Sentences with phrase «wage working americans»

Imagine the impact on today's gross domestic product if millions of low - wage working Americans, who got short - term help from a social service program with long - range goals, started earning a few more extra dollars.

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Sanders echoed his own presidential campaign's message by noting that American people are «tired of working longer hours for lower wages, of seeing decent paying jobs go to China and other low - wage countries.»

In those cases the court deferred to the judgment of the Air Force that the free - exercise claim of a Jewish officer who wore his yarmulke on duty could not be accommodated; it deferred to the judgment of correctional authorities that the free - exercise claim of a Black Muslim to attend Friday afternoon religious services could not be accommodated; it deferred to the judgment of the Department of Agriculture's Forest Service that building a logging road through a national forest was necessary despite the damage to religious practices of Native American tribes in that area; it deferred to the Internal Revenue Service's ruling that Bob Jones University was not entitled to tax exemption because of its religiously motivated rule against interracial dating and marriage on campus; it deferred to the judgment of the secretary of labor that a religious community must pay its members the minimum wage for work they performed in the group's business although the members said they had religious objections to being paid for their work.

In Low Wage Workers in the New Economy (Urban Institute, 2001), Richard Kazis notes that the incomes of more than 9 million working Americans are below the poverty level.

America's wage - earners deserve a party which recognizes that the working - class (and Americans generally) share common interests and a common fate.

America's wage - earners deserve a party which recognizes that the working - class (and Americans generally) share common interests and....

«Labor Day is a day we celebrate the great American work ethic and those hardworking men and women who struggled to provide us with workers» rights and deliver us today's landmarks of middle class security, including the 40 - hour work week, child labor laws, pensions, a minimum wage, Social Security and Medicare.

Sens. Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand and Rep. Brian Higgins should join with the new president and their colleagues in Congress — including House Speaker Paul Ryan, who has also supported EITC expansion — to ensure that no working American is taxed into poverty by working to expand the EITC for low - wage workers not raising children in the home.

«The promise of the minimum wage is not unlike that of the American Dream — if you work hard, you should be able to provide for your family and build a brighter future.

Nelson's report corroborates a recently released study by the U.S. Department of Education that emphasizes the disproportionately high number of male S&E professors.10 The report also cites the salary advantage men of all racial groups enjoy over women.10 While the unadjusted salaries of African - American faculty members were lower than those of whites, when variables were controlled, the wage gap disappeared.10 However, the study cautions that the markedly lower numbers of tenured and working African - American faculty at doctoral institutions could obscure racially biased salary discrepancies.10

That commitment — to protecting and creating jobs, to providing health care for all Americans, to working to getting our state and nation's economy back on track — is a fight I will continue to wage in Washington.»

You might be shocked to know noncompetes are now required of millions of Americans doing low wage work.

Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VII), which prohibits employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin; the Equal Pay Act of 1963 (EPA), which protects men and women who perform substantially equal work in the same establishment from sex - based wage discrimination; the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 (ADEA), which protects individuals who are 40 years of age or older; Title I and Title V of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, as amended (ADA), which prohibit employment discrimination against qualified individuals with disabilities in the private sector, and in state and local governments; Sections 501 and 505 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, which prohibit discrimination against qualified individuals with disabilities who work in the federal government; Title II of the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 (GINA), which prohibits employment discrimination based on genetic information about an applicant, employee, or former employee; and the Civil Rights Act of 1991, which, among other things, provides monetary damages in cases of intentional employment discrimination.

It'll probably start with a higher minimum wage, but before long we'll be questioning things like how we value work, how we allow work to value us, and whether or not the American Dream is still a thing.

The Wall Street Journal recently reported that 284,000 American college graduates worked for minimum wage in 2012 — that's double the number in 2007 and up 70 % from 2002!

Solis, a single father with joint custody of his 4 - year - old daughter, said he works about 25 hours per week at a building supply store making minimum wage and is a full - time college student at the University of Texas - Pan American.

Wage boards have previously been proposed by the Center for American Progress Action Fund as an approach to set industry - wide working standards and compensation levels.18