Sentences with phrase «of the living wage without»

Councilman Steven Matteo (R - Mid-Island) said it was «difficult» to support any expansion of the living wage without hearings, testimony, public debate or investigations into potential impacts of the change.

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That millions of workers around the world are now toiling long hours without receiving a living wage is a direct consequence of globalization.

Paying minor leaguers a living wage, especially when most of them are going to be spit out on the other side, 10 years older and without any transferable job skills, shouldn't be a radical concept.

Recall the statement in the first paragraph on past decisions that was predicted to come to haunt us, minimum living wage without optimal size of the public service.

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 cWage 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 cwage, 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 cwage workers who remain unprotected and without enough of a weekly paycheck to afford food and shelter in our city.

CITY HALL — Bypassing the City Council, Mayor Bill de Blasio signed an executive order on Tuesday expanding the living wage law to cover thousands of more workers and raising the hourly wage from $ 11.90 to $ 13.13 for those without benefits.

She was also asked whether she is concerned that the mayor is taking important actions on his own, such as the expansion of the living wage law, without going through the City Council.

One solution could be a uniform salary for state legislators, pinned to a state's cost of living, that guarantees a basic living wage without enriching legislators from wealthy backgrounds.

Address the state's scandalous disregard of low - wage human services employees of not - for - profit agencies under state contract who received a cost - of - living increase this year after enduring years without one.

Under the bill projects like the Coney Island redevelopment, the Hudson Yards, the Intrepid, all built with city tax breaks, would have to pay their workers a so - called «living wage» of $ 10 a hour with benefits, or $ 11.50 without benefits, instead of the federal minimum wage of $ 7.25.

At a hastily - called press conference at City Hall, Quinn, who was joined by fellow council members and the head of the retail workers» union, announced plans to introduce a new «living wage» bill that will force developers receiving more than a $ 1 million in city subsidies to pay their workers at least $ 10 an hour, plus benefits, or $ 11.50 without — significantly more than the $ 7.25 minimum wage.

If kids from all walks of life — wealthy, poor, white, black, Hispanic, Asian, gay, straight, immigrant, native born, Native American, with and without special needs, bilingual, monolingual, rural, suburban, urban — even if kids from all of these groups got equally high test scores, would that satisfy us that we could stop waging this civil rights struggle?

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.

In these hard economic times, too many Metro Vancouver, Fraser Valley, Lower Mainland people, and British Columbians who lived free of financial crisis until now, find themselves facing the shame of debt they can not repay after taking out too much easy credit just to live, pay for necessities such as housing, food, medicine, etc., a reflection of our ever growing senior and minimum wage population funded with insufficient pensions and facing rising living costs without corresponding increase in earnings.

The endeavor to affirm the dignity of human life can not be waged without pictures, without representational justice.»

We have examples all around the world of what a society without a living wage looks like.

43 percent of families without life insurance say they would be in immediate financial trouble if a primary wage earner died

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If I could make a living off of yard sales, I would do it for 50 hours a week and for minimum wage, without question.