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A living wage is a wage that allows a person to afford a basic standard of living. A living wage is often higher than the minimum wage and the definition of the standard of living enabled by a living wage is culturally dependent. A living wage description often encompasses the ability to afford housing, food, utilities, transport, health care, and some recreation, working an average of forty hours per week. Keywords standard of living, quality of life, afford, basic needs, housing, food, transport, utilities, health care, dependents, minimum wage, workers, employees, labor equality, equal pay, poverty, low income, advocacy, raising awareness, ordinances, legislation, employment law |
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"Extreme poverty can be ended, not in the time of our grandchildren, but our time." Thus forecasts Jeffrey D. Sachs, whose twenty-five years of experience observing the world from many vantage points has helped him shed light on the most vital issues facing our planet: the causes of poverty, the role of rich-country policies, and the very real possibilities for a poverty-free future. Deemed "the most important economist in the world" by The New York Times Magazine and "the world's best-known economist" by Time magazine, Sachs brings his considerable expertise to bear in the landmark The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time, his highly anticipated blueprint for world-wide economic success — a goal, he argues, we can reach in a mere twenty years.
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Living Wage Coalition of Sonoma County has created a Living Wage ordinance in Petaluma, providing living wage scale jobs at our local Sheraton Hotel and more. I hope this Coalition comes to have a profile at Wiser Earth and will suggest that. - Connie Madden
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Great work!
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We must make some thought associated with the standard of living here in our country. How can we survive in this economic predicament if our citizens can’t afford to live as how they should be. The living wage is an hourly wage or salary that grants a person a certain amount of freedom. Living wage campaigns have been going on for some time now. One of the organizations that leads the fight is ACORN, along with their buddies the Self-Help Credit Union, and the Center for Responsible Lending. All of these organizations have noble aims that they fail to deliver on in practice, like condemning subprime mortgages and payday loans. (The same mortgages they encouraged banks to lend, by the way.) Lately, ACORN has come under fire for trying to pay their employees less than even the minimum wage, which barely qualifies as the living wage they are campaigning so hard for.