Sentences with phrase «small wage working»

Her life is basically falling apart at the seams, as she's broke, living in a dumpy apartment, and makes a small wage working at a Whole Foods - inspired grocery store.

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The idea of hiring your family to help get your startup or small business going presents some advantages, such as them working for a reduced wage until cash flow increases.

First, prime - age employment remains low compared with 2007, suggesting that relatively small wage increases would be enough to draw people back into work.

That said, B.C.'s strong economic growth over the past three years, combined with a) the announced small business tax relief, b) the new training and youth employment programs (also announced today), and c) a lower - than - average percentage of our working population who actually make minimum wage (about 5 %, compared to 7.1 % nationally), leaves us in a position to cautiously view the announced increases as «reasonable.»

Other businesses, big and small, which object to wage increases, say higher pay will mean higher prices, and less work for fewer workers.

«In Seattle, we are working our way up to $ 15 minimum wage and we see smaller franchisees staring to go out of business,» Urbina says.

At McNair Elementary, Principal Theresa West said eliminating the small fee would help many of her parents, who work hourly wage jobs for landscape services or hotels.

«Minimum wage because if you work full - time you shouldn't be below the poverty rate,» Cuomo said to cheers from a small crowd of caucus - goers.

Senate Labor Committee Chair Jack Martins says he wants to broaden the discussion beyond simply phasing in a minimum wage increase to $ 15 an hour, saying the real issue in many regions of the state is the lack of opportunity for work that provides a middle class salary, and enables small businesses to thrive.

The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was a public work relief program that operated from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men from relief families as part of the New Deal... Maximum enrollment at any one time was 300,000; in nine years 3 million young men participated in the CCC, which provided them with shelter, clothing, and food, together with a small wage of $ 30 (about $ 547 in 2015) a month ($ 25 of which had to be sent home to their families).

While our state has the smallest wage gap in the nation, there is still a lot of work to be done.

Her policy goals if she wins are to provide more living wage jobs, to advocate for equal work for women and to support small business through Merchant Associations and / or Business Improvement Districts.

As they did in the 2008 report, Allegreto and Mishel rely on the weekly wages reported by public school teachers in the Current Population Survey, leading to confusion about whether the wage data refer to annual salary divided by 52 weeks or by some smaller number of weeks that reflects teachers» shorter work year.

So in this case we wanted to create a shortcut to capital — a system where our young - adult graduates would be working hard, earning money, making mortgage payments, and essentially paying themselves in the form of equity, so that when they decide to leave that high - wage job to launch their own small business and create jobs in the neighborhood, they can.

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.

He lives and works in a small town in Ontario and makes the 2015 average full - time wage of $ 58,500 / year.

Eventually, you will get to a point where you can pay some folks a small wage to work at your non-profit.

From independent small fishermen and farmers they became wage labourers working for a triumvirate of ruling families in a succession of new industries - logwood, chicle, coconut - their lives transformed into a grinding monotony, guided only by their employers» need to accumulate more wealth.

For a small investment, a couple of college students working at minimum wage can go through computer billing summary reports and produce some interesting statistics.