Sentences with phrase «wage job so»

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Despite robust job growth, wage gains so far in 2015 have amounted to a measly 2.2 %.

Their criminal record closed many doors for these women, their skills were often extremely limited, and the low - wage jobs they could get demanded so many hours to make ends meet that they were left with unsolvable childcare problems.

Those jobs are already very well compensated, so this is acting as a wage subsidy to high - income workers, paid for by the general population.

The fact is, a higher proportion of teenagers work at a minimum wage job in most provinces across Canada today than a decade ago (49 per cent across Canada, 70 per cent in Ontario in 2016), but a growing proportion of adults have been doing so as well.

Still, wage growth has been weak, so weak in fact that the first sign of strength, tucked in the January jobs report, seemed to freak everyone out.

Wage growth has been scarcely better, particularly as more workers become contractors in the so - called gig economy, which offers little by way of job security, benefits, and pay.

What Fraser hears over and over again from Feeding America's food banks is that while more people are working again, «those numbers disguise the fact that so many of these jobs are paying minimum wage or slightly above,» he said.

So U.S. consumer spending will fall because of (1) no more easy mortgage or credit - card credit, (2) debt deflation as consumers repay past borrowing, «crowding out» other forms of spending, and (3) downsizing and job losses lead to falling wage income.

The job growth is fake, there's been no wage growth since 1999, inflation numbers are false, government debt is too high, corporate profits are too low, corporate profits are unsustainably high, companies aren't reinvesting their profits, companies are buying back too much stock, the Federal Reserve is propping up the market, the Federal Reserve is keeping rates artificially low, and so on.

Since September 2011 — when the premier first launched her so - called «jobs plan» that she said specifically targets the private sector — Statistics Canada numbers show it's been a complete failure for both creating jobs and wage growth.

These small businesses continue to provide six of ten jobs in B.C., and unexpected and / or sharp increases to the minimum wage can have a very real impact on their ability to do so.

SCHNEIDER: The number one metric and this gets back into my comments about optionality for the Fed, but the number one metric that the Fed is going to be focused on is the tightness of the job market and wage pressures on the go - forward basis, so sure inflation — headline inflation has perked up a little bit.

It is in corporate CEO interest to keep racing to the bottom for labor, so those jobs aren't coming back here until we're living a third - world lifestyle and will accept a dollar a day as a wage.

Romney's already stated that he firmly believes that corporations are people, so no, he's not going to bring back living - wage jobs.

We should expand and consolidate wage subsidies for low - earning workers and offer relocation subsidies so that workers will follow the jobs.

Hallelujah praise the Lord, I feel so much better we are spending money and the 600 employees at Arsenal who are on minimum wage all get to keep their jobs?

Man City And Chelsea didn't have problem buying Monaco's players and we were in for lemar before Chelsea got bakayoko so maybe Chelsea or man city should do negotiations for arsenal football club and pay them a fee for doing the job for Wenger as the other clubs seem to get the job done without waging fingers I might add!

Said this three seasons ago and got lambasted by the lies of Josh 27 or whatever his name is Walcott is undertaken Ted, lazy and a bottle job and has been so for a while We're lumbered though, who is gonna meet his wage demands?

Your job over the next 10 years or so will be to help your child understand the difference between a real danger (accepting a ride from a stranger, or smoking cigarettes) and something that, disturbing though it may be, doesn't present an immediate or personal threat (a war being waged 5,000 miles away).

«I certainly do not want to hurt jobs, so we will not be passing his minimum wage bill.»

@Readin, On consideration, slavery is still on the political spectrum, albeit on a different axis of theft (of human resources), where the extreme would be slavery on one end, moving over to various forms of cruel peonage, then to sweatshops, then to low pay dead end jobs with wage theft, the same without wage theft, the same with benefits, and so on up, the opposite side being no theft at all so that a given laborer is paid their fair share.

«The keys to keeping our economy growing are to keep investing in infrastructure, so we have a better climate for job growth, and to make sure workers all get safe working conditions and a wage they can live on.

Why are so many New Yorkers, an estimated one point eight million, working for years at either the minimum wage or just above it, doing jobs that used to be considered entry level positions?

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.

«As I have said many times, no one who works a full - time job should have to live in poverty, and by increasing the minimum wage we can dramatically improve the lives of so many workers and their families.»

Just as the Tories were forced to accept the national minimum wage, which they had once declared an apocalyptic destroyer of jobs, so all future governments will have to embrace the national living wage.

«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.

If Cuomo is so concerned about $ 15 min wage, he might want to look at all the jobs posted for $ 12 and under on the NY State Dept of Labor's website.

