Sentences with phrase «to make a living wage»

Can you understand I feel bad for writers who can't make a living wage because publishers pay them so little?

Here's why: The probability of making a living wage in today's economy without some form of postsecondary education is already low and will only diminish.

In 23 states, the average teacher doesn't even make a living wage — meaning those educators can't cover the basic costs of raising a family.

Whether fast food employees make a living wage is irrelevant to the author's point here.

You need to graduate from college if you want to make a living wage working for someone else.

How can you get out of poverty if you can not make a living wage?

It's almost impossible to make a living wage by trying to sell indy titles through the exact same distribution / sales model as mainstream comic retail comics where you're competing with mass market pricing and distribution, that's true, but that doesn't mean there aren't any outlets to make money in comics with your own work.

Several polls have actually found that the number of self - publishing authors making a living wage from their writing is actually higher than traditionally published authors — and ultimately, those authors who have chosen the hybrid route of self - publishing and traditional publishing are making the steadiest, highest income.

How many people can afford to take a job that you can't make a living wage at, can afford to take a job with random un-paid breaks during the school year?

Amazon gives authors the chance to get their work out in a timely manner and to actually make a living wage from their writing.

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.

A petition by the guild prompted the move, which is meant to help drivers make a living wage.

Labour's economy spokesperson on the London Assembly said voluntary schemes would take hundreds of years to work and urged Miliband to make the living wage compulsory instead.

«We have taken a more comprehensive approach to the London Living Wage and believe that four hour contracts are required to make living wage desirable for employees.

I finally began making a living wage from my writing, bought a car, and grew as a writer and a person in ways I never would have predicted back in January.

Switch to a Fair Trade brand and sip easy knowing beans are grown and harvested by workers making a living wage — more often than not by companies focusing on sustainability.

''... leadership at Venture High see [the embedded internship model] as a distinguishing factor that will give its students — those who are vastly underserved by the traditional public education system — not only a sense of agency, but also a realistic shot at making a living wage doing something they find fulfilling.»

Bronx resident Jorel Ware, 35, a McDonald's employee, told the Observer after the rally that the labor secretary should be someone who wants to support the 64 million people that «don't make a living wage in this country.»

It's almost impossible to make a living wage by trying to sell through the exact same distribution / sales model as mainstream comic retail comics where you're competing with mass market pricing and distribution, that's true, but that doesn't mean there aren't any outlets to make money in comics with your own work.

Few will make a living wage from their words, but if they cultivate an engaged and ravenous audience, they can move product to market super-quickly, keep those hungry fans happy, and make some very good supplemental income.

In the U.S., this kind of job migration occurs not because employees hate their jobs or don't make a living wage — but simply because it's an option.

Within her first year of running Bee Downtown full time, Bonner sold over 50 hives, enabling her to make a living wage and hire a beekeeper.

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.

This allows home cleaners to feel more comfortable that they will make a living wage.

If you can afford to be more generous with a tip, please do, it makes a living wage for people like me when others won't.

Don't get me wrong, I like what I do, but if I had needed to make a living wage, I would have needed to stay in the restaurant world.

I promise today that at the next election, we will present a manifesto that explains how we can help to make the living wage a part of our strategy to make Britain's economy work for working people again.

That makes the living wage more than # 2 per hour higher than the national minimum wage.

To make the living wage a reality, Tompkins County would need to pass a «home - rule» request to New York state seeking the authority to implement a local minimum wage; and to help leverage the decision, a copy of the resolution would be forwarded to the Tompkins County Legislature, the Tompkins County Council of Governments, state Assemblywoman Barbara Lifton, D - Ithaca, Sen. Tom O'Mara, R - Big Flats, and Cuomo.

«Cause they don't care to make a living wage.

Mayor Brown says the board may even intervene to make sure that the fast food workers are employed enough hours to make living wage.

We'd have a lot more diversity, I think, if we were able to make it a living wage.»

Even magical nannies need to make a living wage.

I'm certainly all for authors making a living wage from their work (though it's important to be realistic and not expect to make a living wage from one book — as we've discussed before, most successful indies have multiple books and often multiple series out).

Authors have divided themselves into two camps, the making a living wage by self publishing crowd of which I belong, and the gatekeepers like James Patterson and Scott Turow who have made a shitload of money with traditional publishers who have eleveated them to a position of being «overlords» of the literary world and encouraging greedy publishing houses to bar the door to new aspiring writers who are not represented by agents.

And many more are making a living wage — or more — without a brand name.

They know it's hard to make a living wage.

I'm saying that Gabaldon, who is from the same generation as my parents, probably wants to give out advice to people which will help them make a living wage and have... yeah.

Do you think it will be easier or harder in the next decade for artists of all types to make a living wage?

«I sell some records, I sell some T - shirts and at the end of the day, I make a living wage and I've got no complaints.»