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

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

For women, the economic situation was complicated by the war, with the departure of wage-earning men and the higher cost of living pushing many toward less comfortable lives.

From Textbooks • Dec. 30, 2014

Better by far have every workingman a Homecrofter, whose labor is needed on his homecroft, in home-garden or home-workshop, whenever it is not needed in some wage-earning employment.

From Our National Defense: The Patriotism of Peace by Maxwell, George Hebard