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Most wage earners were not affected by the income tax increase.
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Layoffs, meanwhile, hit wage earners harder than those with multiple income streams or significant investments.
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Jack Kelly, Forbes.com, 22 Apr. 2025
Here again, rising energy costs were felt more keenly by wage earners than stockbrokers because buying gasoline and heating their homes constitutes a much larger percentage of their take-home pay.
—Newsweek Staff, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Apr. 2025
The European Union’s sales targets for electric vehicles in 2030 and 2035 look impossible, despite the imminent arrival of EVs like BYD of China’s cut-price Surf, likely to be affordable, finally, for average wage earners.
—Neil Winton, Forbes.com, 27 Mar. 2025
Some of the highest wage earners at major employers in KCK — including the University of Kansas Health System, the University of Kansas Medical Center and the Providence Medical Center — live in Johnson County or across the border in Missouri.
—Matthew Kelly, Kansas City Star, 16 Mar. 2025
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Jack Kelly, Forbes.com, 22 Apr. 2025
Here again, rising energy costs were felt more keenly by wage earners than stockbrokers because buying gasoline and heating their homes constitutes a much larger percentage of their take-home pay.
—Newsweek Staff, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Apr. 2025
The European Union’s sales targets for electric vehicles in 2030 and 2035 look impossible, despite the imminent arrival of EVs like BYD of China’s cut-price Surf, likely to be affordable, finally, for average wage earners.
—Neil Winton, Forbes.com, 27 Mar. 2025
Some of the highest wage earners at major employers in KCK — including the University of Kansas Health System, the University of Kansas Medical Center and the Providence Medical Center — live in Johnson County or across the border in Missouri.
—Matthew Kelly, Kansas City Star, 16 Mar. 2025
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“Wage earner.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wage%20earner. Accessed 3 May. 2025.
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