Sentences with phrase «support of a living wage»

Public Advocate Bill de Blasio has come out in support of the Living Wage legislation, sending a letter yesterday to Christine Quinn, the Council speaker.

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As the founder of a Kansas City nonprofit she was tasked with figuring out how the homeless mothers she worked with, many with felony convictions, could make a living wage that supported their families with also retaining the flexibility they needed to care for their kids.

A Treasury spokesman told the BBC: «We are taking action to support families with the costs of living by cutting taxes for millions of working people, doubling free childcare for nearly 400,000 working parents and introducing the National Living Wage - a significant pay rise for the lowest earners.&living by cutting taxes for millions of working people, doubling free childcare for nearly 400,000 working parents and introducing the National Living Wage - a significant pay rise for the lowest earners.&Living Wage - a significant pay rise for the lowest earners.»

«We agree with her remarks about the high costs of living in San Francisco, which is why we announced in December that we are expanding our Eat24 customer support team into our Phoenix office where we will pay the same wage,» read a company statement, echoing CEO Stoppelman's comments on Twitter over the weekend that the cost of living in San Francisco was excessively high.

United for a Fair Economy conducts the Responsible Wealth Project, a network of over 750 business leaders, investors, and other wealthy individuals who work to build a fairer economy through shareholder activism, support for the living wage, and fair taxation work.

In social policy, the Party is committed to breaking the cycle of poverty by developing a «living wage» policy that is sufficient to allow workers to support their families; make changes to the welfare system to encourage people on social assistance to move beyond poverty, such as allowing some benefits to remain until they are firmly established in the workplace; and reviewing the housing component of Alberta Works social assistance to bring it in line with the current reality of the Alberta housing market.

«They are struggling to support children in a school system Christy Clark tore down, struggling to support their parents at a time when Liberals have left 9 in 10 residential care facilities understaffed, and struggling to make ends meet when we have the slowest wage growth in the country and the highest cost of living.

On the subject of wage inflation, Rudolph - Riad Younes recently noted, correctly I think, that in recent years, «wages, plus equity withdrawal from your house, was enough to support your living standard.

Mintz concludes that the psychological cost to children has steadily grown more apparent, and he makes the familiar array of policy recommendations: more widely available health care, education reform, subsidized high - quality child care, family - friendly employment policies, a living wage, a limited work week and economic support to the impoverished.

The insufficiency of work to provide self - sufficiency is behind the movement — backed by many religious groups — to ensure that all employers pay a living wage, which is generally understood to be the wage needed to support a family at or slightly above the poverty level.

On top of that, the same right - wing cons who praise capitalism as the reason that millions of people have, truthfully, found a way out of poverty, support politicians who keep wages stagnated, attack the very CONCEPT of a minimum wage despite the skyrocketing inflation and general cost of living, and support one war after another that makes a handful of people VERY rich while millions suffer, and thousands of troops come home with no legs (and thus, lose their jobs and often never recover).

If they truly want to be a witness, they should be taking care of their employees by [1] paying them a living wage and [2] supporting them with health care, not trying to run their lives by denying it because they personally don't believe in birth control *** AHEM HOBBY LOBBY, all you had to do was voice your objection and step aside, and the provider would absorb the cost, but NOOOOOOOOOO, you thought you knew better & said I FORBID YOU TO HAVE IT so your employees lost out on ALL health care, nice work in the name of the Great Physician *** or firing them because they get pregnant BECAUSE you didn't let them have birth control...

Faith in Public Life: People of Faith Support Minimum Wage Raise Majorities of all religious groups favor increasing the minimum wage from $ 7.25 an hour to $ 10.00 an hour, including black Protestants (87 %), Catholics (73 %), Americans who are religiously unaffiliated (68 %), white mainline Protestants (61 %) and white evangelical Protestants (61Wage Raise Majorities of all religious groups favor increasing the minimum wage from $ 7.25 an hour to $ 10.00 an hour, including black Protestants (87 %), Catholics (73 %), Americans who are religiously unaffiliated (68 %), white mainline Protestants (61 %) and white evangelical Protestants (61wage from $ 7.25 an hour to $ 10.00 an hour, including black Protestants (87 %), Catholics (73 %), Americans who are religiously unaffiliated (68 %), white mainline Protestants (61 %) and white evangelical Protestants (61 %).

