Sentence examples for wage push from inspiring English sources

D.C. Working Families launched its wage push in November, ahead of the council vote, in what many say was a bid to influence the council debate.

As the efficiency of search in the formal sector increases by less than the efficiency of search in the informal sector is reduced, the informal sector wage push will dominate the formal sector wage moderation.

A 41-year-old economics teacher at Seattle Central Community College, Sawant had made the minimum wage push central to her campaign to unseat a 16-year incumbent.

Raising the minimum wage pushes the burden onto corporations and consumers, and it could also have some broader ramifications.

Messrs Card and Krueger no longer insist that the higher minimum wage pushed employment up; they have settled for saying that (contrary to the standard model) it "probably had no effect".

In fact, the ballot measure proposals are even lower than the minimum wage pushed by the White House, Senator Tom Harkin and Representative George Miller.

Professor Neumark has clashed with liberals in the past over minimum-wage increases after conducting studies that found that raising the minimum wage pushes up unemployment and often helps middle-class teenagers instead of the poor.

Maybe they will do something novel, like endorse a "Worker's Bill of Rights" that raises the minimum wage, pushes back against anti-union laws, and places new penalties on companies that outsource jobs.

Perez, too, has stumped for a higher minimum wage, pushing President Barack Obama's proposal announced in February to raise it to $9 per hour and peg it to inflation.

Most economists think minimum wages push up unemployment.

Pay has stagnated, so more people on negligible wages push up tax credits.