When the city subsidizes poverty-level wages, it pays twice.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Petro: NYC's Economic Development Strategy: Keeping People in Poverty] Reference

Does using city money to create poverty-level jobs make any sense?.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Petro: NYC's Economic Development Strategy: Keeping People in Poverty] Reference

And any ban affects the poverty-level of the workers and their families.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Extent of the Law] Reference

Or how much energy is needed to maintain even a poverty-level Western lifestyle?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Weekly Standard Endorses Feminist Ideas] Reference

Subsidizing the creation of poverty-level jobs makes little economic or fiscal sense.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Petro: Living Wage Law Would Create Benefits for Business, City's Economy] Reference

It's the least I can do for the poverty-level wages they pay gypsy professors like me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fallen Women 1010] Reference

Today, the news hails from Asia where workers are rising up against poverty-level wages.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jonathan Tasini: A Worldwide Revolt Against Poverty Wages] Reference

Any student whose family income was less than 1.75 times poverty-level wages was eligible.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Real Test For Vouchers] Reference

Using tax dollars to create poverty-level jobs is clearly not an efficient use of public funds.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Petro: City Council, Don't Throw Away Our Tax Dollars] Reference

These bills would undo an economic injustice: city-subsidized jobs that pay poverty-level wages.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Petro: Economic Might Makes Right? NY City Council's Moral Choice] Reference

Moreover, public sector jobs occupy a quarter of those who are said to be on poverty-level wages.    From Wordnik.com.  [What is Poverty these days?] Reference

Even before the recession in 2006, more than a quarter of jobs paid less than a poverty-level wage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Michael Laracy: Robert Samuelson's Misguided Portrayal of the New Poverty Measure] Reference

Everybody who can afford it wants a place in the vital little villages that used to be poverty-level living.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lake Chapala and Mexico] Reference

Those working poverty-level jobs have to rely on public assistance to pay the rent and put food on the table.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Petro: Living Wage Jobs Are Good for the Private Sector Too] Reference

In 2007, the tail end of a seven-year growth cycle, some 26.4% of all U.S. workers earned poverty-level wages.    From Wordnik.com.  [Progressive Ideas Network: Beyond crisis management: Obama's next 1361 days] Reference

The issues have to do with poverty-level wages, health insurance, discrimination, etc., drains on local economies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wal-smart « BuzzMachine] Reference

The Census Bureau estimates that 12.5% of the population, or 37.3 million people, earned poverty-level incomes last year.    From Wordnik.com.  [Liberals, Sensing Victory,] Reference

Creating jobs with poverty-level wages might enrich large construction contractors, but it won't help the economy recover.    From Wordnik.com.  [High Wages Bring Many Benefits] Reference

These workers, most of them women and recent immigrants, are paid poverty-level wages and struggle just to pay their bills.    From Wordnik.com.  [Andy Stern: Send Some Love to Miami Janitors] Reference

It doesn't even make sense to ask poverty-level farmers to do the "honorable" thing in the anti-drug crusade and go hungry.    From Wordnik.com.  [11/10/2007] Reference

Bronx residents know that poverty-level jobs are not going to help them put food on the table or to move up the economic ladder.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Petro: NYC's Economic Development Strategy: Keeping People in Poverty] Reference

And the city's fastest growing occupations are also those that pay poverty-level wages, like home health aides and retail workers.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Petro: Growth of Low Wage Jobs Puts City Economy on Shaky Ground] Reference

Democrats and unions are trying to improve wages for workers otherwise forced into poverty-level jobs in a disastrous labor market!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lean Left » Blog Archive » Shorter (Smarter, Truer) George Will] Reference

A caller then phoned in and described how he lived in a Winnebago for years in order to save money while working poverty-level jobs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Madeline Janis: Are Cars the New "Affordable Housing" for the Working Poor?] Reference

If these trends continue, experts predict that by 2010, about 30 percent of America's workers will make less than poverty-level wages.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Sweeney: Forget Power Games -- Let Working People Ask the Questions] Reference

All citizens, wealthy and poverty-level, would have to contribute the same percentage of their total income to the Federal Government.    From Wordnik.com.  [Considering A Flat Tax Rate] Reference

Simply put, when looking for a bargain in the human life market, a single, poverty-level minor with a disability can be had for a song.    From Wordnik.com.  [The High Cost of Dying] Reference

Still frustrated by his Silicon Valley work, he was there helping poverty-level workers and low-income women create a small clothing line.    From Wordnik.com.  [Janet Kinosian: Kiva.org: Change The World With $25 And A Click] Reference

Melck, said a new government strategy for allocating funds to provinces would probably include population and poverty-level considerations.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

People can come on their own, too, if they meet poverty-level eligibility restrictions.    From Wordnik.com.  [StarTribune.com rss feed] Reference

The goal is to reduce all auto workers, not just new hires, to poverty-level wages with few or no benefits.    From Wordnik.com.  [World Socialist Web Site] Reference

The money we saved cushioned us enough to pay the difference between our cost-of-living and our new poverty-level income.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jeremy Zawodny's linkblog] Reference

My income is poverty-level -- am I rewarded for maintaining a property that's free of all pesticides and other noxious chemicals?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Readthehook.com - Current Articles] Reference

As for life in the minor leagues, well it's perfectly dreadful -- poverty-level pay, grueling travel, hostile working conditions.    From Wordnik.com. Reference