The mission of the Durham Living Wage Project is to support worker livelihoods by urging employers to pay living wages, certifying and publicly recognizing employers, and promoting living wages as a matter of conscience within our commLiving Wage Project is to support worker livelihoods by urging employers to pay living wages, certifying and publicly recognizing employers, and promoting living wages as a matter of conscience within our commliving wages, certifying and publicly recognizing employers, and promoting living wages as a matter of conscience within our commliving wages as a matter of conscience within our community.

Wage and Standard of Living Differences: Large wage or standard of living differences may be associated with less support for free movement of laWage and Standard of Living Differences: Large wage or standard of living differences may be associated with less support for free movement of Living Differences: Large wage or standard of living differences may be associated with less support for free movement of lawage or standard of living differences may be associated with less support for free movement of living differences may be associated with less support for free movement of labor.

While parents who are paid a higher hourly rate may indeed qualify for support by working a low number of hours per week, those who earn national minimum wage or national living wage will effectively have to work more hours to qualify for the same type of support - but those extra hours may not be available to them.

Based on cost of living, Clinton has backed a smaller wage hike to $ 12 an hour nationally, and supports states moving to $ 15 on their own.

Regardless of how the WFP pyschodrama plays out, the Green Party will remain the choice this November for progressives who support a $ 15 an hour minimum wage, living wage jobs, climate action, strong public schools, and an end to corruption at the State Capitol.»

At the January 12th membership meeting the Village Independent Democrats endorsed a letter to Speaker Christine Quinn applauding her support of the Fair Wage For New Yorkers Act as a first step toward ensuring a living wage, but calling on her to move quickly to expand the act to cover the substantial number of minimum wage workers who remain unprotected and without enough of a weekly paycheck to afford food and shelter in our cWage For New Yorkers Act as a first step toward ensuring a living wage, but calling on her to move quickly to expand the act to cover the substantial number of minimum wage workers who remain unprotected and without enough of a weekly paycheck to afford food and shelter in our cwage, but calling on her to move quickly to expand the act to cover the substantial number of minimum wage workers who remain unprotected and without enough of a weekly paycheck to afford food and shelter in our cwage workers who remain unprotected and without enough of a weekly paycheck to afford food and shelter in our city.

At our state conference last month, we overwhelmingly passed resolutions supporting guaranteed healthcare as a human right, free public education from pre-K through college or trade school, a living wage and fair compensation for all, investments in environmental protection and renewable energy, restoration of voting rights to former felons, public financing of elections to eradicate the corrupting influence of big money in politics, and other policies that serve the people.

Common Council made quick work in discussing its support of a county - wide living wage, voting 11 - 0 for the increase

Between 30 and 40 people turned out Wednesday at City Hall in a cold drizzle to lobby in support of a countywide living wage of $ 14.34 an hour for a worker whose employer does not offer health benefits.

«On behalf of the half - million New Yorkers invested in our fight for a living wage for direct care workers, we want to express our gratitude for the tremendous support we've received from members of the Senate and Assembly,» the campaign said in a statement.

During the public comment portion of Wednesday's Common Council meeting, speakers — to the applause of audience members — cited numerous studies in support of the positive impacts of a living wage.

Also at 11 a.m., Brooklynites with developmental disabilities, their parents and caregivers, a bipartisan delegation of state legislators and community leaders rally to urge Cuomo and the state Legislature to ensure that direct support professionals receive a living wage, St. Francis College, 182 Remsen St., Brooklyn.

A large turnout for yesterday's Ithaca Common Council meeting bore witness to a historic moment for laborers in Tompkins County as the city, joining with the Town of Ithaca, chose to support a living wage for all workers in the county.

- 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;

At 1 p.m., New Yorkers with developmental disabilities, their parents and caregivers and a bipartisan delegation of state legislators rally to urge Cuomo and the state Legislature to accelerate the process and ensure that direct support professionals receive the living wage they are entitled to, state Capitol, second floor, Albany.

Be careful — look at this YouGov poll which shows a majority of people would support renationalisation of the utilities, increasing the minimum wage to # 10 and the top rate of tax to 60 %... but also a total ban on immigration and benefits for anyone who turns down a job, making life mean life with no parole in prison sentences and stopping all international aid.

Councilman Steven Matteo (R - Mid-Island) said it was «difficult» to support any expansion of the living wage without hearings, testimony, public debate or investigations into potential impacts of the change.

