Thesaurus results for LIVING WAGE

living wage

noun

as in minimum wage

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Recent Examples of living wage As the Industrial Revolution immiserated 19th-century workers, Pope Leo XIII championed their rights to unionize and receive a living wage at a time when these ideas were widely considered radical. —

Elias Wachtel, The Atlantic, 25 Apr. 2026 Prior to the pandemic, the city relied on a consultant’s living wage calculation using the federal poverty rate for a family of three, adjusted upward to account for San Jose’s higher cost of living. —

Ryan MacAsero, Mercury News, 23 Apr. 2026 What is considered a living wage in Texas in 2026? —

Tiffani Jackson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 Apr. 2026 The union said that many of its members don’t make a living wage and have taken on second jobs to make ends meet in an expensive city. —

Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for living wage

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Noun

Gonzales ran with a platform decisively to the left, supporting Medicare-for-all, raising the minimum wage and cracking down on junk fees.

— Phillip M. Bailey, USA Today, 1 July 2026
Candidates at Tuesday’s forum largely focused on affordability and education, often agreeing with each other on matters like increasing the federal minimum wage and the need for access to quality affordable housing.

— Raisa Habersham July 1, Miami Herald, 1 July 2026

Definition of minimum wage

Noun

Immigrant workmen gave up a pay envelope, schoolchildren put in pennies — upward of 150,000 people in all, each name and each donation noted by Pulitzer’s New York World, and almost each one under a dollar.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2021
Frustrated by the limits of collective bargaining, Reuther came to complain that bargaining, once so promising, had come to focus on just another nickel in the pay envelope.

— John Gallagher, Detroit Free Press, 19 Oct. 2019