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According to the Wage Project, African American women earn only 66.8c for every dollar a white man earns.
On Sunday, Citizens UK, the community organisation behind the Living Wage project, said the number of companies paying the rate had more than doubled in the past year.
In New York, the minimum wage is $7.25, far below the $11.86 an hour it takes to actually live in the city, according to the Living Wage Project.
American Association of University Women: excellent list of resources and action steps National Committee on Pay Equity: extensive list of studies and practice guidelines The Institute for Women's Policy Research Catalyst The Women's Law Center The Working Mother Research Institute The National Partnership for Women and Families Momsrising The Wage Project.
According to economists at The Wage Project, over the course of her lifetime a woman will earn, on average, this much less for her work than a man of comparable education: If she has a high school degree she will earn $700K less; a college degree, $1.2 million less and, gosh, if she has a professional degree that number is in excess of $1.8 million.
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For example, skilled construction workers on prevailing wage projects are 20percentt more productive than less skilled workers on non-prevailing wage projects.
In New York, Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) failed for a third time this month to pressure Republicans in the state Senate to hold a vote on the Climate and Community Protection Act, a bill that requires the state to use 100percentt renewable energy by 2050 and mandates that state funding for energy projects go to low-income communities and union-wage projects.
Occasionally, they also find wage labor work in road construction and infrastructure projects in neighboring areas.
Wages for project managers in India have increased 23% per year from 2000 to 2004, while salaries for programmers have increased at a 13% pace, according to the McKinsey Global Institute.
In Los Angeles, for example, living wage opponents projected costs as high as $40 million before the ordinance was passed: actual expenditures totaled less than a tenth of that.
While the Kingsbridge Armory battle centered on wages at one project, the wage bill seeks to expand the debate to developments across the city that receive public subsidies worth more than $100,000, whether in discounted land sales, tax credits or other incentives.
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