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living wage

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as in minimum wage

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Recent Examples of living wage 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 As the Industrial Revolution immiserated 19th-century workers, Pope Leo XIII championed their rights to unionize and receive a living wage at a time when these ideas were widely considered radical. — Elias Wachtel, The Atlantic, 25 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for living wage

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Bidwell pointed to a lawsuit last year in Washington in which Tacoma detainees sued the private prison company GEO Group over minimum wage violations.

— Mathew Miranda, Sacbee.com, 17 July 2026
Part of reducing people’s financial burdens would also include increasing the state minimum wage to $15, according to her campaign social media page.

— Sofi Zeman July 16, Kansas City Star, 16 July 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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