Sentences with phrase «paid work struggling»

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Your hard work, financial sacrifice, and struggle to get your company off the ground has finally paid off.

Working parents say that a flexible schedule allows them to pick their kids up from school or attend soccer games, but they struggle to afford health insurance and pay bills.

While millions of Americans are still struggling to find work that pays adequately, there are nascent signs that wages are finally beginning to rise.

The part I struggle with is that ultimately the mortgage constitutes leverage whose value works for me if the market appreciates (woohoo the money I didn't pay the mortgage off with appreciates in the market), and against me if the market declines (aww shucks — the money I didn't pay the mortage off with is worth less now cause the market is down).

Without any license or degree to show for her «investment,» she has struggled to find well - paying work.

Garoppolo is now one of the highest - paid quarterbacks in the NFL, thanks to his excellent work as a caretaker for a struggling 49ers team last season.

If you have to go through a gauntlet to get the baby to a sitter, struggle with parking, and pay for gym time, you will be more likely to skip the work out.

«The IDC is going to make a positive change for New York's working - and middle - class families who struggle to send their children to college through our College Affordability for All plan, make sure our teenagers are treated as such by Raising the Age of criminal responsibility and create good - paying jobs through our Made by New Yorkers vision.»

So somebody please tell me what is going to happen to the elderly or low income or single parents who are struggling to only work (some have never been on a vacation) and pay high rents.

A young woman juggling an entry - level administrative job and classes at a community college; a divorced dad working 40 hours a week as a custodian to help support his two kids; a veteran trying to make a living back home after serving our country overseas: They, and millions of other hard - working Americans, struggle to make ends meet because their jobs pay low wages.

At the same time, Landesberg said he was surprised to find later that Mangano's wife, Linda, had a no - show job in the company at a time when it struggled to pay the workers who did show up for work.

The wage board, meeting Monday in Albany, has heard dozens of workers say they struggle to pay ordinary living expenses such as rent, utilities and transportation at the current minimum, often with fluctuating and part - time work schedules.

Furthermore, it does not attempt to pay for health care on the backs of middle class working families by increasing taxes on the health care that families are already struggling to pay for», stated Hughes.

«Today's announcement of extra funds for childcare support for parents working part time is very welcome news for thousands of the poorest parents struggling to make work pay.

«It is shameful that as communities across the state struggle to find the funding to repair crumbling sewage systems and drinking water supplies, we learn that the Cuomo Administration was working in secret for more than a year to divert more than a half a billion dollars from clean water funds to pay for a new bridge,» said Peter Iwanowicz, the executive director of Environmental Advocates of New York.

What kind of message does that send to New Yorkers who are out of work and struggling to find a job to pay their bills?

«As we celebrate June 12 as Democracy Day, let us remember the struggles and sacrifices of our heroes and heroines by continuing to be good citizens, by working hard and paying our taxes.

The committee is believed to be struggling to reach consensus over allegations the Meriden MP's former nanny was paid for secretarial work she did not do.

However, the program was plagued with delays, strongly criticized by struggling homeowners, it paid contractors $ 6.8 million for work later deemed «flawed or incomplete» and the city was double billed by hundreds of thousands of dollars by firms carrying out the work, according to an audit by Comptroller Scott Stringer.

The state has struggled to make sure projects are done, that salary are paid despite paucity of funds and a man like Dakuku who does not understand how government works will just come out with baseless statements.

- GDP per capita is still lower than it was before the recession - Earnings and household incomes are far lower in real terms than they were in 2010 - Five million people earn less than the Living Wage - George Osborne has failed to balance the Budget by 2015, meaning 40 % of the work must be done in the next parliament - Absolute poverty increased by 300,000 between 2010/11 and 2012/13 - Almost two - thirds of poor children fail to achieve the basics of five GCSEs including English and maths - Children eligible for free school meals remain far less likely to be school - ready than their peers - Childcare affordability and availability means many parents struggle to return to work - Poor children are less likely to be taught by the best teachers - The education system is currently going through widespread reform and the full effects will not be seen for some time - Long - term youth unemployment of over 12 months is nearly double pre-recession levels at around 200,000 - Pay of young people took a severe hit over the recession and is yet to recover - The number of students from state schools and disadvantaged backgrounds going to Russell Group universities has flatlined for a decade

I see the rich still living it up in the Hamptons and Park Avenue, while the working class still struggles to pay rent and the like, so don't tell me they cant afford it, they have lawyers and accountants that help them hide the money.

It's not people that are working and struggling to make ends meet and worrying about paying their taxes and their kids education.

But another volunteer told me she had struggled to figure out how to get involved, eventually getting in touch with the campaign by responding to a Craigslist post for paid work collecting signatures (Spitzer said reports he was was shelling out $ 800 a day in desperation are untrue).

