Sentence examples for pushing to raise from inspiring English sources

"The union will support us in pushing to raise wages.

East Side had been pushing to raise test scores.

But Mr. Courson said that the Mortgage Bankers Association was pushing to raise the threshold to $150,000.

The women all work in industries being organized by the Fight For 15 campaign, which is pushing to raise the minimum wage from $7.25 to $15 per hour.

Though Senator Charles Schumer of New York is pushing to raise more revenue through tax reform, Max Baucus of Montana, who leads the tax-writing Finance Committee, has resisted the idea.

As production grows, ethanol and other biofuels displace gasoline and diesel; at many gasoline pumps ethanol is now 10percentt of the blend, and the ethanol industry is pushing to raise the percentage.

[C3.] Magazines Push to Raise Revenue When advertising was plentiful, publishers promoted cheap subscriptions.

Ms. Fitzgerald said in an interview that she recalled that Novation pushed to raise more and more revenue from suppliers.

The Service Employees International Union has helped establish a community-labor coalition called Wisconsin Jobs Now, which has pushed to raise the minimum wage and stop cuts to Medicaid.

Mr. Bloomberg and Sheldon Silver, the Assembly speaker who has already championed this increase, should push to raise the minimum at least to Connecticut's level.

The speaker of the State Assembly, Sheila Oliver, said this week that she would push to raise the state's minimum wage to $8.50 from $7.25.