Sentences with phrase «paying job in my city»

An easy commute to high - paying jobs in the city, combined with decent schools and quality of life in the suburbs, increases home values and lowers crime.»

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The work being done to bring entrepreneurship and funding resources to cities like St. Louis and Albuquerque — and in rural communities — isn't just about creating high - paying tech jobs.

Trump continued the belligerent tone on Wednesday, accusing Amazon.com Inc. of taking away jobs in towns and cities across the U.S. «Amazon is doing great damage to tax paying retailers,» he wrote in a Twitter post.

Thousands of low - paid workers striking in hundreds of cities across the country, demanding a minimum wage of up to $ 15 per hour to replace the current $ 7.25 minimum wage, showing that an increasing amount of those even in jobs are unhappy with their lot.

Amazon (amzn) has said it plans to invest over $ 5 billion in construction and produce many as 50,000 high - paying jobs at HQ2, with the further promise of «tens of thousands of additional jobs» as well as billions of dollars more in additional investment in the host city — prompting a flurry of (sometimes outlandish) bids from cities and states to woo CEO Jeff Bezos and company.

«Whether they made their money lobbying lawmakers at the Capitol or cashed in on a tech IPO, rich millennials are clustered in cities where there are lots of high - paying professional jobs,» reads a post today on Zillow's Porchlight blog.

«As older people leave the workforce, the city has been privatizing those jobs instead of bringing people back in to pay into the fund,» said Ed McNeil, special assistant to the president of Michigan AFSCME Council 25, which represents city workers.

The city grew to 1.8 million people in the 1950s, luring them with plentiful jobs and paid good wages to stamp out automobile for sale across the globe.

It has already offered some examples of the ripple effect: Amazon stands to open up as many as «50,000 high - paying» jobs in the chosen city.

But she'd be happy, too, if another New Jersey city lands the site, which carries with it the promise of $ 5 billion in investments and 50,000 high - paying jobs.

how did facebook know my white male offspring who lives in a large american city and has a high - paying job would be interested in suits WHO IS WIRETAPPING US

We worked with PayScale.com on the «Gen Y on the Job «study in order to find out the types of jobs Gen Y has, how much they are getting paid, the best cities and companies for them, and more.

So it's important for borrowers, especially recent grads, to think about the best places to live — the cities in which they're not only likely to find a well - paying job, but also where rents and other living expenses aren't so exorbitant so as to add to their pile of debt.

What is far more real to most people in Sandtown, though — which has one of the highest unemployment rates in the city — is that jobs that allow one to pay the rent, and perhaps support a family, without a college degree have dwindled precipitously.

«HQ2» would be an equal to Amazon's massive Seattle campus and involve a five - billion - dollar capital investment for the chosen city, and «create,» in the parlance of the day, 50,000 high - paying jobs in the area.

There has been a concerted effort to reduce the need for labor in agriculture so as to fill jobs in industry and low paid service in cities.

These recruiters promise good jobs, a new start in an economically stable city or nation, and tell the young woman that they will pay the cost of transporting her to her new home.

The Secret Footballer believes Mourinho has paid too much attention to big names and agents rather than doing as extensive a job on scouting as City, who have signed some of the world's best young players in recent times, Sane and Jesus included.

At Arsenal he has the dream job, no pressure to deliver trophies from the owner, living in one of the major cities in the world managing a well - known club and getting paid 8 million or more a year!!!

Man City And Chelsea didn't have problem buying Monaco's players and we were in for lemar before Chelsea got bakayoko so maybe Chelsea or man city should do negotiations for arsenal football club and pay them a fee for doing the job for Wenger as the other clubs seem to get the job done without waging fingers I might City And Chelsea didn't have problem buying Monaco's players and we were in for lemar before Chelsea got bakayoko so maybe Chelsea or man city should do negotiations for arsenal football club and pay them a fee for doing the job for Wenger as the other clubs seem to get the job done without waging fingers I might city should do negotiations for arsenal football club and pay them a fee for doing the job for Wenger as the other clubs seem to get the job done without waging fingers I might add!

Manhattan Borough President Gale A. Brewer said, «At the foundation of our city's success are well - paying jobs in Manhattan's transit - rich business districts.

The New York City Council voted to give its members hefty pay raises in February 2016 and simultaneously imposed a ban on certain forms of outside income, effectively making the job of City Council member a full - time position.

Congressman Jerry Nadler said, «I am thrilled that today we are announcing that Amazon will expand its presence in New York City and add 2,000 new permanent high - paying jobs in finance, sales, marketing and information technology on Manhattan's west side, New York City's newest neighborhood for business, culture and residential.

Now, her plan for the city creates decent - paying jobs by supporting small business and tech companies in neighborhoods that are often ignored; expands pre-K and child care; and builds 80,000 units of good middle class housing.

The $ 30 million in federal stimulus funds for the Brooklyn Bridge will pay for 150 jobs, and the funds also free up precious New York City capital money for other projects, Biden said.

What we need in New York City is good - paying sustainable jobs, not the low - wage jobs created by Walmart,» Mr. Appelbaum said.

Alicia Glen, Mayor Bill de Blasio's deputy mayor for housing and economic development, told the City Council today that obligating developers who receive the controversial 421a tax break to pay construction workers prevailing wages could result in 17,000 badly - needed below - market apartments not getting built — and argued that the demand for low - cost housing trumps the call for union jobs.

