Sentence examples for the prevailing minimum from inspiring English sources

For instance, if someone has 19 percent equity in a home — just below the prevailing minimum down payment of 20 percent — he or she must pay private mortgage insurance, which in turn raises the monthly payments.

Speaking of impact, it is no coincidence that just a day after major articles about the Fight for 15 appeared in the Associated Press and The New York Times, McDonald's -- the Fight for 15's primary target -- announced it will raise the minimum wage in corporate-owned stores to $1 an hour above the prevailing minimum wage in each location.

"The prevailing minimum wage is not high enough to afford a two-bedroom home at fair-market rent anywhere in America," the institute said in a statement.

The Alta Gracia factory has pledged to pay employees nearly three and a half times the prevailing minimum wage, based on a study done by a workers' rights group that calculated the living costs for a family of four in the Dominican Republic.

Time lost was valued at the prevailing minimum subsistence wage rate in Ghana in 2005 (i.e. 15,200 old Ghanaian Cedis/1.68 US$ per day).

Here, MW represents the prevailing minimum-wage, and X is a vector of other independent variables.

Baskaya and Rubinstein (2012) find that when the interaction between the federal minimum wage variation and the propensity for the federal minimum wage to bind in a state is used as an instrumental variable for the prevailing state minimum wage, stronger negative disemployment effects result compared to the standard panel data estimator.

In 2010, 1.8 million hourly workers earned exactly the prevailing federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour, according to federal data.

Nevada raises its rate during the summer, and although Missouri has a cost-of-living adjustment, this year it will not push the state rate above the prevailing federal minimum wage of $7.25.

Most of the company's workers were secured through those advertisements and were each paid the minimum of the prevailing wage, even though the jobs they were doing required they be paid higher wages, the attorney general's office said.

VF Corporation: The North Face The corporation behind The North Face, Timberland and Vans included in its code of conduct that it would pay "legally mandated minimum standards or the prevailing industry wage, whichever is higher".