Sentences with phrase «paying living wage job»

«Unions and the working poor have opportunities to come together and create a society where everybody has an opportunity for a good, solid - paying Living Wage job and everybody has an opportunity to reap the benefits of the social programs that are administered by government and particularly by the State of New York,» Peoples - Stokes explained.

Not exact matches

For people who decide not to pursue a college degree, it might seem challenging to find a job that both is appealing and pays a living wage.

From the vantage point of 2016, when all those angry Trump voters are asking for is better jobs and more affordable healthcare, paying everyone a living wage not to work sounds extreme.

Not all jobs can, or will ever, pay a «living wage».

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.

-- fail to pay a living wage, provide job security or provide enough hours of work.

Five million people, mostly women were in low paid, dead end jobs earning less than the living wage

A previous study showing that a compulsory living wage would result in 160,000 job losses overestimated the threat of job losses and failed to take into account the economic stimulus that higher pay would give the economy, according to Reed.

The new first source hiring policy will get to the root of the problem, and actively connect residents living in poverty with jobs that pay a living wage.

Here in Islington, the company that delivered ground maintenance moved to pay the living wage, without extra cost to the local taxpayer or any job losses.

«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.

Rafael Espinal, who represents the neighborhood that is the litmus test for de Blasio's affordable housing plan, said retail businesses that open as part of the plan should be required to pay a living wage, hire local residents and offer job training.

Not only do we need to see more employers committing to pay the Living Wage, we also need to tackle the thorny question of why it is the UK has so many bad jobs in the first place.

«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.

«The hard cash argument I don't entirely buy because I don't think it takes into account the dynamic effect, it doesn't take into account the extra hours that people work, it doesn't take into account the extra opportunities that you're giving people by creating jobs that through the National Living Wage are paid better than they were previously being paid.»

- by making sure that work always pays, with measures to strengthen the minimum wage, promote the living wage, and support the creation of more high quality jobs;

All we are trying to do is ensure that taxpayer investment is going to subsidize jobs that pay a reasonable wage... New York City will only remain the greatest city in the world by providing a high quality of life, attracting the best talent, and protecting our middle class.

As Walmart argues it will bring jobs to New York City, advocates and officials question the quality of those jobs, whether they will provide health insurance and whether they will pay a living wage.

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.

«Taking decent paying, middle class jobs with benefits away from experienced, dedicated, and caring state employees and replacing them with private, not - for - profit companies who fail to pay their direct care workers a decent wage hurts local economies and the quality of life for all New Yorkers, not just those receiving care,» CSEA's testimony stated.

«Cuomo's trickle - down economic policies don't trickle down to working - class women, who need living wage jobs, a closing of the male - female pay gap, affordable child care, paid family leave,» he said

His trickle - down economic policies don't trickle down to working - class women, who need living wage jobs, a closing the male - female pay gap, affordable child care, paid family leave, and increased cash assistance and job and educational opportunities for single mothers in poverty,» added Hawkins.

I believe our community badly needs jobs which pay a living wage, not the minimum wage, jobs with benefits.

«Our law will require developers who receive major taxpayer - funded subsidies pay a living wage for the jobs they create,» she said.

«As long as those are the jobs that are growing, we can't build a strong economy unless those jobs pay a living wage.»

«We need to see more better - paid, high - skilled jobs which pay a living wage, but these figures show that progress is slipping,» she said.

I agree that from perception point it is better not to notice how young Americans who went in debt to pay for their education in college or university have no job at all or paid a low wage which will force them to dedicate themselves to repaying debt through the long period of life.

But with a stressed economy and a lack of jobs that pay uncredentialed workers a living wage, the situation is bleaker for dropouts now than in the past.

Give them the resources to do their work, and pay them enough so that they can support their families doing the job they love and don't have to work two or three others just to earn a living wage.

A 2013 investigation by the Guardian found that workers had to pay steep recruitment fees to get their jobs, few were paid their promised wage, and some lived in miserable conditions.

Meanwhile, folks need good jobs that pay a living wage and don't make them sick.

For starters, that means reconstruction that doesn't just create jobs but jobs that pay a living wage.

Providing competitive wage career development opportunities is especially important considering the fact that half of all public school students are now living at or below the poverty line and in light of recent studies which suggest students receiving paid internships receive more job offers and higher salaries than their unpaid counterparts.

This is a 6 month internship paying the London Living Wage with the potential to be extended or convert to a permanent job.

While the battle for a living wage continues, it's important to recognize that, even with a relatively well - paying café job, food service is difficult permanent career (unless you're a successful chef or restaurateur).

It is widely recognized that having no job or a job that pays a low wage puts people at risk of living in poverty.

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.

My one question is my determination leading to ram a brick wall repeatedly should I dissolve this halfed baked company with no funds or should continue to follow my gut I want out of this work force I mean I agree with employers most jobs shouldn't have to pay a living wage but we should be allowed to supplement our income...

«I find it hard to believe they're going to provide jobs that pay a living wage, though I hope they do.

That's hard to do when the only jobs available are poverty wage jobs paying less than $ 15K gross - less than $ 10K take - home - and you still have to pay your own living expenses.