Sentences with phrase «lowering labor standards»

Over the past two years, state legislators across the country have launched an unprecedented series of initiatives aimed at lowering labor standards Education and parenting articles offer expert tips and information on raising kids.

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Besides being a powerbroker, China is widely regarded as having lower standards than the U.S. for labor and the environment.

But the prescription offered by the Taylor rule changes significantly if one instead assumes, as I do, that appreciable slack still remains in the labor market, and that the economy's equilibrium real federal funds rate — that is, the real rate consistent with the economy achieving maximum employment and price stability over the medium term — is currently quite low by historical standards.

2) Whole industries have moved to places where wages are lower and labor laws and environmental standards less stringent than they are in the United States.

Today the most intense competition in the globally integrated market is not between the gigantic Transnational Corporations, but it is between governments that find themselves competing with one another for investors by offering the cheapest and most compliant labor; the weakest environmental, health, and safety standards, the lowest taxes; and the most fully developed infrastructure.

Aid to poor countries can then be replaced by investment, which is attracted by cheap and docile labor and low environmental standards.

And for the majority of districts struggling to meet the new school food standards with inadequate funding and labor, the highly processed, lower priced, heat - and - eat entree will continue to remain an alluring option.

Although asking laboring mom's to refrain from eating is still standard practice, most midwives believe the risk of aspiration is low and the benefits of eating outweigh this danger.

«The low - wage service workers we represent need a champion in Albany who will advocate for raising workers» standards, the DREAM Act and state - level immigration reforms, and ensure the labor movement remains a force for upward economic mobility.»

«The link between economic freedom and prosperity is clear — states that support low taxation, limited government and flexible labor markets see greater economic growth, while states with lower levels of economic freedom see lower living standards and less economic opportunity,» said Fred McMahon, co-author of the study.

The standard neo-classical model of wage setting predicts short - term effects of temporary labor market shocks on careers and low costs of recessions for both more and less advantaged workers.

, chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, and ranking Democrat Sen. Patty Murray (Wash.) want to shift decisions about academic standards, whether and how to evaluate teachers, what to do about low - performing schools and other matters to states and local school districts.

According to the Department of Labor, you will need a minimum of 70 % of your pre-retirement income to maintain your standard of living after retirement and if you are a low income earner, you will need more.

That's why a broad and diverse coalition of environmentalists, public health officials, business leaders, labor leaders, faith leaders, academics, low - income advocates, and social justice advocates has come together to call on Maryland's leaders to significantly expand the state's Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) policy.

And the more affordable cars weren't of lower quality — standard parts meant better - fitting parts, and specialized labor meant expertise in every feature of mass - produced cars.

The end result is either a lower standard of living for the same amount of labor or the same standard of living for an increased amount of labor.

Successfully kept food and labor costs low while maintaining high quality food standards and strict adherence to food handling practices, and security standards.