Sentences with phrase «than the living wage of»

5 million people earn less than the living wage of # 7.65 per hour.

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With the advantages of youth on your side — a fresh perspective on business ideas, possibly low overhead (if you're living at home rent - free), and the ability to make mistakes early in the game and have plenty of time to correct them — starting a business is a very attractive option for young people who would rather answer to themselves than earn minimum wage.

Some people said the screed, directed at CEO Jeremy Stoppelman, drew attention to prevalent wage issues in the area; others accused the employee of acting entitled and failing to find better or more work or a place to live that costs less than her current $ 1,245 rent.

It compelled me to justify myself, to explain to my interrogators how I planned to live in New York City on so little — less than minimum wage after accounting for the cost of my uniform and unpaid training time.

An income profile for the typical U.S. wage earner shows the degree to which the cost of living now reflects FIRE sector costs more than prices for commodities produced by labor.

More than 40 percent of Americans say they would feel a financial impact within six months if the family's primary wage earner died, according to a 2015 survey by Life Happens and LIMRA.

One - half of U.S. households would feel the impact of the loss of a primary wage earner within six months, and one - third would feel it in less than one month, according to a study by LIMRA and Life Happens, a nonprofit that promotes the benefits of life insuraLife Happens, a nonprofit that promotes the benefits of life insuralife insurance.

And when creditors turned their economic gains from this process into political power to shift the tax burden onto wage earners and industry, this raised the cost of living and doing business — by more than technology was able to lower prices.

Esquimalt's living wage will have a lower threshold than that of New Westminster's; it will only apply to city - tendered contracts worth more than $ 100,000 or longer than six months in duration.

It turns out that many of these guinea pigs are now professionals» «people who need money and have a lot of time to spare: the unemployed, college students, contract workers, ex-cons, or young people living on the margins who have decided that testing drugs is better than punching a clock with the wage slaves.»

If we had given the industrial Barron's more tax breaks and less regulation and removed OSHA or removed minimum wage laws we would be living in far worse financial internment camps always owing far more to the Company than we can ever repay just to survive which is what the end result of unbridled capitalism leads.

of course no team wants to lose but I can guarantee you that the reaction by the Chelski fans after today's results are nowhere near what would have occurred if we shit the bed on opening day... the difference is they have tasted EPL success on more than one occasion recently, they have won the Champions League and they have done it with 3 different managers in the last 12 years with a similar, if not smaller, wage bill than us... in comparison, we have been experiencing our own personal Groundhog Day with nothing to show for it but a few silvery trinkets that would barely wet the appetite of a world - class club... so it's time for Wenger to stop gloating over our week one escape act and make some substantial moves before this window closes or I fear that things will take a horrible turn when the inevitable happens... living on a knife's edge is no way to go through a full season of football and regardless of what side of the argument you fall on, you could feel high levels of toxicity in the air and that was friggin week one... I would much rather someone tried their best and failed, than took half - measures and hoped for the best

Those governments have kept the minimum wage below a living wage, allowed private social care companies to pay less than even the inadequate minimum wage, done almost nothing to enforce the quality of private rental accommodation and nothing to prevent gouging rents.

Twenty - seven per cent of women, who are more likely to be single parents than men, earn below the living wage.

British workers need more than «platitudes» from politicians if a national living wage is to be achieved, the Archbishop of York has said.

Labour's real living wage will immediately boost the incomes and opportunities of more than 20 % of the workforce, especially in sectors such as retail, care and hospitality.»

Ed Miliband's campaign for a living wage of more than # 7 an hour is a promising start.

Despite campaigning for the living wage to be paid in the public sector and for zero - hours contracts to be scrapped, Freedom of Information requests have shown that all three of the councils controlled or led by Plaid Cymru — Ceredigion, Conwy, and Gwynedd - pay people less than the living wage and use zero - hours contracts.

The Labour leader has previously said he is «angry and fed up» with six million people earning less than the living wage and he has been accused of losing his temper with media on more than one occasion.

Is the living wage the answer to poverty and inequality - no, not at all, because it merely tinkers round the edges of servitude, and negotiates better terms rather than dealing with the fundamental problem.

The record number of workers paid less than the living wage, now more than 5 million, is costing an estimated # 2.2 bn a year in extra spending and lost revenue according to analysis published by the IPPR with the Resolution Foundation.

Cuomo proposes that since the cost of living is higher in New York City than elsewhere in the state, the city have its own minimum wage: $ 11.50, compared to $ 10.50 elsewhere in the state.

Effective immediately, commercial tenants at projects receiving more than $ 1 million in city subsidies will be part of the living wage provisions, including the hourly increase.

