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Ahead of these events, the group is asking that employers provide union and living wage jobs, funding for 50,000 units of housing for working families, a moratorium on short-term rentals and protections for immigrant workers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026

“Rent is very high, and everything is expensive. It’s hard living here. We need a wage increase for the Olympics because everything costs so much,” Avyla said in Spanish.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026

Amazon employees are in line for an increase to their minimum starting wage.

From Barron's ● Sep. 16, 2026

For one, unemployment was at historic lows in 2023, and while inflation was high, so was wage growth.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

The work was awfully hard, and there was never a chance to make a decent wage for the men who worked there.

From "Life Is So Good" by George Dawson

This suggests that part-time workers increased their hours, perhaps because wages weren’t keeping pace with inflation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

The rise in wages of 3.9% is likely to determine the April 2027 state pension increase.

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026

Every spring, mason Mohammad Ghulam Sarwar boards a train to Indian Kashmir, seeking higher wages despite the risk of being targeted by militants in the disputed Himalayan region.

From Barron's ● Sep. 14, 2026

Many feminists, especially socialist ones, have demanded wages for housework as well as childcare—salaries, in other words, for mothers who stay home.

From Slate ● Sep. 14, 2026

Mr. Brown smiled the same smile he had been used to use when he docked Tristran a morning's wages for five minutes' lateness.

From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman

The two countries waged a brief but bitter war over the territory in 1982.

From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026

Turek could also benefit from the strong campaign being waged by gubernatorial front-runner Rob Sand, who tops the Democratic ticket.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026

A historically nomadic people, Tuaregs, who are spread across Mali, Niger, Algeria, Libya and Burkina Faso, have waged an armed struggle for decades against marginalisation, with action centred in particular around Kidal.

From Barron's ● Jul. 4, 2026

America’s independence from Great Britain was also waged on the cultural front, and few authors in that struggle were more significant than James Fenimore Cooper.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

In April 1952, President Truman fired MacArthur after the general made public statements disagreeing with the president over how the war should be waged.

From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau

Gen. Rob Bonta from waging a legal battle to block Paramount’s $111-billion acquisition of Warner Bros.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026

While Karadzic was the ideologue and Milosevic the wily politician, Mladic was the soldier and his metier was waging war.

From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026

"We're not waging any kind of "battle" against Spain; we're simply carefully controlling arrivals," he said.

From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026

As his raw dairy grew, McAfee portrayed himself as an underdog waging a war against industrialized food.

From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2026

Even though I know, if we touch, a new tug-of-war—one that will be even more painful than the quiet one Adam and I have been waging these past few months— will begin.

From "If I Stay" by Gayle Forman