Living wage: $20163,045 Median household income: $43,1012016 population: 855,164 Living wage: $51,520 Median household income: $47,156 33 population: 860,090 Living wage: $78,386 Median household income: $87,701 2016 population: 870,887 Living wage: $9763,716 Median household income: $48,256 2016 population: 880,619 Living wage: $54,638 Median household income: $60,3223 2016 population: 947,890 Living wage: $74,025 Median household income: $90,303 2016 population: 1,673,350 Living wage: $52,105 Median household income: $45,215 2016 population: 1,317,929 Living wage: $8173,773 Median household income: $68,117 2016 population: 1,406,630 Living wage: $51,390 Median household income: $553,183 2016 population: 1,492,510 Living wage: $55,600 Median household income: $39,770 1913 population: 1,567,872 Living wage: $54,772 Median household income: $49,328 2016 population:1,20163,017 Living wage: $51,636 Median household income: $2976,2322 267 population: 2817,255,2191 Living wage: $83,28 Median household income: $557,2016 2016 population: 2,704,958 Living wage: $65,963 Median household income: $5373,538 2016 population: 3,976,322 Living wage: $67,817 Median household income: $55,191 2016 population: 8,537,673 And here's how these major cities stack up against the states where they're located.
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Median household income: $64,563 Living wage: $12.44 VC deals since 2016: 73 Median household income: $93,012 Living wage: $11.71 VC deals since 2016: 164 Median household income: $59,883 Living wage: $12.34 VC deals since 2016: 146 Median household income: $43,585 Living wage: $10.93 VC deals since 2016: 73 Median household income: $54,0713 Living wage: $12.15 VC deals since 2016: 159 Median household income: $254,2372 Living wage: $211.29 VC deals since 22016: 256 Median household income: $288,11.903 Living wage: $211.90 VC deals since 22016: 2122 Median household income: $85,527 Living wage: $11.90 VC deals since 2016: 122 Median household income: $72,20163 Living wage: $11.32 VC deals since 2016: 27 Median household income: $54,372 Living wage: $11.29 VC deals since 2016: 56 Median household income: $88,071 Living wage: $11.90 VC deals since 2016: 122
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The UK's Living Wage Foundation defines a living wage as £8.75 across the UK, rising to £10.20 in London.
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That's a far better way of encouraging employers to pay a London Living Wage than the chancellor imposing a national living wage.
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Cost of living: 138.63 percent above U.S. average Living wage: $67,773 Median household income: $68,117 2016 population: 1,406,630 Cost of living: 48 percent above U.S. average Living wage: $673,963 Median household income: $51,538 2016 population:3,976,322 Cost of living: 48.2 percent above U.S. average Living wage: $66,8173 Median household income: $58,516 2016 population: 673,184 Cost of living: 49 percent above U.S. average Living wage: $61,920 Median household income: $74,753 2016 population: 704,352 Cost of living: 49.5 percent above U.S. average Living wage: $78,386 Median household income: $57,778 2016 population: 5133,005 Cost of living: 55.7 percent above U.S. average Living wage: $65,427 Median household income: $72,935 2016 population: 681,170 Cost of living: 20163 percent above U.S. average Living wage: $67,817 Median household income: $50,2887 2138.6 population: 267,2817,275 Cost of living: 704 percent above U.S. average Living wage: $13,21 Median household income: $2664,2727 2016 population: 988,650 Cost of living: 92.9 percent above U.S. average Living wage: $78,386 Median household income: $6643,701 2016 population: 870,887 Cost of living: 138.6 percent above U.S. average Living wage: $67,817 Median household income: $75,513 2016 population: 1,664,727
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We also have to be a living-wage city by working with businesses and offering business-rate incentives to expand the London Living Wage.
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That is "well below" the £10.20 ($13.50) per hour that the Living Wage Foundation defines as an acceptable living wage for workers in London.
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And talking about the need for a living wage, whether you agree or not, is still talking about the need for a living wage.
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Lloyds said this salary level was 7 percent above the National Living Wage, but it did not refer to the higher London Living Wage.
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You have to undermine the trick and say, 'Listen, you want a living wage, but the people you voted for don't want a living wage.
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However, according to MIT's living wage calculator, $20 per hour still falls below a living wage for a single adult with no children living in San Francisco.
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The living wage in Springfield, Illinois -- chosen randomly -- in MIT's Living Wage calculator is $22016 per hour for one adult and $22010 for two adults and two children.
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While most people would agree that earning a living wage is important, there's a lot of debate about what a living wage actually looks like — especially in different regions.
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We have to have a real living wage, so that's another thing that would be great, if a leader country came to the table and established a true living wage.
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Jason pays all of his employees a living wage but his competitors' employees must use the social safety net to reduce their personnel costs because his competitors don't pay a living wage.
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This starts with introducing a "true living wage", says Arquette.
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So we're here at HQ asking for a living wage.
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Peace will flourish as more people earn a living wage.
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Will your candidate champion affordable housing and a living wage?
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It's not your employer paying you less than a living wage.
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He has enough money to pay his workers a living wage.
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A "basic" income, sure, but a living wage it was not.
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It's not that people should or shouldn't get a living wage.
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Policies that provide a basic income, institute a living wage, eliminate
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London. Employers aren't required to pay the "London Living Wage," currently
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We believe that all people should be paid a living wage.
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They talk of a living wage and jobs for all Americans.
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The median necessary living wage across the entire US is $67,690.
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The state with the highest living wage is Hawaii with $136,437.
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They're not paying taxes, and not paying people a living wage.
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But the lure of a living wage is a powerful one.
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This compensates the bartender at a living wage and then some.
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Every single working person in this country deserves a living wage.
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I don't know how farmers do that and make a living wage.
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You're gonna be paying your workers at least a decent living wage.
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Another bill that passed would establish a $15 living wage for drivers.
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When you're not being paid a living wage—well, it's economically challenging.
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In its first years of independence, it enacted a living-wage law.
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Can I afford to pay that person a living wage and benefits?
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The state with the lowest annual living wage is Mississippi with $58,321.
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That will create a situation where people actually have a living wage.
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Some took bribes to earn a living wage, undermining their patients' trust.
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The National Living Wage is currently set at 7.20 GBP per hour ($10.43).
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She believes that we should raise the minimum wage to a living wage.
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"have" a living wage; to simply obtain decent health insurance is a coup.
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The implementation of the national living wage could put margins under further pressure.
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Work for Deliveroo is often more a top-up than a living wage.
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If you work 40 hours a week you should earn a living wage.
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Starbucks will hire refugees, but it won't necessarily pay them a living wage.
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"We want a living wage," Uber driver and organizer Mostafa Maklad told Gizmodo.
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What low-income Americans want and need are more living-wage employment opportunities.
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They also support progressive policies, like affordable health care and a living wage.
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Trump's lines of attack aren't usually about a living wage or workplace safety.
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We provide stock options and a living wage to our part-time workforce.
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Maybe a negative income tax to help lower paid have a living wage.
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She understands that we must raise the minimum wage to a living wage.
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In New York City, Governor Andrew Cuomo passed the $15 living wage by using something called the wage board, a Depression-era tool that determined what the living wage should be for certain industries; in this case, fast-food workers.
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That's not close to a living wage, and also falls below Illinois' minimum wage.
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And, critically, will they strip 3.4 million American truck drivers of a living wage?
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And our goal is to see that Bezos pays his workers a living wage.
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Can't he afford to start people off at a living wage for fulltime employees?
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And it no longer does tipping — instead, it pays a living wage for everyone.
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I want to get out and make a living wage working as a laborer.
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Earning a living wage is at the heart of worker protests around the world.
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And yet he fought hard against paying workers in the city a living wage.
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They elected a candidate that supports public education, health care and a living wage.
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In some neighborhoods, the best chance for a living wage was through criminal activity.
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If companies aren't paying their employees a living wage, this potentially impacts our sales.
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Most of us prefer the dignity of a living wage over the government's beneficence.
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Every low-wage worker should get a living wage, not just a select few.
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But ultimately the imperative to pay a living wage is about our nation's values.
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Most work campers do not put in enough hours to make a living wage.
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Scrap Universal Credit and bring in a "real living wage" of £10 an hour.
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Too many adjunct professors cannot make a living wage through teaching, Ms. Maisto said.
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A different, better Uber could have employed drivers and paid them a living wage.
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Of course, having employment and making a decent living wage are important for everyone.
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And it moved the needle on policy, pushing minimum wage and "living wage" laws.
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If business leaders genuinely care about eradicating poverty, paying people a living wage matters.
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The Green New Deal envisions a unionized American workforce making a real living wage.
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Studies show that today a living wage in Anaheim is closer to $24/hour.
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It could raise the salary of its lowest paid workers to a living wage.
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The city raised salaries for municipal employees, ensuring that they earned a living wage.
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They give themselves tax cuts and raises, while refusing a living wage for workers.
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Without DACA, many undocumented immigrants have very little means to make a living wage.
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Amazon has the structures and the money to pay all its employees a living wage.
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To maintain a living wage, it routinely examines its wages and the cost of living.
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And while some paid her a living wage, none came with a path to promotion.
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Most Democrats agree on raising the minimum living wage and closing the gender pay gap.
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They added that all cleaners working at the institution are paid the London Living Wage.
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These workers look to earn a living wage using the skills they developed over time.
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So my idea in the book is what I call the business-friendly living wage.
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But most internships are unpaid, and most entry-level jobs don't pay a living wage.
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Most important among them is the "national living wage" (NLW), which was introduced in April.
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Their demands are simple: They want a living wage and insurance they can actually use.
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It would be even lovelier, however, if the chain actually paid workers a living wage.
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Encourage your employers and policymakers to ensure that everyone, including contractors, earns a living wage.
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But the living wage for other states, like Mississippi, can be as low as $58,4373.
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I believe all Americans have a right to housing, food and a living wage job.
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I'm a union rep and I run a start-up called Living Staff Living Wage.
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They didn't know that I was depending on their tips to earn a living wage.
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By 2017, however, H&M's language regarding its living-wage strategy took a slight turn.
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Perhaps the larger question is whether consumers even care about workers receiving a living wage.
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"Good local journalism requires paying a living wage to great community journalists," the ad read.
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These Disneyland employees are fighting to pass a living-wage ballot measure in Anaheim, Calif.
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Americans believe that workers should be paid a living wage and enjoy good working conditions.
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Headlines - Low-paid workers to get 6.2% rise with plans to lift living wage on.ft.
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Here's what a living wage would be in each state, plus D.C. Click to enlarge.
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Prices are steep, but there is no tipping; the staff is paid a living wage.
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In 2138 states, teachers do not earn a living wage for a family of four.
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It is already punishingly rare for writers to make a living wage from their books.
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On the other hand, Uber and Lyft, please just start paying your drivers a living wage.
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You'd be hard-pressed to find any major corporation behind a unionization or living wage campaign.
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That is 30 pence above the minimum recommended by the Living Wage Foundation, an advisory body.
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On the liberal side, Baltimore helped inspire others by passing a living wage law in 1994.
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He says it would be "easy" to have free health care, free college, a living wage.
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The first question would be: how many of my employees are not making a living wage?
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It shifts the burden of paying a living wage from the business owner to the customer.
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Our Green New Deal would create 20 million living wage jobs while solving the climate crisis.
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A living wage can rise to over $80,000 for a family of four in urban areas.
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They all deserve a living wage and decent public services and fair treatment under the law.
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That means we need a gradual hike in the minimum wage to a living wage — $15.
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If you ask a dozen lawmakers what constitutes a "living wage," you'll get a dozen answers.
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But opposition to a living wage is well-entrenched as Republican Party dogma, going back decades.
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Even if it is legal to pay us $1 an hour, we deserve a living wage.
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"After three days we escalated," said Benjamin McKean, an undergraduate founder of Harvard's Living Wage movement.
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He thought I would benefit from a living wage, an apprenticeship, a council flat, a girlfriend.
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He still believes that immigrants who aren't paid a living wage will drive down wages overall.
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Third, it is uncertain whether the promised jobs will be stable and pay a living wage.
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Refusing to pay drivers a living wage is, ironically enough, Uber's best chance at staying alive.
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California's current minimum wage is $1803, but the living wage for someone like Bersabe is $2118.
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"I'll be bartending in NY-14 this week to promote a national living wage," she tweeted.
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If you cannot afford to pay a living wage, you cannot afford to hire a worker.
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We are going to raise the federal minimum wage to a living wage - $278 an hour.
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Everyone deserves to feel safe and valued in their work while achieving an equitable living wage.
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In Philadelphia County, the minimum wage is almost a full five dollars below the calculated living wage for one adult ($7.25 versus $12.17), a disparity that becomes more striking when taking single parents into account: The living wage for a sole provider for two children is $29.69.
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"Lots of codes of conduct talk about a living wage and we have no evidence of factories paying a living wage; lots of codes of conduct talk about right of workers to join or form a union of their own choosing and that rarely happens," he says.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez clashed on whether Americans have the right to jobs that pay a living wage.
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My partner quickly got a different full-time job at UPS, where he makes a living wage.
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Second Shot pays its staff the London Living Wage but doesn't aim to provide long-term employment.
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That's a living wage provided to all citizens by the government as a form of social security.
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The national living wage in Britain is £7.20 an hour for workers over the age of 25.
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For hourly workers, give them cross-training and predictable schedules with stable hours at a living wage.
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Members of Ocasio-Cortez's office say offering all team members a living wage is worth the sacrifice.
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In the United States, working full-time does not always mean earning even just a living wage.
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I stand with the Amazon workers fighting for decent working conditions and a living wage on #PrimeDay.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Tax corporations, tax to one percent and find a way to support a living wage.
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Renamed the "living wage", the rate will grow steadily to over 9 pounds an hour by 2020.
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Throughout his life, Donnie bounced between jobs in steel mills across our state, earning a living wage.
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In his experience, opportunities for young artists are pay-to-play or don't provide a living wage.
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McConnell has another vulnerable nominee in Andrew Puzder, Trump's pro-robot, anti–living wage labor secretary nominee.