He says all of the other public protection employees in New York receive 75 % of their pay if they become disabled on the job, but in New York City, they receive only 50 %, with a deduction for any social security payments..

Schneiderman charged then that in order to make up for a $ 5,000 reduction in annual salary he would be paid as mayor (he previously served as city clerk and treasurer), Ortt and others devised a pass - through scheme to pay his wife for a no - show job.

«It's common practice to extend laws to allow more time to fully gauge and measure their effectiveness, especially when that law is intended to protect good - paying, middle - class jobs that are at the heart of New York City's tourism economy,» Bronx Councilman Ritchie Torres, one of the bill's sponsors, said in a statement.

But Fisher, whose employment with the city ended in in late April, was offered his old job back at the same rate of pay by Scanlon after his appointment to the Council a month later.

If he believes that the state's tax structure is a job - killer and one of the chief reasons why upstate New York remains mired in a permanent recession, he ought to ask for broader tax cuts, including a decrease in the state's personal income tax rate, which tops out at nearly 9 percent (that does not include the additional tax burden placed on city residents, who pay up to 3.8 percent in personal income taxes.)

The state originally intended to pay for the project with money from the Transformative Investment Fund, a $ 400 million budgetary pool created by former State Sen. Dean Skelos for projects that «create or retain jobs» in New York City and on Long Island.

«In doing their jobs, these two heroes made the ultimate sacrifice in service to this city and Ronell Wilson should pay the ultimate price as punishment for his crime,» Staten Island District Attorney Michael McMahon saiIn doing their jobs, these two heroes made the ultimate sacrifice in service to this city and Ronell Wilson should pay the ultimate price as punishment for his crime,» Staten Island District Attorney Michael McMahon saiin service to this city and Ronell Wilson should pay the ultimate price as punishment for his crime,» Staten Island District Attorney Michael McMahon said.

Liu said that, in effect, the city had agreed to pay $ 93,000 for each of the 960 or so jobs that the online grocer has promised it will create at its new headquarters by 2021.

Add that outrageous betrayal of trust to her 2009 self - appointed pay raise (and the entire city council) that defied a majority opposition to any pay raise voiced at a public hearing, followed by disobeying public referendum laws that recognized term limits that she abrogated (in favor of arranging an unlawful third term for Michael Bloomberg to serve, that automatically guaranteed her own job security), plus a final and detrimental insult to the working poor that blocked our rightful vote on sick pay coverage, and collectively, it would make total sense to impeach and prosecute such unethical, improper and unfair conduct — that is unbecoming to anyone purporting to serve their constituency.

«As written, this bill would hurt our economy by driving manufacturers out of New York City, reducing the number of good - paying jobs available to New Yorkers at precisely the time we need them the most,» Bloomberg wrote in a letter sent to the governor this morning.

«Ultimately, the encroachment of residential uses in these areas will force businesses to relocate and, in many cases, leave the city altogether, along with the good - paying jobs and economic diversity that they support.»

As women prepare to protest in sister marches in Washington, D.C., New York City and across the country on Saturday, more than 6,000 nationwide have signed up to boycott everything from fake smiles to paid jobs to laundry for two days starting tomorrow.

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 clCity will only remain the greatest city in the world by providing a high quality of life, attracting the best talent, and protecting our middle clcity in the world by providing a high quality of life, attracting the best talent, and protecting our middle class.

The figure represents 22 percent of all private - sector wages paid in New York City in 2012, even though only 5 percent of the private - sector jobs, throughout the whole city, are on Wall StrCity in 2012, even though only 5 percent of the private - sector jobs, throughout the whole city, are on Wall Strcity, are on Wall Street.

And she noted that a colleague at her first city government job in 1987 made $ 5,000 more than her despite the fact that they were in the same divisions and had the same title because «he had family to take care of» — an experience that made her more conscious of pay equity issues as an elected official.

James, who became the first woman of color to hold citywide office four years ago, has sued the city at least 11 times and spearheaded the passage of a bill that prohibits employers from asking job applicants about their salary history in an effort to close the pay gap between women and men.

«Duffy is continuing in his job as mayor during the campaign, and questions have been raised about how much time he is spending campaigning and how much time he is spending on the job at City Hall, a job he is being paid for... A Cuomo spokesman says the Duffy campaign schedule is being held day by day to balance it with his mayoral schedule.»

The state Attorney General's office accused the Republican of obtaining a «no - show job» for his wife in order to make up for a pay reduction he took to become the mayor of the City of North Tonawanda.

Tax - paying Mineola residents commute to jobs in New York City using the infrastructure that Martins and Zeldin seek to defund.

«If we provide a taxpayer subsidy in exchange for jobs, we should expect jobs that pay a better wage than the minimum wage,» said City Council Speaker Christine Quinn in a statement ahead of the vote.

These trends in Upstate New York are emblematic of similar trends in other parts of the country, as data from the last 10 - plus years shows that most of the well paying jobs are now concentrated within major metropolitan areas, larger cities and within the areas surrounding state capitals.

Josh Gold of the Hotel Trades Council industry group said the city has not made sure that there would be well - paying jobs in new hotels under the plan.

«The requirement that tenants in subsidized projects pay more when the city has no financial connection with them is a provision I believe would have cost us future retails jobs,» she said.