Sentence examples for wage pushing from inspiring English sources

Laith Khalaf, senior analyst, said: "Paying more for cappuccinos and onion rings could be the thin end of the wedge when it comes to the living wage pushing prices up, because Whitbread won't be the only company facing these issues.

Jared Bernstein, who served in the Obama administration as executive director of the White House Task Force on the Middle Class, said many steps should be taken to increase labor's income share, including raising the minimum wage, pushing down the jobless rate, enacting laws that make it easier for workers to unionize and increasing wage subsidies for those on the bottom.

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.

Clinton had backed pushes for a $15 minimum wage in states like New York and California, which recently signed off on deals to lift wages to that amount, but has been more conservative in her advocacy for a federal minimum wage, pushing instead for $12 per hour.

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.

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.

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.

He said the proposal would hurt rather than help those on low wages, pushing low skilled workers out.

Companies like Tyson, Smithfield Foods and Conagra have profited from paying low wages, pushing production lines faster and hiring workers who are much more willing to endure the hazardous conditions of a meat-processing plant, industry experts say.