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Congress of ALL places should raise MRAs so we can pay staff an actual DC living wage.
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My message to the Walton's is simple: Pay your employees a living wage of $15 an hour!
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GoBankingRates recently released a report determining the "living wage" necessary to live comfortably in each US state.
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The city also ought to consider changes that would help yellow cabdrivers earn a living wage, too.
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Earning a living wage — however that is defined in your area — isn't the same as living comfortably.
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Which is to say, if brands wanted to pay their workers a living wage today, they could.
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I know servers should be paid a living wage, but that's not an excuse to stiff them!
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As mayor, Bloomberg resisted the implementation of a "living wage" requirement, knowing it would squash business investment.
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" Ocasio-Cortez fired back on Twitter and said, "A living wage isn't a gift, it's a right.
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It's not so easy when you can't earn a living wage and you have children to support.
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Congress of ALL places should raise MRAs so we can pay staff an actual DC living wage.
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For me, when Amazon starts paying its workers a living wage, and at least a $15/hr.
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But, now...to be gainfully employed and make a living wage it seems you must be specialized.
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"We choose the living wage, paid leave and affordable child care your family needs to survive," Kennedy said.
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The average cost of living is 49% above the U.S. average, with the living wage at about $62,000.
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We need to create living-wage jobs, improve our schools, and make true affordable housing a top priority.
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That has a knock-on effect on the "national living wage", the floor set for the over-25s.
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While it's good that part-time workers are making more money, they're still not making a living wage.
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Several proposals — free college tuition, big infrastructure spending, and a living wage — come straight from Bernie Sanders's campaign.
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The distributional effects of the new living wage are especially worrying given other measures advocated by the government.
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Many government officials are barely paid a living wage, so this is also how they make ends meet.
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Aren't other workers—like the millions who don't even get a living wage—suffering in more immediate ways?
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That total amount — also known as an annual "living wage" — varies significantly depending on what state you're in.
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Wells has managed to make good on one of his goals: to pay his singers a living wage.
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Mr. Borrero said Rappi was designed for part-time workers, not those seeking a full-time living wage.
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Questions regarding redistribution of wealth, private enterprise or concepts like a universal living wage need to be addressed.
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In 2014 we organised, and put in a pay claim for the London Living Wage, which was rejected.
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And if you're in our country, you're probably trying to earn a living wage at the same time.
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Immediately, Democrat Jon Ossoff pounced on the admission, releasing an ad highlighting his support for the living wage.
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To be fair, defining a "living wage" can be a tricky business, one that requires some complex mathematics.
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It's as if women are forced to choose between ambition (or simply earning a living wage) and family.
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They focus on dead-end skills training or lead to positions that do not afford a living wage.
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Therefore, we are requesting a 15% increase in base pay to bring us closer to a living wage.
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Many Americans cannot access paid work at all, or work long hours for less than a living wage.
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It includes the rights to an equal vote, clean air and water, education, living wage, and health care.
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Here, fathers struggle with having a steady job with a living wage and being able to pay child support.
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The U.K. finance minister also proposed to increase the national living wage to £8.21 per hour from April 2019.
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Advocates counter that raising someone's salary to a living wage means you decrease that person's reliance on public assistance.
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So many people don't have a living wage, and so they're using credit just to meet their current needs.
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They're seeking workloads that won't result in injuries, a living wage, and more protection against sexual harassment and violence.
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A living wage means enough money is earned to cover basic needs such as food, housing, education and healthcare.
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Unions have said they want their members to earn a living wage, citing hardships caused by a stagnating economy.
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She pledged that her staffers would earn a "living wage," with no one making less than $52,000 annual salary.
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In other words, there are actual problems with helping people find a stable job that pays a living wage.
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The 25 percent reduction has roiled drivers in the area who were already struggling to make a living wage.
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Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders have previously supported the efforts of Uber drivers to earn a living wage.
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NYC SPOKESMAN SAYS "UBER MADE CONGESTION ON OUR ROADS WORSE AND PAID THEIR DRIVERS LESS THAN A LIVING WAGE"
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"We want a living wage," Uber driver and organizer Mostafa Maklad told Gizmodo when the strikes were first organized.
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The government mandated National Living Wage for workers aged 25 and over currently stands at 7.50 pounds an hour.
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If productivity goes up, more and more can pay a London Living Wage, more can contribute towards London's economy.
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What if the guarantee of a "living wage" leads some workers to put forth less effort than called upon?
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As for hourly wage issues, both companies say they support a living wage and argue they pay drivers fairly.
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It estimates that in Sri Lanka the minimum monthly wage is about a fifth of the country's living wage.
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We should be working on increasing the number of Americans who make a living wage, not just any wage.
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Picking a strawberry properly, and doing it fast enough to earn a living wage, requires speed, dexterity, and stamina.
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He mistreats his own employees, opposes a living wage, prioritizes corporate profits and denies responsibility for labor law violations.
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We need to establish a living wage, and to remove barriers of discrimination in local education and local hiring.
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The plan let men receive a living wage by working for small payments or by not working at all.
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It just hurts the people involved who make the least, or who may not even receive a living wage.
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The term "living wage" gets thrown around enough by politicians and advocacy groups that the definition can get muddy.
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Glynndana Shevlin and Rebekah Pederson are among thousands of Disneyland workers demanding the park pay them a living wage.
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Here's a closer look at what a living wage would be for a single adult in every U.S. state.
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He ensured employees could receive a living wage and benefits, get a degree and take care of their families.
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They situate their family lives with the expectation that they can earn some semblance of a predictable living wage.
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That is "not a living wage, especially not in New York City," Darling wrote in an email to management.
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That is "not a living wage, especially not in New York City," Darling wrote in an email to management.
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That becomes amplified due to the difficulties that registered sex offenders have in finding employment and a living wage.
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The hourly rate for the national living wage in Britain is 7.20 pounds ($8.97) for workers 25 years and older.
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And so closing that -- you know, getting people to have a living wage and, of course, I want that, too.
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Here's a closer look at what a living wage would be, before taxes, for single parents in every U.S. state.
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And the notion of a minimum living wage for all is actually being discussed seriously in this year's presidential election.
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Staff have been paid less than the living wage, and it even emerged drivers had faced fines for "early" deliveries.
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"While Amazon throws huge discounts to its customers on Prime Day, employees lack a living wage," said one German union.
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A household in the seventh decile will benefit three times more from the living wage than one in the bottom.
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If they failed to offer a living wage and good benefits, people could simply leave for better, government-funded work.
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They've been fighting for health care, a living wage, free education, and full employment, all in creative and diverse ways.
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We understand that if a person doesn't have a living wage, they're more likely to end up in the system.
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From April 1st Britain's minimum wage is to be rebranded as the "national living wage" (NLW) and made more generous.
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The new rate is 1 pound above the government mandated National Living Wage increase which comes into effect April 1.
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Henry Ford, one of America's greatest entrepreneurs, understood that paying workers a living wage increased productivity and stimulated the economy.
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Today, almost all federal employees earn a living wage and receive fairly decent benefits – and that's nothing to apologize for.
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They wanted a living wage, benefits and, ultimately, respect for workers who were vital in the making of a product.
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The right to unionize and fight for a living wage, I would say, is one of the founding Democratic principles.
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Up until now, how many of the people accusing me of being entitled were actually discussing the living wage issue?
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They want to raise the minimum wage in this country to a living wage of at least $15 an hour.
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"We are just trying to earn a living wage like you," said Bleu Rainer, a McDonald's employee from Tampa, Florida.
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About two-thirds said it would involve a guaranteed living wage, and a similar number mentioned a state-controlled economy.
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Plenty of Puglian factory managers stressed they adhered to union regulations, treated workers fairly and paid them a living wage.
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Here's how it can be done in a way that provides a living wage to all regions of the country.
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And so has the importance of education in the labor market, as many living-wage, low-skilled jobs have disappeared.
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There is some cause for doubt since Foxconn is known for paying a low-wage rather than a living wage.
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I believe that every worker in this country deserves a living wage and that we expand the trade union movement.
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It's a hard day's work for a living wage, shuffling from wealthy client to client, risking a fall every day.
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As manufacturing has diminished, quality jobs (offering a living wage along with training and opportunities for advancement) are increasingly scarce.
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"I stand with the Amazon workers fighting for decent working conditions and a living wage," Sanders told Vox via email.
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Both Lyft and Uber, in statements to Gizmodo, affirmed their belief that drivers should be able to earn a living wage.
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San Francisco's living wage is more than $18 for an individual and more than $36 for an individual with a child.
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Still, paying people enough so they can live — hence the term "living wage" — is, by definition, almost always the moral choice.
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The analysis also considered the average rent on office space, year-over-year rent growth, median household income and living wage.
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The "Fight for 15" movement, which advocates for a living wage of $15 per hour, has been spreading across the country.
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He wanted to create a company that could pay a solid living wage to its workers and offer them good benefits.
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Our Democratic opponent supports affordable healthcare, more healthcare more women, a living wage, funding education rather than jails, and civil rights.
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Other members of prominent, wealthy families have also advocated for higher taxes on the rich and a living wage for all.
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They also include gratuity on the bill to make sure their employees earn a living wage and can afford health insurance.
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Here's a closer look at what a living wage would be, before taxes, for a single person in every U.S. state.
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The body is urging companies to pay their staff at least the London Living Wage of 10.55 pounds ($13.73) per hour.
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We will fight for a living wage -- so parents don't have to work three or four jobs just to pay rent.
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The threat of taking home less than a living wage leaves tipped workers at the whims of fickle—or worse—customers.
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He also wants to focus on helping families with health care, education and living-wage jobs and on stemming climate change.
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In the U.S., this has led to large, coordinated protests and attempts to game the system to achieve a living wage.
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"It's incumbent on us to look at, do they have enough net disposable income, a living wage, to make ends meet?"
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The body is urging companies to pay their staff at least the London Living Wage of 10.55 pounds ($13) per hour.
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We believe in, you've got to make sure they have safe housing, a living wage and access to great health care.
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Caregivers make the lives of two-earner couples and single mothers possible, and they don't always themselves earn a living wage.
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Although widely credited with increasing competitiveness and getting millions into jobs, many of those jobs have not provided a living wage.
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If they do come back, they should follow the rules, employ their drivers properly and give them a London living wage.
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But fighting for a living wage and an end to threats and retaliation over janitors' union organizing efforts is serious business.
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At issue particularly is that minimum wage, "which by our estimates is one-fifth a conservative living wage," Mr. Nova said.
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It offers a potential career path and the kind of meaningful work that pays a living wage without a college education.
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Most adults with intellectual or developmental disabilities don't work, even though most want to, and fewer still receive a living wage.
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We choose a living wage and a paid leave, affordable tried your — a formal childcare that your family needs to survive.
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Increasing the credit could be a response to the growing movement pressing for a higher minimum wage or a living wage.
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Free public college, health care for all, a living wage: These are all important causes that will improve life for millions.
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And more broadly, the new union represents a major step for restaurant workers in the nationwide struggle for a living wage.
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There are plenty of economists who would be only too happy to help them figure out what that living wage is.
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They're demanding an 80/20 fare split of gross passenger receipts and a minimum living wage of $20 an hour after expenses.
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Even those laws aren't enough, according to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's living wage calculator, which was created by professor Amy Glasmeier.
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But all of the solutions Cuomo implies, from creating living-wage jobs to providing affordable and decent shelter, are by nature economic.
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She was among the first presidential candidates to support the guarantee of a job at a living wage to every American worker.
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Unions protect workers from exploitation, defend the right to a living wage and hold corporations accountable to treat their workers more justly.
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But according to a recent study from Oxfam, none of those minimums are sufficient to provide a living wage for a family.
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Here's a closer look at what a living wage would be, before taxes, for a family of four in every U.S. state.
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When he said he did not support making the minimum wage a living wage, they lifted him up as what America needed.
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"While Amazon throws huge discounts to its customers on Prime Day, employees lack a living wage," said Verdi retail specialist Orhan Akman.
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It's also tough to know whether the median employee is making a living wage because we don't know what their hours are.
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Some British companies that voluntarily shifted to a higher living wage found that staff absenteeism and turnover rates reduced, and productivity improved.
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Prior to the May 2015 election, the Labour party was campaigning for a "living wage" and the Conservatives neatly nicked their slogan
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They are compassionate about women's choices and think that "right to life" should focus on providing a living wage and safe communities.
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IT'S VERY -- YOU KNOW, I THINK 15% OF AMERICA MAKES $10 AN HOUR OR LESS, WHICH IS CLEARLY NOT A LIVING WAGE.
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Leaders of the Fight for $15 highlighted the symbolic importance of the airport workers, whose jobs decades ago paid a living wage.
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Which means at a certain point, I&aposm free to earn a basic living wage, without worrying about saving a penny more.
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But she's never known what it's like to work all your days and still barely be able to earn a living wage.
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And I'll continue to do so whenever I need to, until an actual living wage is legislated and applied across the board.
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Neither proposal received enough votes to carry, leaving the workers frustrated in their yearslong campaign for what they consider a living wage.
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The promise of sustainable, living-wage employment could evaporate for millions of hardworking Americans across the country if we don't act now.
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ANONYMOUS Let's assume your young colleague is earning a living wage to get us all over the hurdle of poverty-induced hunger.
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While completing his lessons, he realized he was on the cusp of a living wage, with health insurance and a pension plan.
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"At first glance," he said, "it sounds like it would be good for the area in terms of providing living-wage jobs."
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King defined citizenship as including voting rights, a living wage, adequate housing, access to health care, and excellent and racially integrated education.
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A full array of benefits, way above a living wage calculation, when you add the costs up and the way they're calculated.
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Using MIT's living wage calculator, CNBC Make It found the minimum amount necessary to meet basic needs without relying on outside help.
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Make jobs that people have, because jobs give dignity, jobs have better social outcomes, but they need to be a living wage.
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Pretax profit fell 14 percent to 23.2 million pounds hurt by increased costs such the national living wage and a weaker pound.
