Sentence examples for meager wage from inspiring English sources

Ray, who earns a meager wage working part time at the Yankee One Dollar Store, is so destitute she can't afford Christmas presents.

She currently earns a meager wage as a restaurant worker and owes $120,000 in student loans for an undergraduate degree from Ohio Northern University, a college whose recent graduates are among the most indebted in the country.

Her father, a farm worker, died when she was 14, she said, leaving her already struggling family to depend on the income of another sister, who was 15 and earned a meager wage sewing in a factory.

But left-leaning politicians and economists argue that the years of meager wage settlements for German workers, which helped make the country's exports so competitive, need to give way to fatter paychecks, so households can spend more.

Go all the way and tell him you're a migrant fruit picker and that you supplement your meager wage by working as a live-in maid for the wealthy woman who really owns the place.

A critical mass of the miners signed up with the upstart Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union, thus breaking with the traditional miners' organization, the National Union of Mines, which has three hundred and sixty thousand members and, in the words of the respected South African journalist Justice Malala, had "tied workers into years of meager wage increases".

Their currency, the afghani, had gained considerably against the rial, effectively slashing their already meager wages.

But with meager wages, Pullman porters made substantial contributions to their home communities.

Her fondest dream, to own a house, shimmered elusively across an arid landscape of meager wages.

The money went mostly to support the meager wages of his father, who works as a laborer.

At some Asian factories, employees have complained about prisonlike working conditions, meager wages and harsh living environments.