Sentence examples for ordinary wage from inspiring English sources

There is the lack of financial-industry regulation that allowed bankers and brokers to make insane amounts of money at the expense of ordinary wage earners and homeowners.

[C2.] I.R.S. Plans to Focus on Wealthy The I.R.S. plans to ease its examination of ordinary wage earners and devote more attention to wealthy taxpayers.

Overall demand thus carries on growing, but at the price of sucking in imports and ever higher personal debt levels for ordinary wage earners.

"What happens when ordinary wage earners can no longer commit to loans for cars or houses?" According to the prime minister there's never been a better time to be alive.

A25 BUSINESS DAY C1-10 I.R.S. Changes Strategy The Internal Revenue Service said it intended to ease its examination of ordinary wage earners and devote more attention to wealthy taxpayers suspected of hiding income from their businesses, partnerships, investments and offshore accounts.

This class, known as the evanescently well-heeled or the provisionally prosperous, now discover that after a joyous but tragically brief interregnum as fat cats, they must go back to being ordinary wage slaves.

Those people who have ordinary wages and ordinary savings won't be able to afford to bring claims.

One factor that has affected pay in the long run is the division of the spoils between labour and capital or, to put it differently, between ordinary wages and corporate profits.

For some reason, however, both Labour and the Conservatives have shied away from explaining to "ordinary people" that immigrants provide a steady supply of labour, stopping "ordinary" wages and expectations from getting out of hand.

As economist Joseph Stiglitz and others have pointed out, in the US, the capitalist offer is bust: "ordinary" wages have flatlined for 30 years, while prices have risen, including the escalating cost of education, the poor person's key to a better life.

In fact, much of the IRS' current "correspondence" audit program for ordinary, wage-earning taxpayers, comes down to sending them letters demanding they document their charitable, employee business expense or other deductions or have them disallowed.