wage-earning

Example Sentences

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With the death of the wage-earning father, the family struggled in true 19th century Dickensian fashion.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 6, 2024

Walker, who represents Monongalia County, added, “It affects people of color tremendously. It affects our neighbors in rural communities. It affects low-income wage-earning West Virginians, and it upsets me to my core.”

From Seattle Times • Jan. 31, 2022

The women’s movement combined with the hard facts of the economy created a world in which almost no one envisioned young women with a distinctly different wage-earning future from men.

From New York Times • Jul. 30, 2020

And many of them have viewed the exemption as a bad policy because business owners escape income taxes while their wage-earning workers cannot.

From Washington Times • Apr. 29, 2016

I.—The houses referred to below should be representative of wage-earning class dwellings in as many different districts as possible.

From Report on the Cost of Living in Ireland June 1922 by Affairs, Ministry of Economic