copenlu/druid huggingface dataset:
Claim: In 2015, nearly 1% of employees were not paid minimum wage. (Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP), 2016-01-01)
Evidence (2021-10-12): A 2018 analysis from the Bureau of Labor Statistics found about 8% of teenagers aged 16 to 19 earned the federal minimum or less, with 1% percent of workers aged 25 and up earning the federal minimum. The analysis, based on hourly wages workers reported, doesn’t include overtime, tips or commissions. Roughly 29 million people of all ages, representing a quarter of the full-time, year-round workforce, had annual earnings in 2018 equal to less than $15 an hour, according to the Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplement from the U.S. Census Bureau. [...] The University of California, Berkeley Labor Center maintains a database of municipalities with minimum wage ordinances. Emeryville, California, a small town north of Oakland that’s home to the animation studio Pixar, has among the highest minimum wages in the country at $16.84 per hour. The federal minimum is the floor for many states in the south. Louisiana and South Carolina have the highest percentage of workers making at or below the federal hourly minimum, according to BLS. [...] Another recent analysis in the Quarterly Journal of Economics examined 138 state minimum wage increases from 1979 to 2016 and found "the overall number of low-wage jobs remained essentially unchanged over the five years following the increase." A 2015 study in the Journal of Human Resources doesn’t point to a sudden drop in employment following state-level minimum wage increases from 1975 to 2012, but rather suggests slower job growth over ensuing years following minimum wage hikes.
Claim: In 2015, nearly 1% of employees were not paid minimum wage. (Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP), 2016-01-01)
Evidence (2017-05-10): Workers of color are more likely to experience minimum wage violations than white workers, as shown in Figure E. Roughly 5 percent of black workers and Hispanic workers are paid less than the minimum wage, compared with only 3.5 percent of white workers. This is partly a function of the fact that people of color are disproportionately represented among low-wage workers (Cooper 2015; Wilson & Rodgers 2016). Nevertheless, white workers still make up the largest share (47.1 percent) of workers experiencing minimum wage violations. [...] Workers with less education are more likely to experience minimum wage violations than workers with a bachelor’s degree or higher. This is largely because workers with lower educational attainment make up a disproportionate share of low-wage workers. Figure G shows that nearly 9 percent of workers with less than a high school diploma are paid below the minimum wage, compared with 4.5 percent of high school graduates, 4.3 percent of workers with some college experience, and only 1.9 percent of workers with a bachelor’s degree or higher. The vast majority of workers suffering minimum wage violations (86.0 percent) do not have a college degree.
Claim: In 2015, nearly 1% of employees were not paid minimum wage. (Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP), 2016-01-01)
Evidence (2014-10-13): The budget also includes language requiring EDD to report to the Legislature by March 1, 2015 on its progress towards meeting these program outcome targets. Additionally, this report will include a discussion of any program or process efficiencies EDD has identified that may affect the resources needed to maintain service levels.
Claim: In 2015, nearly 1% of employees were not paid minimum wage. (Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP), 2016-01-01)
Evidence (2023-08-07): Employers in the H-2A program must demonstrate, and the U.S. Department of Labor must certify, that efforts to recruit U.S. workers were not successful. Employers must also pay a State-specific minimum wage, which may not be lower than the average wage for crop and livestock workers surveyed in the FLS in that region in the prior year, known as the Adverse Effect Wage Rate (AEWR). (See the next section for details on the AEWR.) In addition, employers must provide housing for their H-2A workers and pay for their domestic and international transportation. [...] The Farm Labor Survey (FLS) conducted by USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) is based on semi-annual phone interviews with a random sample of farm employers (crops and livestock) who are asked to provide quarterly data on their wage bill, employment counts, and average weekly hours for all hired workers, by occupation. Contract labor is excluded, and no demographic information on the workforce is collected. Each year, the FLS's estimate of the annual average wage for nonsupervisory field and livestock workers in each of 18 regions is used as the basis for the Adverse Effect Wage Rate (AEWR), which sets a minimum wage for H-2A workers in the following year. The survey is described here, and its quarterly reports are archived here. Data and statistics can also be obtained via NASS Quick Stats.
