Sentence examples for wage supplements from inspiring English sources

Since then, spending on the wage supplements has almost doubled to $30 billion a year.

In 1795, the authorities of Speenhamland, a village in Berkshire, authorised a means-tested sliding scale of wage supplements.

As with welfare, the benefits disproportionately flow to racial minorities: 23percentt of the wage supplements go to black families and 25percenttoto Hispanics.

Even while dismantling one safety net, Mr. Clinton has tried to build another with programs for struggling workers: wage supplements, child care and subsidies for children's health insurance.

The earned income tax credit — which distributes $47 billion a year in wage supplements — has thrived on this logic, despite occasional attempts to brand it welfare.

The money sprayed around to make recession less painful in wage supplements, make-work schemes and subsidies for car purchases has to be financed.

He can imagine some kind of wage supplement for workers, too.

Meanwhile, better-targeted policies for rewarding work by low-income people — such as the earned-income tax credit wage supplement — get short shrift.

The modest monthly SNAP wage supplement allows millions of those low-wage and part-time workers to feed their families at a time when they need it the most.

Yet the Bush administration supported a dramatic increase in the food-stamp, or SNAP, rolls because they understood that SNAP actually encourages people to work and get off welfare by providing what amounts to a wage supplement.

Low-income workers can also tap on wage supplement schemes and job training programmes.