Sentence examples for wage spread from inspiring English sources

The root problem here is that the credits are targeted on poor working families with more mouths to feed, whereas the tax allowance and minimum wage spread money much more thinly across a far wider group.

While the wage spread between the high end and the middle was $707 a week in the fall of 1999, it had widened to $790 in this year's first quarter, adjusted for inflation.

34 Effects of mandated wage floors on wages above the floor are also sometimes interpreted as "ripple effects" to capture more direct effects on wages as, for example, employers preserve wage spreads between workers.

But even if betting on a $15 minimum wage spreading to every large American city in the near future is a bit sanguine, the idea itself should creep toward the political mainstream over the next few years.

However, it is also possible that word of the dramatically increased wages spread locally to prospective employees during the hiring period, potentially attracting more motivated workers who may have been less depressed to begin with.

The obstacles before organized labor affect non-union workers too, because union wage hikes spread to non-unionized workplaces.

A mutiny by Bolivian police officers demanding wage increases spread across the nation on Friday, with about 4,000 officers occupying their barracks.

As $15 wage ordinances spread across the country and raised the market price of labor, these firms moved forward on their own, spreading the campaign even further.

The caliphate is supposed to return its denizens to ultra-conservative, hyper-traditional ways of living, yet it relies on modern technologies and weaponry to wage and spread jihad.

A remarkable interactive map launched by Citizens UK on Sunday shows how the living wage is spreading across the UK.

The strong hints that the conference would deliver support for a better minimum wage and spreading the living wage came to nothing – dashing hopes of an all-party consensus.