Claim: In 2015, nearly 1% of employees were not paid minimum wage. (Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP), 2016-01-01)
Evidence (2021-01-11): The employer mandate has a separate negative consequence that affects low-wage workers, particularly those working for small- to medium-sized firms near or at the minimum wage: It can cost them their jobs. If a firm is mandated to provide health insurance or pay a penalty (as the current ACA does for firms with more than 50 full-time employees including FTEs), they normally have the option of shifting the costs of that health insurance back to the worker in the form of lower wages, at least in the long run (e.g., by giving out small or no raises, or simply by reducing wage income immediately). But if the worker is at or near the prevailing minimum wage law, that option no longer exists, and to the extent that minimum wage laws increase over time (relative to median wages), they capture more and more workers in this net. For example, a recent study found between 28,000 and 50,000 businesses nationwide appear to be reducing their number of FTE employees to below 50 because of the mandate. This translates to roughly 250,000 positions eliminated from those businesses.[iv]
Claim: In 2015, nearly 1% of employees were not paid minimum wage. (Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP), 2016-01-01)
Evidence (2015-05-20): Despite the decline, people with lower incomes were underinsured at more than two times the rate of people with higher incomes. Indeed, people with low incomes comprise 61 percent of underinsured adults in the United States (Table 2). [...] 12 Schoen, Radley, and Collins, State Trends, 2003–2013, 2015.
Claim: In 2015, nearly 1% of employees were not paid minimum wage. (Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP), 2016-01-01)
Evidence (2018-05-31): Care work (unpaid and paid work) - Unpaid care work is essential to the functioning of the economy but often goes uncounted and unrecognized [23].
Claim: In 2015, nearly 1% of employees were not paid minimum wage. (Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP), 2016-01-01)
Evidence (2020-06-05): After a period of active health reform in several areas between 2012 and 2016, new reform debates and proposals stagnated until spring 2018. One of the reasons is that after the federal elections in September 2017, it took six months of difficult talks and political insecurity to again form a grand coalition between political parties (Christian Democrats and Social Democrats). The first new bill introduced in 2018 (the SHI-Contribution Relief Law, or GKV-Versichertenentlastungsgesetz) aims to reduce the mandatory contributions that individuals in SHI pay every month.20 While the general contribution of 14.6 percent has been equally shared between employers and employees since 2015, the supplementary contribution is paid by employees only. The law plans to reinstate the equal split of general and supplementary contributions between employers and employees. Furthermore, the law stipulates halving the reference amount used to calculate the minimum contribution for the self-employed insured. Until now, independent of their actual income, the self-employed have paid a contribution based on expected minimum income of EUR 221 (USD 284) per month. This is unmanageable for a large proportion of small-business owners and increases their risk of having no health insurance.21
Claim: In 2015, nearly 1% of employees were not paid minimum wage. (Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP), 2016-01-01)
Evidence (2022-04-20): - Proposals to reduce inequality include a more progressive income tax, a higher minimum wage, and expanded educational opportunities. [...] "We should want to live in a society with a reasonable degree of mobility rather than one where people are born into relative economic positions they can never leave," conservative analyst Ramesh Ponnuru wrote in 2015. "But so long as those conditions are met, the ratio of the incomes of the top 1 percent to the median worker should be fairly low on our list of concerns." [...] Proposals put forward in recent years to address income and wealth inequality have included supporting unionization and raising the minimum wage; making the tax code more progressive, as well as taxing wealth alongside income; and increasing access to education, including early education and college.
