Barbara Ehrenreich, in her book "Nickel and Dimed," showed how difficult it is for a worker in the United States to survive on wages of $6 to $7 an hour.
Ehrenreich worked, for a month at a time, at unskilled jobs — as a waitress and chambermaid in Florida, a housecleaner and nursing-home aide in Maine, a Wal-Mart clerk in Minnesota — to report on how people survive on wages of six or seven dollars an hour.
The Drumchapel credit union, run by Trisha Butler, serves 3,000 people, most of them surviving on low wages or benefits.
Ayaaz's mother missed the support of her eldest son, and found life difficult, surviving with the wages of menial cleaning jobs.
From the floor, one small shareholder recommended that Mr Reid spend six months working in a Bangladeshi textile mill and surviving on local wages and then try working on a South African fruit farm.
Money has been tight since the beginning, but thanks to a thrifty "waste nothing" approach, very careful planning, and surviving on low wages, we've been able to keep going.
While beyond the scope of this paper, rural people in the drylands of southern Africa are vulnerable to extreme poverty and appear to be surviving more on wages, remittances, and government transfer payments than on local production.
Yet everyone must know that this average of £83.60 will include households surviving on minimum wage jobs or living on benefits, which spend significantly less than the average, as well as households that spend a whole lot more.
Medieval builders often left their names or signatures upon their work, and surviving records show names, wages, and occasionally protests over wages.
We're surviving on just his wages, which are still being paid – but we can't get it because all the ATM machines in Homs are shut down.
