Sentences with phrase «wage job recovery»

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«There» s an emerging consensus that we can't build a recovery on poverty wage jobs, and these are the fastest growing jobs in the economy,» says Paul Sonn, legal co-director for the National Employment Law Project.

If Fed officials view it as a ceiling, as their statements sometimes suggest, they'll likely tighten monetary policy once they hit it even if they've been missing 2 percent for years and tightening means slowing job and wage growth that has eluded too many workers in recent recoveries.

For the first several years» worth of recovery, that took the form of relatively rapid job creation paired with very weak wage growth due to the large stock of unemployed workers.

State Senate Republicans say increasing the state's minimum wage now would hinder job growth at a crucial time during the economic recovery.

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

Some interesting news about the US economy: While middle wage jobs show little signs of recovery, a new study from Georgetown University discovered there have been more «good» jobs (which pay at least $ 53,000 a year) than people have assumed, and 2.8 million of the 2.9 million good jobs gained in the recent period of recovery have gone to college graduates.

While middle wage jobs show little signs of recovery, good jobs are back and college graduates are first in line to get them, according to a new Georgetown University study.

Contrary to many stories in the media about how low - wage jobs have dominated since the recovery began in 2010, the study from the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce claims that the largest job growth has come from good jobs; these jobs paid more than $ 53,000, tended to be full time, and provided health insurance and retirement plans.