Sentences with phrase «minimum wage jobs while»

Focus on expanding your network instead; the future value of a minimum wage job while you're trying to go through school is practically zero.

Not exact matches

While some workers may lose their job after the minimum wage increase (more on that in a minute), a very large number of workers will see an important pay hike, and that will loop back into the economy.

While there have been studies, such as the Card and Krueger study referenced by the CUPE report that show little or no job loss from a higher minimum wage, other studies have found instances where raising the minimum wage had a negative effect on employment.

What Fraser hears over and over again from Feeding America's food banks is that while more people are working again, «those numbers disguise the fact that so many of these jobs are paying minimum wage or slightly above,» he said.

«This suggests that employment prospects for some workers in higher - wage occupations are boosted by minimum wage increases, consistent with a story in which some jobs are lost to automation, while others are created.

During this period the Government of Alberta introduced a $ 15 minimum wage; appointed a gender - balanced Cabinet; replaced a system of regressive flat taxes with a progressive income tax system; laid out a responsible fiscal plan that rejected austerity; implemented an ambitious jobs plan; reformed the royalty system; ended predatory lending practices while strengthening the credit union system and ATB, Alberta's publicly - owned bank; and implemented a climate change leadership plan — among many other important reforms.

The job losses would be concentrated among teens and young adults, while the number of minimum wage workers in Ontario would increase from just over 500,000 to 1.6 million in 2019, said a report released by the province's Financial Accountability Office.

Imagine you're a mother of two working 40 hours a week at a minimum wage job in food service, while your husband hunts for a job.

While they work their minimum wage job 40 to 80 hours a week to pay the minimal bills.

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).

Too much day care is being provided by persons for whom it is at best just another minimum - wage job, and too many children are simply left alone while the parent or parents work.

Polls show broad support for increasing the state's minimum wage and while Gov. Andrew Cuomo hasn't taken a position on Silver's proposal, he's said he agrees in theory raising the wage wouldn't be the «job - killer» that Skelos has warned about.

«Because of their hard work, New York State has lead the way — passing a $ 15 minimum wage and enacting historic paid family leave legislation so that no New Yorker will lose their job while taking care of a sick loved one.

While some businesses have expressed support for Cuomo's plan, the state's biggest business organizations have said the $ 15 an hour minimum wage would kill New York jobs and hurt businesses.

The only candidate that will ban fracking, fight for a $ 15 minimum wage and fairness for the 99 %, while focusing on New York becoming a world leader in climate action by going to 100 % clean energy by 2030 which will create millions of jobs.»

While supporters are declaring victory over New York's new higher minimum wage for fast food workers, the action, by a state wage board, highlights a larger question: why are so many in the state dependent for their livelihoods on what are essentially entry level workforce jobs?

Yeah, Peter Parker's a superhero, but he's also a college kid working a minimum wage job to make rent while also taking university physics classes.

Rather than working minimum wage jobs until she finds a husband to support her while she stays home and has children, Eilis uses her natural talents to go for a career that is dominated by men.

Most authors earn less than minimum wage (we are not all J.K. Rowling or Mrs Fifty shades) and have to work second jobs while giving up time with our friends and families to bring you the books you love.

The job losses would be concentrated among teens and young adults, while the number of minimum wage workers in Ontario would increase from just over 500,000 to 1.6 million in 2019, said a report released by the province's Financial Accountability Office.

Maybe that extra money is what you save while you live on the minimum wage job.

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So while the WSIB says it will phase in adjustments to help those negatively impacted by minimum wage increases, Macdonald argues the more fundamental issue is that the WSIB cuts benefits regardless of whether the injured worker has actually found a new job after an accident.