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living wage

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as in minimum wage

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Recent Examples of living wage California is tops in the nation for average teacher salary at $103,552; EPI sets a living wage in the state at $73,311. — Peter Greene, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026 Another goal of Grove, which Stidham owns with three minority partners, is to pay employees a living wage. — Janice Neumann, Chicago Tribune, 9 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 See All Example Sentences for living wage

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The new minimum wage will go live on December 27, 2026 and take effect on the first paycheck in 2027, which is January 14, according to the health system.

— Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 26 Sep. 2026
The most effective adaptation, by his reckoning, is ensuring that workers earn enough to protect themselves beyond the factory gates—a need highlighted by continuing protests over what many say is a woefully inadequate minimum wage.

— Jasmin Malik Chua, Footwear News, 23 Sep. 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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