Claim: In 2015, nearly 1% of employees were not paid minimum wage. (Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP), 2016-01-01)
Evidence (2021-02-25): Race and Hispanic or Latino ethnicity. The percentage of hourly paid workers with wages at or below the federal minimum differed little among the major race and ethnicity groups. About 2 percent of Black workers earned the federal minimum wage or less. Among White, Asian, and Hispanic workers, the percentage was about 1 percent. (See table 1.) [...] Full- and part-time status. About 4 percent of part-time workers (people who usually work fewer than 35 hours per week) were paid the federal minimum wage or less, compared with about 1 percent of full-time workers. (See table 1.) [...] State of residence. The states with the highest percentages of hourly paid workers earning at or below the federal minimum wage were in the South: about 4 percent for South Carolina and about 3 percent for Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Virginia. Compared with recent years, a relatively large number of states had less than 1 percent of hourly paid workers earning at or below the federal minimum wage: California, Colorado, Hawaii, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, Oregon, Vermont, and Washington. It should be noted that more than half of all states have minimum wages that exceed the federal minimum. (See tables 2 and 3.)
Claim: In 2015, nearly 1% of employees were not paid minimum wage. (Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP), 2016-01-01)
Evidence (2023-12-21): Twenty-two states will increase their minimum wages on January 1, raising pay for nearly 10 million workers [...] Despite continued progress by many states across the country to increase their wage floors, there are still 17.6 million workers earning less than $15 an hour. Almost half of workers (47.8%) earning less than $15 an hour are in one of the 20 states that still uses the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour. [...] Source: EPI compilation of minimum wage data from state agency websites and state legislation.
Claim: In 2015, nearly 1% of employees were not paid minimum wage. (Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP), 2016-01-01)
Evidence (2024-04-23): Raising Ohio’s minimum wage to $15 per hour by 2026 will benefit nearly 1 million working Ohioans (19% of the Ohio workforce). This includes 470,000 currently paid less than $15 who will receive a direct benefit, and 500,000 currently paid up to $17.25, who will get a raise as employers adjust their pay scales.Schedule [...] For tipped workers this measure could help to make sure they are paid all the wages they’re already owed. In Ohio, if a tipped worker’s wage and tips combined fall short of the minimum wage, the employer is required by law to make up the difference. Yet the system opens the door to labor abuses including sexual harassment and wage theft. The Restaurant Opportunities Center found that women in the leisure and hospitality industry face double the rate of workplace sexual harassment as their peers in other industries, both from the customers whose tips they rely on directly and from managers who control whether they work busy shifts.[41] Policy Matters Ohio found that half of wage theft cases from nonpayment of the minimum wage occurred in the leisure and hospitality industry, where roughly 100,000 workers are victims every year.[42] For these reasons, eight states have done away with the subminimum wage for tipped workers, providing for "equal treatment."
Claim: In 2015, nearly 1% of employees were not paid minimum wage. (Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP), 2016-01-01)
Evidence (2022-12-30): - a penalty, payable to IDOL, equal to 20% of the underpayment; - and a penalty, payable to the employee, equal to 1% per day of the underpayment, for each day that payment is delayed. Again, this penalty continues to accrue without limitation until the amount found owing is paid. [...] An employee files a claim with IDOL on March 1, 2015 seeking $1000 in wages that were due, but not paid, on February 15, 2015. A demand issues from IDOL on June 15, 2015 in the amount sought. If the employer pays within 35 days (that is, by July 20, 2015), the employer is required to pay for a total of $1450 ($1200 to the employee and $250 to IDOL) calculated as follows:
Claim: In 2015, nearly 1% of employees were not paid minimum wage. (Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP), 2016-01-01)
Evidence (2016-01-01): In general terms, this means that payments are not required for employees who have previously settled claims related to compensation for rest and recovery periods and other nonproductive time. [...] Employers must use due diligence to track down and pay former employees. If unsuccessful, the money due to employees who cannot be located must be paid into the Unpaid Wage Fund. This payment must be accompanied by an additional administrative fee equal to one-half of one percent of the "aggregate payments made" or $2,500, whichever is less. Instructions for making payments to the Unpaid Wage Fund:
Claim: Over 95% of people living in south Belfast own their own home. (Emma Little-Pengelly, a DUP candidate, 2019-12-04)
Evidence (2019-12-04): This claim is inaccurate. The 2011 Census shows that the Belfast South constituency recorded 56.1% of homes being owned outright or owned with a mortgage or loan.
