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
They are indeed the only leisured class in the country, the only large body of persons who are not called upon to win their daily bread in direct, wage-earning ways.
From The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education by Palmer, Alice Freeman
