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living wage

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as in minimum wage

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Recent Examples of living wage The announcement follows similar action taken by workers at various branches of the V&A Museum in London, who voted to strike over pay, working conditions, and the institution’s refusal to seek living wage accreditation. — News Desk, Artforum, 3 Aug. 2026 Maybe that means hiring full-time refs and paying them a living wage. — Amber Harding Outkick, FOXNews.com, 6 July 2026 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 See All Example Sentences for living wage

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In one example, the institution’s claim that California’s minimum wage law for fast-food workers had devastated the job market for those workers was tripped up by its failure to recognize the effect of seasonal adjustments in employment statistics.

— Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2026
Whitehead, the Green Party candidate, is a warehouse supervisor who has advocated for expanding access to health care and raising the federal minimum wage.

— Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 15 Oct. 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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