«When we were waging the fight to pass a living wage bill, Bill de Blasio didn't show up to a single rally, didn't testify once, didn't send a letter of support and our pleas for his support fell on deaf ears until the very last moment when he saw a poll that showed it had widespread support,» Appelbaum said in a statement.

Its bid to support the activities of Thoughtful House Foundation, which among others, is focused on providing education and therapy to children living with autism, create awareness for children and families, and wage a battle to beat autism in Nigeria and beyond.

«I support a minimum wage of President Obama's $ 10.10 indexed so you don't have to continually update it, with an adjustment factor for up to 30 percent for the cost of living across different markets in this state,» Cuomo said in the video.

«We told the mayor that while he was telling us he was against the project, Deputy Mayor Alicia Glen was having private email conversations with FreshDirect lobbyists promising support for the $ 140 million subsidy if the company could deliver on living wage jobs, but more than half of FreshDirect's workforce remains below living wage,» Harry Bubbins, member of the group, said in the press release.

Hawkins says he supports a living minimum wage of $ 15 per hour and higher taxes on the rich so that the state can provide more aid to struggling local municipalities....

The union says we should be proud of our welfare state and the support it provides and be looking at how to improve it - including restoring the link between benefits and average wages, broken by the Tories in the 1980s, as well as paying people who are in work a living wage.

Regardless of how the WFP pyschodrama plays out, the Green Party will remain the choice this November for progressives who support a $ 15 an hour minimum wage, living wage jobs, climate action, strong public schools, and an end to corruption at the State Capitol,» said Howie Hawkins, the Green nominee for Governor.

Stuart Appelbaum, president of the RWDSU, thanked de Blasio for expanding living wage while pressuring him to support a bill to be introduced in the Council that would disallow developers from retaliating against workers who unionize on projects covered under the living - wage law.

Organized labor's effort to secure a living wage for all workers at the soon - to - be redeveloped Kingsbridge Armory fell apart today, when the Building & Construction Trades Council of Greater New York pledged its support of the redevelopment.

In the wake of Council Speaker Christine Quinn's decision not to support paid sick leave, some City Council members and advocates are attempting to make waves on another issue: the living wage.

Survation polling, too, shows that 37 % of SNP voters would be more likely to support Labour if it offered a mandatory living wage, and 27 % if it pledged to renationalise rail.

One such opponent of the Related Companies» project is Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz, who has repeatedly said that a comprehensive community benefits contract — including a pledge to provide a living wage for workers — is integral to garnering his support.

The most popular are, predictably, the introduction of the National Living Wage and the increase in the personal tax allowance which both get overwhelming support.

Last year, the City Council (with the strong support and leadership of Diaz) killed a proposal to turn the Armory into a shopping mall because the project didn't include guarantees for living wage jobs.

«The WNY Women's Foundation supports County Executive Poloncarz» Executive Order as a first step to elimination of the wage disparity between women and men with the goal of ensuring critical income to families living in poverty in WNY,» said Sheri Scavone, Executive Director of the WNY Women's Foundation.

Gresham, who joined Cuomo on an RV tour in upstate New York to stoke support for the governor's legislation, said that New York can now become the type of place where families can make a living wage instead of just a minimum wage.

«I'm hopeful Chris Quinn will support Living Wage,» said Stuart Appelbaum, president of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, via email.

«Along with other wage - related legislation we are addressing today, the Council has the ability to show its support of New Yorkers who can not afford to live in the city they have helped make great.

Supporting a Living Wage: A $ 15 living wage is now guaranteed to every City worker and employee of nonprofit organizations contracted with the City, and the Mayor and Council have advocated for higher wages for all workers across the Living Wage: A $ 15 living wage is now guaranteed to every City worker and employee of nonprofit organizations contracted with the City, and the Mayor and Council have advocated for higher wages for all workers across the stWage: A $ 15 living wage is now guaranteed to every City worker and employee of nonprofit organizations contracted with the City, and the Mayor and Council have advocated for higher wages for all workers across the living wage is now guaranteed to every City worker and employee of nonprofit organizations contracted with the City, and the Mayor and Council have advocated for higher wages for all workers across the stwage is now guaranteed to every City worker and employee of nonprofit organizations contracted with the City, and the Mayor and Council have advocated for higher wages for all workers across the state.

«From championing the DREAM Act to fighting for the $ 15 minimum wage to supporting affordable housing, Assemblyman Moya is truly dedicated to bettering the lives of the families that call this city home,» the pols wrote.