More companies are choosing to raise their workers’ wages.

越来越多的企业选择为员工提高工资。

While they debate, charity groups are giving money to help pay workers' wages.

在他们辩论期间，工人的工资由慈善团体帮助支付。

We just can't compete with the government sending out checks especially with low wage workers.

尤其是低收入工人，政府发放救济，我们便无法与之竞争。

The losers are high wage workers who used to make those shoes, their jobs moved overseas.

输家是那些曾做过鞋子的高工资工人，他们的工作被转移到了海外。

The White House says the 72 actions and recommendations will also boost workers' wages and consumer protections.

白宫表示，这72项行动和建议同时意在提高工人收入，为消费者提供保护。

But abortion rights advocates say that the law has a disproportionate impact on people of color and lower wage workers.

但是，堕胎权利倡导者说，该法给有色人种和低工资工人造成了不同程度的影响。

Today, our businesses export more than ever, and exporters tend to pay their workers higher wages.

今天，我们的企业出口超过以往，出口企业也能提供更高的工资。

Ford begins paying his workers a livable wage, five dollars per day, more than double the rate of most U.S. factories.

福特开始给他的工人一个过得去的工资 每天五美元 是大部分美国工厂的两倍多。

Low wage workers in California have been pushing for years to get the state minimum wage raised.

加州的低薪工人多年来一直在推动提高州最低工资。

This figure is set to rise in 2019 with minimum wage workers reaping the most significant benefits.

这一数字将在2019年上升， 最低工资工人将获得最显着的好处。

What people would argue is that if you can't pay your workers a living wage, you don't have a business model.

人们会争论的是， 如果你不能向工人支付生活工资，那么你就没有商业模式。

This wouldn’t just raise wages for minimum wage workers – its effects would lift wages for nearly 28 million Americans across this country.

这不仅仅是为工薪阶层提高了最低工资标准，这还将影响到全美将近2800万人的工资收入的提高。

Our farmers, our factory workers, and our small businesses are exporting more than ever before – and exporters tend to pay their workers higher wages.

我们的农场主、工厂的工人、中小企业的出口产品也比以往任何时候都多，而且出口厂商也更愿意为其员工支付更高的工资。

We must say here that Nike is well known for having factories in developing nations, sometimes paying its workers low wages in not too great conditions.

我们必须在这里说， 耐克以在发展中国家设有工厂而闻名，有时在不太好的条件下支付工人低工资。

That’s why, since the first time I asked Congress to give America a raise, 13 states, 21 cities and D.C. have gone around Congress to raise their workers’ wages.

而从我第一次要求国会提高工资标准之后，有13个州，21个市还包括特区政府都绕过国会直接为工人提高工资。

He asserted that, on the contrary, the average man, wage worker, farmer, and small business man, was better off than ever before in the history of our country.

他断言，相反，普通人、工资工人、农民和小商人的生活比我国历史上以往任何时候都好。

I’ve tried to do my part by requiring companies that get contracts with the federal government to pay their workers a fair wage of ten dollars and ten cents an hour.

我也在尽我自己的力量要求联邦政府合同承包商为其员工提供10.10美元每小时的工资。

Now, it will not surprise you to learn that this is a very comforting assumption if you're a CEO paying yourself 50 million dollars a year but paying your workers poverty wages.

现在，如果你是一名首席执行官，每年支付5000万美元， 但支付工人的贫困工资， 你不会感到惊讶。

When you're talking about hourly wage workers, workers in the kind of employment where, you know, working additional hours or working a second job becomes necessary to put bread on the table.

当你谈论小时工时，你知道，在这种类型的工作中，加班或从事第二份工作对于养家糊口是必要的。

And as a chief executive myself, that’s why I took action last week to lift more workers’ wages by requiring federal contractors to pay their employees a fair wage of at least $10.10 an hour.

作为全国的最高行政长官，上周我采取措施要求联邦合同承包商提高其员工工资至10.10美元/小时这一合理区间，以此提高员工工资水平，原因就在于此。