Word: waged
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard spokesperson Joe Wrinn says this question makes setting a concrete living wage for Harvard workers a contentious and inexact task...
...Employment is more complicated than a single phrase or a single wage," Wrinn says. "We all want the same things: fair and competitive wages and equitable benefits...
...term "living wage" seems not to have an exact economic definition. The campaign uses it to mean enough money to "live decently and raise [one's] family." It seems generally accepted to mean enough wages for a worker to live a safe distance above the poverty line--including non-"basic" costs like child care, housing and transportation...
...Janet McGill, project director of the Massachusetts Project for Family Economic Self-Sufficiency, says a living wage for Middlesex and Norfolk counties (including Cambridge) means $8.11 an hour for a single adult, and $17.47 an hour for an adult with one child...
...Middlesex County is in many places more affluent than other parts of the Boston area. But, though across the river in Suffolk County the requirements are less, McGill says a living wage there is $7.52 per hour for a single adult, and $18.54 per hour for an adult with one child...