Definitions for living wage
liv·ing wage

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1. living wagenoun

   a wage sufficient for a worker and family to subsist comfortably

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1. living wage

   A wage or salary that permits a worker to live at least with minimal customary amenities, and above conditions of poverty.

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1. living wage

   A living wage is the minimum income that an individual needs to meet their basic needs, including food, housing, clothing, transportation, healthcare, and other necessities, without the need for government assistance, assuming they are working a standard full-time working week. The concept of a living wage is based on the notion that individuals should be able to earn enough to ensure their basic needs are met and to lead a decent, dignified life. It is often higher than the official minimum wage set by the government.

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1. Living wage

   In public policy, a living wage or subsistence wage is the minimum income necessary for a worker to meet basic needs. These needs include shelter and other incidentals such as clothing and nutrition. In some nations such as the United Kingdom and Switzerland, this standard generally means that a person working forty hours a week, with no additional income, should be able to afford a specified quality or quantity of housing, food, utilities, transport, health care, and recreation, although in many cases child care, education, saving for retirement, and less commonly legal fees and insurance may cost a family more than food, utilities, transport, or health care. In addition to this definition, living wage activists further define "living wage" as the wage equivalent to the poverty line for a family of four. The living wage differs from the minimum wage in that the latter is set by law and can fail to meet the requirements of a living wage - or is so low that borrowing or application for top-up benefits is necessary. It differs somewhat from basic needs in that the basic needs model usually measures a minimum level of consumption, without regard for the source of the income.

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1. living wage

   A form of wage guaranteed by every employer as the starting wage for every adult in each country of the world ensuring the concept that work provides a just, fair, sustainable, moderate and adequate income to enable employees to afford an ethical, moral, just, fair, sustainable, moderate and acceptable standard of living. The wage amount is created using data, facts, information, research and statistics and is reviewed annually in every country of the world.

   A living wage is now guaranteed by all forms of unity government around the world.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on July 17, 2020  

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How to pronounce living wage?

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of living wage in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of living wage in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of living wage in a Sentence

1. Kindalay Cummings-Akers:

   We won our contract for $15 an hour, but there are still lots of home health-care workers, both private and public sector, that don't make $15 an hour. They need to have a living wage, you know, 2016 is coming.

2. New Jersey:

   Here is an obvious truth some still try to deny — one meaningful way to make New Jersey more affordable is to make sure more New Jerseyans have a living wage.

3. Jonelle Walker:

   I want to see all the workers lifted on living wage because they deserve it and the clients deserve it, i sacrifice a lot. What I'm doing is from my heart and no one can put a price on that.

4. Barbara Fisher:

   It’s very important because of the fact I’m doing it for them, they know I’m out here trying to make a better living wage for them and also a better future for them. That’s why today is very important.

5. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez:

   I didn't have health care. I wasn't being paid a living wage, and I didn't think that I deserved any of those things.

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=living wage
2. ^ GCIDE
   https://gcide.gnu.org.ua/?q=living wage
3. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
4. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=living wage