«Mr. Trump held a fundraiser down in New York City a few weeks back and did raise some money, but they have — I would use the word — «struggled» to raise the private funds needed to pay these individuals who are working on behalf of the taxpayers but not being paid by the government,» said Congressman Chris Collins, who has been an advocate for Trump since early in his presidential campaign.

«I've been paying real estate taxes almost longer than my opponent's been alive, so I understand the struggles that working families are having in this environment as well as seniors on fixed incomes,» Tabone said Monday.

Growing up it was a struggle to put food on our table, to pay the rent... I am a working poor kid from the Bronx and I could have easily been one of those young men except that I had a single mom who taught me well and I had mentors.»

«One in four working parents has been plunged into debt due to the crippling cost of childcare, a report warned yesterday... The poll of more than 4,000 working parents also found nearly two - thirds «can not afford not to work, but struggle to pay for childcare»... The average bill for sending a child under the age of two to a nursery for 25 hours a week is # 96, while a live - out nanny in central London costs about # 32,000 a year.»

One in five working people is struggling to make ends meet on low pay.

«The struggle highlights just how frustrated researchers are with having to pay for access to the products of their own work — and just how far some will go to ensure that research is available to all.»

A simple tip I recommend to many of my patients that struggle with remembering to take their various supplements, is to simply let their work pay them to take their vitamins!

I worked multiple jobs throughout my four years in college in order to pay tuition and struggled to stay on track with my heavy course loads in Economics and Communications.

Personally speaking, I grew up in a 1970's recession and had to struggle for years financially while educating myself and working hard to get a well paid salary.

Some companies are a bit struggling as most of the services being offered are for free and yet to have to pay for the services of the people working behind the site.

God's Pocket (R for violence, sexuality and pervasive profanity) The late Philip Seymour Hoffman stars in this adaptation of the Pete Dexter best - seller as a struggling working - class hero who finds himself stuck with a trophy wife (Christina Hendricks) he can't please, a body he can't bury and a debt he can't pay after his crazy stepson (Caleb Landry Jones) dies in a construction accident.

In Madras (now Chennai) in 1914, Ramanujan (Dev Patel) struggles to find paying work as he continues his lifelong, self - taught pursuit of pure mathematics.

On a lower floor is an unhappily married couple: Wilder (Luke Evans) is a struggling documentary filmmaker who works in television to pay the bills, and Helen (Elisabeth Moss) is raising two kids while she's pregnant with a third.

As father struggles to find work to support his wife and children, and is forced to sell his wife's kimonos to pay the doctor when their young daughter falls ill (the sick child is a classic dramatic crisis in Ozu's silent films, invariably illustrated with the image of a bag of ice water suspended on the child's forehead with a string).

There has been a gradual increase over the past decade in the percentage of districts offering pay incentives for shortage areas (see Figure 4), but recent evidence (see work by Katharine Strunk with Jason Grissom, Tammy Kolbe, and Dara Zeehandelaar) shows that few districts are truly strategic in matching incentives to staffing needs, and as a consequence, school systems continue to struggle to fill teaching slots in math and science.

The idea of equal pay for equal work — that workers should be compensated equally for performing work of the same substance and quality — underpins the long struggle against workplace discrimination in the United States.

Against this backdrop, it's tough for Republican governors to insist, «Well, sure, our party's leaders in Washington can find huge dollars for tax cuts and defense, but we can't afford a pay raise for struggling, hard - working teachers.»

The district has two teachers — one full - time and one part - time — who work with struggling readers and are paid with federal money designated for low - income students.

Attendance suffers when families are struggling to keep up with the routine of school despite the lack of reliable transportation, working long hours in poorly paid jobs with little flexibility, unstable and unaffordable housing, inadequate health care and escalating community violence.

Despite their important work, New Jersey's public school food service workers are struggling to support their own families: pay is low, benefits are rare, and opportunities for advancement are limited.

«Fees have increased but schools are very mindful of the struggles hard - working families can face in paying them.

Vague instruction, like teaching students to «guess» at words without paying explicit attention to sounds and word parts rarely works for students who struggle.

Her intensive work with writing and annotation has paid off, as even struggling learners excel in those particular sub standards on state tests.

Others — especially high - achieving young people — may never even consider teaching because of the profession's relatively flat salary trajectory and because the professional work environment does not match that of other career paths.69 Teachers have less flexibility in their schedules compared with other professions, sometimes even struggling to find time to use the restroom.70 They also struggle to find time to collaborate with peers and often have to pay for their own supplies.71 To ensure that high - quality teacher candidates enter the profession and that excellent teachers stay in the profession, all educators should be trained and compensated like the professionals they are.

Someone working at a job they hate, struggling to pay the bills, and under pressure to get rich quick in self - publishing is going to make themselves miserable.

As US libraries and subscription models struggle with publishers and rights holders on how to ensure that revenue reaches the right people under lending models, the National Library of Norway seems to have hit on a model that works for them: just give the books away online, and pay the publishers yourself.