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Noun
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The Social Security Administration (SSA) distributes benefits to more than 70 million people, including retirees, disabled workers and the families of deceased wage earners.—
Aliss Higham,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 Aug. 2025 -
The Social Security Administration bases its COLA each year on average annual increases in the consumer price index for urban wage earners and clerical workers (CPI-W) from July through September.—
Brandi D. Addison,
Austin American Statesman,
19 July 2025
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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 16 Sep. 2025.
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