minimum-wage

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minimum wage definition

The lowest legal hourly wage.

Example sentences

Some of them argue that many of the jobs are mediocre minimum-wage affairs.

It has in many cases driven housing rentals beyond the reach of minimum-wage workers.

Minimum-wage workers almost always live in homes with other wage earners.

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"With the present wage conditions there are thousands of young women who are living in a state of semi-starvation and they are always surrounded by the most terrible temptation. Oh, I know that some of [the] greatest reformers insist that a girl's virtue is not affected by under-nourishment, disease and nervous collapse; but if these well housed, well fed, well dressed people were put in a dirty, ugly room, if their clothes did not protect them from the cold, if their stomachs were never filled, would not even the staunchest lose some of her self-respect when looking forward to an old age? It is only a matter of wonder to me that so many girls keep clean and decent through it all."

-Cora Anderson

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