Sentences with phrase «of minimum wage workers»

If a whole lot of minimum wage workers in tourist or retail industries lose their jobs, whereas nurses, doctors and teachers keep their jobs, average wages will go up.

In fact, a 66 percent majority of minimum wage workers are employed by businesses, but with over 100 employees.

The families of minimum wage workers will be much better off as a result, better able to move toward self - support, and the economy will benefit from increased consumer spending.

For starters, what industry are these small businesses in that they employ a ton of minimum wage workers?

The service industry employs the largest percentage of minimum wage workers.

Although, it must be noted, that the majority of minimum wage workers are not federally regulated.

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 city.

Did you know at least half of all minimum wage workers in Ontario work for employers with over 500 employees?

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.

Two - thirds of the minimum wage workers in America are women, Sandberg wrote.

In Ontario, the proportion of minimum wage workers who are not teenagers has risen from 45 per cent to 61 per cent in a decade.

In 2016, 64 per cent of minimum wage workers across Canada were not teenagers, up from 52 per cent in 2006.

(There is some concentration of minimum wage workers in households with below - median incomes, even if they aren't in poverty.)

The study finds half of minimum wage workers over 35 years old, and statewide 70 percent are older than 25, 80 percent in New York City.

The bulk of minimum wage workers ARE N'T even employed by SMALL businesses.

Facebook even stated they did this because women make up 2/3 of minimum wage workers nationally.

Russell Sykes, with the Empire Center, says IRS numbers show 75 % to 80 % of minimum wage workers who are eligible for the tax credit actually do receive it.

Women make up more than half of all minimum wage workers, and so would see grater gains than men.

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.

Women are the majority of minimum wage workers,» Jones stated.