Among lower-wage workers this year, only 9% said they felt stress-free on the job.
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Every year, my company hires hundreds of minimum wage workers for seasonal campground management jobs.
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The idea is to reach more low-wage workers, women, and people who recently entered the workforce.
The payment of benefits to top up the income of low-wage workers does raise thorny issues.
The most important flaw in this myth is that low wage workers actually do pay taxes.
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On the other side, we have the minimum-wage workers, who are getting a 20% increase in income.
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The blast killed mostly daily wage workers, police constables at the scene told The Wall Street Journal.
The final bill removed a cap on how much high-wage workers could benefit from the tax cut.
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Gary Becker, a Nobel prize-winning economist, thinks a loan system will create accessibility to low-wage workers.
And because there still aren't enough job seekers in some places, pay for low-wage workers is going up.
This particular forum highlighted the unique flexibility needs of low wage workers to manage their work and life.
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The money that is now going to be paid to those minimum wage workers must come from somewhere.
It toppled on a row of shanties in which garments and daily wage workers were sleeping, reports said.
After 2014, we'll be enrolling as many as 17 million additional low-wage workers in the country in Medicaid.
Other innovations, such as a credit for hiring household help, are designed to spur demand for low-wage workers.
Because women make up two-thirds of minimum wage workers in this country.
Fisman notes that the study is obviously framed around low-wage workers and a cash bonus that is quite small.
This is particularly important when addressing the flexibility needs of low wage workers.
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Pay for low-wage workers can rise in the short term after a disaster because of high demand, according to economists.
He said 83 percent of minimum wage workers are teenagers or adults earning a second income, not heads of households.
Although several states already have higher minimum-wage pay levels in place, the national rate sets the base for many low-wage workers.
In addition, raising a state's minimum wage does not require tax increases, since the exchange is between employers and low-wage workers.
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This refundable tax credit, which in effect tops up the earnings of low-wage workers, is already America's single biggest anti-poverty programme.
There are significant downsides to using technology to replace low-wage workers, too.
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You have to keep in mind that a generation or two of low skilled, minimum wage workers creates a poverty illiteracy cycle.
The study also reports that minimum wage workers tend to be young.
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The hitch is that, once this credit is in place, companies would have little incentive to offer health insurance to their low-wage workers.
Next, since higher-paid workers want to hold on to their jobs, they would not be as likely to steal as lower-wage workers might.
There are some big arguments about whether or not to give tax credits to low-wage workers who pay payroll taxes on Social Security and Medicare.
Low wage workers who value their jobs can simply work harder.
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