Sentences with phrase «wage jobs across»
EAST HANOVER, N.J. January 18, 2017 — Kessler Foundation has awarded a two - year, $ 200,000 Signature Employment Grant to the Mayor's Fund to Advance New York City to launch NYC: AT WORK — an initiative to connect people with disabilities to meaningful, living - wage jobs across the city's five boroughs by working with the Mayor's Office for People with Disabilities (MOPD) to build partnerships and expand coalitions.
http://www.KesslerFoundation.org/
Nickeled and Dimed is a memoir of Ehrenreich's experiences in a wide range of minimum wage jobs across the country.
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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.
Thousands of low - paid workers striking in hundreds of cities across the country, demanding a minimum wage of up to $ 15 per hour to replace the current $ 7.25 minimum wage, showing that an increasing amount of those even in jobs are unhappy with their lot.
Across the economy, high - skill, high - wage manufacturing jobs are becoming scarcer every year.»
In terms of wage trends across the distribution, a strong theme of my own work, often with economist Dean Baker, is that as the unemployment rate falls, the tightening job market disproportionately helps lower - wage and minority workers.
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.
«Workers across Canada are facing precarious, low - wage jobs and tough economic times,» added Deena Ladd from the Workers Action Centre.
I am job searching and just came across a job that pays less than minimum wage.
A combination of a high average wage across the industry ($ 91,861), steady industry employment levels (3.8 / 1000 jobs in the tech sector) and a booming housing market which has seen house prices rocket in the past 5 years (+41.29 percent over 5 years), helped Denver beat off stiff competition from across the country.