- GDP per capita is still lower than it was before the recession - Earnings and household incomes are far lower in real terms than they were in 2010 - Five million people earn less than the Living Wage - George Osborne has failed to balance the Budget by 2015, meaning 40 % of the work must be done in the next parliament - Absolute poverty increased by 300,000 between 2010/11 and 2012/13 - Almost two - thirds of poor children fail to achieve the basics of five GCSEs including English and maths - Children eligible for free school meals remain far less likely to be school - ready than their peers - Childcare affordability and availability means many parents struggle to return to work - Poor children are less likely to be taught by the best teachers - The education system is currently going through widespread reform and the full effects will not be seen for some time - Long - term youth unemployment of over 12 months is nearly double pre-recession levels at around 200,000 - Pay of young people took a severe hit over the recession and is yet to recover - The number of students from state schools and disadvantaged backgrounds going to Russell Group universities has flatlined for a decade

At 10 a.m., the NYC he Department of Consumer Affairs will hold a public hearing on a change to the «Fair Wages for New Yorkers Act,» which would mandate «certain companies that receive at least one million dollars of financial assistance from the City of New York to pay their employees no less than a living wage,» 42 Broadway, 5th Floor, Manhattan.

«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.

The living wage bill, which passed later Monday afternoon 45 - to - 5, is expected to boost wages for about 600 workers — far fewer than earlier versions of the bill.

But all the speakers clearly preferred it to stay empty rather than give over a public building with public subsidies to a mall developer who won't guarantee a living wage for employees of its retail tenants.

The announcement comes after months of heated debate over the potential adoption of a new «living wage» bill that would force developers who receive big city subsidies to pay their workers more than minimum wage.

At a hastily - called press conference at City Hall, Quinn, who was joined by fellow council members and the head of the retail workers» union, announced plans to introduce a new «living wage» bill that will force developers receiving more than a $ 1 million in city subsidies to pay their workers at least $ 10 an hour, plus benefits, or $ 11.50 without — significantly more than the $ 7.25 minimum wage.

In this, and other areas, Miliband's thinking shows clear signs of influence by the campaign group London Citizens, which is calling for a «living wage» of # 7.60 — higher than the current minimum wage at # 5.80.

WHEREAS, women make up 50 % of the population in Santa Clara County but face significant economic disparities, with an average pay difference that is larger than the national wage gap of $.72 for a man's dollar, with women holding advanced degrees earning roughly $ 40,000 less than their male counterparts, and 11 % of the County's female population living in poverty and approximately 33 % of the homeless population being women and girls, and

«Workers in all parts of our state need a living wage and that is why we can't accept anything less than $ 15,» building workers union 32BJ president Hector Figueroa said last week.

This complex was home to factory workers working in extremely dangerous and unsafe conditions for less than a living wage making the clothes so many of us wear.

Rather than fighting for an increase in minimum wage for all, as both the St. Paul and Minneapolis teachers unions have done, for example, Minnesota Comeback talks about «schools as the unit of change,» where the lucky will land — through the wonders of school choice — in the right kind of life - altering spot.

More than 95 % of the students that attend HOPE will not read at grade level which could deny them access to job options that provide a living wage.

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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.

Over the past 30 years, however, the ratio of resident employment to wage and salary jobs located in the District has never been higher than 47.8 percent (in 1985, a time when DC had 17 percent of the region's population, 33.6 percent of the region's jobs, and had more people living in the city than working in it).

Less than 1 % of published authors actually make a living wage from their royalties — and for every Dan Brown (not an extremely gifted writer by the way!)

«The vast majority of authors are working day jobs... but if you look at the implications [of self - publishing], a lot more authors are able to earn a living wage, if you will, than five or ten years ago.»

But few folks would consider $ 20,000 per annum a living wage, and only 637 (fewer than a third) of the Big - 5 debut authors from the last 4 years are earning that much today.

I don't even think that authors being deprived of a living wage will destroy literature, because, for the most part, that has already happened, and people are writing more now than ever.

Despite an average annual wage that's $ 7,080 more than the national average, Alaska has high living costs and student debt levels that make it one of the least affordable states.

Those in the top half of the wage distribution tend to live five years longer than those in the bottom half.

In a VIN article, Hughston emphasizes there is much more to fight for than just wage increases: «We're talking about things like work / life balance, like respecting professional boundaries, like making sure we have safe procedures and protocols in place, that we have safe levels of staffing.

I bet you're still sore at the loss of slavery which meant that goods became more expensive because they had to pay their workers a living wage rather than keep slaves...

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.

These include for example, the right to claim unfair dismissal, to receive statutory sick pay maternity, paternity and parental rights; to be paid the national living or minimum wage depending if they are aged 25 or more; to have working time rights such as not to be forced to work more than 48 hours per week, regular rest breaks and night working health and safety standards; to receive a statement of terms and conditions of employment.

Geraldine Morris, head of family at LexisPSL, says: «It's no surprise that divorces are being delayed in the current economic climate; with high cost of living, increasing property prices and low wage rises many families are feeling under significant financial pressure, a pressure that would be increased further if resources were stretched across two households rather than one.