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While paying interns a living wage is an important first step, reform must go farther to begin solving the staffer pipeline problem.
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They pointed to the incoming cost of paying employees a living wage as a motivation to automate everything from salad-dressing to dishwashing.
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It's an honor to work alongside you and the millions of other people fighting for education, healthcare, and a living wage as rights.
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Upon moving back to Georgia, I quickly experienced the familiar feelings of frustration and unworthiness while looking for full-time, living wage employment.
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Go deeper: None of the state minimum wages provide a family living wage Several states putting minimum wage on the ballot in November
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Go deeper: None of the state minimum wages provide a family living wage Most jobs created since the recession have been low-paying
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LAANE got real estate developers to pay a living wage to the workers in their buildings and to agree not to oppose unionization.
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Ultimately, they received a 7-cent hourly pay increase, vastly improved pension and health benefits, and an automatic cost-of-living wage adjustment.
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Greene King is also battling rising costs due to the government's National Living Wage initiative, higher property prices and unfavourable currency exchange rate.
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Maybe like flashing a gorgeous grin over never-frozen hamburgers at a fast food establishment known for paying its workers a living wage?
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"Democrats believe that the current minimum wage is a starvation wage and must be increased to a living wage," according to the platform.
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But a number of factors determine what constitutes a living wage, including benefits and the number of hours employees are allowed to work.
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Alexandria is among at least 140 local governments across America to have adopted a living wage requirement: it did so 15 years ago.
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We need to pay everyone a living wage, and we need to keep the prices low so everyone in Catskill can afford it.
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Making ends meet for a family of four in San Francisco requires a household income of $92,139, according to MIT's living wage calculator.
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Housekeepers, cooks and other workers forming unions no longer live in poverty, earning a living wage plus family healthcare and just scheduling practices.
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Uber drivers in the UK are now entitled to holiday, paid rest breaks and the National Living Wage according to a landmark ruling.
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We do not need a Labor secretary from the 0.01 percent who believes that $7.25 per hour is an acceptable living wage. 5.
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"The president recognizes that the national minimum wage is not a living wage, but we need to start somewhere," Ramaphosa's spokeswoman Diko said.
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Kings of Indigo can trace its supply chain, shows a full list and map of suppliers and pays some workers a living wage.
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In recent months, educators and other school personnel have walked out to demand a living wage in exchange for the jobs they love.
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He also mentioned the rising cost of college education, the idea of a universal living wage, and the troubling effects of climate change.
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The line-item breakdown also helpfully demonstrates where someone making below a living wage might have to cut back to make ends meet.
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Steyer ran on what he described as the five rights; health care, an equal vote, clean air, an education and a living wage.
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The subsidization of car-sharing businesses by investors, and the companies' continued grappling with paying their drivers a living wage, are thorny issues.
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"Why is it not the governor's responsibility to ensure that law enforcement officers protecting our state are paid a living wage?" she asked.
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In 2014, a group of minor league baseball players filed a lawsuit against major league teams for not paying them a living wage.
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In addition to a fair living wage, equitable accommodations and insurance, the women's hockey team is also requesting is more opportunities for girls.
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"We will keep fighting until McDonald's workers and all others are paid a living wage of at least $15 an hour," he added.
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When McDonald's or Walmart won't pay a living wage or provide benefits, for instance, workers often have turn to food stamps or Medicaid.
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"Honestly, the proposals are relatively modest ― living wage, improvements on health care," Susan Minato, co-president of Unite Here Local 11, told HuffPost.
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The hardest part was accepting cultural differences, but she loves the lifestyle that allows her to make a living wage and still travel.
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In other places, environmental groups pay local people a living wage to patrol the rain forest and collect those thousands of deadly snares.
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At least three likely Democratic presidential candidates have now endorsed the idea of offering every American a government job at a living wage.
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This $8.55-10 an hour range, though, comes in at wildly below MIT estimates that the living wage (enough to cover basic needs) for a family of four in the US comes to slightly over $203 an hour—though the living wage in metropolitan areas, which Uber and Lyft are increasingly flooding with cars, is way higher than $15 an hour.
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HB2 attempted to codify discrimination, denied all North Carolinians the right to challenge employment discrimination in state court, and overrode municipal living wage campaigns.
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And it seems like the congresswoman's team is willing to take the pay cuts in order to offer lower-level staff a living wage.
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It has also highlighted inflationary pressures on its cost base, including the government mandated National Living Wage, business rates, apprenticeship levy and energy taxes.
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The organization is expanding with the "Anime Grand Prix," a contest for crowdfunded short anime films and music videos commissioned on a living wage.
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They earn little more than a living wage after paying for licences and contributing to the ceremonies, which include dancing and masquerade, they said.
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But there was something else happening: In 2000, Seattle had just adopted a $25 minimum wage as part of a larger living-wage battle.
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That may be urging local officials to pass a resolution for a moratorium on factory farms or a living wage at the county level.
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Nani has been able to create a living wage for a lot of locals and has even created the first Rudolf Steiner School there.
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With Uber preparing for an IPO, the issue of whether gig economy workers like Stephen can earn a living wage is likely to reemerge.
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We need inclusive education that prepares all children to become independent, contributing members of society, and for employment opportunities that pay a living wage.
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Trump does nothing to guarantee a living wage for the people who make it possible for all other working parents to earn a living.
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Billions of people in this world work harder than I ever have, under far more grueling conditions, and still don't make a living wage.
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Bernie Sanders recently outlined a proposal that would force companies engaging in buybacks to provide a living wage and health benefits to all workers.
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I call on everybody who is in these same circumstances to stand up and fight and reclaim your right to demand a living wage.
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Workers aged 25 or over are entitled to receive the national living wage of 7.20 pounds, but those who are self employed do not.
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Here's a closer look at what a living wage would be for a family of two adults and one child in every U.S. state.
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Tech icon Elon Musk says that robots will replace so many human jobs that the government will have to pay a basic living wage.
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Sanders said this kind of tax would pressure the corporations into paying a living wage, so employees don't need to depend on government programs.
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In order to ensure that parents can afford care and that providers receive a living wage, we, as a country need to subsidize childcare.
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Last year, Lidl became the first British supermarket to adopt the rate set by the Living Wage Foundation, implementing a 12 percent pay rise.
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Libya, once a destination for hardworking migrants across the continent to earn a living wage in decent conditions, can become just that once again.
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And yes, every time an employer hires anyone at less than a living wage, or at part-time hours, it is a deliberate choice.
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Protesters on Wednesday called for the proposed hourly wage to be scrapped and replaced with a "living wage" of 12,500 rand ($1,000) a month.
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Joining the campaign for a Living Wage was about fighting for a sense of independence, as well as being treated like a human being.
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A parks and recreation aide who earns $14.40 an hour, she shamed the city into paying its temporary and seasonal workers a living wage.
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In 2004, Amy Glasmeier, now a professor of economic geography and regional planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, developed the Living Wage Calculator.
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But paying a living wage can have immediate, tangible benefits, something Stochaj discovered in the two years the "Fair Share" project has been brewing.
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It says that, as well as paying the London Living Wage, the company offers its staff a range of additional benefits and training opportunities.
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"You can say we were connecting students to living-wage jobs and careers, but it was almost a half-baked cake," Mr. Brutton said.
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Immigrant women also earn less than native-born women in America, and a 2920 study found that 289.5% earned less than a living wage.
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Like many employees, Harmon though he was ineligible for Santa Fe's "living wage" protections because he signed onto the company as an independent contractor.
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The goal is to lower transportation costs, provide a living wage for drivers and reduce pollution, which is a real problem in this area.
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That's according to data from MIT's living wage calculator, which determines the minimum amount necessary to meet basic needs without relying on outside help.
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The movement for One Fair Wage seeks to eliminate this unjust, two-tiered wage system, and establish a fair, living wage for all workers.
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Currently, customers do not have access to information on workers' wages at individual factories, or local minimum fair living wage commitments and calculation methodology.
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All the talk about a living wage, single-payer health care, and social justice means nothing if Republicans are reelected in 2018 and 2020.
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Raising the minimum wage to a living wage, which would be a giant boost to the economy and bump up middle class wages, too.
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But it's the first step towards an industry where drivers are paid a living wage—whether these companies believe they deserve it or not.
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How much motivation can one hold when a living wage job is rare without a college degree, which leaves one in debt for years?
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But trading sales for ad-supported streaming and social media made it tough for anyone but the most established artists to earn a living wage.
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On human rights, growers will have to agree terms for a living wage with their workers, and help small-scale producers develop green business skills.
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We need an actual living wage because the majority of low-income, minimum wage workers are women and many of them have children to feed.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez believe, equal pay and a living wage is crucial if we want Capitol Hill to look more like the rest of America.
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I will pay my workers a living wage at least $15 and make sure all of my workers have the security and dignity they need.
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They won't tell us which factories they're running pilot schemes in, and they've not been forthcoming about how they plan to introduce their living wage.
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Uber and Lyft, meanwhile, criticized the decision, though with careful wording emphasizing that the companies aren't opposed to ensuring that drivers receive a living wage.
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Stoppelman's solution is to move Yelp's entry-level jobs to less expensive areas, like Arizona, where $12 an hour is closer to a living wage.
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Still, the moves fall short of the demands of labor groups, which have called on companies to pay a "living wage" of $15 an hour.
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She is the Director of the organization's upcoming documentary, Under Contract, which chronicles the struggles contract farmers face trying to earn a decent living wage.
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It's not radical to demand the Walton family of Walmart and Jeff Bezos of Amazon get off of welfare & pay their workers a living wage.
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The NFP's campaign manifesto says its priorities are a living wage for workers and farmers and lifting "the climate of fear that covers our country".
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The government counters that a new "national living wage", which will rise to 60% of median earnings by 2020, makes up for the welfare cuts.
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He made the same call for an economic bill of rights: for health care, affordable housing, racial equality, a clean environment, and a living wage.
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Ocasio-Cortez has previously called for lawmakers in Congress to increase pay for members of their staff, stating that some don't make a living wage.
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Days before Labor Day, Governor Christie denied a living wage to thousands of hardworking New Jerseyans with his veto of the $15 minimum wage bill.
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An MIT study this year calculated the a living wage for a family of four would be $66,842 for two working adults and two children.
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GoBankingRates recently determined the necessary living wage in each state using data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the 50/30/20 budgeting rule.
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Keep reading to see what the annual living wage necessary is to live comfortably in every US state, listed in alphabetical order by state name.
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Walmart, along with Amazon, American Airlines and several other large companies, have drawn Sanders' ire because he says they don't pay workers a living wage.
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Her trade union, United Voices of the World (UVW), is claiming that she was sacked for her campaigning activities in favor of a living wage.
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The idea is to give everybody a living wage (or the equivalent of that in tax credits, or some other scheme) simply for being alive.
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Climate ___ At restaurants across America, servers calculate how far is too far, weighing harassing behavior against the tips they need to make a living wage.
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"H&M has at least had the audacity to say, four years ago, 'In five years time, workers will have a living wage,'" he concedes.
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The jobs should pay a living wage (even during the training phase), come with good benefits and be widely available, including to the formerly incarcerated.
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Most important, she stands for the issues they have long fought for, like the expansion of health insurance, a living wage and quality public education.
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Ms. Hayes, a teacher, said that she had talked to voters in her district about retirement security, neighborhood safety, housing, jobs and a living wage.
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I.O. is demanding a living wage for Mexican workers that covers basics like food and housing, but also other essential needs, like saving for retirement.
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Meanwhile, a living wage — including eliminating the tipped minimum wage — would give workers more ability to leave abusive situations, Alemzadeh of Healing to Action said.
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It has been profoundly dispiriting to see, for so many years, the issues of housing affordability/living wage, and homelessness ignored on the federal level.
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Max said that being classified as casual employees would allow Australian drivers to bring a living wage home, even if it were the minimum wage.
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"We have got to raise the minimum wage to a living wage that will impact all people and impact women more than men," he said.
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These included solar installers, outreach workers, office assistants, graphic designers; people of diverse backgrounds who were making a living wage in the clean energy economy.
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In James Anthony Tyler's new drama, directed by Charlotte Brathwaite for the Labyrinth Theater Company, workers struggle for a living wage and a dignified life.
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From health care to a living wage, it's time we work for working people, and with Bernie Sanders as president - we can do just that.
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But while plenty of jobs are available, few pay a living wage, at least for people like her who lack a college degree, she said.
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If coupled with other policy changes — like replacing the minimum wage with a living wage — a jobs guarantee wouldn't just lift workers out of poverty.
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This remarkable record is possible in part because Iowa, unlike many universities, offers M.F.A. students a living wage, excellent health care and a full scholarship.
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These jobs are growing twice as fast and are twice as likely to pay a living wage as those that do not require digital skills.
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Ms. Gent's remarks thrust McDonald's into the middle of the ongoing and sometimes contentious national debate about worker pay and what constitutes a living wage.
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If companies won't pay their employees a living wage, Sanders argues, the government should recoup the cost of providing government services through a specific tax.
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Tipping is not simply a courtesy or a reward for a job well done — in America, it's an expected contribution to someone else's living wage.
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Marroquin Lopez first came to the United States in 163, leaving behind his high-crime neighborhood in Guatemala in hopes of earning a living wage.
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Their goal is to pressure Arcadia Group—the company that owns Topshop and recently reported an annual profit of over £2425 million [$2130 million]—into paying cleaners and shop-floor staff the living wage: £2184 [$0003] in London and £2000 [$22025] elsewhere in the UK. In its Code of Conduct, Topshop's official line is to "fully subscribe to the concept of the 'living wage'".
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She also discusses the U.K.'s "national living wage," raising interest rates and the upcoming referendum that will determine if Britain remains in the European Union.
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The goal was to pay drivers a living wage in a costly city, but also to curb the rapid growth of rideshare cars on the road.
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And what clearer, and more humiliating, sign can an employer send to an employee than to say, "We don't even think you're worth a living wage"?
