Sentence examples for poverty wage from inspiring English sources

Our national minimum wage – now £6.50 an hour – is a poverty wage, particularly in London.

The national minimum wage should be a living wage, not (as at present) a poverty wage.

Yet you still paid most of your workers less than $11,200 a year – a poverty wage.

This means there are hundreds of thousands of Londoners in work today who are being paid a poverty wage".

On that poverty wage, I'm raising two boys, and I can tell you that it's not enough.

In 2009 the Economic Policy Institute, a labor-backed research organization, estimated that nearly 20 percent of all federal contract workers earned less than the federal poverty wage of $9.91 an hour.

Poverty wages.

So we're paying poverty wages.

"I'm not advocating poverty wages," he said.

People on poverty wages don't pay tax.

For me, these are hard-pressed families on poverty wages.