Why not provide a modest wage - not benefits - while women are improving their qualifications?

The main winners would be those on modest wages who do not claim benefits.

Firms that pay modest wages have high rates of turnover.

Respondents in the Atlanta district "reported only modest wage or price pressures."

And he is already a wealthy man, so it's not exactly the same thing as a young lawyer going to work for exceedingly modest wages.

His father was a teacher and he earned modest wages.

Within two years, prosecutors said, the women's modest wages had become millions - the result of long hours, hard work and a criminal money-laundering ring.

The traditional public service promise - modest wages in exchange for some security in old age - has been broken.

They received no incentives, like combat bonuses, to supplement their modest wages.

And while some jobs pay modest wages, nearly everybody has one.