Tompkins County has a new Living Wage.  It is now $15.32/hour. The Living Wage is calculated every two years and represents a minimum standard of living for a single person, including the cost of a 1-BR apartment, health insurance through the NYS Health Marketplace (Silver Plan), and taxes. If your health insurance is provided and […]

Want to be an excellent troublemaker at work? Are there some things seriously messed up at your job? Is your pay too low to really live on? Crazy hours? Work assignments too much? A boss who micro-manages or bullies or who can’t listen to any suggestions? If so – and you want to do something about it… […]

The Ithaca Marriott Downtown is our newest Living Wage Employer (LWE), duly certified by the Tompkins County Workers’ Center. It’s always good to welcome a new Living Wage Employer, but especially gratifying when the employer is large and and from an industry that typically pays very low wages. This means that all of Ithaca Marriott’s […]