Sentences with phrase «wage working families»

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Howell addressed the White House Summit on Working Families last week about the economic need for Seattle's $ 15 minimum wage.

The idea of hiring your family to help get your startup or small business going presents some advantages, such as them working for a reduced wage until cash flow increases.

As the founder of a Kansas City nonprofit she was tasked with figuring out how the homeless mothers she worked with, many with felony convictions, could make a living wage that supported their families with also retaining the flexibility they needed to care for their kids.

And that's not just the case for those working for the big - name brands: A November Bureau of Labor Statistics study found that just 6 % of low - wage workers in the U.S. have access to paid family leave.

A study from 2009 now getting buzz on the blogosphere explored the role marriage plays in the lesbian wage premium, and found that women who don't expect to be part of a traditional family spend more time investing in labour participation through on - the - job training and working longer hours than household skills.

A Treasury spokesman told the BBC: «We are taking action to support families with the costs of living by cutting taxes for millions of working people, doubling free childcare for nearly 400,000 working parents and introducing the National Living Wage - a significant pay rise for the lowest earners.»

In New York, for example, the living wage for a family with two children and two working adults is $ 19.01 an hour.

«People have been squeezed before 2008 and they're gradually being squeezed more, and what it translates into is more people who are working or living in poverty having to go to food banks, trying to get two or three jobs, or going without basic necessities like food or heating,» said Michael McCarthy Flynn, spokesperson for the Living Wage for Families Campaign.

The union said it appreciated the gesture but asserted in a statement that the bonus «falls short of the permanent wage increase that working families were promised.»

In social policy, the Party is committed to breaking the cycle of poverty by developing a «living wage» policy that is sufficient to allow workers to support their families; make changes to the welfare system to encourage people on social assistance to move beyond poverty, such as allowing some benefits to remain until they are firmly established in the workplace; and reviewing the housing component of Alberta Works social assistance to bring it in line with the current reality of the Alberta housing market.

So even though the minimum wage has been raised in Massachusetts and out West, when the minimum wage level is raised, that means the families that have been living on food stamps while they've been working at McDonald's or at other low - wage companies don't qualify anymore.

In January, Esquimalt passed a resolution to draft a living wage document after its community social planning council calculated that a family with two children and two full - time working parents in the Capital Regional District needs to earn $ 17.30 per hour just to pay for the basics.

This may work for some people, but it doesn't work for the family earning minimum wage, or the couple facing infertility, or this awesome church community of immigrants that shares the responsibility of child - rearing together.

Mintz concludes that the psychological cost to children has steadily grown more apparent, and he makes the familiar array of policy recommendations: more widely available health care, education reform, subsidized high - quality child care, family - friendly employment policies, a living wage, a limited work week and economic support to the impoverished.

The insufficiency of work to provide self - sufficiency is behind the movement — backed by many religious groups — to ensure that all employers pay a living wage, which is generally understood to be the wage needed to support a family at or slightly above the poverty level.

Huckabee talked about families that had to choose between wage cuts and layoffs, and about the burden of high gas prices on a single other who had to drive her used car to work.

All those who work in your house should be free people who are paid a living wage for the work they do for you in raising your family, working your farms and defending your property.»

Now, $ 1,000 a year might not be much for someone like Mike Huckabee, but for a lot of families in this economy, working minimum - wage jobs that barely cover the rent, it's a steep enough price to sometimes put them in the position of having to choose between paying for contraception and paying the water bill.

some ppl work their socks off to claim a crappy wage to support their families, this lot are a bunch of spoilt overpaid prima Donna's.

The wage scale that will be phased in over two years will include supervisors, early childhood educators, and non-ECE staff working in licensed child care centres, licensed home child care agencies, and Early ON child and family centres.

These investments to expand and strengthen child care and early education programs complement the Administration's other efforts to help working families, including offering workers the opportunity to earn paid sick and family leave, a higher minimum wage, and equal pay for women.

Our Rainbow Fund allows families to receive this support, while at the same time compensating our team members with a living wage for their important and valuable work.

In receiving the Working Families Party endorsement, Cuomo pledged to back a faster phase - in of the state's minimum wage and allow local governments to increase the wage on their own through a state - based formula.

«My progressive ideals will always go hand in hand with working families, and my legislative record speak for itself, from pushing to pass the Paid Family Leave program to increasing the minimum wage to $ 15 an hour,» Peralta said.