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But implementing a national paid family leave program that provides workers with a living wage so they feel comfortable taking more time off won't be easy.
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And we've found new ways to cobble together a living wage, with 38% of people under 35 relying on freelance work to contribute to their income.
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Workers in Britain aged 25 or over are entitled to receive the national living wage of 7.20 pounds, but those who are self employed do not.
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Most of these women were nowhere to be found at Black Lives Matter Marches or for undocumented people or for workers fighting for a living wage.
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To complete these ambitious projects, we must invest in new and existing jobs, which pay a living wage and will strengthen the economy of the commonwealth.
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"For workers, the struggle continues for fundamental rights, a minimum living wage, the right to bargain collectively, and the guarantee of a safe workplace," she said.
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The rise is consistent with the rate proposed by campaigning group the Living Wage Foundation which is above that of the government set minimum pay rate.
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Let's raise the minimum wage to a living wage, help students afford to go to college, provide paid family and medical leave and expand Social Security.
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And while the apparel industry may be the largest employer of women globally, less than 2 percent of these women are actually receiving a living wage.
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Her platform itself chiefly focuses on economic and health care issues: namely, institutionalizing a living wage, lowering health care costs, and taking on "big money" politics.
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Wind turbine technicians, weatherization experts, solar panel installer, component manufacturers: these are the future jobs that pay more than minimum wage closer to a living wage.
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We believe that all full-time drivers in NYC - taxi, limousine and Uber alike - should be able to make a living wage and support their families.
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"While Amazon throws huge discounts to its customers on Prime Day, employees lack a living wage," German union Verdi said in a statement, reported by CNN.
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Not only does a country's minimum wage rarely square up with the concept of a living wage, but it can also differ by orders of magnitude.
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It also allocates $1.3 trillion for workers currently in the fossil fuel and carbon intensive industries to find work with strong benefits an a living wage.
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The results show that there are employment opportunities in solar for every level of education, with a living wage offered for even the lowest skilled jobs.
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These hands belong to people who often don't make a living wage, and who work in dangerous conditions just so we can get our clothes cheap.
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But Mr. Nin says his packed schedule is strategic: The long hours are necessary to earn a living wage, and they keep him out of trouble.
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Fluctuations in the economy and politics determine whether my attendants will receive a living wage and whether I'll have enough services to subsist rather than thrive.
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It's a shoe company that sells really classic boots and shoes for men and women, all ethically made in Peru by artisans paid a living wage.
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"While Washington politicians are paid over $22019,000 an hour for speeches, they oppose raising the living wage to 15 dollars an hour," the ad's narrator says.
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For decades, working families could depend on labor unions to represent their collective interests -- ensuring a living wage, better benefits and a voice in their workplace.
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After Money helped get Lorenze's eight convictions expunged, he was able to get housing and a job that he said pays his first-ever living wage.
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I want a utopian world where everyone has access to healthcare and a living wage, and I also want be a fucking billionaire in that utopia.
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My mom in particular has long suffered from the economic downturns that have made it harder and harder to earn a living wage in this country.
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BYD said at the time that it intended to hire more workers and that it believed it was exempt from the so-called living-wage rule.
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BYD said at the time that it intended to hire more workers and that it believed it was exempt from the so-called living-wage rule.
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Employers struggle to afford spaces to house their businesses and pay a living wage, while employees are finding themselves earning less and paying more for housing.
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On farms that produce 70 percent of the world's hazelnuts for Nestlé, Godiva and Nutella, Syrians say they can't earn a living wage — or much respect.
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But a living wage was not what the young Trump wanted and so he headed west, winding up in Seattle, then a rough-hewn logging town.
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We are also fully compliant with the national minimum wage and national living wage, and do not employ anyone in our warehouses on a zero-hours contract.
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Put another way: Does the 4,089th best baseball player in America deserve to make a living wage, given that he works in an almost $10 billion industry?
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The art of the side hustle is quickly becoming a professional track for millennials looking to make a living wage or who can't find full time employment.
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To get that number, the firm used the MIT Living Wage Calculator, which weighs housing costs, food, transportation, child care and health care in a given location.
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Salons have far fewer customers in the winter, she added, and during the summer a living wage can be dependent on how many generous customers come in.
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If you believe the minimum wage should be a living wage… and no one working full time should have to raise their children in poverty… join us.
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If you believe the minimum wage should be a living wage and no one working full time should have to raise their children in poverty, join us.
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A vote for Trump only endorses a long-standing conservative ideology that opposes a living wage, threatens families' assistance programs, while protecting corporate loopholes for the greedy.
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Trade deals have been promoted by corporations that don't want to pay U.S. workers a living wage or health benefits or negotiate with trade unions, Sanders said.
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If you believe the minimum wage should be a living wage... and no one working full time should have to raise their children in poverty... join us.
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He had been to parts of West Virginia where there were very few jobs, "fewer that pay a living wage," and there was a steep psychic cost.
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At £22,6.153, the starting salary for Buckingham Palace's new Chef de Partie would be more in line with the suggested London living wage of £10.55 per hour.
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Corporations would pay not just the minimum wage, but a living wage, as well as providing robust health insurance, retirement benefits, and paid leave, among other things.
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"Our like-for-like performance has impacted profitability, as have the ongoing cost headwinds of foreign exchange and national living wage," said Chief Executive Officer Karen Hubbard.
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For people who decide not to pursue a college degree, it might seem challenging to find a job that both is appealing and pays a living wage.
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The National Living Wage starts at 280 pounds per hour for workers in the UK aged over 274, set to rise to around 9 pounds by 2020.
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If you believe the minimum wage should be a living wage … and no one working full time should have to raise their children in poverty … join us.
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The protesters, who were mostly students, demanded, among other things, a "living wage" for campus workers, more accountability from the campus police and disinvestment from fossil fuels.
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Accepting that I could no longer support myself with paid work was heart-wrenching, both because I enjoyed working and because SSDI is not a living wage.
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Sanders argues that if employers paid a living wage, taxpayers would save $150 billion a year on government assistance programs, including food stamps, Medicaid and public housing.
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Opportunity Zones have the potential to fuel investments in affordable housing, businesses that create living-wage jobs, and other resources crucial to creating sustainable and prosperous communities.
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The study was published to coincide with the introduction of a new living wage in the U.K., but the U.S. is having its own minimum-wage conversation.
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Khanna's plan isn't as revolutionary as the idea of guaranteeing a living wage through cash transfers, but it would nonetheless be a historic step toward that goal.
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I'm not an economist, so I don't know if this is feasible, but it seems to make a lot of sense to create a relative living wage.
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The minimum wage in San Francisco is currently $15 an hour, but living wage calculators estimate that workers realistically need twice that to live in the city.
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Are you truly free if you are forced to work 60 or 80 hours a week because you can't find a job that pays a living wage?
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In 2013, Swedish clothing giant H&M pledged to pay a fair living wage to 1.6 million people working in factories it sources from around the world.
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Good business owners don't need the government telling them how valuable their employees are and that paying a decent living wage is the right thing to do.
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Several scholars have proposed a constitutional right to education, which might force increased funding for poor districts, or, even more speculatively, a right to a living wage.
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The job itself offered a living wage (though Law said he heard of white apprentices earning $17 per hour, while he initially made $15) and health insurance.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will be paid a minimum of $2000,218 per year, a major shift from the archaic congressional tradition of paying staff well below a living wage.
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When it comes to things like health care, education, when it comes to making sure that people have a living wage, most Americans say yes to these things.
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Would Ocasio Cortez feel the same way about Facebook banning an ad featuring her false assertion that the "vast majority" of Americans do not make a "living wage"?
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Wetherspoon, like other operators in the sector, has been battling rising costs due to the government's National Living Wage initiative, higher property prices and unfavourable currency exchange rate.
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"We're interested in serving all these students in Collier County and making sure they have the ability to earn a living wage when they come out," he says.
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It will close major tax loopholes and set a living wage above the minimum of A$18.93 an hour to help people meet their needs and avoid poverty.
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M&S is less affected by the onset of the Minimum Living Wage (MLW) as it has consistently paid its staff above the average rate for the sector.
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Even as the hot stove burns its brightest, however, baseball's powers that be haven't forgotten their ongoing mission to screw minor-league players out of a living wage.
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A member of Patriotic Millionaires, Stryker also founded the Bohemian Foundation, which seeks to support efforts to narrow the income and wealth gaps and promote a living wage.
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Our cleaner is part of a woman-owned business that pays its workers a living wage and uses environmentally safe products, and I am happy to support her.
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The average Amazon warehouse employee is making $13 an hour [Update: Amazon says it's $15 per hour], and while that's better than Kohl's, it's not a living wage.
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The biggest interventions in the market, such as tight planning laws and a new living wage that will reach £9 ($13) an hour by 2020, are home-grown.
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"My reaction when I see these living-wage laws of $15 to $20 an hour, I think they should be renamed 'the robot full employment act,'" Tierney said.
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"While Amazon fuels bargain hunting on Prime Day with hefty discounts, employees are being deprived of a living wage," Verdi retail specialist Orhan Akman said in a statement.
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In mid-March, the state's Democratic governor, Terry McAuliffe, vetoed a bill introduced by Republicans that sought to block local regions from mandating a so-called living wage.
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In September, Meow Wolf was found in violation of Santa Fe's living wage ordinance, and former employee Jeremiah Harmon was granted $17,534.95 to make up for lost wages.
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"The president recognizes that the national minimum wage is not a living wage, but we need to start somewhere," Ramaphosa's spokeswoman Khusela Diko said, as reported by Reuters.
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But DoorDash, Lyft, and Uber are promising to oppose this legislation by backing a $210 million ballot initiative that exempts their drivers from being paid a living wage.
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The IOM says it is essential to help trafficking victims earn a living wage at home to "reject the fantasy world painted by traffickers and unscrupulous labor recruiters".
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This program is a safety net for people who work for poverty wages and an indirect government handout for employers who choose profit over paying a living wage.
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This can include the need for stronger social networks, local economic development and living-wage jobs, and opportunities for community members to come together to heal and thrive.
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In much of the global south there are increasing income gaps between a small middle class and a growing mass of poor who cannot earn a living wage.
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If Walmart can afford $20 billion for stock buybacks to enrich wealthy shareholders, it can afford to raise the pay of all its workers to a living wage.
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"I say all the time that in Memphis, debtors don't earn a living wage," said Sylvia Brown, one of the two trustees for Chapter 13 cases in Memphis.
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Properly designed, it could help people who work for Uber, Lyft and other apps earn a living wage after paying for expenses like leasing costs, insurance and fuel.
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The Russell Sage proposals include everything from a universal child allowance to a renter's tax credit; from subsidizing employment to a public works program paying a living wage.
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She said the museum told employees that the median income for the staff members contemplating joining a union was $52,000, and that $51,000 is considered a living wage.
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You have to really do all of these things simultaneously if you really want to have a lasting impact helping people get into living-wage jobs and careers.
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Now being paid 9.75 pounds an hour, the 'living wage' in London, he is able to stay in a night shelter that only takes residents who are working.
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"Consumers are purchasing products they may believe are made by workers earning a living wage, when in reality, low wages continue to be the status quo," she said.
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He argues that if employers paid a living wage, taxpayers would save $150 billion a year on the government assistance programs, including food stamps, Medicaid and public housing.
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In James Anthony Tyler's new drama, directed by Charlotte Brathwaite for the Labyrinth Theater Company, a group of workers struggle for a living wage and a dignified life.
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" In 2012, Bloomberg said legislation to mandate a "living wage" reminded him of communism, remarking, "The last time we really had a big managed economy was the USSR.
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A LOT OF THE BUSINESS ROUND TABLE IS IN FAVOR OF INCREASING THE TAX CREDIT GET MORE MONEY TO PEOPLE TO GIVE THEM MORE OF A LIVING WAGE.
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" Portland State library worker Theresa Stapleburg was even more direct: "I want to strike because I've been here 24 years, and I need a raise—a living wage.
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"I am now in a position to earn a living wage," driver Anette Rivero, a member of Rideshare Drivers United, said in a statement to Vox on Wednesday.
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In 2010, more than a third of all working adults with jobs that did not pay a living wage had at least some college education or a degree.
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Without a living wage, working people will continue to live in poverty and rely on public assistance such as SNAP and Medicaid — and be blamed for their predicament.
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Even families earning a living wage often can't absorb the financial blow of being robbed of weeks or months of pay — and families below the poverty line certainly can't.
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In an age where the old political and economic rules don't hold, and societies are fraying, experts need to figure out what is a living wage for such workers.
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"The strength of Premier Inn and Costa is being tested, not least by the National Living Wage, which has raised staffing costs," said Laith Khalaf, analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown.
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But they've followed the same tired pattern that he used in his past commercials: Calls for a higher living wage, free tuition to public universities, and tougher environmental policy.
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That kind of specific recommendation is what wage boards are good for—they can determine what a living wage is and put forward a viable path to implementing it.
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Fitch retains the Negative Outlook on the notes as we expect the introduction of the National Living Wage to increase wage costs and put pressure on M&B's profitability.
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That's according to updated data from MIT's living wage calculator, which determines the minimum amount necessary to meet basic needs without dipping into poverty or relying on outside help.
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So my argument is, let's raise the minimum wage to the level of the living wage, which varies from place to place depending on housing costs and transportation costs.
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BAGEHOT: Your party leader has some odd views on business and wealth-creation: a 60% rate of income tax, banning dividends at companies that don't pay a living wage.
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Mr Cameron's benefit cuts are unlikely to deter them (indeed, more may now be lured by the new higher national living wage scheduled to take effect on April 1st).
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One solution could be a uniform salary for state legislators, pinned to a state's cost of living, that guarantees a basic living wage without enriching legislators from wealthy backgrounds.
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Hegseth made the comments as a group of co-hosts discussed Ocasio-Cortez's decision to pay what she said was a "living wage" to the staffers in her office.
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Therefore, by making it more difficult to obtain a college degree and secure a job with a living wage, the AEP likely prolonged the addictions of many affected individuals.
