged without pictures,
without representational justice.»
We have examples all around the world of what a society
without a
living wage looks like.
Four in 10 households
without any
life insurance would have immediate trouble paying
living expenses if their primary
wage earner died.
43 percent of families
without life insurance say they would be in immediate financial trouble if a primary
wage earner died
Without a degree, medical billing is unlikely to pay you a comfortable
living wage, but with a degree, medical billing often pays enough to support a family.
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If I could make a
living off of yard sales, I would do it for 50 hours a week and for minimum
wage,
without question.