The minimum wage bill is one that's supported not just by unions, but also the labor - backed Working Families Party.

Silver called it «absurd» to expect a working family to survive on a hourly wage of $ 7.25, especially when neighboring states have a higher minimum wage.

Raising the minimum wage promotes economic growth by putting money in the pockets of working families who spend it immediately on necessities at local businesses.

He won't appear on our ballot line, but that just means we'll be working twice as hard to make sure that that every voter knows that Amodeo is the candidate who will stand up for hard working families in Albany, from raising the minimum wage to ending the influence of big money on politics.»

«Seeing our US Senators get it so right on the need to raise the minimum wage makes it all the more frustrating that our State Senators have got it so wrong,» said Dan Cantor, Executive Director of the Working Families Party.

«He stood with fast food workers and airport workers in their fight for better wages and benefits, and has been a strong supporter of a $ 15 state minimum wage and a paid family leave policy that can truly help working families.»

«I strongly support allowing working men and women to seek a fair and decent wage that gives them the ability to provide for themselves and for their families.

It might be tough for them to do so, especially if they're holding out hope of landing the Working Families Party line, since Cuomo's agenda includes a number of initiatives labor unions dislike — including the tax cap and a public employee wage freeze.

«In the past four years in the Cuomo administration, Kathy Hochul has been an important part of a team that has delivered progressive gains for New York's working families — an increase in the minimum wage for all New Yorkers, and a historic increase in wages for airport workers — and has been a staunch supporter of civil rights issues that matter to our members and everyone in the state,» said 32BJ SEIU President Héctor Figueroa.

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The two major unions that pulled out of the party, Local 32BJ and Communication Workers of America Local 1, say Cuomo has delivered for working people by raising the minimum wage to $ 15 an hour and passing paid family leave.

The headline - grabber was financial security and that «living wage» - but how will the cuts affect working families?

Mr Barber added: «A rise in the minimum wage is needed to ensure that working families are not left in poverty, and most business organisations now agree that an increase of some sort would be affordable.

Moreover, the «real» living wage espoused by Labour can also rise if the government cuts the help it gives working families, for example through tax credits.

«Women deserve to make a fair wage and the same salary as any man, they deserve to work in an office free of sexual harassment, they deserve comprehensive paid family leave and they deserve control over their health and reproductive decisions,» he said in a statement reported by the Times.

«Our members decided to endorse Brian Kavanagh for State Senate because of his strong record in the Assembly fighting for issues important to working families, including raising the minimum wage in New York State, voting reforms, immigrant rights and union rights.

Alcantara — who will replace outgoing Sen. Adriano Espaillat — said she had worked on the push for a $ 15 minimum wage and paid family leave in her capacity as a union organizer for the New York State Nurses Association, and she credits the five - member IDC for being able to push those measures through a Republican - controlled Senate that was cool to those issues.

Based on his affordable housing credentials and his apparent commitment to getting more low and middle income units built in central Brooklyn, Mr. Williams won the endorsement of the Working Families Party, which will presumably wage an intensive street effort to get their man into office.

She expressed optimism about Governor Andrew Cuomo raising the minimum wage to $ 15 an hour, and working to improve paid family leave policies.

«We have a major concern with the governor's agenda for the next four years with the Working Families Party, talking about minimum wage, talking about a progressive Senate.»

Working Families Party State Director Bill Lipton on Friday urged against linking an increase in the minimum wage to a tax cut — a proposition Gov. Andrew Cuomo floated to business leaders last week.

«Raising the minimum wage to $ 15 hour by 2018 in New York City is a historic victory that will have a profound impact on the lives of nearly one and a half million working families — largely women and people of color,» said Deborah Axt, co-executive director of Make the Road New York, in a statement.

Cuomo at the Working Families Party convention last month gained the labor - backed organization's endorsement after agreeing to help pass a host of liberal - sought legislation, including a new minimum wage increase and the DREAM Act.

«Since his first run for office in 2012, Andrew has consistently and tirelessly stood up for working families — fighting to raise the minimum wage, for pay equity for women, and to protect our environment.

``... And not just to flip it to Democrat control, but to flip it to Working Families - style Democrats so we can actually get this quite important agenda on minimum wage, on public funding of elections, on marijuana decriminalization, on the Women's Equality Act.»

Cuomo's proposal shirks promises he made to the Working Families Party last spring in exchange for its endorsement that he would back a plan to allow the city to increase its minimum wage in connection to the rate of inflation.