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The government has added to the pressure on retail margins by introducing a "living wage", which came into effect on April 1st, and a levy to pay for apprenticeships.
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Nudie is intimately acquainted with its entire supply chain — 69% of Nudie jeans are made in Italy, and the brand is implementing a living wage at its Indian manufacturer.
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A recent Oxford University study found that drivers make more than the London Living Wage and want to keep the freedom to choose if, when and where they drive.
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Hard-working men and women deserve a living wage, and they deserve the right to join a union and push for fair compensation and workplace safety through collective bargaining.
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The Vermont senator's definition of democratic socialism remains the fight for economic freedom — one that ensures health care, a living wage, a full education, housing, and a clean environment.
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"Our teachers in Oklahoma are going above and beyond every single day for an unacceptable and unsustainable salary that doesn't even provide them with a living wage," she said.
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Yet the move has ignited a debate over whether requiring employers to pay more of a living wage is a social watershed, or a risky attempt at economic engineering.
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He joined the Fight for $250 not only because he believes that workers should make a living wage, but also because he wants workers in the industry to unionize.
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"We believe that all full-time drivers in N.Y.C. — taxi, limousine and Uber alike — should be able to make a living wage and support their families," Ms. Anfang said.
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After Watts, King came to realize that in addition to voting, true citizenship began with a good job, a living wage, decent housing, quality education, health care and nourishment.
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Mr. Conigliaro said the guild had moved on to other goals, like pressing the Taxi and Limousine Commission to regulate Uber's fares so that they ensure a living wage.
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The companies are facing increased pressure to comply with Democratic candidates' visions for the future: offering employees a living wage, paying more in taxes, and allowing workers to unionize.
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The company offers flex-time, pays a living wage, has a strategy to close the gender pay gap and offers paid family leave of 16 weeks to both parents.
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Treasury doesn't usually ask companies to break down their tax information by geographic area, let alone track non-tax things like whether employees are being paid a living wage.
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Cutting so many affiliated teams would also help M.L.B. offset the pay increase it is planning for minor leaguers, so they can make something closer to a living wage.
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These trainers, unfortunately aren't trying to be annoying; they're merely trapped in what sounds like a spandex-clad pyramid scheme where their employer doesn't pay them a living wage.
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"I do think we need to work more on earned income tax credits, maybe a negative income tax to help lower-paid [people] have a living wage," he said.
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" But the problem may run deeper: Shirin Ghaffary of Recode writes that "many workers in the new on-demand app economy are not being paid a consistent living wage.
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Last year, there was heavy media attention on the living wage ballot measure that is supposed to apply to Anaheim Resort corporations that have subsidy agreements with the city.
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The 29-year-old has used her megaphone to push for progressive policies, ranging from higher taxes for the super wealthy to paying congressional interns and staffers a living wage.
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Regardless of disputes over the mechanics of the New York City wage-floor rollout, it's a historic move that will force companies to give their drivers a predictable living wage.
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Since introducing the "national living wage" last April the government has increased minimum hourly pay for the over-25s from £6.70 ($8.60) to £7.50, a steep rise by historical standards.
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Aside from engineers and analysts, Vacasa employs a full-time housekeeping staff to maintain consistency and cleanliness across the properties it manages, offering each of its employees a living wage.
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The argument is that if you are doing these jobs because you desperately need the money and can't do anything else, you are a failure unworthy of a living wage.
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For its part, Lyft argues the requirement to shell out a living wage would tip the scales in favor of its rival, Uber, which is currently both bigger and richer.
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If business rates were devolved to the mayor, we could say to small- and medium-sized businesses: we will reduce your business rates if you pay the London Living Wage.
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This includes increasing the national living wage in line with earnings until the end of parliament, introducing new protections for 'gig' economy workers, and enforcing worker representation on company boards.
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A panel of employment tribunal judges in the UK ruled that Uber drivers should not be considered freelance, but instead should be paid a living wage, according to The Guardian.
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They—and the adjuncts some of them become—need health care, dental insurance, and a living wage now, especially if they are not looking toward tenure a decade from now.
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The new platform is part of a broader Global Equal Pay Coalition, which advocates for secure laws on equal pay, better parental leave and childcare policies, and minimum living wage.
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Oxfam says there are ways we can solve this problem, including getting rid of laws that benefit the rich, paying workers a living wage, and promoting women's rights and equality.
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Lastly, CAP says the American government should pay state legislators a living wage and support them with work-family policies to make being a politician a viable job for women.
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We can have a minimum wage which is a living wage, and I'm delighted to see that you know, right now, five states already passed $15 an hour minimum wage.
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"I'm going to join workers anywhere they're fighting for a living wage and safe working conditions," Castro tweeted along with a video of him marching alongside workers in North Carolina.
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"Cory Booker has a longstanding relationship with the Teamsters and organized labor and we share common goals, like rewarding hard work with a living wage and good benefits," Demissie added.
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A living wage means buying a pizza and new shoes for the kids, a new television and curtains for the living room, and even splurging for tickets to a ballgame.
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The film touches on a lot of hot-button matters, including the 2016 election; racial profiling; and the difficulties of being a single parent and of earning a living wage.
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Since that wage is not adjusted for inflation, its buying power has been steadily falling for decades, making it well below a living wage in most parts of the country.
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Since these workers' pay can fluctuate — some drivers Recode interviewed said they earn as little as an average of $8 an hour — tips are crucial for earning a living wage.
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You see the evidence of that in how dignity is being strip from labor and we a people who work full-time jobs and still can't make a living wage.
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"You see the evidence of ... how dignity is being stripped from labor, and we have people that work full-time jobs and still can't make a living wage," he said.
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"Upon review of the materials provided, a preponderance of the evidence shows that Meow Wolf is in violation of the Santa Fe Living Wage Ordinance," the letter read in part.
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Santa Fe's code also states that contract workers must be paid a living wage, which is currently $11.80 but was between $10.84 and $10.91 during Harmon's time at Meow Wolf.
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The video instructed managers to be alert for subversive phrases like "living wage" and advised them that saying things like "Unions are lying, cheating rats" is within their legal rights.
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Give Sanders credit for moving public opinion along on a living wage, higher taxes on the rich and the need for immediate action to stem the immolation of the planet.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has proposed a Green New Deal to address climate change and inequality, a 70% marginal tax rate for the rich, and supports a living wage, while Sen.
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Over the past decade, leading garment companies have vowed to deliver a living wage to their workers and signed up to initiatives aiming to achieve this goal through myriad means.
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His pick for labor secretary, Andrew Puzder, doesn't believe people should be paid a living wage to stir a milkshake, and he hired an undocumented immigrant to clean his house.
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Ramaphosa's office said in a statement that while the national minimum wage will not end income inequality, it was a first step towards addressing the clamor for a living wage.
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It created a new statutory exemption that allowed the organization to not have to adhere to the Fair Labor Standards Act and not pay minor league players a living wage.
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Local government has increased the burdens on retail stores: rising real property taxes, the New York commercial rent tax, living-wage requirements, paid sick leave and byzantine land use regulations.
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People who are earning a living wage are having to kind of scrape together three to four gigs to earn just about the nut to send their kid to college.
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A jobs guarantee could offer you a stipend to gain more training; if you don't want to retrain, it could provide a skill-appropriate position that pays a living wage.
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Compound this with rising labor costs thanks to a new law called the National Living Wage, which was enacted in April, and you've got a potential shitstorm on the horizon.
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The unemployment rate also fails to capture those working but not making a living wage as well as those working two or more nearly full-time jobs and scraping by.
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They were facing a "triple hit", according to the FSB: a continuing increase in the national living wage; a rise in national insurance contributions; and a hike in pensions auto-enrolment.
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She called it a "disgrace" that Congress didn't pay its staff "an actual DC living wage," and suggested Congress raise its Members' Representational Allowances, or MRA, in order to do so.
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In the interview with "This Week," Ocasio-Cortez said she doesn't care if Bezos is a billionaire if Amazon pays workers a "living wage," along with benefits like guaranteed health care.
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I work a service job I hate that pays $15 an hour, and that still isn't actually a living wage, despite falling in the middle income range for where I live.
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"Amazon's median employee pay is only $28,446 — 9 percent less than the industry average and well below what constitutes a living wage in the United States," he said in a statement.
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The UK retail sector is forecast to shed 900,000 jobs by 2025, because the national living wage and apprenticeship levy will have become too costly, according to the British Retail Consortium.
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Do those things and I have no doubt that you can get yourself to a living wage a lot faster than by waiting for some politician to do it for you.
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This is a result of moderate expected sales growth combined with the expected cost pressures due to the National Living Wage target (GBP2101 by 212016 for those aged 211011723 and over).
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More than 1,000 people joined a rally on May 1 in Bengaluru, carrying placards reminding brands of their promise to pay a living wage to all workers in their supply chain.
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Workers would earn up to $27 per hour including benefits and the plant will use state-of-the-art automated technology "in order to pay people a living wage," he said.
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Both because we have so few illusions and because our issues are so important to all women—the right to a living wage for women's work, the right to life itself.
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" The GOP is so disconnected from the basic idea that people should be paid enough to live that Fox actually thinks me paying a living wage in my office is "communism.
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She said everyone in my office will pay a living wage," Hegseth said, adding that her policy would make her chief of staff earn a salary below the "actual market rate.
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This is less than one third of the living wage of $26.44 per hour in St. Louis, which is what a family of four needs to live adequately in the city.
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SAFTU, the second-largest group of its kind in the country, instead proposes a living wage of R12,500 per month — three times that of the intended minimum wage in monthly terms.
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Simply put, corporations have been raking in record profits thanks to the hard work of millions of Americans while refusing to pay them the living wage they have earned and deserve.
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LONDON, April 210 (Reuters) - Britain's National Living Wage, a higher minimum wage, came into effect on Friday and could hit the earnings of retailers, restaurants, pubs and outsourcing firms in particular.
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For this to happen, we must also ensure that every person, no matter his or her race or circumstance, has the opportunity to go to work and earn a living wage.
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We need to make sure everyone has a living wage, and I've called for a doubling of the earned income tax credit, raising the minimum wage, and creating paid family leave.
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Just like racism, the practice of forcing workers to rely on the whims of customers rather than paying them a living wage upfront is rooted in the exploitation of vulnerable people.
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As a councilman, Mr. Albanese sponsored a living wage bill that survived a veto by Mayor Giuliani and stood up for gay rights at political and some personal risk in 1986.
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McCrory's executive order and comments Tuesday did not address the portion of HB2 that rolled back "living wage" provisions passed by local governments, such as the one it overturned in Charlotte.
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Exporting a product that involved workers paid less than this living wage, at any point in the production chain, would be an outright violation of Nafta, subject to standard punitive procedures.
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"In 1990 we would have been laughed out of the room had we talked about living wage," said Thea Lee, who resigned as deputy chief of staff at the A.F.L.-C.
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We've always known that most homelessness is a result, pure and simple, of poverty: the lack of a living wage, the lack of affordable housing and the insidious impact of racism.
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Campaigners also urged Malaysia to review its minimum wage policy and introduce a living wage system to ensure workers do not have to work excessive hours to meet basic economic needs.
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In New York, a city councilman, Brad Lander, said on Tuesday that he was working to create a living-wage requirement for delivery workers, but warned that it would be complicated.
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The centerpiece of the effort is a job program, Newark 2020, which aims to have 2,1997 unemployed residents working full time and earning a living wage within the next three years.
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Outside of Equinox, at boutique fitness studios, the accessibility of fitness classes (thanks to services like Classpass and Mindbody) has made earning a living wage as a trainer increasingly more difficult.
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The two sat down together to discuss issues ranging from student debt to climate change to what constitutes a living wage in a video released for Sanders' campaign in July 2019.
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"I am honored to join the leadership team and help carry the fight for good living wage jobs, a secure retirement, and opportunity for all Americans," Merkley said in a statement.
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"No legal challenge changes the fact that Uber made congestion on our roads worse and paid their drivers less than a living wage," said Seth Stein, a spokesman for the mayor.
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Complicating things further is that there's no consensus on exactly how much these drivers make — or how much responsibility their tech-giant bosses have to ensure they earn a living wage.
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"If H&M really wants to pay a living wage, they can go directly to their supplier and make an agreement," he said, adding that this could encourage competitors to follow suit.
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A living wage means they're able to support themselves and their families, pay for potential education, and then, on top of that, still have 30% extra left over that they can save.
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What we do know is that Amazon's median employee pay is only $28,446 — 9 percent less than the industry average and well below what constitutes a living wage in the United States.
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As a former server, it would take a LOT for me not to tip 303+%, though I do wish tipping was abolished and restaurants would just pay their employees a living wage.
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"The City Council's new law guarantees a living wage for drivers, and the administration should not have blocked New Yorkers from taking advantage of it by imposing a cap," the spokesperson said.
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But there is a wide range of hourly rates and working conditions, and none of the state minimums provides a living wage for a family, says Oxfam in a new national study.
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The workshop's organizers hoped that the event would spark conversations about a number of problems: How do we make these wheats an everyday food, yet still pay the farmer a living wage?
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Her platform advocates for comprehensive immigration reform, the abolishment of private prisons, automatic voter registration, women's healthcare rights, taxation on Wall Street, investment in renewable energy, and a living wage for all.
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Earlier this year, charity Oxfam criticized Australian fashion firms for using a "system of entrenched exploitation" that see workers in their supply chains in Bangladesh and Vietnam not earning a living wage.
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Like retailers, restaurants have had to absorb new government-imposed burdens, including the national living wage, the apprenticeship levy for employers with a wage bill of over £3m and higher pension contributions.
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We hope this global day of action compels Uber to pay their drivers a living wage and to build more equitable relationships with the people who are the heart of their company.
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"In the meantime, individual licensing authorities have an important part to play by following New York's lead in using their licensing policies to guarantee living wage rates for drivers," he also said.
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This is due to pressure on its cost base associated with an increase in the national living wage and shortage of nurses in the UK, leading to a reliance on agency workers.
