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If workers believe inflation will remain high, for example, they can push for wage increases beyond the price increases they have already seen.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

A non-league club have condemned a person who has been approaching players to make transfer and wage offers while falsely claiming to be their manager.

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026

A bit more than a 10th of workers experienced inflation-adjusted wage losses in excess of 3.5%.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

In their vote, City Council members also ordered a report with a framework on how to implement a mandatory six-hour paid training to educate workers on minimum wage laws and other labor protections.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026

Bottom line: $7.02 worth of food acquired in seventy minutes of calling and driving, minus $2.80 for the phone calls—which ends up being equivalent to a wage of $3.63 an hour.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich

Kopple's latest film centres on New York City union efforts to pressure multinational giants from UPS to Amazon for better wages and benefits for their employees and part-time workers.

From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026

They didn’t like the wages or the working conditions.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

Now, some health workers are willfully violating those rules in protest over unpaid wages, say aid workers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

After an employer refused to give him full wages for working as a one-handed gardener, Byfield declared: 'I never saw the man that would compete with me with one arm'.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 7, 2026

“How old are you?” a man asked once when he was paying the boy his wages.

From "Sounder" by William H. Armstrong

Argentina and the UK waged a brief but bitter war over the territory in 1982.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 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

Still, even trade wars waged for silly reasons can have real consequences.

From Slate ● Aug. 25, 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

Blacks in Atlanta waged an effective boycott of Jim Crow trolley cars in 1894, and in the next decade, boycotts spread to over a dozen Southern cities, including Houston and Mobile.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson

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

At one point, Weist describes uncovering that former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani maintained a fine-art photography practice while simultaneously waging a highly public censorship battle against the Brooklyn Museum.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026

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

From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2026

Coca-Cola KO -0.68%decrease; down pointing triangle is waging a high-stakes corporate battle with more than $20 billion at stake, and the opponent isn’t Pepsi or even Dr Pepper.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 21, 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