Sentences with phrase «on wage inequality»

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The research, which is based on salary and offer data (rather than self - reported numbers), is compiled into a report called Women, Work, and the State of Wage Inequality.

â $ œThe preaching goes on, interrupted with dutiful â $ ˜amens.â $ ™ It would be nice if someone would read this sad - eyed crowd the Sermon on the Mount, accompanied by a rousing commentary on income inequality and the need for a hike in the minimum wage.

«Neither immigration as a whole nor EU immigration has had significantly large negative effects on employment, wages and wage inequality for the UK - born population.»

In Japan, a system of lifetime employment in many big businesses, a tradition of employer provided benefits such as housing in many cases, and a wage system in those kinds of businesses where workers receive a substantial share of their annual income in the form of an annual bonus whose size can be used to buffer good and bad years for a company sharing risks and rewards with workers instead of limiting the risks and rewards to an investor class, have contributed to low levels of income inequality in the Japanese economy relative to comparably developed countries with comparable levels of government spending on welfare state type programs in other countries.

I don't think it is mad or bad for Corbyn to be talking about wage, wealth and structural inequality — quite the opposite — I really really want Labour to be on this properly.

«Russ fights for the issues you and I care about: debt - free college, raising the minimum wage, fighting income inequality, and supporting hardworking families,» de Blasio writes in the fundraising email sent on Wednesday afternoon.

For Labour, the lock of responsibility liberated Miliband to pursue his campaign to address social inequality with a series of commitments on the minimum wage, zero - hours contracts, freezes on energy prices, a cap on train fares and extra investments on the NHS.

Increase in the minimum wage; caps on salary and income packages for the Street's head honchos; and a more down - up economic model are more important in battling the income inequality conundrum.

More recently the EU's official think tank on life at work said: ``... the level of wage inequality in the EU as a whole is below that of the US.

WBFO's Focus on Education Reporter Eileen Buckley says this year's event will highlight the hardships of wage inequality and struggling public schools.

This was Michael's link to his LabourList piece, arguing that «Now of course, we all know the background behind the idea: the shocking levels of inequality, the people struggling to get by, working huge numbers of hours, living in a heavily taxed world, and trying to do it all on a terribly low wage.

ALBANY — Making a reference to «income inequality» that is normal for New York Democrats but rare for him, Governor Andrew Cuomo on Sunday said he would seek to raise the minimum wage to $ 11.50 in New York City and $ 10.50 in the rest of the state, in addition to a slew of other actions he said were designed «move the state forward as one.»

Income inequality hasn't been one of Governor Andrew Cuomo's top concerns, but on Sunday he announced that he wants to make New York the state with the highest minimum wage in the country.

During his speech on Wednesday, Cuomo said raising the wage would restore «dignity» to work and reduce income inequality.

ALBANY — As he begins his sixth year in office, Gov. Andrew Cuomo is forging ahead with a plan to combat income inequality that lets him preserve his credentials as a business - friendly centrist: push to raise the minimum wage, and hope it drowns out any talk of raising taxes on the rich.

The campaign for a $ 15 an hour minimum wage in New York is being fought on emotional grounds - as a tool to fight poverty, to fix income inequality and to ensure a «living wage» for people on the lowest rungs of the economic ladder.

Sanders touched on many of the issues that have marked his campaign for president: wealth inequality, tuition - free public colleges, campaign finance reform and raising the minimum wage to $ 15 an hour.

I think maybe the best - case scenario in terms of what this is going to look like is that progressives do a much better job of connecting the dots between climate change, economic inequality, a shredded safety net, a political program that has waged decades of war not only on the idea of bold climate action but on the idea of investing in a serious way in the public sphere, really connecting the dots.

Determining a candidate's compensation based on their salary history can perpetuate existing wage inequalities that are the result of gender bias or discrimination.

Since women earn on average less than men, basing wages on a worker's previous pay only perpetuates wage inequality.

These numbers suggest that, in an era of stagnant incomes and wage inequality, millennials put homeownership on hold while they worked to first ensure their financial security through education and career development.