Sentences with phrase «take minimum wage jobs»

«Every place around here is looking for help and many employees don't want to take minimum wage jobs,» says Pavone, who adds bumping up the wage would make it harder to find workers.

Straight out of Yeshiva University's Sy Syms School of Business, Reuben Saul Robin was so keenly interested in real estate that he took a minimum wage job in the copy room of Marcus and Millichap.

Not exact matches

In this case, the American Enterprise Institute took some restaurant industry employment data for Seattle from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis and blamed a higher minimum wage for the worst decline in restaurant jobs since the Great Recession.

With the intention of showing that there is an alternative to the 9 to 5 indoctrination, I have decided to interview 10 people who have taken control of their own lives, 10 people who don't care about minimum wage nor government social programs because they have created their own jobs.

For example, the very small increases in the minimum wage that took effect in eight states on January 1, 2012 as a result of those states» indexing laws will generate an additional $ 366 million in GDP and create the equivalent of more than 3,000 full - time jobs, according to an analysis by the Economic Policy Institute.

Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos has called that proposal a job killer, but asked earlier this month if he was ruling out any increase of the minimum wage this session, the Long Island Republican only said he would not take up «Silver's bill.»

Polls show broad support for increasing the state's minimum wage and while Gov. Andrew Cuomo hasn't taken a position on Silver's proposal, he's said he agrees in theory raising the wage wouldn't be the «job - killer» that Skelos has warned about.

It Cuomo, Obama and Deblasio had bothered to take one economics course they would know that every increase in the minimum wage is a net decrease in job generation.

Just know that none of these Conservative candidates nor Ms. Gillibrand have significantly taken a line drawn in the sand on 1) writing their own jobs bill for national consequence 2) Fracking position definitively 3) Major student loan reform 4) Raising minimum wage 5) Single Payer Health Care, or bringing back Glass - Steagall.

«Because of their hard work, New York State has lead the way — passing a $ 15 minimum wage and enacting historic paid family leave legislation so that no New Yorker will lose their job while taking care of a sick loved one.

That's not much of a success, if family breadwinners lost good jobs and wound up taking minimum wage sh*t jobs.

Working minimum wage jobs has taken it's toll on me and I'm just looking for change.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening April 3, 2009 BIG BUDGET FILMS Adventureland (R for profanity, sexuality and drug use) Retro romantic comedy, set in Pittsburgh in 1987, revolving around the plight of a grad school - bound virgin (Jesse Eisenberg) forced by his family's financial woes to take a minimum - wage job at an amusement park the summer before he's supposed to start at Columbia.

Yeah, Peter Parker's a superhero, but he's also a college kid working a minimum wage job to make rent while also taking university physics classes.

People from business taking on adult social care (unlikely, minimum wage for this essential job isn't going to attract those with business expertise).

According to the article, the company takes advantage of its warehouse employees by paying them a shocking $ 4US per hour over the current minimum wage; incidentally, Amazon also has a program in place to hire US military veterans upon returning home from war, with a special emphasis on providing jobs for disabled veterans and their spouses.

So you take whatever minimum wage job you can find unrelated to your field.

I've worked in minimum wage jobs no one else would dream of taking, and saved enough cash to cycle around the world on 10 dollars a day.

If one of those individuals in the home took a second job at or near minimum wage, they'd be able to afford the home, but at what cost?

There are also more economic reasons — minimum wage has increased over the past few decades so companies aren't hiring as frequently for positions normally filled by high schoolers, and a tough economy saw more grown workers taking jobs they usually wouldn't — but a lot of it can be attributed to students spending their time more wisely.

Survival job: A job that can by common opinion be considered «low skilled», and that receives compensation package close to minimum wage, that is taken on to avoid financial turmoil, bankruptcy, and other hardship.

True Grit True Grit is exactly what it takes to find a job in today's job market whether you are a six figure executive, a minimum wage worker, or you fall somewhere in between.

As debates wage over the minimum wage in our country, people are still taking low paying jobs in order to try and make ends meet.

The alternative is probably taking an unpaid internship or even a minimum wage job.

On another note, I wonder how many wannabe Realtors would pay for and take the three courses, then apply for a job with a brokerage if they knew that they would not work for full commissions during their first year in the training saddle, but rather, that they would work for minimum wage on a forty - hour - per - week schedule.

part - time, temporary, minimum wage jobs taking the place of full time jobs with benefits (if jobs are left and not sent to eg.