Vishally Ahmed is a single mother and has worked as a nursing assistant in New York city for the past ten years. At the same point the previous year, increased her hourly rate from 10 to 15 dollars for the entire state of New York, undertook the raising of the minimum wage. She says to dagens nyheter that it is meant to be, she gets over 300 dollars a month (after tax), a difference that has made your life easier.
” I got five dollars more an hour, and there was a big difference. For a single mother, making life a lot easier. It’s always a struggle to make it, but I’ll survive now, ” says Ahmed to the ROTOR.
In several of the country’s major towns and cities, and the state has a minimum wage has been increased greatly in the last couple of years. After that, Seattle became the first metropolitan area of the city, which raised the guarantee of the minimum wage to $ 15 an hour, among other things, Chicago and Washington, D.C., and the states of California, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and New York followed suit.
New York’s governor, Andrew Cuomo. Photo credit: Kena Betancur/AFP
New York leads the fight for justice in the economy and we are proud to set the national agenda by raising wages and salaries, ” said the state’s governor, democrat Andrew Cuomo, when a pay increase was implemented.
the major companies during the last year. Now, on January 1, raised the salaries in the smaller firms, with fewer than ten employees. The increase is estimated to cover one-and-a-half million workers in the state of New York for the next year. Andrew Cuomo’s claim that the increases are already contributing to the record low levels of unemployment, less poverty, and less-stressed-out families, more workers are able to live on one salary, rather than having to take two or more jobs.
Ever since the financial crisis of 2008, there has been a wide debate about the low salaries, which force many workers to take on part-time jobs in the united states. A record number of americans-the nearly 8 million people, has more than one job, according to the U.S. authority of labor statistics.
the trade Unions, and activists have successfully campaigned in the liberal state, in the name of the Fight for 15 in order to raise the minimum wage to $ 15. They argue also that the united states was in a prosperous economy would no longer need to have workers who are forced to work two, three jobs to get by.
the substantial increase in wages to meet their everyday expenses. In October, she had no choice but to take up a second job as an assistant nurse at a hospital in New York city. She is now working seven days a week, commuting from her apartment in Staten Island to work in Manhattan. The rent is 1.100 dollars a month, a low-rent New York city, where it is subsidised by the city, but it’s a real challenge with Ahmed’s salary.
” New York city is so expensive today, that it will never feel as if I have money left over. My son has just started college and is eligible for the subsidy for low-income people, but now that my wages have been raised, I am concerned that we are going to have less of a contribution. The food, the rent, the bills, everything has become so expensive, ” says Ahmed.
with the Increase in the minimum wage pushed through by democrats in the state governments, however, have also been met with criticism from republicans, conservative pundits, and representatives of industry and advocacy groups, who have warned that it is going to lead to an increase in unemployment. New York city’s unemployment rate, however, is steady at the lowest levels since the mid-1970’s. However, the concern of many employers to hire new staff, according to several studies.
the Alliance, which represents restaurants and hotels in the united states. His organization is a vocal critic of the lönehöjningarna.
“Even if the increase has good intentions, it has resulted in the restaurants being forced to reduce employees’ working hours, lay off staff or, in some cases, even go out of business, ” says Rigie.
in restaurants, the that you’re together, then lönehöjningarna, the general trend is the opposite of the truth. According to an extensive study by the New School University in New York city restaurangindustri, which is a big part of the servicejobben have a minimum wage, flourished after the pay increase was. The numbers here exceed the national trend for the past couple of years.
“It’s hard to look at the data, we have to conclude that many, many, many restaurants to effectively adapt to the rise in wages and salaries,” said James Parrott of the New School, the University, in the course of the investigation to the public.
An investigation by the New York city Hospitality Alliance, shows that the number of jobs in the restaurant sector, fell slightly, by 1.6 per cent in the last year. Unions SEIU, which pushed the campaign to pass the wage increase, claiming that it is because of that, more and more people are able to work full-time, in-place, in order to combine the two part-time jobs as in the past.
have shown that there is a clear connection between higher minimum wages and higher unemployment. In a wide-ranging study of the 138 regions have raised the minimum wage from 1979 until 2016, the sum of the Quarterly Journal of Economics”, says the authors, that ”the proportion of low-paid jobs remained essentially unchanged over the next five years, following the rise”.
” the Studies can say what they want, but since it’s been implemented in so many of the government’s mandate in such a short period of time, we move from the robust growth in the job market in a decline, according to Andrew Rigie of the New York city Hospitality Alliance.
a national of the united states of AMERICA is the unemployment rate steady at four per cent, following on from the massive lönehöjningarna in most of the largest cities in the country. Also, the projections for unemployment, the future looks bright. According to the u.s. federal reserve is a likelihood that the unemployment rate will increase next year by 38 per cent.
Earlier this year, the e-handelsjätten of the Amazon, which has long been criticized for its low wages, out with the news that they are raising the minimum wage to $ 15.
the Number of people in more professions than one, however, has not gone down.
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