In his address to a Cosatu living-wage conference in. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Also scarce are affordable housing and living-wage jobs. From Wordnik.com. [The truth behind panhandling] Reference
Especially when we lost millions of living-wage jobs for that very reason. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » ThinkFast: February 3, 2010] Reference
I hope business leaders are successful in eliminating the so-called "living-wage" ordinance. From Wordnik.com. [Mayor Sam's Hotsheet for Friday] Reference
College costs 1000% more money than it did 30 years ago, yet it's required for most living-wage jobs. From Wordnik.com. [Anya Kamenetz: What's Up With Twentysomethings? In a Word, Economics] Reference
Thousands of living-wage jobs have been permanently lost in the automotive industry and related sectors. From Wordnik.com. [Byron Williams: I'm Rooting for Detroit] Reference
We need living-wage jobs in order not to be worried and they dont 'seem to be on the horizon. forevergreen. From Wordnik.com. [One Liberal Constituency Group, Environmentalists, are Bummed, Though. « PubliCola] Reference
However, except in rare circumstances, you are unlikely to be able to make a living-wage solely from donations. From Wordnik.com. [A Bland and Deadly Courtesy] Reference
Labor-religious coalitions have worked spectacularly well: Some 125 municipalities have passed living-wage laws. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of the Religious Left] Reference
“The early living-wage laws were focused on city contracting, but there has been a gradual expansion of them.”. From Wordnik.com. [Wage Wars: $10 an Hour Emerges as Make-or-Break for New Development] Reference
It wasn't until the 1970s that women were able to take certain courses and were able to apply for living-wage jobs. From Wordnik.com. [Sound Politics: It's in the P-I] Reference
The living-wage, entry-level jobs that were once open to those with a high school diploma or even less no longer exist. From Wordnik.com. [We shouldn’t have to choose] Reference
The million dollars being spent on the study could turn 174 minimum-wage jobs into full-time living-wage jobs for a year. From Wordnik.com. [Rev. Peter Goodwin Heltzel, Ph.D.: Justice Delayed Is Justice Denied: Why NYC's People of Faith Must Take Up the Living Wage Fight] Reference
We are helping a lot them with the living-wage campaigns that we have and minimum wage increase that we are trying to get. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 30, 2001] Reference
If our goverment would level the labor playing field we could return millions of living-wage manufacturing jobs to America. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » ThinkFast: February 3, 2010] Reference
In so far as that was the case, the reflexive attitude among conservatives was anti living-wage movement and pro-free market. From Wordnik.com. [God and Man at Harvard] Reference
OF COURSE, NEW YORK would hardly be the first to put living-wage requirements on subsidized projects or government contracts. From Wordnik.com. [Wage Wars: $10 an Hour Emerges as Make-or-Break for New Development] Reference
A unionist told marchers Numsa had not yet achieved a living wage for workers, 14 years after the living-wage campaign began. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
"We don't see this campaign to increase the minimum wage as a living-wage campaign," Granich said about the Missouri struggle. From Wordnik.com. [Raising the minimum wage is a national battle] Reference
Press their governments to take care of their own people, provide living-wage jobs, share the wealth of their natural resources. From Wordnik.com. [Huckabee: I'm Against Illegal Immigration, But I'm Not A Lunatic About It] Reference
On May 8, 2007, Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley became the first governor in the United States to sign living-wage legislation. From Wordnik.com. [Gerald McEntee: Good News in the Battle for Better Wages] Reference
Our country's economic policies fostered the replacement of lifetime living-wage jobs with temporary employment at poverty wages. From Wordnik.com. [Joel Berg: Dr. King's Other Dream: Ending Poverty] Reference
When you push for a living-wage law because it will benefit businesses, you can lose out to the advantages of paying poverty wages. From Wordnik.com. [They Should Get a Union] Reference
I would say that among campus conservatives, there was a reflexive sense that the people leading the living-wage movement were our enemies. From Wordnik.com. [God and Man at Harvard] Reference
The Bloomberg administration was involved in days of negotiations in Kingsbridge and consistently pushed back against a living-wage requirement. From Wordnik.com. [Wage Wars: $10 an Hour Emerges as Make-or-Break for New Development] Reference
And, as you write in the book, you consider yourself the kind of conservative who would be sympathetic to the demands of the living-wage campaign. From Wordnik.com. [God and Man at Harvard] Reference
Yet his many supporters in organized labor expect him to hang tough on the living-wage ordinance, which they'd like to see extended still further. From Wordnik.com. [Mayor Sam's Hotsheet for Wednesday] Reference
The trained workforce needed to manage these new, sustainable forests would mean thousands of new living-wage jobs, most of them in the countryside. From Wordnik.com. [A Tree Grows in Haiti] Reference
More than 100 cities nationwide have passed some sort of living-wage requirement, part of a larger movement throughout the country in the past 15 years. From Wordnik.com. [Wage Wars: $10 an Hour Emerges as Make-or-Break for New Development] Reference
“With the Recovery Act funding, we have supported and sustained thousands of living-wage jobs while greatly improving our communities,” Gregoire said. From Wordnik.com. [Interior Secretary Salazar, Gov. Gregoire Mark Recovery Act Anniversary in Seattle���s Discovery Park] Reference
Women in commerce, who, past their first youth, have to look forward to a narrow living-wage without prospect of increase, are obsessed with a sense of injustice in life. From Wordnik.com. [G.K.'s Weekly - Wanted - More Homes] Reference
The mayor spoke to the need to attract tourists, college graduates and white-collar entrepreneurs, but we heard nothing about how we can create living-wage jobs for New Yorkers. From Wordnik.com. [Brad Lander: NYC Council Progressive Caucus Responds to Bloomberg's State of the City Address] Reference
As living-wage manufacturing jobs were replaced by poverty-wage service sector jobs -- or by no jobs at all -- the federal anti-poverty safety net was sliced away, piece by piece. From Wordnik.com. [Joel Berg: To Prove Bi-Partisanship, End U.S. Hunger] Reference
ACORN's living-wage campaign is more likely to benefit unions than the poor. From Wordnik.com. [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]]
But, combined with Issa's living-wage idea, Eskow concedes that Issa's approach is. From Wordnik.com. [AltWeeklies.com Site Feed] Reference
Von Rock's council goals are to improve Kelso's livability and attract living-wage jobs. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Pittsburgh City Council tables living-wage bill proposal today to postpone for three weeks action on a recently-proposed living wage bill. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Business News] Reference
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