«With record employment and strong wage growth, we are continuing to move to a society with opportunity and security at its heart — so all families can have the security of a well - paid job.

Not only do we need to see more employers committing to pay the Living Wage, we also need to tackle the thorny question of why it is the UK has so many bad jobs in the first place.

If the unions are so concerned about jobs, they could do what the progressive private sector unions do or what the European unions did in the 1980s — take wage cuts and save jobs.

NY needs job growth and policies that support that and so far Cuomo's done everything in his power to chase business out of NY, like last year's minimum wage bill.

I mean the minimum wage hasn't changed here in a long time so we should be swimmimg in jobs by your logic.

At the annual GOP committee meeting, speakers warned that raising the minimum wage so steeply will impact small business and reduce jobs.

perhaps David Cameron would be so good as to explain to the hardworking party workers, those that have lost their jobs, those that face a wage freeze, and importantly THOSE PEOPLE who have donated money just how this came about: - David Cameron has personally authorised up to # 2m of extra expenditures, none included in the budget for the year...

«We need to focus on bringing some jobs back here, so the people can make a decent earning wage and be able to afford housing here,» said Wooden.

So right now, the city is better off than it would have been, especially when you realize that the minimum wage jobs under the Related proposal wouldn't have generated any state income tax or relieved the burden on social services like Medicaid / Medicare, etc..

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, a Democrat, announced a six - month window for developers and labor leaders to come to an agreement on so - called prevailing - wage jobs for construction workers on 421 - a projects.

So the next time you hear someone say, «You can't raise taxes on the rich in New York, they already pay too much and they'll just move to Texas or Florida; it's just common sense», you should say, «Yes we can raise taxes on the richest New Yorkers, all of the data over many years and many studies has shown definitively that they aren't going anywhere, so you can stick your common sense in a hot, humid, boring low - tax state with low - wage jobs.&raquSo the next time you hear someone say, «You can't raise taxes on the rich in New York, they already pay too much and they'll just move to Texas or Florida; it's just common sense», you should say, «Yes we can raise taxes on the richest New Yorkers, all of the data over many years and many studies has shown definitively that they aren't going anywhere, so you can stick your common sense in a hot, humid, boring low - tax state with low - wage jobs.&raquso you can stick your common sense in a hot, humid, boring low - tax state with low - wage jobs.»

The idea of a 10p or 15p rate - to be combined with changes to the benefit system, more job opportunities and a minimum wage - knocked around for the next year or so, popping up in speeches at the party's conference in 1996.

While supporters are declaring victory over New York's new higher minimum wage for fast food workers, the action, by a state wage board, highlights a larger question: why are so many in the state dependent for their livelihoods on what are essentially entry level workforce jobs?

With 2 minimum wage jobs sometimes it's hard to live paycheck to paycheck but Target has some really beautiful things that would furnish our apartment so nicely

Both of these slackers are stuck in minimum wage jobs which pay so little they can barely pay their rent or utility bills.

He proposed «to train 70,000 high - school teachers to lead Advanced Placement courses in math and science... bring 30,000 math and science professionals to teach in classrooms... and give early help to students who struggle with math, so they have a better chance at good, high - wage jobs.»

So in this case we wanted to create a shortcut to capital — a system where our young - adult graduates would be working hard, earning money, making mortgage payments, and essentially paying themselves in the form of equity, so that when they decide to leave that high - wage job to launch their own small business and create jobs in the neighborhood, they caSo in this case we wanted to create a shortcut to capital — a system where our young - adult graduates would be working hard, earning money, making mortgage payments, and essentially paying themselves in the form of equity, so that when they decide to leave that high - wage job to launch their own small business and create jobs in the neighborhood, they caso that when they decide to leave that high - wage job to launch their own small business and create jobs in the neighborhood, they can.

How do we help young people attain at least «medium - level» skills so that they need not toil in minimum - wage jobs all their lives?

The best we can do for them is to ease their path to high school graduation, and then raise the minimum wage so that their low - skilled jobs will provide greater income — or find other ways to supplement their earnings with government services.

But because so many poor youth are unprepared to succeed in even these programs and are often distracted by having to show up for their low - wage jobs at the same time, they rarely complete the degrees.

Give them the resources to do their work, and pay them enough so that they can support their families doing the job they love and don't have to work two or three others just to earn a living wage.

Far from being a nefarious plot to create a «low - wage economy,» ending furloughs based on seniority alone keeps the focus on kids so they are prepared for well - paying jobs in our rapidly changing economy.