Claim: Over 95% of people living in south Belfast own their own home. (Emma Little-Pengelly, a DUP candidate, 2019-12-04)
Evidence (2022-02-27): The chair of the Landlords Association for Northern Ireland (LANI), Robert Greer, claimed during an interview on BBC Radio Ulster’s Good Morning Ulster (24/9/2020, starts 1:52:08, and Greer’s claim at 1:58:00) that "aside from the Roma community, about 95 or 98 per cent of all households [in the Holylands] are HMOs." [...] Note that according to Housing Advice Northern Ireland, social housing properties are not considered to be HMOs: "A property will not be a HMO if … it is managed by the Housing Executive or a housing association." The South Belfast Partnership, in its January 2020 study, Holyland Transition, indicated that in 2011, 17.5% of housing in South Belfast (defining South Belfast as Ballynafeigh, Blackstaff, Botanic, Finaghy, Malone, Musgrave, Rosetta, Shaftesbury, Stranmillis, Upper Malone and Windsor) is made up of social housing, reflecting the presence of Choice Housing, Oaklee Housing, Clanmill, and others. [...] Source: HMO Subject Plan for Belfast City Council Area 2015, Map No. 3—South Belfast (East).
Claim: Over 95% of people living in south Belfast own their own home. (Emma Little-Pengelly, a DUP candidate, 2019-12-04)
Evidence (2022-08-21): Nearly everyone in Northern Ireland is cutting back on spending in response to the rising cost of living — regardless of level of income, a poll by LucidTalk reveals. [...] But at 46%, Belfast had the highest percentage of people who were being impacted significantly and cutting back a lot, followed by people living in the west, at 41%. However, at 94%, people in the north of NI had the highest percentage who were saying they were either significantly impacted or slightly impacted.
Claim: Over 95% of people living in south Belfast own their own home. (Emma Little-Pengelly, a DUP candidate, 2019-12-04)
Evidence (2024-01-01): Owner occupiers were more likely to report feeling safe and secure in their own home. More than nine in ten (93%) of those who own their dwelling outright, and 96% of those with a mortgage, said they feel safe and secure compared with 88% of respondents living alone in rented accommodation.
Claim: Over 95% of people living in south Belfast own their own home. (Emma Little-Pengelly, a DUP candidate, 2019-12-04)
Evidence (2022-12-01): Many ethnic minority residents of Belfast still face "racism, isolation and poverty," according to a new report. [...] The research examined the experiences of Black, Asian, ethnic minority and Traveller people living in Belfast. [...] But three-quarters of ethnic and migrant residents interviewed during the research were optimistic about their future in Belfast.
Claim: Over 95% of people living in south Belfast own their own home. (Emma Little-Pengelly, a DUP candidate, 2019-12-04)
Evidence (2021-06-29): Across all 17 markets featured in our study, just over half (53%) own their own house. Home ownership is highest in Singapore (65%) and Sweden (63%), and lowest in Germany (34%) and the UAE (32%), but in most of these countries, regions or areas, it’s more common to own your home than not. When it comes to people who don’t own their own home, most want to: three-quarters (76%) say they want to have their own property in future, while 15% do not. The dream of home ownership is especially potent in Indonesia (95%) and Mexico (94%); in both markets, just 2% do not aspire to have their own house someday. In other markets, it’s a more mixed story. People who don’t have property generally aspire to it – but the degree varies heavily, especially within Europe. While 84% of Spaniards want to own their own home, this falls to just two-thirds of Danes (66%), three in five French people (62%), and less than half of Germans (48%).
Claim: Over 95% of people living in south Belfast own their own home. (Emma Little-Pengelly, a DUP candidate, 2019-12-04)
Evidence (2022-09-23): THE percentage of people living in Belfast who were raised Catholic has remained the same when compared to the 2011 census data. [...] Of course this society transformed some time ago, visible not least in my own diverse constituency of South Belfast... [...] Ethnicity figures also show that the white population of Belfast has fallen from 97 per cent in 2011 to 93 per cent in 2021.
