In response to the rising cost of living in California, 21 cities have enacted living wage ordinances (LWVOs). Included in this group are Carge cities such as Los AngeCes, San Francisco, Sacramento and Oakland; small cities such as Sonoma and fair-fax; and medium-sized cities like Berke...
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In this paper I review what we have learned about living wage laws and their impacts on the wages, employment and poverty rates of low-wage workers. I revi... HJ Holzer - 《Social Science Electronic Publishing》 被引量: 17发表: 2008年 Supports for Low-Wage Workers or Subsidies for WalMa...
The call for a living wage: activists fighting for fair wages across the country WASHINGTON--Students at Georgetown University succeeded in winning a pay increase for campus janitorial workers after staging a nine-day hunger strike, the culmination of a three-year campaign by the George-town Livi...
The article reports that San Diego, California Mayor Dick Murphy, in a memo March 16, 2005 to four City Council members, labeled the proposed living wage ordinance bad policy at a bad time, but agreed to schedule it for consideration April 12, 2005. On March 15, 2005, council members Mic...
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and municipalities have minimum wages higher than the federal minimum wage.10These minimum hourly rates increased in 22 states in 2024 for as many as 9.9 million workers.11California and areas of New York City increased their minimum wages fornonexempt workersfrom $15.50 and $15 respectively to ...
We find no evidence of hours effects in any year. Over the first four years of the NLW we find evidence of increases in real hourly wages, but no evidence of an impact on employment retention. We do find some evidence of a reduction in the number of hours worked by male part-time ...
California Massachusetts Hawaii4 Multinational corporationsuse the cost of living to assess expatriate salary packages for international assignees. Cost of Living and Wages The rising cost of living has spurred debate over theU.S. federal minimum wageand the disparity between the lowest salary allowed ...
The chapter offers an assessment of the campaign outcomes for workers covered by living wage ordinances and the organizations involved in the movement, including ACORN. I argue that ACORN has made a significant contribution due to its ability to fight for higher wages for its own members and ...