Sentences with phrase «wage costs jobs»

«I don't believe the minimum wage costs jobs,» said Cuomo.

«I don't believe the minimum wage costs jobs,» Cuomo said.

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The fund provides up to $ 7,800 for each eligible 15 - to 29 - year - old worker to help cover wage and training costs and offset job - related costs like tools and transportation.

A new University of Washington study that found that the hourly wage hike could in fact be costing jobs.

Similarly, the National Federation of Independent Business, in a study released in December, claims a proposed wage increase in New York to $ 8.50 from $ 7.25 with an index to inflation would cost the state 22,000 jobs and $ 2.5 billion in revenue.

The Tampa couple at the epicenter of a scandal that cost CIA director David Petraeus his job are waging an aggressive and unusual foreclosure defense to keep their now - iconic Bayshore Boulevard home.

She noted that with the $ 15 minimum wage (a frequent point of comparison in the discussion) Safeway chose to absorb the cost of the minimum wage instead of cutting jobs or passing the costs on to consumers, but that made Seattle Safeway stores» profit margin half as much as stores in other locations.

Restaurant owners argue the new wage bill will more than eat up the industry's profit margin and could cost jobs.

The slowdown in job growth and the absence of any significant wage pressure could strengthen the arguments of those who see little risk in keeping borrowing costs exceptionally low and waiting not just for more encouraging data but also for unruly markets to settle down.

Millennials said the biggest barriers to progress for young adults 18 - 22 were higher education costs (46 percent), slow wage growth (40 percent) and lack of job prospects (39 percent), the survey found.

The employment report provided the latest sign that a strengthening jobs market is starting to spur faster wage growth, a key factor that will help determine when the U.S. central bank starts lifting borrowing costs.

Your statement that Jesus would say that raising the minimum wage would cost jobs.

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).

(Miller follows the advice of sympathetic economists and his own businessman's instincts to argue that raising the statutory minimum wage to an actual living wage would cost too many jobs.)

These include: developing prenatal care for expectant mothers, providing low - cost housing for the elderly, forming political coalitions with Hispanics, Asians, and Caucasians, waging war against drug traffic, and conducting a Job Information Center for all unemployed persons.

Parents who work in low - wage jobs can face real difficulties affording quality child care — in 2013, the average cost of full - time care for an infant at a child care center was about $ 10,000 per year — higher than the average cost of in - state tuition at a public 4 - year college - and much higher in some locations.

But representatives of the state's largest business organization said the higher wage would cost 600,000 New York jobs, especially in Upstate.

Critics say the tax credit will cost more than Gov. Andrew Cuomo's office estimates, could put some older workers out of jobs, and encourage employers to pay the minimum wage and not a penny more.

A massive 67 percent minimum wage increase, which would lead to job losses, higher costs of goods and increased property taxes, will devastate small businesses and family farms, particularly Upstate.»

Here in Islington, the company that delivered ground maintenance moved to pay the living wage, without extra cost to the local taxpayer or any job losses.

What we want to make sure is that we raise the minimum wage and we've got a radical plan to do it, that doesn't cost jobs, so in addition to raising the minimum wage we've got a plan to provide tax breaks for employers for the first time, to raise the living wage.

Republicans said raising the minimum wage would dampen a sluggish economic recovery and cost jobs.

It estimates that a minimum wage increase of $ 7.15 to $ 8.25 an hour (which is even less than the 21 percent hike proposed in the Executive Budget) would cost a total of 28,990 jobs in New York.

He tells us there's no credible evidence a $ 15 an hour minimum wage will cost us jobs, without giving us credible evidence of his assertion.

«We have heard and we reject the political argument that has been made that raising the minimum wage will cost jobs — we believe the exact opposite,» he said.

One of the Long Island businesses supporting Cuomo's $ 15 minimum wage push moved jobs to Mexico, saying labor costs there are cheaper.

Michael Saltsman, research director at the Employment Policies Institute, says New York's recent minimum wage increases are already costing the state jobs.

After much anticipation, the city Economic Development Corp. released a $ 1 million study on living wage policy today, which finds implementing higher pay standards at city subsidized developments would cost jobs.

Other scholars, however, say much of the research — declaring minimum wage increases don't cost jobs — is faulty.

«Today's New York wage board decision to discriminate against the quick service food industry will cost jobs and potentially cause small businesses to close,» said Steve Caldeira, the president of the International Franchise Association.

In New York, business leaders opposing the wage increase said it would cost jobs in low - wage industries and accelerate automation, especially in fast - food restaurants.

Republican Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan is close to a «Faustian pact» with Democratic Gov. Cuomo to raise the state's minimum wage to a national high of $ 15 an hour — boosting union power and possibly costing New York hundreds of thousands of jobs, The Post has learned.

A study late last year by the conservative - oriented Empire Center found that a $ 15 - an - hour minimum wage would cost the state «at least» 200,000 jobs.

Under Republican leadership, this Legislature has continuously underfunded our public schools, focused on creating low wage jobs that leave working families in a cycle of poverty, and given away millions of taxpayer dollars to insurance companies while health insurance costs for working families skyrocket.»

An Empire Center analysis released earlier this month predicted that a $ 15 - an - hour minimum wage — a nearly 70 percent hike over the current minimum — would cost New York at least 200,000 jobs, and perhaps as many as 588,800.

A report produced late last year by the Empire Center for Public Policy and the American Action Forum said raising the minimum wage to $ 15 an hour would cost the state at least 200,000 jobs.

He said minimum - wage hikes «sound good but cost jobs.»

Brian Sampson, president of the Associated Builders and Contractors and part of the Minimum Wage Reality Check, said Cuomo in his push is ignoring the impact a $ 15 minimum wage would have on the cost of goods and services, jobs, and communities and taWage Reality Check, said Cuomo in his push is ignoring the impact a $ 15 minimum wage would have on the cost of goods and services, jobs, and communities and tawage would have on the cost of goods and services, jobs, and communities and taxes.

They're turning increasingly to part time jobs to reduce wage costs and eliminate benefits.

Seneca County is among 50 entities that make up the Minimum Wage Reality Check campaign, which contends that a 67 percent minimum wage hike will end in job losses, tax increases and a higher cost of livWage Reality Check campaign, which contends that a 67 percent minimum wage hike will end in job losses, tax increases and a higher cost of livwage hike will end in job losses, tax increases and a higher cost of living.

• A Seattle family with two adults, a preschooler and a school - age child needs to make $ 65,716 annually — the equivalent of more than three full - time minimum wage jobs — to cover costs.

I am being offered a Cost of Wage Differential in a job offer.

The costs of a college education being so high, combined with the lower wage jobs (or stagnant wage jobs that are available), will rightfully weigh down spending on gee - gawgs and doo - dads of any nature.

They are fed up with a bunch of white environmentalists and oppressed do - gooders running the country into ruin by ignoring the fundamentals of jobs, wage growth, and personal and family security in favor of reduced coal burning, reduced oil drilling, no oil pipelines, no fracking, endangered species over the human kind, and attempts to control the long - term climate at tremendous cost to the citizenry.

The report concluded that over 185,000 jobs could be impacted by the minimum wage hike and suggests the minimum wage hike will add $ 23 billion in costs to business over a two year period.

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?