To be made into a wage-earner he must be handled rightly. From Wordnik.com. [Through St. Dunstan's to Light] Reference
"There's nothing wrong with being a wage-earner," he said. From Wordnik.com. [Analog Science Fiction and Fact]
"This is the kitchen of an average wage-earner," said Mary. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Minds Her Business] Reference
He is obliged to offer himself as a wage-earner or a tenant. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917] Reference
This is a normal feeling for the 9 to 5 wage-earner, I suspect. From Wordnik.com. [Recent activities, or why I’m not a rock star « Dyepot, Teapot] Reference
You cannot lift the wage-earner up by pulling the wage-payer down. From Wordnik.com. [Abraham Lincoln (1809-65)] Reference
Or you take away an adult wage-earner to stay home and baby-sit him?. From Wordnik.com. [Danielle Nierenberg: Fighting for Farmworkers' Rights for More Than 40 Years] Reference
American standard of living, where the father is the sole wage-earner. From Wordnik.com. [The Cost of Living Among Wage-Earners Fall River, Massachusetts, October, 1919, Research Report Number 22, November, 1919] Reference
At the age of fifteen Charles embarked again on his career as a wage-earner. From Wordnik.com. [Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies] Reference
The majority of families are two wage-earner families or woman-headed families. From Wordnik.com. [Riane Eisler: Peaceful Revolution: Investing in Our Human Infrastructure] Reference
For the wage-earner cannot live without his wage, and the wage was not forthcoming. From Wordnik.com. [The Conquest of Bread] Reference
In the case of families with only one wage-earner, the estimated monthly shortfall was. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of the South African Reich - Chapter 16] Reference
The question Todd asked was that of a Wall Street millionaire than a main street wage-earner. From Wordnik.com. [NBC's Chuck Todd Blames Us For Not Sacrificing Enough] Reference
The object is to encourage thrift and economy in the wage-earner and person of moderate means. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference
Every struggling wage-earner, who has nothing to do with creating inflation, is thus penalized. From Wordnik.com. [The Fed's Inflation Scam, How Americans Get Screwed By "Their" Central Bank] Reference
Now a man who hires the services of a wage-earner, must not delay compensation, as appears from Lev. From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province] Reference
If you have no option but bankruptcy, start with the wage-earner plan (chapter 13 of the Bankruptcy Code). From Wordnik.com. [A Guide To Surviving The Long Siege Ahead] Reference
Its intent was to offset, to some extent, the loss incurred by the family in the death of its wage-earner. From Wordnik.com. [The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 1, January 1886 Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 1, January, 1886] Reference
Here the wage-earner at the fair could bring her little child, leaving it with the same cheerful confidence. From Wordnik.com. [Final Report of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission] Reference
He realises that as soon as the law permits he is to be "turned into money" and must needs become a wage-earner. From Wordnik.com. [Cambridge Essays on Education] Reference
Government-mandated waiting periods for closure of factories or businesses hurt, rather than help, the wage-earner. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2004-05-01] Reference
Less than half of American households fit the married couple category, and even fewer in the prime wage-earner class. From Wordnik.com. [Economic Inequality Is Real (Bad)] Reference
ROMNEY: Well, you know, as it's been said for a long time, you don't help the wage-earner by attacking the wage-payer. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 13, 2008] Reference
In an effort to defend himself, Thomas--an airline pilot--claimed that he was not a wage-earner, and that he lived in Wyoming. From Wordnik.com. [Jack Wharton Thomas Sentenced To Ten Years Probation For Failure To Pay Taxes] Reference
Families several decades ago which could be well supported with one wage-earner, and very few of today's families realize such. From Wordnik.com. [OpEdNews - Diary: Why Obama-nomics will ultimately fail] Reference
About this period he becomes a wage-earner and for the next 30 or 40 years devotes most of his time and energy to making a living. From Wordnik.com. [Wage Earning and Education] Reference
Great if you are Owner Class, or a middleman - bad if you are a wage-earner outside the foreign competition protected professions. From Wordnik.com. [Making the economy an issue.] Reference
The enormity of the billthat has been incurred by this runaway President is sufficient to boggle the mind of any ordinary wage-earner. From Wordnik.com. [THE ONE TRUTH THAT MUST BE FACED] Reference
Masquerading as a protector, it dragged the wage-earner from his home and cast his starving family upon the doubtful mercies of the parish. From Wordnik.com. [The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore] Reference
And in every case we could show the unquestionable superiority of communal work compared to that of the wage-earner or the isolated private owner. From Wordnik.com. [The Conquest of Bread] Reference
Furthermore, the judge will look at both incomes when deciding whether to grant a bankruptcy petition or what the couple can pay on a wage-earner plan. From Wordnik.com. [A Guide To Surviving The Long Siege Ahead] Reference
Weston says that when more families had a single wage-earner, the other spouse could go to work to pay for the house if they were in financial trouble. From Wordnik.com. [Why Your First Home Shouldn't Be Your Dream Home] Reference
Free labor is then economically advantageous to both the landlord and the wage-earner, since the freedom of the latter inspires greatly increased production. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917] Reference
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