Claim: Over 95% of people living in south Belfast own their own home. (Emma Little-Pengelly, a DUP candidate, 2019-12-04)
Evidence (2024-09-24): Housing prices in Belfast are generally lower than the UK mainland. This means that owning a property is within most people’s grasp. The majority of the people living in Belfast and the surrounds prefer to buy property rather than rent. [...] Whether you own or rent your home, you will be subject to council tax based on the area in which you live and the size of the property you live in. Learn more about council tax in Belfast at Belfast City Council Finally, if you decide to buy a flat or house in Belfast you’ll have to pay stamp duty. While there’s no tax on the first £125,000 of your home value, the marginal rate increases to 12% on a value of over £1.5 million.
Claim: Over 95% of people living in south Belfast own their own home. (Emma Little-Pengelly, a DUP candidate, 2019-12-04)
Evidence (2019-12-02): In contrast, disabled people were less likely to own their own home than non-disabled people, with just 42.4% of disabled people owning their own home compared with 53.2% of non-disabled people. [...] Across all age groups (25 to 64 years), disabled people were less likely to own their own home. The greatest disparity between disabled and non-disabled people owning their own homes was seen for the 40 to 44 years age group, where 69.2% of non-disabled people owned their home compared with 44.2% of disabled people, a difference of 25 percentage points. [...] Of all impairment types, disabled people with severe or specific learning difficulties were least likely to own their own home.
Claim: Over 95% of people living in south Belfast own their own home. (Emma Little-Pengelly, a DUP candidate, 2019-12-04)
Evidence (2015-12-04): The rent is also quite low, especially given that I live in south Belfast. I don't think I'll ever buy a house - my amazing neighbours are one of the reasons I want to stay put. We have a wonderful community here." [...] I rent a flat in south Belfast and I've always rented. [...] I live in south Belfast and I like my neighbours.
Claim: Over 95% of people living in south Belfast own their own home. (Emma Little-Pengelly, a DUP candidate, 2019-12-04)
Evidence (2022-01-20): Too many buyers, not enough homes as NI prices rise by over 10% [...] Terry Robb, the head of personal banking at Ulster Bank, said that demand for home loans had been strong throughout the year, particularly with 95% mortgages on offer. Northern Ireland’s house price growth figure was slightly stronger than the 10% growth recorded across the UK as a whole, according to the ONS.
Claim: Over 95% of people living in south Belfast own their own home. (Emma Little-Pengelly, a DUP candidate, 2019-12-04)
Evidence (2015-12-08): More than half of households in Northern Ireland (53%) own a dishwasher, the joint highest proportion in the UK.
Claim: Over 95% of people living in south Belfast own their own home. (Emma Little-Pengelly, a DUP candidate, 2019-12-04)
Evidence (2021-04-29): South Belfast is home to an array of eclectic neighbourhoods such as the prestigious Malone Road, the bustling Lisburn Road and the student favourite – Botanic Avenue. [...] With schools, outdoor parks and a host of amenities on the doorstep, South Belfast emits a suburban feel that allows families to reside in a picturesque area outside the bustle of the city centre. [...] Looking to buy a property for sale in South Belfast? Find out what’s on offer at Propertynews.com.
Claim: Over 95% of people living in south Belfast own their own home. (Emma Little-Pengelly, a DUP candidate, 2019-12-04)
Evidence (2022-01-07): For the average respondent in the South East of England, 33% of their wealth came from property compared with just 20% in the North East. Property ownership and property value explains a lot of the difference in average wealth between these regions. Despite the South East having the highest house prices outside London, those living there were among the most likely to own property (64%) and had median net property wealth of £111,000. By contrast, those in the North East were the most likely to live in rented accommodation, except for London, where people are younger on average and see the highest house prices of any region. [...] Today's younger generations are less likely to own their own home than their predecessors. This is noteworthy since living in a rented home was associated with lower wealth than mortgaged homes when controlling for age and other factors. Not only does a homeowner's wealth grow as long as house prices rise, but buying property with a mortgage acts as a form of obligatory saving. Renting households are the most likely to be in problem debt, and have been shown to have lower financial resilience in the form of savings that could act as a buffer against unexpected expenses or losses of income.