City of Boston Jobs and Living Wage Ordinance 2009-2024 Form

Somewhere on that form should be a blank for routing number and account number. Those are available from your check and/or your bank statements. If you can't find them, call the bank and ask or go by their office for help with the form.  As long as those numbers are entered correctly, any error you make in spelling, location or naming should not influence the eventual deposit into your proper account.

Minimum wage is around $12 but the cost of living is pretty high. On average 1 bedroom apartments cost between 1000–1500 dollars a month, but that’s actually in the city of Portland. The suburbs of Portland about 15–20 minuets away from the city are cheaper.

Taxes can be viewed as having 4 uses (or purposes) in our (and most) governments:Revenue generation (to pay for public services).Fiscal policy control (e.g., If the government wishes to reduce the money supply in order to reduce the risk of inflation, they can raise interest rates, sell fewer bonds, burn money, or raise taxes. In the last case, this represents excess tax revenue over the actual spending needs of the government).Wealth re-distribution. One argument for this is that the earnings of a country can be perceived as belonging to all of its citizens since the we all have a stake in the resources of the country (natural resources, and intangibles such as culture, good citizenship, civic duties). Without some tax policy complexity, the free market alone does not re-distribute wealth according to this "shared" resources concept. However, this steps into the boundary of Purpose # 4...A way to implement Social Policy (and similar government mandated policies, such as environmental policy, health policy, savings and debt policy, etc.). As Government spending can be use to implement policies (e.g., spending money on public health care, environmental cleanup, education, etc.), it is equivalent to provide tax breaks (income deductions or tax credits) for the private sector to act in certain ways -- e.g., spend money on R&D, pay for their own education or health care, avoid spending money on polluting cars by having a higher sales tax on these cars or offering a credit for trade-ins [ref: Cash for Clunkers]).Uses # 1 & 2 are rather straight-forward, and do not require a complex tax code to implement. Flat income and/or consumption (sales) taxes can easily be manipulated up or down overall for these top 2 uses. Furthermore, there is clarity when these uses are invoked. For spending, we publish a budget. For fiscal policy manipulation, the official economic agency (The Fed) publishes their outlook and agenda.Use # 3 is controversial because there is no Constitutional definition for the appropriate level of wealth re-distribution, and the very concept of wealth re-distribution is considered by some to be inappropriate and unconstitutional. Thus, the goal of wealth re-distribution is pretty much hidden in with the actions and policies of Use #4 (social policy manipulation).Use # 4, however, is where the complexity enters the Taxation system. Policy implementation through taxation (or through spending) occurs via legislation. Legislation (law making) is inherently complex and subject to gross manipulation by special interests during formation and amendments. Legislation is subject to interpretation, is prone to errors (leading to loopholes) and both unintentional or intentional (criminal / fraudulent) avoidance.The record keeping and forms referred to in the question are partially due to the basic formula for calculating taxes (i.e., percentage of income, cost of property, amount of purchase for a sales tax, ...). However, it is the complexity (and associated opportunities for exploitation) of taxation legislation for Use # 4 (Social Policy implementation) that naturally leads to complexity in the reporting requirements for the tax system.

Wages and rents, like all other prices, are set by supply and demand.In San Francisco rents are incredibly high because virtually nobody has been allowed by build any housing there for the last 30 years.A minimum wage increase won’t help poor people afford those rents - it would just throw more of them out of work. Beside, even people making $100k/year struggle to pay San Francisco rents - do you really think any imaginable minimum wage is going to match that?Except for price controls (like minimum wages), prices are not set by people who “expect” anything at all. Buyers bid up prices, sellers push them down. They meet in the middle somewhere.In free countries, there is no “master controller” who decides all the prices and can be appealed to (the Communist countries did have that; it didn’t work out well).What will happen in San Francisco is that poor people won’t be able to afford the rents, and will move elsewhere. This has been happening for a while, and will keep on happening.As this happens, there aren’t enough people left to do the jobs that need doing. So employers have to pay higher wages to get people to take those jobs. Wages will go up.But so will prices. Those employers will have to raise prices on the stuff they sell to pay those wages.The rich people in San Francisco might be willing to pay those higher prices - up to a point. But at some point they won’t, and will move out. Which will free up housing, which will come down in price.Or, the rich people will get tired of paying high prices, and will change the rules to allow more housing to be built (fat chance, but they could). That would also bring down rents.The key thing to understand is that prices are set by supply and demand, and prices are always moving and seeking equilibrium - if there aren’t enough workers, wages rise. If there aren’t enough apartments, rents rise. And vice-versa.Until the there are enough.

There are no cities in India which has no job opportunities. There are always some opportunities, some places have more and some have less. If low job opportunity is the problem, the obvious answer is , move over to a place which does. I assume that there must be good reasons why you can't.A job is not the only way to earn a living. The other two are:Business/ commerce.A profession.Labour.But all of them require some skills . The main reason for unemployment/ underemployment is lack or inadequacy of skills. No able bodied person need be unemployed. The problem starts when a personDoesn't have any useful skill and is unwilling to learnWants only certain kind of jobs.For months I was looking for a domestic help with no precondition attached. I was offering my servant quarter without rent in lieu of a part of their time. But didn't get one for a long time. I saw an able bodied begger. I offered her food and and money for work but she didn't want that, not once, many times.I don't know what your situation is but if you have some minimum skill, move out. If not ,acquire some.

When you say apparently living-wage you are making a lot of assumptions. Like all these employees have been working long enough to have put money away. Many of these government workers are relatively new and haven’t been working long enough to put away several months worth of salary for a rainy day. The biggest being a living wage for where? A living wage in Washington DC, or any large metropolitan area like Boston, NYC, San Diego California is a lot more money than a rural area or smaller city in the rust belt. Trying to live on say $40,000 a year in DC and have money at the end of the month isn’t all that easy. Here in Rochester NY where I live that would be plenty to live comfortably on. You have to take into account the cost of living in some of the areas where these Federal Employees are living when you look at the wages. Are there some that could do a better job of saving sure there are, as well as the same number in the private sector. My question is what would happen if a private sector employee was asked to come in to work like the TSA and Coast Guard are doing now, without any idea when they will be paid for that labor. It isn’t right that someone should be told we are requiring you to work, and we’ll pay you eventually but for the mean time you should raid your retirement fund, and savings so you can make ends meet, oh and we aren’t going to reimburse you for any penalties, or lost interest. The idea that it’s the government workers fault they can’t get by without their paycheck because they should have been saving for it is preposterous. It wouldn’t fly if you required this of a private sector employee.