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Noun
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The Social Security Administration bases its COLA each year on the average annual increases in a subset of the overall consumer price index called the index for urban wage earners and clerical workers, from July through September.—
Medora Lee,
USA Today,
13 Feb. 2026 -
Democrats insist that tax cuts — allowing wage earners to keep more of their own money — under Presidents George W. Bush and Donald Trump have created this sea of red ink.—
Editorial,
Boston Herald,
17 Jan. 2026
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Proslavery propaganda in the antebellum South insisted that Northern wage slaves were worse off than Southern chattel slaves.—
Sarah Churchwell,
The New York Review of Books,
11 June 2019
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“Wageworker.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wageworker. Accessed 21 Mar. 2026.
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