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A 15 $ Minimum-Wage – Would yield $17.08 worth of purchasing power in Macon, Georgia, but only $12.26 in New York City
Price disparities can make a big difference when it comes to comparing wages. When we discussed this subject in a previous post, we found that a $15 nationwide minimum wage would yield $17.08 worth of purchasing power in Macon, Georgia, but only $12.26 in New York City, once the differing price levels in the two cities were taken … Continue reading
Low Paid Workers in Scotland – What matters to low paid workers in relation to decent work
The nature, experience, security and rewards from work have changed significantly in recent decades. Increasingly, large numbers of people experience work which is insecure and which is paid at levels which do not allow families to live above the poverty line. In Scotland, around half of working age adults experiencing poverty live in working households. Discussions … Continue reading
UK – Ikea to pay workers at least a living wage in 2016
Ikea has become the first national retailer to announce its commitment to the Living Wage. The home furnishing retailer will adopt the Living Wage from April and predicts more than 50% of its 9,000 employees will be impacted by the wage increase. All UK-based colleagues will receive a minimum of £7.85 per hour and £9.15 … Continue reading
Minimum Wages and Living Wages in US / A map
The map and chart below show how close each state’s new minimum wage comes to reaching a living wage, meaning one in which a worker can cover food, housing, utilities and other basic expenses. In some cases it\’s not very far at all: Many of the states that raised their wage floors Wednesday still have … Continue reading
US / A small, and shrinking, proportion of jobs pay enough for families to make ends meet finds the 2013 Job Gap Report by the Alliance for a Just Society
The Alliance for a Just Society’s 15th annual Job Gap Study examines employment opportunities and outcomes nationally, in 10 states (Colorado, Connecticut, Idaho, Florida, Maine, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Virginia and Washington State), and in New York City Continue reading
DC / Mayor Gray vetoes ‘living wage’ bill
Mayor Vincent C. Gray vetoed legislation Thursday that would force the District’s largest retailers to pay their workers significantly more Continue reading
The Fight for Higher Wages
Let’s face it. Something’s broken here in an economy that serves up low wages to significant numbers of adults whose families depend on their earnings (the typical worker earning between the minimum wage and $10 an hour earns half of his or her family’s income; 88 percent are adults). And something’s broken when the media and … Continue reading
US / Fast-food workers on strike for a ‘living wage’
Fast-food workers went on strike and protested outside McDonald’s, Burger King and other restaurants in 60 U.S. cities on Thursday, in the largest protest of an almost year-long campaign to raise service sector wages. Rallies were held in cities from New York to Oakland and stretched into the South, historically difficult territory for organized labor. … Continue reading
President Obama / Call for a Living Wage
“And now is the time to make sure that we are putting in place a minimum wage that you can live on — (applause) — because 60 percent of those making the minimum wage are women.” President Obama’s call for the minimum wage to be increased to a living wage was very important. The living … Continue reading
Germany / Low Wage Workers Dependent on Welfare Benefits
Germany’s low unemployment rate is the envy of much of Europe. Yet it masks the difficulties many working Germans have in making ends meet and their reliance on welfare benefits. The issue could become important as the election campaign heats up. Despite Germany’s low unemployment rate, a growing number of the working poor in the … Continue reading
UK / Poll shows public support Living Wage as minimum wage standard,even if it costs jobs
The Living Wage has been one of the key tenets of Ed Miliband’s leadership of the Labour Party, and was one of his keynote policies during the leadership contest. But Miliband has always argued that the Living Wage should be different from the minimum wage – and the Resolution Foundation/IPPR agreed. I still thought that … Continue reading
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