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In November, it had warned that expected government initiatives like the national living wage, minimum wage, apprenticeship levy and proposed increases in business rates would increase cost pressure in the hospitality industry.
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If Amazon were to pay its lowest-paid workers a living wage — enough to get by on without turning to food stamps to feed their families — it would be a game changer.
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FDR's final State of the Union Speech in January 22019, called on Congress to create an "economic bill of rights" which would guarantee, among other things, a job with a living wage.
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There are now 44 million working-age adults without college degrees who are not earning a living wage and do not have enough income to maintain a middle-class standard of living.
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His office also cited estimates from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology finding that a living wage in the state for a family of five that includes one working parent is about $67,000.
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The ILRF urged H&M to publish a road map with time-bound, measurable wage increase targets and outline how they will change purchasing practices to ensure workers get a living wage.
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There are Hispanics who swam the Rio Grande hoping for a living wage, Hispanics who flew business class to enroll in Ivy League schools, Hispanics who disembarked as Cold Warriors in Florida.
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The hospitality sector is set to experience the biggest wage bill increase, of 3.4 percent, as almost half of employees will be affected by the National Living Wage, The Resolution Foundation said.
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XpertHR said that the highest pay increases tended to be linked to the introduction of the national living wage in April 2016 of 7.20 pounds ($9.05) for workers aged 25 and above.
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As an African-American woman and former teacher, she moved to Vietnam in early 2017 because she said she found it too hard to make a living wage in the United States.
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Joe Crowley in New York's Democratic primary last month, struck a similar tone, as she also called for Medicare for all, free college tuition and a guaranteed living wage for all persons.
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In such a dialogue, Democrats may stress the need for public responses that provide additional income and service supports and a proactive government that ensures a living wage to reduce material poverty.
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When it came to wooing Sanders supporters on the left, Trump steered clear of the major tenets of the Vermont senator's platform — such as income inequality, a living wage, or student debt.
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The fast-food workers' demands are the same ones sanitation workers fought for 50 years ago: a living wage, the right to a union and basic respect for their dignity and humanity.
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This gap between intent and reality also emerged in a May report from University of Sheffield researchers in Britain on apparel companies not delivering on promises to pay workers a living wage.
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He walked the picket line outside a Beverly Hills hotel with workers demanding what they called a living wage and helped convince Mayor Richard J. Riordan that minimum pay should be higher.
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So, to me, if they sat right next to them and they were paid a living wage, it'd be a very different decision-making process around their algorithms and things like that.
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"It's called a living wage for a reason," said Alex Mora, 24, who lives in East Los Angeles, and voted for Mr. Sanders because of his promise to raise the minimum wage.
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" And, "Do the people who spend a lifetime at the lowest end of the wage spectrum deserve what they get, or does every person who works full-time deserve a living wage?
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The women argued that they weren't getting paid a living wage and that girls' youth hockey was being overlooked by the federation, while money poured into the boys' side of the game.
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And Fight for $15 takes the living wage movement to streets and workplaces across the country, organizing strikes and protests in pursuit of a nationwide, $15.00 minimum wage and increased union rights.
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Walmart employs an estimated 1.4 million people in the United States and has often found itself front and center in the battle over what counts as a reasonable living wage in America.
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In Mississippi, where there is no state minimum wage, so the federal wage of $7.25 is in effect, she calculates a living wage at just more than $11 per hour for an individual.
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But that's not a living wage for a family of four, according to MIT, which estimates the hourly rate would have to be $16.14 per hour on average nationwide to meet the standard.
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Subpar schools, unsafe neighborhoods, over-policing, lack of employment that pays a living wage, these all work against an individual trying to succeed and passes on that burden to their children as well.
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Their $10.50 an hour, at latest rates, was hardly the New York living wage, but with 60 folk a week lining up to work at the Strand he could obviously name his price.
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In 73 the Conservative government rebranded the hourly minimum wage for the over-27s as the "national living wage", and since then it has risen by 220%, twice as fast as median earnings.
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Will Trump's group of white male advisors understand how important affordable, quality child care is for working families, or how important it is for child care providers to be paid a living wage?
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Plus, "flipping burgers" has been shorthand for an easy job for decades, so it can be hard to associate that with the constant monitoring, understaffing, and sub-living wage of modern service work.
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They don't pay a living wage, a huge percentage of their workers are on food stamps, and they hold holiday food drives so their employees can feed their families at Thanksgiving and Christmas.
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The high-demand career with a median wage of $53,730 is expected to grow 11 percent by 2026, one of many trades that pay a living wage and don't require a college degree.
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Amazon would have been faced with a simple choice – either pay your employees a living wage or pay for the public benefits that their employees were forced to use to make ends meet.
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The CCC report found that workers in H&M supplier factories in Cambodia earned less than half the estimated living wage, dropping to about a third for those living in India and Turkey.
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In fact, in states where teachers have recently walked out—that's West Virginia, Kentucky and Oklahoma, for now—new teachers were already paid least, and veteran teachers still weren't making a living wage.
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RBC analyst Richard Chamberlain said that Sports Direct is also amongst the most exposed British retailers to strong dollar headwinds and rising labor costs as a result of Britain's new national living wage.
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In 2015, Sanders proposed the Pay Workers a Living Wage Act—but it received only five cosponsors, and Chuck Schumer, the Senate Democratic leader, instead favored legislation for a $12 an hour wage.
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Young people in the capital can now spend up to 81 percent of their income on rent and George Osborne's beloved national living wage may not be enough to keep people from poverty.
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But paying truck drivers a living wage would neither imperil the economy nor cause spiraling inflation — the costs would be spread among the billions of tons of freight moved by truck each year.
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They are workers at Disney, Amazon, Walmart and the fast food industry standing up and fighting for a living wage of at least $15 an hour and the right to have a union.
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That's not the same thing as a living wage, however, which varies depending on the cost of living in your area and takes into account things like housing, transportation, and health care prices.
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Rather, in April 2001, several dozen students from the Harvard Living Wage Campaign took over Massachusetts Hall, which housed the offices of the university's top administrators, demanding a better deal for campus workers.
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In other words, despite Amazon's claims that its warehouse jobs pay a living wage, the shipping giant is letting its workers live in poverty and forcing the government to pick up the tab.
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The wages can also be significantly less — sometimes even falling below the poverty line — than the living wage as defined by outside groups, which broadly incorporates food, housing, medical care, clothing and transportation.
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Ensuring that every family has access to child care, and that people running the programs are paid a fair and living wage, are also the key elements of Warren's universal child care plan.
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Our VPS' [Vechicle prep specialists] and TA's [Tesla advisors] do not make a living wage and we are fighting to breathe life into a company that is not doing the same for us.
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As Sanders has unveiled an "economic bill of rights," calling for a living wage, quality health care, complete education, affordable housing, clean environment, and secure retirement, Steyer has his own "5 rights" campaign.
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At the end of the 19th century, they travel from Sweden to Denmark in search of a living wage, but wind up on a farm where they're treated with relentless harassment and abuse.
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He'd come to the United States from his native Germany in 1885, just 16 years old, and got a job as a barber, making a living wage in New York for five years.
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Factory bosses are rightfully fearful of this, Savman said, so H&M has committed to "ringfencing" a living wage - removing wages from their purchasing negotiations with factory owners and covering any fluctuations that occur.
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If Amazon, Walmart and other corporations won't pay their workers a living wage, our bill would establish a 100 percent tax equal to the amount of federal benefits received by their low-wage workers.
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Greenhouse quotes SEIU President Mary Kay Henry, who has said that through the Fight for $15's participation in the nationwide living wage battles raised pay, either directly or indirectly, for 0003 million workers.
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If all we did was give that 70 percent of kids graduating from high school the chance to earn a living wage instead of a minimum wage, it would transform our economy, just that.
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"Our legislation gives large, profitable employers a choice: Pay workers a living wage or pay for the public assistance programs their low-wage employees are forced to depend upon," Sanders wrote in a statement.
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On Thursday, AMCU, which represents the majority of workers on the platinum belt, stuck to its battle cry of demanding a "living wage" of 12,500 rand ($850) per month for the lowest-paid workers.
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While Sanders has been railing about a living wage in his speeches (and Clinton has been promising a slightly more conservative increase in the minimum wage), Stein has been hitting the pavement with protesters.
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"Forty percent of American workers earn less than $15 an hour, and about 5% of full-time American workers earn the minimum wage or less, which is certainly not a living wage," Dimon wrote.
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This is based on pressures on the group's cost base associated with the increase in national living wage from April 2016 and uncertainty around the impact of the consequent increase in local authorities' fees.
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She said everyone in my office will pay a living wage," Hegseth said, adding that her policies on salaries would lead her chief of staff to earn a salary below the "actual market rate.
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During the royal tour in Australia, the Duchess of Sussex selected a pair of jeans by Outland Denim, which prides itself on providing a living wage to its seamstresses in small villages in Cambodia.
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Last week I introduced a bill to give billionaires like Bezos and the Waltons a choice: pay workers a living wage, or pay for the public assistance your low-wage workers rely on. pic.twitter.
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But those decisions are rarely why a person enters poverty, and when the working poor can't access a living wage or safe, affordable housing, credit cards look like an open door, not a trap.
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" In Banks' words, "No matter what you might think, there are 64 million Americans who make less than $15 an hour and we deserve a living wage just like any other worker in America.
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According to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Living Wage Calculator, it costs about $48,000 for a family of four with one working adult to live in West Virginia, compared with almost $60,000 in Baltimore.
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King worked toward this goal until the day he died in Memphis, a working-class, segregated city whose sanitation workers were engaged in a grueling strike for a living wage and safe working conditions.
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The company has helped an estimated 50,000 people — 11,000 workers and their dependents — and regularly evaluates whether it is meeting living-wage requirements, Wendy Gonzalez, Samasource's interim chief executive, said in a phone interview.
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The dispute, like most labor disputes, is about money: The players contend that U.S.A. Hockey does not even pay them a living wage and that it has shown no intention to address that issue.
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Ultimately, the goal of the strike is to build a movement of women who agree that the wellbeing of a society stems from affordable child care and health care and an equal living wage.
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Disclosure: I previously worked with the Independent Drivers Guild, a labor organization for ride-hail app drivers in New York City, as an organizer during their 2018 campaign for an industry-wide living wage.
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CHENNAI, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Muthukani Murugesan faked illness to take a day off work on Wednesday and joined hundreds of fellow maids protesting in southern India for a living wage and better benefits.
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Yes, we should raise the minimum wage to a living wage of $15 an hour, make it easier for workers to join unions, provide free tuition to public colleges and substantially lower student debt.
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The nonprofit Students and Scholars Against Corporate Misbehavior estimates that the living wage for iPhone workers should be around $650, meaning workers would need to take on tons of overtime to make ends meet.
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In addition to that, the international charity focusing on alleviation of global poverty has called on business leaders to play their part in committing to pay both living wage and their fair share of tax.
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A robot that can do the work here for less than the cost of a living wage would bring that aspect of the job home and benefit plant owners who will reap the financial rewards.
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The rights championed by Steyer are: the right to a living wage, the right to an equal vote, the right to clean air and water, the right to learn, and the right to health care.
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A spokesperson for the company told the New York Times that the company believed that "all full-time drivers should be able to make a living wage," though she didn't comment on the city's regulations.
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The contract doesn't require Amazon to provide construction workers with a living wage, what would typically be called a project labor agreement, and it doesn't ask Amazon to contribute to Arlington's affordable housing trust fund.
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Still, while most states have raised minimums to as high as $13.25 an hour (Washington, DC), in no state was the rate even half the living wage for a family of four, the report said.
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"Our legislation gives large, profitable employers a choice: Pay workers a living wage or pay for the public assistance programs their low-wage employees are forced to depend upon," Sanders said of the proposed law.
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These victories were won through partnerships with other organizations: During a living-wage fight, Greenhouse describes, LAANE sent "a stream of clergy, community leaders, and rank-and-file workers" to speak with city council members.
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According to the same report, approximately 70 percent of the airline catering workers in Miami who keep American Airlines planes stocked and customers fed earn less than the living wage set for other airport employees.
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Some drivers who work full time complain that in addition to not having benefits, they must work longer hours to earn a living wage, especially after Uber last year cut the rates it charges passengers.
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Small cities around the world could house centers of creation connected to the mother ship – in Apple's case, quite literally – giving all employees a living wage and improving conditions for nearly everyone in the city.
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The Times The supermarket price war and the national living wage have helped average weekly disposable income to rise to a record 228 pounds ($29) a week per household, according to research from Asda. bit.
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The authors blame this partly on the cost of the new "national living wage" and apprenticeship levies, but also the rise in online shopping and the increasing costs of running shops on the high street.
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First, a guaranteed job, "with benefits and a living wage, to every American willing and able to work," as Spross describes it, does not do much good for Americans who are not able to work.
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One prosperous and heavily Democratic city in Virginia, Alexandria, is poised to raise its so-called living wage, driven by local prices for such essentials as food and lodging, by $1 to $14.13 per hour.
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Around 50 staff of London's Picturehouse cinemas, owned by Cineworld, have been demanding their pay be brought in line with the 9.75 pounds ($12.85) per hour recommended by the Living Wage Foundation, a campaigning group.
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In case you missed it, while the GOP is calling paying a living wage "socialism," a Republican Senator full-on quoted National Fascist Party leader and Hitler ally Benito Mussolini like it's a Hallmark card.
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In addition, many entry level jobs on the Hill do not pay a living wage; individuals that don't have another means of financial support are unable to begin a career and subsequently advance in Congress.
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He sees it as the answer to many of the restaurant industry's most intractable challenges, including the stratospheric cost of real estate and the struggle to pay talented chefs a living wage in expensive cities.
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As the nominee of the Green Party, she offers an unswervingly progressive platform that includes abolishing student debt, establishing a right to a living-wage job and cutting military spending by at least 50 percent.
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As our brief to the court noted, employment in the solar industry rose 28500% from 6900 to 2628, giving us over 28503,22019 new living-wage jobs -- many of them in rural communities, and predominantly local.
