Even with poverty-level wages and no job security, what's wrong with having a nice place to work in?

Steinke's father, we learn, is a Lutheran minister who moved from parish to parish during her childhood, working for a poverty-level wage.

Home care workers are usually paid poverty-level wages and have no health insurance.

And many don't want to be told that they pay workers poverty-level wages.

Many of those jobs pay poverty-level wages and include janitors, cashiers, nursing home aides and security guards.

Paying poverty-level wages in the United States.

That Harvard pay its lowest-wage workers more than poverty-level wages and then index pay to inflation.

"Golden Mark is paying poverty-level wages," Mr. Balanoff said.

Nearly half of all jobs created between 1979 and 1985 paid poverty-level wages.

Corruption was endemic; even good officers took cash "tips" from the citizenry to supplement their poverty-level wages.