as in wage slave
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Recent Examples of wage earner
With growing numbers of wage earners returning to offices, emerging work campuses are gaining fresh attention.
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Jeffrey Steele, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2025
Lowering corporate income taxes has never actually trickled down to wage earners, or even investment in new factories, as the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities noted in a recent study.
—Peter Green, Quartz, 9 Nov. 2024
That adds a lot of part-time wage earners to the state's statistics and creates an experience gap that many women's earnings never recover from.
—Erin Alberty, Axios, 23 July 2024
Meanwhile, rising household incomes, economic expansion, pension reform, and adjustments to the healthcare system have allowed more households to exist with just one wage earner.
—Rocio Wu, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2025
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Jeffrey Steele, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2025
Lowering corporate income taxes has never actually trickled down to wage earners, or even investment in new factories, as the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities noted in a recent study.
—Peter Green, Quartz, 9 Nov. 2024
That adds a lot of part-time wage earners to the state's statistics and creates an experience gap that many women's earnings never recover from.
—Erin Alberty, Axios, 23 July 2024
Meanwhile, rising household incomes, economic expansion, pension reform, and adjustments to the healthcare system have allowed more households to exist with just one wage earner.
—Rocio Wu, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for wage earner
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“Wage earner.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wage%20earner. Accessed 30 Apr. 2025.
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