Example sentences for: minimum-wage

How can you use “minimum-wage” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Trouble is, we already have such a tax credit--it just got renewed as part of the minimum-wage bill, and it's a proven failure.

  • Her mixed priorities when it comes to women were also revealed by the fact that she voted "nay" on the minimum-wage bill even though it included her own IRA proposal--and despite the fact that, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 60 percent of people working at minimum wage are women.

  • I had thought that Ms Fox's presentation would be viewed by the general public as noncontroversial as well, but I was mistaken: The letters column last week had no fewer than six angry letters, calling us "intellectual diddlers" and "well-paid academic theorists" who "confine" our "victims to minimum-wage jobs."

  • Unlike Levi's, Guess has made its way in the world by subcontracting out production work, violating minimum-wage and maximum-hour laws, and suing everyone in sight.

  • It's a mistake for these countries to argue that having minimum-wage laws or regulations keeping corporations from running toxic dumps will wreck their chances of competing in the world market, just like it's a mistake for small businesses to argue that having a minimum-wage law in the United States does irreparable harm to them.


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