Sentences with phrase «wage jobs at»

We worked minimum wage jobs at fast food chains at 15 hours per week and we ate most of our food from our jobs because we didn't qualify for food stamps as full time college students.

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.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening April 3, 2009 BIG BUDGET FILMS Adventureland (R for profanity, sexuality and drug use) Retro romantic comedy, set in Pittsburgh in 1987, revolving around the plight of a grad school - bound virgin (Jesse Eisenberg) forced by his family's financial woes to take a minimum - wage job at an amusement park the summer before he's supposed to start at Columbia.

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The facts: Standing beside Trump in the Oval Office on Feb. 8, Intel CEO Brian Krzanich announced a $ 7 billion investment to complete the company's new Arizona factory, which will «employ approximately 3,000 direct high - paying, high - wage, high - tech jobs at its peak, and over 10,000 people in the Arizona area in support of the factory.»

The party would set a $ 15 minimum wage for federally regulated industries, and establish a Youth Community and Environment Service Corps, which would support jobs for 160,000 young people over four years at the new minimum wage.

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.

The benefits used in the calculation assume that the immigrant will have a 100 % chance of landing a job at the going wage.

In short, when you look at the data closely enough, you could see it as easily argues that a higher minimum wage actually increased the number of jobs.

Researchers at the University of Essex in the United Kingdom found that parents who set super-high expectations for their teenage daughters — and who constantly reminded them of those expectations — had daughters who were less likely to become pregnant, drop out of school, or wind up in lousy, low - wage jobs.

Some women shy away from jobs in fields that require long workweeks, knowing they won't have the time: a 10 percent cut in free time for women reduces their share in high - hour occupations by about 14 percent relative to men, according to the researcher's model.In total, that difference in time spent on at - home labor results in an 11 percentage point gender wage gap, their analysis estimates.

Think about providing basic benefits such as job training and at least a minimum wage salary.

U.S. jobs data lit the fire at the end of last week, with higher - than - expected wage increases prompting inflationary concerns.

In his job as an activist at the Center for Popular Democracy, Barkan led a successful effort to get Fed officials thinking more about low - income Americans as they conduct monetary policy, often arguing against interest rate hikes in the face of high underemployment and weak wage growth.

Cohen is also at the center of a huge debate unfolding right now about raising the minimum wage, and the low pay of service workers in the restaurant industry, where employment has increased 72 percent since 1992, compared to job growth of 22 percent in higher - paying private sector employment over the same time period.

If the upcoming U.S. jobs data shows gains in wage rises, that would propel the dollar higher,» said Shinichiro Kadota, senior currency strategist at Barclays Capital in Tokyo.

Myerson suggests the government guarantee jobs for all at a living wage.

«Since early 2015, wage inflation has risen by about 0.6 % and annual job growth has slowed by about 0.4 %,» Jim Paulsen, Chief Investment Strategist & Economist at Wells Capital Management points out in an email.

The January jobs report was much better than expected, with job growth of 200,000 but the best wage growth — at 2.9 percent annualized — since 2009.

Indeed, the 10 - year Treasury yield hit a four - year high on Friday after the latest monthly U.S. jobs report showed solid wage gains, effectively confirming an expected rate increase at the Federal Reserves next meeting, in March.

A «solid jobs number with lower wage numbers has muted inflation concerns,» said Jeff Chang, managing director at Cboe Vest.

One study by economist Elaine McCrate found that any reduction in wages associated with the benefit of flexibility is modest at best and, in fact, many jobs with greater flexibility have higher wages.137 Furthermore, the volatility of earnings for many independent contractors would offset any compensating wage differentials, because workers can not compare the value of flexibility to higher earnings when they aren't able to predict their earnings as independent contractors.138

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.

But that hasn't been the case in the current job market, and experts predict that wage growth will hold steady at around 3 percent.

That said, there's just no story right now, at least in the actual data (as opposed to expectations), of an overly tight job market leading to inflationary wage gains.

Note the recent slowing of the aggregate real wage measure at the end of Figure 3, largely a function of faster inflation growth (the energy effect noted above) and some slowing of job and (blue - collar) wage growth.

Just imagine instead of spending eight hours working for an hourly wage or at your day job, you spend eight hours researching various arbitrage opportunities and pulling the trigger.

If unemployment continues to move down and job additions remain at anything close to the strong pace we have seen over the past couple of years, we think it should translate into wage inflation moving up.

Columbus, OH - Despite a surprising slowdown in household growth at the end of 2015, the outlook for the U.S. housing market remains upbeat thanks to solid housing demand driven by continued job growth and incipient wage gains.

As jobs become more difficult to find (at the prevailing wage), some individuals become discouraged from searching.

That may not sound like a lot of money, but over the course of a year, you could easily earn as much as if you were working full - time at a minimum wage job — only with the perks of running your own business!

The move, first announced in Women's Wear Daily, comes about four months after two formers interns sued Condé Nast, claiming they had been paid below minimum wage for the summer jobs at W Magazine and The New Yorker.

August's labor market report showed annual wage growth stuck at 2.5 %, despite the consistently high level of job creation.

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.

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.

The vaunted growth in the service sector consists, in large part, of jobs that are at or near minimum wage; and real wages in general have been declining for some time.

And remember: Each minimum wage job created only counts as half a job at best, because you'd need at least two of them to support your family.

Spoken like someone who has never had to look for work to support her two kids or pay her rent in an economy where there are at least 200 people applying for every part time, minimum wage job.

«Instead of it being a typical factory job, people are coming in at a higher hourly wage and put on a 90 - day probation period to see if there's a fit,» Layman explains.

ibrahimovic is looking like he is out of the door at psg would be a job getting his wage demands down, but the club would let us have him for not bad price am sure.

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?

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.

There are a few exceptions: If you're in the highest paid 10 percent of wage earners at your company and your manager can show that your absence would cause substantial economic harm to the organization, you can be denied «restoration,» which is the guarantee that you can return to the same or an equivalent job.

I have applied for hundreds of jobs (including the bottom of the barrel positions) and been interviewed maybe three times in the last year and I am lucky to get a three month contract at minimum wage.

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.

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.

There are a few exceptions: Your employer isn't required to keep your job open for you if you're in the highest - paid 10 percent of wage earners at your company and your employer can show that your absence would cause substantial economic harm to the organization.

At McNair Elementary, Principal Theresa West said eliminating the small fee would help many of her parents, who work hourly wage jobs for landscape services or hotels.

How many people can afford to take a job that you can't make a living wage at, can afford to take a job with random un-paid breaks during the school year?

At least he's not voting to raise taxes, killing off jobs by raising the min wage or shortchanging our kids education.

At 11:30 a.m., low - wage tenants and workers and members of Real Affordability for All and building and construction unions call for real affordable housing and good union jobs from NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio, City Hall Park, near Broadway and Park Place, Manhattan.