Sentences with phrase «wage job while»

Focus on expanding your network instead; the future value of a minimum wage job while you're trying to go through school is practically zero.

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While a lower unemployment rate is certainly better than a higher one, the rate doesn't capture workers who've quit looking for a job, part - time workers who wish to work full - time, or workers who've experienced a significant wage reduction in a new job after they lost their old one.

While Riverside's Q3 2017 average weekly wage of $ 848 was the lowest among the 40 largest metro areas, its non-farm payroll job growth rate of 3.9 % between February 2017 and February 2018 was the highest.

While some workers may lose their job after the minimum wage increase (more on that in a minute), a very large number of workers will see an important pay hike, and that will loop back into the economy.

While there have been studies, such as the Card and Krueger study referenced by the CUPE report that show little or no job loss from a higher minimum wage, other studies have found instances where raising the minimum wage had a negative effect on employment.

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.

The U.S. economy probably added 185,000 jobs in March while wage gains accelerated, a survey of economists showed, reinforcing the Federal Reserve's case for continuing to increase interest rates gradually to keep inflation from overheating while keeping unemployment low.

While conceding that many U.S. high - wage manufacturing jobs were relocated to Mexico, China and other foreign locations as a result of NAFTA, Morris Cohen, Wharton professor of operations and information management, argues that NAFTA has, on balance, been a good thing for the U.S. economy and U.S. corporations.

While it is laudable that the President wants to preserve jobs, let's not forget that many Trump - affiliated companies make eyeglasses, perfume, cuff links and suits in Bangladesh, China, Honduras and other lower - wage countries, not in the United States.

«This suggests that employment prospects for some workers in higher - wage occupations are boosted by minimum wage increases, consistent with a story in which some jobs are lost to automation, while others are created.

Well one has to consider that a lot of the jobs that used to pay $ 60,000 have disappeared while a lot of the things that are replacing those tend to be low wage.

While conceding that many U.S. high - wage manufacturing jobs were relocated to Mexico, China and other foreign locations as a result of NAFTA, Cohen argues that NAFTA has, on balance, been a good thing for the U.S. economy and U.S. corporations.

While last Friday's stronger - than - expected jobs report spooked investors, a slight acceleration in wage growth does not typically result in a doubling of volatility.

By continuing to spur the creation of new small businesses and providing high - quality living wage jobs, solar's dramatic growth under the Obama Administration enables more Americans to provide for their families while also helping the United States to achieve its clean energy and climate goals.

During this period the Government of Alberta introduced a $ 15 minimum wage; appointed a gender - balanced Cabinet; replaced a system of regressive flat taxes with a progressive income tax system; laid out a responsible fiscal plan that rejected austerity; implemented an ambitious jobs plan; reformed the royalty system; ended predatory lending practices while strengthening the credit union system and ATB, Alberta's publicly - owned bank; and implemented a climate change leadership plan — among many other important reforms.

The job losses would be concentrated among teens and young adults, while the number of minimum wage workers in Ontario would increase from just over 500,000 to 1.6 million in 2019, said a report released by the province's Financial Accountability Office.

While job creation has been undeniably strong in recent months (an average of 290,000 over the last three months), it's the sluggish wage growth and productivity that appear to be larger issues.

Homebuyers continue to fork over more dollars to buy properties while we sit with stagnant wage growth, stagnant economic growth and low - wage jobs being about all that's created.

While cyclical factors are supporting job creation, the drop in participation and slow wage growth are a multi-decade phenomenon.

They will create few if any new jobs, while increasing the downward wage pressures of unemployment.

Imagine you're a mother of two working 40 hours a week at a minimum wage job in food service, while your husband hunts for a job.

While they work their minimum wage job 40 to 80 hours a week to pay the minimal bills.

@Christian Right: You forgot how us poor people are waging class warfare on all the job creators while we enjoy luxuries like our refrigerator and microwave.

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).

Too much day care is being provided by persons for whom it is at best just another minimum - wage job, and too many children are simply left alone while the parent or parents work.

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?

My husband and I (born in mid 80's, I have a BA, he has a doctorate) knew from day 1 of our marriage that we wanted to be parents and started saving money from our then retail and casual - dining hourly wage jobs and saved enough in just a couple years that I was able to be a stay at home mom while he was still in grad school.

Our Healthy School Food venture brings award - winning, farm - to - school menus to low - income schoolchildren across DC, all while creating living - wage careers for unemployed adults who have completed our Culinary Job Training program.

Take new baby to childcare of SOME description, somewhere, with enough food to get baby through the day while mom goes and works one, two, or even three low - wage jobs.

We fight hunger differently by providing the high - quality nutrition kids relying on school meals need to learn and grow while sustaining meaningful, living - wage careers for at - risk adults who have completed our Culinary Job Training program.

Polls show broad support for increasing the state's minimum wage and while Gov. Andrew Cuomo hasn't taken a position on Silver's proposal, he's said he agrees in theory raising the wage wouldn't be the «job - killer» that Skelos has warned about.

This is a wise investment of tax dollars that will help rebuild our region's infrastructure while at the same time providing living wage construction jobs for people who want to work,» said Buffalo NAACP President Rev. Mark Blue.

«Having the support of the Teamsters reassures to me that the work I do each day in the community to get people into good jobs, that the wars I wage in Albany while demanding funding for programs that help get our residents back on their feet, are right for New Yorkers.

«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.

He says while many of the Wall Street jobs have been replaced with low wage positions, there is also growth in the tech industry which may help to diversify the work force.

In an op - ed in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle on Monday, Myer wrote that the RAL was selected «based on the superiority of its financial offer, the overall quality and qualifications of the respondent team, a design that demonstrates excellence and creativity in architecture and recognition of the surrounding context, all while generating hundreds of prevailing wage jobs.»

«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.

While some businesses have expressed support for Cuomo's plan, the state's biggest business organizations have said the $ 15 an hour minimum wage would kill New York jobs and hurt businesses.

While supporters argue tax dollars should not be used to subsidize poverty - level wages, Bloomberg has repeatedly slammed the bill, as well as a related living - wage bill, threatening they will kill jobs and border on communism.

Hawkins also wants NY to go carbon free with a 100 - percent clean renewable energy by 2030, while providing a public living wage job to any New Yorker who needs one.

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.»

«CSEA stepped up to help produce the labor savings that Governor Cuomo sought while the governor responded to CSEA's concerns about job security along with a wage and benefit package that recognizes the pressures on working people,» Donohue said.

Beginning in 2018, workers who have been on their job for six months will be able to collect up to 50 percent of their pay, up to 50 percent of the statewide average weekly wage, while on paid family leave, Cuomo said.

The only candidate that will ban fracking, fight for a $ 15 minimum wage and fairness for the 99 %, while focusing on New York becoming a world leader in climate action by going to 100 % clean energy by 2030 which will create millions of jobs.»

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?

Yeah, Peter Parker's a superhero, but he's also a college kid working a minimum wage job to make rent while also taking university physics classes.

Rather than working minimum wage jobs until she finds a husband to support her while she stays home and has children, Eilis uses her natural talents to go for a career that is dominated by men.

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.

But while Murray describes this as a decline in «virtue,» might it be a decline driven by the huge changes in the economy during this period, specifically, the decrease in good union - wage - paying manufacturing jobs?

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.