Sentences with phrase «works living wage job»

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From the vantage point of 2016, when all those angry Trump voters are asking for is better jobs and more affordable healthcare, paying everyone a living wage not to work sounds extreme.

«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 Camliving 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 CamLiving Wage for Families Campaign.

You can't pull yourself up by your bootstraps unless somebody recognizes the value of your work and has the deep pockets to reward that ability with a «living - wage» job that allows for advancement..

Plus, forcing people to work part - time creates «more», «good - paying» (meaning minimum wage) jobs, none of which anyone can actually live on.

If the best job they can get is low - wage, then a combination of wage subsidies and a child tax credit will enable them to earn a living, provided they work.

-- fail to pay a living wage, provide job security or provide enough hours of work.

«The keys to keeping our economy growing are to keep investing in infrastructure, so we have a better climate for job growth, and to make sure workers all get safe working conditions and a wage they can live on.

We've worked to create a situation where the middle class is suddenly within reach of gaming workers... not a bunch of minimum - wage jobs where people have to live on the dole to survive.»»

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.

Labour should emphasise tax justice, a living wage, secure jobs, a resolution to the housing crisis, and shifting the economy from one rigged in favour of those at the top in favour of working people.

«As I have said many times, no one who works a full - time job should have to live in poverty, and by increasing the minimum wage we can dramatically improve the lives of so many workers and their families.»

Diaz, the entire Bronx Council delegation, along with members of the Northwest Bronx Comnunity and Clergy Coalition and the city's biggest retail workers union, fought for living wage jobs as part of a Community Benefits agreement with the developer, the Related Companies, but a deal couldn't be worked out.

«If you want a job that pays a decent wage, gives you the chance to get on in life, live independently and enjoy your work, then join a trade union.

«The hard cash argument I don't entirely buy because I don't think it takes into account the dynamic effect, it doesn't take into account the extra hours that people work, it doesn't take into account the extra opportunities that you're giving people by creating jobs that through the National Living Wage are paid better than they were previously being paid.»

- by making sure that work always pays, with measures to strengthen the minimum wage, promote the living wage, and support the creation of more high quality jobs;

«Unions and the working poor have opportunities to come together and create a society where everybody has an opportunity for a good, solid - paying Living Wage job and everybody has an opportunity to reap the benefits of the social programs that are administered by government and particularly by the State of New York,» Peoples - Stokes explained.

Hawkins said that this would provide enough living wage jobs to put all New Yorkers to work.

«Cuomo's trickle - down economic policies don't trickle down to working - class women, who need living wage jobs, a closing of the male - female pay gap, affordable child care, paid family leave,» he said

Her policy goals if she wins are to provide more living wage jobs, to advocate for equal work for women and to support small business through Merchant Associations and / or Business Improvement Districts.

His trickle - down economic policies don't trickle down to working - class women, who need living wage jobs, a closing the male - female pay gap, affordable child care, paid family leave, and increased cash assistance and job and educational opportunities for single mothers in poverty,» added Hawkins.

«There's a reason that our friends in labor have coalesced around my campaign, because they know I'm the candidate that will fight for a real $ 15 living wage, fair working conditions, better jobs and continued rights to collectively bargain,» responded Rafael Salamanca in a statement.

Howie Hawkins is running on a Green New Deal platform, calling for the state to invest in the transition to a carbon neutral economy as a way to provide living wage jobs to put New Yorkers back to work.

«To be able to pull people living in Amherst to their jobs in the medical campus, not just sort of the hourly wage jobs, but professionals being able to pull people to the medical school and, vice versa, to be able to provide people working in the Town of Amherst access for their commute from other places, that's important,» Kulpa said.

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.

Elegantees employs and hires women who have been rescued out of the horrific industry, teaches them a skill, gives them a job, a fair and living wage, a positive and safe environment to be in and works to restore their hope.

These are the kids whose fathers may be incarcerated, whose mothers may be working long hours at low - wage jobs, who live in troubled neighborhoods with little to occupy them in their free time, and whose parents lack the connections and knowledge needed to put them on a path to the middle class.

These studies showing the direct positive effects of raising household income — even by small amounts — on student achievement make it plain that reducing poverty through stable, living wage jobs for all working families would also help improve educational outcomes.

The first, a survey of employers of wage and salary jobs, measures the number of people working in DC regardless of where they live.

Over the past 30 years, however, the ratio of resident employment to wage and salary jobs located in the District has never been higher than 47.8 percent (in 1985, a time when DC had 17 percent of the region's population, 33.6 percent of the region's jobs, and had more people living in the city than working in it).

Give them the resources to do their work, and pay them enough so that they can support their families doing the job they love and don't have to work two or three others just to earn a living wage.

Paul Gorski adds that «In fact, the severe shortage of living - wage jobs means that many poor adults must work two, three, or four jobs.»

«The vast majority of authors are working day jobs... but if you look at the implications [of self - publishing], a lot more authors are able to earn a living wage, if you will, than five or ten years ago.»

Prior to getting that job, I worked in hotels, grocery stores, tempt at a call center and worked in assisted living all for minimum wage and no benefits.

The 25 - year - old working a minimum - wage job and living with his parents, does not.

People working three jobs for a little over minimum wage tend to live paycheck to paycheck, and it doesn't help that businesses such as PayDay Loans tend to prey on them to get them stuck in debt.

You'll probably make minimum wage (depends on the state you live in), but the true value is in the work experience you'll be gaining, which will go a long way in the future when you're searching for your first true entry - level job.

I'm a firm believer that everyone should work at least one minimum wage job during their life.

Where else can someone who is working at unskilled things like serving tables, washing dishes, driving a delivery truck, working at an auto assembly plant or other factory, telemarketing at some boring office or who is otherwise working at any minimum wage job due to a lack of education and / or meaningful real - life experience etc., get to go to real estate classes (hoping that a few months thereafter to be guiding uneducated consumers through the most expensive and most important financial transactions of their lives in trade for big fat commissions) often with a minimalist education (maybe just scraped by at that after multiple attempts to pass grade ten or eleven) and expect to instantly be labelled a professional operative upon passing the real estate courses» exams via penning memorized responses to forewarned - about - exam - questions by instructors who need to display a suitable passing percentage of students to keep their part - time teaching jobs?

In Brandon Turner's book «The Book on Rental Property Investing», he states that you have your tenants paying your mortgage for you, and that he could work a minimum wage job for the rest of his life and still retire a millionaire because of the tenants paying down the loan.

Workers at the lower end of the wage and skill spectrum find themselves struggling to make a decent living, with few or no benefits, little job security and minimal control over their work conditions.

My one question is my determination leading to ram a brick wall repeatedly should I dissolve this halfed baked company with no funds or should continue to follow my gut I want out of this work force I mean I agree with employers most jobs shouldn't have to pay a living wage but we should be allowed to supplement our income...