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We will be the voice for the trades, which have long been a proven pathway to success for middle-class American families who deserve to earn a living wage and enjoy the dignity of work.
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The league's salary cap of $421,242, spread across a 23.3-player roster, is actually much lower -- $27,21972, less than a living wage -- although teams can also give money to help players with housing and transportation.
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Cabin crew from across Europe published a list of 34 demands on Wednesday, including "a fair living wage", improved sick pay and employment contracts in their own language based on local rather than Irish law.
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Mr. Slettvet's description of feeling "emancipated" after he decided to "man up" and quit his job so he could care for his first child while his wife earned a living wage is a fitting example.
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" Anytime you hear a politician say immigrants are "doing the jobs Americans won't," replace it in your mind with the truth: "doing the jobs we don't want to pay Americans a living wage to do.
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Without ensuring that all women have a living wage and the right to unionize — things that provide the security an employee needs before she even thinks about reporting misconduct — we will never end the problem.
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In exchange, the funds are committing to a set of rules that would require them to invest in creating living-wage jobs, form community advisory boards and seek to avoid displacing residents from those zones.
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"Once we opened, I was thinking, 'I don't need to do real estate anymore because I'm making a living wage with the show,'" said Ms. Saltzberg, who worked at several other agencies before starting Bohemia.
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When it comes to health care, we are not just talking about insurance coverage—we are also, by definition, agitating for a living wage; a reasonable balance between work and life; a more humane world.
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Even manufacturing work that remains in (or returns) to America requires knowing how to operate the computers that run today's factory floors, at least if you expect to earn anything close to a living wage.
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He also vetoed three pieces of legislation aimed at improving conditions for low-wage workers — guaranteed paid sick days, a "living wage" for companies receiving city subsidies and higher pay for certain building service workers.
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A child of Indian immigrants, she created digital jobs that pay a living wage to thousands in Africa and India, believing that the intellect of the poor was "the biggest untapped resource" in the world.
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Most major garment companies lack plans for calculating - let alone achieving - a living wage in their global supply chains, despite signing up to initiatives that push for better pay, said researchers at Britain's Sheffield University.
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Some want detailed figures on not just how many jobs are created, but how many positions are going to local residents, how many developers offer a "living wage" and how many provide employer-sponsored benefits.
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While requirements boost work somewhat, they're not enough to get a job at a living wage for everyone who can work, and they do nothing for the elderly or disabled who can't work at all.
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Retailers have been finding it tougher to attract workers, with U.S. unemployment at its lowest level in nearly 50 years, while there has been growing political pressure on companies to pay workers a fair living wage.
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"It is unjust for Congress to budget a living wage for ourselves, yet rely on unpaid interns and underpaid overworked staff just [because] Republicans want to make a statement about 'fiscal responsibility,'" Ocasio-Cortez tweeted Monday.
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They are trapped, for lack of a better word, in a great, valuable market that can offer them a living wage but not the seemingly untold riches available to the Ubers and Facebooks of the world.
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And JFK fares are some of the most lucrative in New York, a big sacrifice for drivers who are already being lied to by their employers about whether or not they'll take home a living wage.
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In fact, the next president can issue an executive order that denies lucrative government contracts to companies that don't pay a living wage of $15 an hour and interfere or retaliate against workers who are organizing.
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But Warren's plan to vastly increase Title I funding also comes with incentives for states to change their funding formulas to pay teachers more and make sure chronically underpaid staff like paraprofessionals receive a living wage.
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Her laundry list of economic programs such as free community college, a living wage for low-income workers, and higher taxes for wealthy individuals and corporations read like a progressive agenda echoing Lyndon Johnson's Great Society.
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"The financial imperative of working overtime due to the persistence of minimum wage standards below living wage standards can be viewed as a form of economic coercion that leads to involuntary or forced overtime," it added.
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But if the findings of the British minimum wage study are accurate, and can be applied to the American system, then it provides yet another compelling moral argument for ensuring that everyone earns a living wage.
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Of course there are people on both sides of the aisle who live in daily fear, not sure if they can carve out a living wage, feed their children, or keep a roof over their head.
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The wage dispute has been going on for many months, with the cinema chain, known for showing indie and foreign-language films, saying it already pays the London living wage if breaks are taken into account.
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This year, the Democratic Party of Virginia unanimously approved resolutions supporting a move to 100 percent renewable energy and embracing the Green New Deal, an ambitious plan to tackle climate change and provide living-wage guarantees.
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A new study from Good Jobs Nation - Promises Broken #1 - shows that Trump's federal government funds more than 4.5 million jobs in the private sector that pay less than a living wage of $15 per hour.
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The AFWA will call on the International Labour Organization at its conference next month to adopt its recommendations for global standards for supply chains that include the recognition of a living wage as a human right.
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Sportswear giant Adidas came top with 87 out of 100 points in the ranking that used public information on practices and policies on issues such as transparency, forced labor and the living wage to rank companies.
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But group operating profit before exceptional items, depreciation and amortisation fell 5 percent to 59.7 million pounds ($75.53 million) as introduction of the national living wage, increased property costs and general cost inflation hurt the company.
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Rising housing prices, a decrease in labor and service positions that pay a living wage, individuals patterned behavior in utilizing money, educational, and policy barriers have created the largest race wealth opportunity gap of our time.
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And yet, Mr. Obama has stopped short of ordering federal contractors to adhere to what labor advocates call "model employer" standards, which include paying a living wage, providing benefits and letting workers form unions without reprisal.
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" He explained that 40 percent "of American workers earn less than $15 an hour, and about 5 percent of full-time American workers earn the minimum wage or less, which is certainly not a living wage.
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Flint, Michigan was a prosperous city, but then what happened is corporate America said why do I want to pay somebody in Michigan a living wage when I can pay slave wages in Mexico or China?
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But the University of Washington study is an unusually meticulous look at an issue that has come to the fore in recent years with the Fight for $15 and other campaigns to establish a living wage.
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Just as the Bill of Rights guarantees people political rights, every person should have basic economic rights: quality health care, a good education, a good job with a living wage and a clean environment, he said.
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Care work platforms also do not take responsibility for enforcing minimum wage laws; they could, as advocacy groups recommend, set a minimum price for a living wage, such as $15 an hour in a metropolitan area.
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While the president was talking up armaments and bonuses for teachers who volunteer for weapons training, dispirited educators in West Virginia walked out of their schools, seeking what they say would be simply a living wage.
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The choices I've made that make me safe—to go to college (twice), to live in downtown Halifax, to work for political organizations that pay me a living wage—are choices that were available to me.
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At the time, nearly 1,000 workers at Harvard made less than $10.68 an hour (a little more than $3.73 today), the "living wage" wage minimum set by the city of Cambridge for some of its contractors.
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"The House has got to continue going forward, raising the minimum wage to a living wage, making sure that all of our people have health care, dealing with climate change, dealing with voter suppression," Sanders said.
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The second-chance students featured in Andrew Cohn's compassionate documentary "Night School" have such modest goals — a living wage, a sense of self-worth — that the hurdles they must clear to achieve them seem shockingly daunting.
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Everlane — often cited as a leader in affordable sustainability — rates as "Not Good Enough" on the watchdog app Good on You due to a lack of clear evidence surrounding water use reduction and living wage protections.
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For example, Obama says that he cares about kids all over the world receiving a decent education, people being able to find jobs that pay a living wage and conserving environmental resources for the next generation.
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LONDON, May 30 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The world's top clothing brands are failing to fulfil their own promises to pay workers a fair living wage that covers basic family needs, academics and activists said on Thursday.
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"We are asking for a living wage and for U.S.A. Hockey to fully support its programs for women and girls and stop treating us like an afterthought," the team captain, Meghan Duggan, said in a statement.
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To illustrate how these numbers vary across the U.S., Zippia mapped out what a living wage would be, or how much you would need to earn to live "comfortably" (above the poverty line) in every state.
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The contract also swapped pensions with 22018ks for new hires, put an end to cost of living wage increases, and implemented a four-year wage freeze and a hefty 1.63 percent health care cost-sharing requirement.
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He diverted precious energies from his plans to spend the summer in Washington to travel several times to Memphis, where he spoke in support of over 1,000 black garbage workers on strike for a living wage.
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Today we see efforts to push through other core parts of the equality project through state and local sites, including immigration reform, policing, sentencing, health insurance, and the living wage movement, just to name a few.
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The plan also commits $1.3 trillion to ensure that workers in the fossil fuel and other carbon intensive industries receive strong benefits, a living wage, training, and job placement as the country moves away from fossil fuels.
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In a statement responding to the report, a company spokesperson told us: Deliveroo is proud to offer flexible well-paid work where riders on average earn well over £10 an hour, well above the National Living Wage.
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"Today, we have laid a marker down that every Virginian can work hard, earn a living wage, and live their lives without fear of discrimination based on who they are or who they love," she added. Gov.
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Other recommendations, such as paying drivers a living wage and making payroll tax contributions to workers compensation, social security, and unemployment insurance, will be a tougher hill to climb to those advocating for a more ethical Uber.
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Apparently because Amazon doesn't pay enough for a living wage and the employees, a few of which work more than 60 hours a week, would rather sleep in a tent than pay to commute home each day.
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It also pays nearly all of its workers a living wage and is one of the top three highest-paying companies, on average, in the industry — adjusted for job title and location, according to the non-profit.
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For a limited period of time, and in three regions across the province, the government will be giving people a living wage, for free and with no strings attached, and seeing how the hell it goes, eh?
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In April a "national living wage" comes into force, under which the minimum wage will rise from its current level of £6.70 an hour to around £9 an hour (equal to 60% of median earnings) by 123.
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Sanders believes all kinds of insane things, like that people deserve a living wage and that health care is a right—oh, and that Donald Trump is a liar: President Trump cannot continue to lie, lie, lie.
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Amazon will deliver most anything to your door within two days—or perhaps even two hours, if you live in one of the wealthiest cities in America—but doesn't pay many of its workers a living wage.
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As the idea sinks in that humans as workhorses might also be on the way out, what happens if the job market stops doing the job of providing a living wage for hundreds of millions of people?
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But you listened to Hillary's acceptance speech and you heard the voice of Bernie Sanders — expand Social Security, free college, new infrastructure spending, plus a call for a living wage and a jab at "unfair" trade deals.
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Alva heard about the organizing coalition Gig Workers Rising (GWR)—a group largely composed of Uber and Lyft drivers fighting for a living wage and benefits, transparency, and a voice at the workplace—and decided to join.
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The company does pay artists to work — and making a living wage as an artist in America is hard in normal times, let alone when what little public funding there is for the arts is under siege.
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But setting a floor for the minimum wage has gained popularity among Democrats since the financial crisis, and insurgent 2016 presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has made a $15 federal "living wage" a key part of his platform.
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Workers scoff at the company's assertions that they pay a living wage—due to a complicated commission system that most workers don't understand, employees may sometimes make up to $15 an hour, but rates are not standardized.
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Everyone feels as if they could always use a little more money, but for people under a certain threshold — commonly referred to as a living wage — the issue isn't just a matter of desire, but of survival.
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Gray describes himself as a "Democratic capitalist," which, he said, means: support businesses to invest in town — because there are no employees without employers — make sure they pay people a living wage and don't damage the environment.
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So when H&M declared in November 2013 that it would deliver a "fair living wage" to more than 850,000 workers across 750 factories by the end of 2018, the announcement was nothing short of a bombshell.
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A Whole Foods Market had opened across from their neighborhood Family Dollar, rents in Durham had doubled and the basic living wage to provide for a family their size had risen to more than $34 an hour.
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A more thoughtful regime would ensure that all drivers make a living wage by establishing a minimum fare for riders, and a standardized share of that fare for drivers, regardless of what kind of car they drive.
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"All of the hardworking men and women who keep our city's private and public cultural institutions safe and secure deserve a living wage, decent benefits, and a voice in the workplace," said DC 20173 spokesman Rudy Orozco.
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" Seth Stein, deputy press secretary for the mayor's office, said in a statement Friday: "No legal challenge changes the fact that Uber made congestion on our roads worse and paid their drivers less than a living wage.
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Rather, disagreements over the government's role in health care or whether the U.S. should guarantee a job with a living wage may be more likely to surface as Democrats jostle to challenge President Donald Trump in 2020.
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Amazon can protest that it's actually doing more than almost any other company for average citizens — offering consumers low prices and infinite selection and creating tons of living-wage jobs in economically depressed parts of the country.
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The company was also criticized by the Clean Clothes campaign last year, which said H&M had not met a 2013 commitment made to ensure suppliers would pay a living wage to 850,000 textile workers by 2018.
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Shareholder activism, employee ownership structures and equitable profit-sharing are all underappreciated strategies to help ensure that employees earn a living wage, receive adequate benefits and have wealth-building opportunities — all while the company turns a profit.
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All too often, charitable gifts are used not only to help those who can't help themselves but to make up for the failure of companies to pay people a living wage and treat their workers with dignity.
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Had Mr. Modi heeded the dissenters, India could have saved about 2.6 billion euros — a sum that is significant for a country where tens of millions are deprived of a living wage, nutrition, schooling and health care.
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And when you cry out that they can't make a profit while paying a living wage, keep in mind that right now the company has never been more profitable, and is paying record compensation out to management.
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" Ocasio-Cortez fired back on Twitter, saying: "The GOP is so disconnected from the basic idea that people should be paid enough to live that Fox actually thinks me paying a living wage in my office is 'communism.
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But when conversation turns to the so-called "fair living wage," the tone shifts: several factory workers begin firing off laundry lists of life's necessities - food, shelter, education, health care - and their prices in an onslaught of discontent.
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The spokesperson pointed to a recent Oxford University study which found its drivers make £11 ($14) an hour, more than the living wage in London — £10.20 — a non-compulsory hourly rate that takes everyday living costs into consideration.
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Just as we have seen with Deliveroo, this race to the bottom is not inevitable which is drivers' calls for the London Living Wage, plus costs, is a significant step forward for a whole sector of the economy.
