Sentences with phrase «make living wage»

My concern is, many Realtors are just trying to make a living wage right now, there have got to be just as many Lawyers out there looking for the next great opportunity... I really believe it is going to be the unfortunate Realtors that regardless of how well (or poorly) they performed on the short sale, that are going to get sued because the Seller will have get some sort of financial demand down the road and will have long forgotten all of the hard work and disclosing the Realtor did on their behalf during the short sale process.

i had no idea that the «middlemen» were taking so much of the proceeds from the sales, or that many of the farmers were just trying to make a living wage.

A lot of workers fell into a range where they were making too much to qualify for exempt status but were struggling to make a living wage, and now they'll likely either see salary increases or additional income by way of overtime pay.

Conversely, my subjects are unable to make a living wage.»

My concern is, many Realtors are just trying to make a living wage right now, there have got to be just as many Lawyers out there looking for the next great opportunity... I really believe it is going to be the unfortunate Realtors that regardless of how well (or poorly) they performed on the short sale, that are going to get sued because the Seller will have get some sort of financial demand down the road and will have long forgotten all of the hard work and disclosing the Realtor did on their behalf during the short sale process.

This means that every time you sell a product, you know you are supporting communities where people would otherwise struggle to make a living wage.

«I sell some records, I sell some T - shirts and at the end of the day, I make a living wage and I've got no complaints.»

Do you think it will be easier or harder in the next decade for artists of all types to make a living wage?

The author, of course, doesn't manage to make a living wage off of that advance, but neither does the publisher.

Few will make a living wage from their words, but if they cultivate an engaged and ravenous audience, they can move product to market super-quickly, keep those hungry fans happy, and make some very good supplemental income.

I'm saying that Gabaldon, who is from the same generation as my parents, probably wants to give out advice to people which will help them make a living wage and have... yeah.

Now, a total of 12 books in, I want to make a living wage doing what I love.

Can you understand I feel bad for writers who can't make a living wage because publishers pay them so little?

Less than 1 % of published authors actually make a living wage from their royalties — and for every Dan Brown (not an extremely gifted writer by the way!)

In 23 states, the average teacher doesn't even make a living wage — meaning those educators can't cover the basic costs of raising a family.

«We have taken a more comprehensive approach to the London Living Wage and believe that four hour contracts are required to make living wage desirable for employees.

Small farmers who use «unconventional» or «beyond organic» agricultural practices are often unable to make a living wage and have to rely on off - farm sources for the majority of their income.

Even magical nannies need to make a living wage.

Gresham, who joined Cuomo on an RV tour in upstate New York to stoke support for the governor's legislation, said that New York can now become the type of place where families can make a living wage instead of just a minimum wage.

We'd have a lot more diversity, I think, if we were able to make it a living wage.»

Mayor Brown says the board may even intervene to make sure that the fast food workers are employed enough hours to make living wage.

«Cause they don't care to make a living wage.

To make the living wage a reality, Tompkins County would need to pass a «home - rule» request to New York state seeking the authority to implement a local minimum wage; and to help leverage the decision, a copy of the resolution would be forwarded to the Tompkins County Legislature, the Tompkins County Council of Governments, state Assemblywoman Barbara Lifton, D - Ithaca, Sen. Tom O'Mara, R - Big Flats, and Cuomo.

Bronx resident Jorel Ware, 35, a McDonald's employee, told the Observer after the rally that the labor secretary should be someone who wants to support the 64 million people that «don't make a living wage in this country.»

I promise today that at the next election, we will present a manifesto that explains how we can help to make the living wage a part of our strategy to make Britain's economy work for working people again.

Labour's economy spokesperson on the London Assembly said voluntary schemes would take hundreds of years to work and urged Miliband to make the living wage compulsory instead.

How many people can afford to take a job that you can't make a living wage at, can afford to take a job with random un-paid breaks during the school year?

In the U.S., this kind of job migration occurs not because employees hate their jobs or don't make a living wage — but simply because it's an option.

As the founder of a Kansas City nonprofit she was tasked with figuring out how the homeless mothers she worked with, many with felony convictions, could make a living wage that supported their families with also retaining the flexibility they needed to care for their kids.

Within her first year of running Bee Downtown full time, Bonner sold over 50 hives, enabling her to make a living wage and hire a beekeeper.

That makes the living wage more than # 2 per hour higher than the national minimum 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.

I'm certainly all for authors making a living wage from their work (though it's important to be realistic and not expect to make a living wage from one book — as we've discussed before, most successful indies have multiple books and often multiple series out).

Authors have divided themselves into two camps, the making a living wage by self publishing crowd of which I belong, and the gatekeepers like James Patterson and Scott Turow who have made a shitload of money with traditional publishers who have eleveated them to a position of being «overlords» of the literary world and encouraging greedy publishing houses to bar the door to new aspiring writers who are not represented by agents.

The question of whether an author is making a living wage — able to support him / herself — can in many ways come down to where and how they live.

I finally began making a living wage from my writing, bought a car, and grew as a writer and a person in ways I never would have predicted back in January.

I was working as a waitress and making a living wage, and I was lucky enough to have graduated with a manageable amount of debt.

One artist told me that he just posts his work on eBay and he makes a living wage from that, and that artists should spend more time on improving their art and less time on marketing.

Not exact matches

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.

With the advantages of youth on your side — a fresh perspective on business ideas, possibly low overhead (if you're living at home rent - free), and the ability to make mistakes early in the game and have plenty of time to correct them — starting a business is a very attractive option for young people who would rather answer to themselves than earn minimum wage.

He may have to develop one: Ted Kennedy told NPR this morning he plans to offer legislation to make the minimum wage a «living wage» — which would come out to some $ 9.50 an hour.

FireFly buys its goat milk from seven family farms near the creamery, still makes its cheeses by hand, and has made a firm commitment to paying its workers a living wage.

Make your employees» lives easier by adding on direct deposit, or automatically remove payments for child support, or wage garnishments.

A high unemployment rate and a relatively low average weekly wage make Riverside one of the worst cities to live in if you want to find your dream job.

In that sense, the Fed has the potential to make a huge structural difference in the economic lives of blacks and other minorities by heavily weighting the full employment part of the their mandate relative to the inflation part, especially since there's still considerable slack in the job market, with lower - wage, minority workers facing the brunt of it, and — importantly — little evidence of inflationary pressure (if anything, the Fed has missed their inflation target on the low side for a few years running now).

Alongside this, we are also proud to be a Living Wage employer and offer sabbaticals for our crew as well as sharing 10 % of the annual profits of our company between everyone who made it happen.

The study found the living wage for Metro Vancouver increased $ 0.33 over last year to $ 19.14 — a jump mediated by the introduction of the U-Pass, which has helped cut bus transportation costs for some families struggling to make ends meet.

«The living wage can be achieved by employers paying more wages or by policy interventions that reduce expenses for people,» he said, adding a community child care plan similar to Quebec's could help further reduce the living wage by $ 3.22 an hour, making it more affordable for employers.

In social policy, the Party is committed to breaking the cycle of poverty by developing a «living wage» policy that is sufficient to allow workers to support their families; make changes to the welfare system to encourage people on social assistance to move beyond poverty, such as allowing some benefits to remain until they are firmly established in the workplace; and reviewing the housing component of Alberta Works social assistance to bring it in line with the current reality of the Alberta housing market.

«The employees of our company should have a living wage, they should have quality of life and we shouldn't make their work destroy them,» he said at a 2013 conference in New York.