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living wage

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as in minimum wage

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Recent Examples of living wage Additionally, the brand’s Living Wage Program, a supply chain initiative that assesses living wage benchmarks based on regional costs of living, continued with eight suppliers. — Angela Velasquez, Footwear News, 1 June 2026 Living in sunny paradise, teaching less than 20 hours a week, being paid what might be considered a living wage, but only if your standards are low enough. — Aimie K. Runyan, PEOPLE, 30 May 2026 The County Council does not provide a living wage on its own, and this rule further restricts who can effectively serve on the council to candidates. — Baltimore Sun Staff, Baltimore Sun, 20 May 2026 The living wage in Mecklenburg County is currently estimated around $53,100, according to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Living Wage Calculator. — Rebecca Noel, Charlotte Observer, 10 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for living wage

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Kim, 49, a member of San Francisco’s board of supervisors from 2011 to 2019, has touted her advocacy for California’s first $15 minimum wage and making the city’s community college tuition free, among other progressive causes.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2026
Raise the minimum wage, expand overtime pay, get rid of tax breaks for the top 1%, create a cost of living tax cut, give small businesses a tax cut and rebuild labor unions.

— Rachel Royster, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 Aug. 2026

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Immigrant workmen gave up a pay envelope, schoolchildren put in pennies — upward of 150,000 people in all, each name and each donation noted by Pulitzer’s New York World, and almost each one under a dollar.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2021
Frustrated by the limits of collective bargaining, Reuther came to complain that bargaining, once so promising, had come to focus on just another nickel in the pay envelope.

— John Gallagher, Detroit Free Press, 19 Oct. 2019

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