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Through a quirk in its permit with the county, Sky Chefs is bound only by the state minimum wage, which, at $19813, is $21981 below the number set for an hourly wage by the county's living wage commission.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez set her sights this week on a longtime D.C. issue barely any members of Congress have addressed in the past: the archaic tradition of unpaid internships and refusal to offer paid staffers a living wage.
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Just in parts of the country that the government is trying to help develop and grow through its devolution agenda, so I think it's the unforeseen consequences that I think are an issue around the national living wage.
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In addition, payroll costs will rise due to the introduction of the National Living Wage in April 2016, which is not adequately compensated by the local authorities' increase in fees, especially for the Community Base Care Services division.
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"This proposal is an important step in our effort to achieve a living wage for all Central Florida hospitality workers, BUT we need to consider it with caution," the unions told Disney World employee members in a statement.
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In a statement, Steyer said he would urge Democrats to unite behind the right to vote, rights to clean air and water, universal pre-kindergarten and access to college, a living wage and the right to health care.
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The legislation would require employers with more than 28503 workers to either pay a living wage or reimburse the federal government for the services, such as public housing and Medicaid, that their workers rely on to sustain themselves.
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They will also have to put Clinton, union organizers and money behind his issues, creating a permanent movement based inside the party for a living wage, for lower-cost college education and a sharper critique of Wall Street.
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In a country where more than half the population of 2240 million are under the age of 19893, many of the protesters are young men and women struggling to find jobs that could pay them a living wage.
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"Ocasio-Cortez told the enthusiastic crowd that it was Sanders' 2016 primary bid that inspired her "to question and assert and recognize my inherent value as a human being that deserves healthcare, housing, education, and a living wage.
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The inequities hardwired into our economy, such as jobs that do not pay a living wage and the lack of health insurance for millions of workers, leave many of our fellow men and women at far greater risks.
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"That's why in the long term, we're urging the government to ensure benefit payments reflect the true cost of living and work is secure, paying the real living wage, to help ensure we are all anchored from poverty."
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"A living wage benchmark quantifies what workers need to live decently, so that they can support a family above the poverty line and still be able to have some discretionary spending and the ability to save," she says.
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The company I work for does a lot of "fun" things for its employees — weekly meals, sponsoring intramural sports teams for its employees — yet does not actively support its workers with offering a comparable, and sustainable, living wage.
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While the march was initially conceived as a protest against his presidency, the organizers of the DC event developed an official platform detailing a variety of progressive goals, from reproductive justice to a living wage for all workers.
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Opponents of the telescope say they are tired of having their land taken for purposes that benefit others and for the often elusive promise of jobs that fail to deliver in terms of numbers or a living wage.
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Prison follows you and the stigma creates insurmountable barriers leaving most without access to a job that pays a living wage, the opportunity to build a career, or all the other basics, like housing, healthcare, and community participation.
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She argues persuasively that the growth of the for-profit sector is a rational response to a service economy in which there are fewer living-wage jobs, and employers invest less and less in training their work forces.
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Instead, the senator pushed the commissioner to not shut down minor league teams, as well as called for the league to pay minor league players "a living wage" and make it easier for them to join a union.
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Unlike other startup care providers, Lifted directly employs its carers and pays the London Living Wage, which is 20% above the market average for hourly care and is enabled by operational savings achieved by using a technology platform.
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Focusing on just one or two of the pillars could have unintended consequences, she said; for instance, a program that subsidized child care and set quality standards could come at the expense of a living wage for providers.
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"We demand living wage fares, no pool fares, protection from exploitation, union representation," read one big green sign held up by one Uber driver, a middle-aged black man with a tan jacket and blue pork pie hat.
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This included figuring out how to pay her employees a living wage as a small business with little capital, and integrating into a Latinx neighborhood by keeping price points and language accessible to customers from all walks of life.
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Even if Democrats can figure out how to pass a $15 minimum wage, that isn't a number that will wipe out poverty or even lead to a living wage -- enough to cover a worker's expenses -- everywhere in the country.
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So the solution to Delman's problem is that the governments have to say that all companies in the apparel industry have to disclose their carbon footprint, their water footprint and whether they're paying a living wage to their employees.
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"Workers who joined UberEATS on the offer of £20 per hour have been dismayed by this rapid drop to insecure piece rates and are demanding a guaranteed pay equal to the London Living Wage," it says in a statement.
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While Georgia Republicans block black people from voting, stagnate the minimum wage, and make it harder for people to access health care, Abrams champions universal voter registration, a living wage, and Medicaid expansion to improve Georgians' quality of life.
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There are problems of little or no public transportation, fewer jobs that pay a living wage for those without college degrees, and fewer social service "safety nets" that tend to be more robust in cities, experts on poverty say.
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She's had to confront everything from criticisms of her tone to her coach just to get in the UFC and a chance to fight for a living wage—all while Dana White himself took cheap shots at her appearance.
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Cabin crew from across Europe earlier this month published a list of 34 demands on July 4, including "a fair living wage", improved sick pay and employment contracts in their own language, based on local rather than Irish law.
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They were telling me how they understood that Uber drivers don't get paid a living wage—but that once the government instituted a guaranteed minimum income, then it wouldn't matter that the drivers don't get paid enough to live!
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Add in the new "national living wage", which is coming into force in April and is worth £7.20 ($10.20) an hour for workers who are 25 or older, and wage growth may pick up again in the coming months.
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Those students will likely need to work to support themselves through their education, even with tuition removed as a factor, and working enough hours to earn a living wage while attending school full-time is incredibly difficult and exhausting.
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Alberto Durango, general secretary for CAIWU, said that this contract setup means that Google is still able to boast that its cleaners are being paid the London Living Wage of £10.55 an hour ($13), even as their workload doubled.
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"There are no jobs in Portugal," said Mr. Graca, who was hoping to be promoted to barista, which pays £9.20 an hour, more than Pret's base pay of £8.50 and higher than the £7.20 rate considered a living wage.
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But freelancers earning a living wage face a tough choice: either stomach the higher monthly premiums or forego insurance all together, which can cost you tens of thousands of dollars or more if you have an unexpected medical emergency.
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The Fringe is a huge and complex institution, and many workers I spoke to were also quick to point out that its program includes a number of venues that are living wage accredited and where workers enjoy excellent conditions.
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"We need to help people understand the interconnected challenges so many of our neighbors face," like childcare, education, housing and earning a living wage, Sam Cobbs, president of Tipping Point, which fights poverty in the Bay Area, tells Axios.
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My fellow workers and I organized our union with SEIU Healthcare Illinois & Indiana for a pathway out of poverty — in the hope that, through collective bargaining, we could finally earn a living wage and attract more home care workers.
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Three times within the past four years I've lived in my 36-year-old car that has more than 400,000 miles on it, because I could not find affordable rental housing or a job that paid a living wage.
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In an industry fueled by cheap labor - mainly young women - the concept of a fair living wage aims for workers to move beyond living from paycheck to paycheck, where a single accident or emergency can plunge a family into financial crisis.
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Five years on, at their "Fair Living Wage Summit" in Phnom Penh last week, H&M reported that it had exceeded targets for workers who had been educated on how to earn more and for employees who could elect their representatives.
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Somehow we doubt that an audience of actual Capitol Hill staffers — people who work long hours and don't always make a living wage — would have been as amused, although they might have laughed along politely so as to keep their jobs.
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If a potential employer knows how much you made at your last job, they can decide how much you're worth in their employ, regardless of other factors — like experience and a living wage — that should play a much more important role.
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Whether or not these companies are or have been intentionally misusing their workers' tip funds, the public outrage brings to light a deeper issue: Many workers in the new on-demand app economy are not being paid a consistent living wage.
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A coalition of labor groups and stakeholders recently put forward a series of recommendations to make Uber a more ethical company, such as paying drivers a living wage and making payroll tax contributions to workers compensation, social security, and unemployment insurance.
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Firms would have to prove that an average person, working "averagely hard", is able to earn the national living wage, which stands at 7.50 pounds ($9.65) an hour for the over-25s, with a 20 percent margin of error, it said.
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The work also draws a connection between Hong Kong, the United Kingdom, and the Philippines; many Filipinos head to Hong Kong, a former British colony, to be domestic workers because they can't make a living wage in their own country.
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A study* of drivers in London finds that they earn around £11 ($14.50) an hour (after costs), more than the living wage, and more than a third of them vary their working hours by more than 50% from week to week.
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"Unless there are dramatic changes to the district's approach, including spending more money on students and for nurses and counselors, lower class size, and a living wage that will keep Oakland teachers in the classrooms, we will strike," Brown said.
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Drivers for ride-hailing apps like Uber and Lyft will be guaranteed a minimum pay rate of around $17 an hour in New York City thanks to a new set of rules aimed at securing workers' right to a living wage.
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King might have become known as a former civil-rights leader who peddled crackpot plans for a living wage, job guarantees and the redistribution of land and capital—ideas that have gained ground lately, but are still outside the political mainstream.
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A report by the Texas Commission on Public School Finance, released in December, concluded that the state was failing roughly four out of five Texas pupils every year, who were leaving school without the qualifications to earn a living wage.
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While Sri Lanka is generally considered to have better working conditions than other clothing-producing countries such as Bangladesh or Pakistan, campaigners say a living wage in the country should be 48,608 rupees ($332), over three times the legal minimum.
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Its factory in India pays its workers a living wage, in addition to providing benefits like paid holiday leave, sick pay, medical insurance, and overtime pay, as well as free schooling for their children and free transportation to and from work.
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While the men's team players are famous, adored, and richly rewarded, the women — despite winning the World Cup without conceding a single goal — mop the floors in their own changing rooms and barely make a living wage from their professional careers.
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While many driver groups applaud the move, some vocal critics say they use Uber because they're not required to tip, and others argue over the merits of tipping in general, saying they'd rather Uber just pay their drivers a living wage.
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Though Tate's entry-level assistant curator salary works out to £2185 (~$2000) per hour before taxes, comfortably over the London Living Wage of £212 (~$153) per hour, it amounts to just half of the average London salary of £215,2880 (~$210,500).
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Notably, a UK tribunal ruled in October 2016 that Uber employees were entitled to holiday pay, sick leave, rest breaks and the National Living Wage, a ruling that Uber is now appealing and claiming that its drivers are sole traders.
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Charles Schumer, a New York Democrat, and Bernie Sanders, a Vermont independent who is running for president on the Democratic ticket, unveiled a plan that would force companies engaging in repurchases to pay a living wage and provide health-care benefits.
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The NHS is set to receive more than £254 billion in extra funding, higher education tuition fees are to be scrapped and a new £22015 ($163) an hour minimum living wage is to be introduced by 216, according to the party.
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Kern said there was little point in creating jobs that do not pay a living wage, but he had no interest in jeopardizing the coalition as snap elections would most likely propel the far-right Freedom Party (FPO) into the chancellery.
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And the rise of digital platforms from food to taxi apps where workers lack proper contracts and social protections means that key rights such as a living wage, trade unionization and fair working conditions are under growing threat, Burrow added.
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Ask candidates where they stand and what they will do to help more Americans earn a living wage, earn more than their parents and earn enough that they can save for a down payment, qualify for a mortgage and afford it.
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Second, putting workers first – paying a fair and living wage, eliminating discrimination in pay, and providing a safe workplace – is over twice as important as job creation alone and nearly four times as important as the needs of shareholders and managers.
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If the intricacies of a living wage weren't enough to grapple with, there is also the notion of the minimum wage — that is, the lowest wage that a country's local or federal government says employers are legally bound pay their workers.
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But more important than a modest tax cut, he said, was for the government to be helping to create living wage jobs and training programs and thinking about how profound changes in the economy, like automation, would affect working-class people.
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When it comes to paying gig workers a living wage, it is actually cheaper for these companies to each spend tens of millions to fight a bill that would cost them hundreds of millions in some of their largest markets.
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When players pass go, they get a $50 "living wage" as opposed to the usual $200, and the tokens are all dated artifacts like a typewriter, a phonograph, a pocket watch, an old-fashioned telephone and an old-style TV set.
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"Since the 1970s, steady work that pays a predictable and living wage has become increasingly difficult to find," said Jonathan Morduch, a director of the U.S. Financial Diaries project, an in-depth study of 235 low- and moderate-income households.
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Before DACA, there were several struggles to obtaining this college education, including having to pay out of state tuition — despite having resided in Arizona for 220006 years — not having a driver's license, and unattainable jobs that paid a living wage.
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A living wage is supposed to cover the cost of normal family life - from rent and food to healthcare - plus allow for modest savings and be paid within a normal working week, according to the Clean Clothes Campaign, a pressure group.
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The researchers said there was "widespread inconsistency and confusion" among firms over the definition of a living wage, with many passing the buck by outsourcing vows on better pay to external schemes that are out of step with their own policies.
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"A lot of people think giving up a million dollar a year salary and millions in profit is an unreasonable sacrifice to pay a living wage and give small businesses white glove service," Price wrote in an Instagram post on Wednesday.
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As a result, Trump's most glaring whoppers—such as his ludicrous suggestion last April that wind turbines cause cancer—appear no different than Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's contention that it's morally wrong to pay people less than a living wage.
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"The PWHPA and the NWHL have the same goal in mind, which is to create a viable women's professional hockey league that can provide a living wage for its players and good working conditions and growth opportunities," Arnone told Reuters.
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The junior senator from New York has been outspoken about her support for the public option, her support for a living wage and most recently, her criticism of Trump's executive order restricting transgender Americans from serving in the U.S. military.
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Money spent on drug testing poor people — or on ensuring recipients of housing subsidies or Medicaid are fulfilling work requirements — would be better spent on affordable housing, increased child care subsidies, and the creation of jobs that pay a living wage.
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The 59-year-old philanthropist and filmmaker, who is the granddaughter of Walt Disney Company co-founder Roy Disney, blasted corporate executives Wednesday for their "addiction" to money and the "extreme unfairness" of paying their workers less than a living wage.
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