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The lowest-paid workers in this country are adult females, including the majority of those like lunch ladies working for minimum wage.
Martha Burk: The Food Network Broke My Heart Martha Burk 2011
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The lowest-paid workers in this country are adult females, including the majority of those like lunch ladies working for minimum wage.
Martha Burk: The Food Network Broke My Heart Martha Burk 2011
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To stave off social unrest and boost domestic consumption, the wages of the lowest-paid and most vulnerable have to be increased.
Unions Are Good for Business in China Han Dongfang 2011
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These 74 people made as much as the 19 million lowest-paid people in America, who constitute one in every eight workers.
New Figures Detail Depth Of Unemployment Misery, Lower Earnings For All But Super Wealthy (VIDEO) T.J. Ortenzi 2010
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Voila: Within a week, 215 went people back to work, many accepting contracts that made them the state's lowest-paid papermakers at about $11 an hour, while host towns agreed to drastically reduce the mill's property tax.
Cynthia Dill: Uncle Sam Is Maine Woods' B.F.F. Cynthia Dill 2011
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Others believe it's several times that number -- perhaps even half of all jobs in logistics, according to Warehouse Workers United, a union-backed group that now advocates on behalf of the area's lowest-paid warehouse workers.
The New Blue Collar: Temporary Work, Lasting Poverty And The American Warehouse 2011
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The difference between the lowest-paid employees in major corporations and top executives has gone from approximately 100 to 1 to over 500 to 1.
Ed Lawler: Missed Opportunity Ed Lawler 2012
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I conclude that capitalism is justified -- normally by the expectable benefits to the lowest-paid workers but, failing that, by the injustice of depriving entrepreneurial types (as well as other creative people) of opportunities for their self-expression.
Nobel Laureate Phelps Speaks, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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The difference between the lowest-paid employees in major corporations and top executives has gone from approximately 100 to 1 to over 500 to 1.
Ed Lawler: Missed Opportunity Ed Lawler 2012
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These 74 people made as much as the 19 million lowest-paid people in America, who constitute one in every eight workers.
New Figures Detail Depth Of Unemployment Misery, Lower Earnings For All But Super Wealthy (VIDEO) The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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