Sentences with phrase «on living wage jobs»

«We told the mayor that while he was telling us he was against the project, Deputy Mayor Alicia Glen was having private email conversations with FreshDirect lobbyists promising support for the $ 140 million subsidy if the company could deliver on living wage jobs, but more than half of FreshDirect's workforce remains below living wage,» Harry Bubbins, member of the group, said in the press release.

Not exact matches

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).

All I want to know is A) Can they put the welfare of this nation ahead of that religion, and B) how exactly do they plan on reviving the economy and bring back living - wage jobs.

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).

The pool of labor will increase in relation to jobs paying a living wage, and this will exert further downward pressure on wages.

Plus, forcing people to work part - time creates «more», «good - paying» (meaning minimum wage) jobs, none of which anyone can actually live on.

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.

We fight hunger differently by providing the high - quality nutrition kids relying on school meals need to learn and grow while sustaining meaningful, living - wage careers for at - risk adults who have completed our Culinary Job Training program.

«The keys to keeping our economy growing are to keep investing in infrastructure, so we have a better climate for job growth, and to make sure workers all get safe working conditions and a wage they can live on.

We've worked to create a situation where the middle class is suddenly within reach of gaming workers... not a bunch of minimum - wage jobs where people have to live on the dole to survive.»»

What we need instead is to build a party of the 99 % to win living wage jobs for all, action on climate change, an end to the new Jim Crow, and making health care a right,» said Hawkins.

During separate and recent evenings on the campaign trail, the candidates offered up the usual political fare: use environmental technologies to create jobs (Kessner); give teachers more time to implement the Common Core teaching standards (Stott); ensure more workers have a living wage.

«Eric's public support for good, well - paying jobs with a living wage, equal rights and social justice reform, plus his innovative approaches to reducing our city's reliance on incarceration, make him the right choice to continue moving Brooklyn forward,» Gresham said.

«If you want a job that pays a decent wage, gives you the chance to get on in life, live independently and enjoy your work, then join a trade union.

Be careful — look at this YouGov poll which shows a majority of people would support renationalisation of the utilities, increasing the minimum wage to # 10 and the top rate of tax to 60 %... but also a total ban on immigration and benefits for anyone who turns down a job, making life mean life with no parole in prison sentences and stopping all international aid.

The hearing followed the release of a study on Monday by the Economic Development Corp., which argued the living wage proposal would result in between 33,000 and 100,000 job losses for the city.

After much anticipation, the city Economic Development Corp. released a $ 1 million study on living wage policy today, which finds implementing higher pay standards at city subsidized developments would cost jobs.

While supporters argue tax dollars should not be used to subsidize poverty - level wages, Bloomberg has repeatedly slammed the bill, as well as a related living - wage bill, threatening they will kill jobs and border on communism.

To open dialogue with affiliated trade unions to win support at Labour Party conferences for democratic rule changes and for pro-working-class policies on issues such as cuts, the living wage, jobs, and trade union rights.

«The Bloomberg administration's top - down approach to economic development has disproportionately relied on ill - conceived mega-projects and re-zonings that produced wealth for developers but few living - wage jobs,» he said in the Staten Island speech.

Howie Hawkins is running on a Green New Deal platform, calling for the state to invest in the transition to a carbon neutral economy as a way to provide living wage jobs to put New Yorkers back to work.

I'd probably have a minimum wage job, and be living with an abusive husband with no skills or ability to live on my own.

Dee has enough problems just getting on with life - trying to raise her children, with her children's deadbeat dad and his abusive girlfriend in the same building, and yet even after her conviction is overturned, her subsequent case (spearheaded by the A.C.L.U.) puts her in the D.A.'s crosshairs - who uses his substantial infuence to not only prevent her from returning to her job of 7 years, but even makes sure that she is terminated from the minimum wage job she finally manages to procure.

These are the kids whose fathers may be incarcerated, whose mothers may be working long hours at low - wage jobs, who live in troubled neighborhoods with little to occupy them in their free time, and whose parents lack the connections and knowledge needed to put them on a path to the middle class.

These studies showing the direct positive effects of raising household income — even by small amounts — on student achievement make it plain that reducing poverty through stable, living wage jobs for all working families would also help improve educational outcomes.

Sadly, our current political leaders place more importance on increasing corporate profits than increasing living wage jobs.

My «day job» is taking care of my mother and daughter, I clock 80 hours per week on my time card and earn a living wage.

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

And in the Bay Area, where we will soon launch a ten-fold expanded bike share system, Ford GoBike, we're well on our way to creating over 200 living - wage, «green collar» jobs.

At the same time, through the Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy (LAANE), we joined forces with local community members and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers to build RePower LA, a program in which low - income residents lower their neighbors» utility bills and receive a living wage as they make businesses and homes more energy efficient, train for jobs with the local utility, and get on a path to union membership.

People working three jobs for a little over minimum wage tend to live paycheck to paycheck, and it doesn't help that businesses such as PayDay Loans tend to prey on them to get them stuck in debt.

You'll probably make minimum wage (depends on the state you live in), but the true value is in the work experience you'll be gaining, which will go a long way in the future when you're searching for your first true entry - level job.

In Brandon Turner's book «The Book on Rental Property Investing», he states that you have your tenants paying your mortgage for you, and that he could work a minimum wage job for the rest of his life and still retire a millionaire because of the tenants paying down the loan.