Without them we will be back to poverty wages.
He said dietary workers earned poverty wages, paid huge sums for health care and received horrible pensions.
Millions more are receiving benefits due to poverty wages.
Right now, about one-quarter of the jobs in the city pay poverty wages, often without health care or other benefits.
Just because some workers or paid poverty wages, it doesn't follow that all should be.
Unless you're an evil capitalist (in which case I suspect you are not working on such poverty wages).
Workers who had spent decades laboring for poverty wages retired into even greater penury.
The government paid poverty wages: $20 a month to a doctor, $15 for a nurse.
Yes there are some jobs but alot of them are paying poverty wages.
Important jobs such as health aide, janitor and child care worker pay a poverty wage.