Sentences with phrase «modest raise»

Lots of the farmers I buy from have a winter CSA, so between that and my VERY modest raised bed garden, we get wonderful fresh, local food year» round.

Transit workers won modest raises and defeated outsourcing plans, one - person train operation and a move to part - time bus drivers.

«You see, people taking furlough days, you see people taking modest raises or pay cuts, you see digging deeper in their pockets, you see higher class sizes, you see effects for families teachers and kids,» Weingarten said.

Yet, even as state lawmakers approved modest raises for some teachers in recent years, legislators faced withering criticism from education advocacy organizations who pointed out the state's most experienced teachers were left out.

House leaders have been adamant about providing more modest raises without laying off any educators or impacting the state's Medicaid health insurance program.

We will also consider pre-product stage projects with detailed white papers and modest raise amounts.

Despite the modest raise, GoCoin was still the best funded LA bitcoin startup at the time.

So, when November 15 rolled around, the final day of the Commission's statutory existence, and Reiter and Cuomo's other members failed to support even a modest raise that would have taken effect automatically, it became clear to some members of the legislature that Cuomo had interfered.

These are modest raises and it is certainly not in our interest to have income inequality be further exacerbated.

Dick Dadey, the executive director of Citizens Union, said he believed that lawmakers should enact a limit on outside earned income but also that they deserved a modest raise.

After the school board unanimously approved the agreement at last Wednesday night's meeting, Superintendent David Gamberg said the teachers union had agreed to «modest raises and a slowing down of the step schedule.»

Despite the modest raise, GoCoin was still the best funded LA bitcoin startup at the time.