But such things are hard to afford--much less enjoy--when basic living costs are so high.
An income under this level makes paying for basic living expenses difficult and saving is practically impossible.
The roots of the basic living room likely reach back to the night that man first tamed fire.
What's more, buyers can often get much more for their money--be it for a home or basic living costs--in many international locales.
The new scheme has been set up so hostel residents can move to the halfway house after gaining basic living skills and developing confidence.
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Lu suggested the government adjust the basic living allowance and food subsidies for university students every three months according to changes in the consumer price index.
One of the reasonable arguments against my position is that poorer kids have more difficulty taking on unpaid internships because they need to earn basic living expenses.
Veronica King, NUS vice president for welfare, said she was not surprised more students were studying closer to home considering the "huge expense" of rent and bills on top of tuition fees and other basic living costs.
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As the Syrian refugee crisis begins its second winter, Lebanese host households are struggling to cope with the burden of increased expenditures, decreased living space, and an ever-increasing need for more food, fuel and basic living necessities.
Since my current loans involve me repaying seven hundred dollars a month as a minimum for the next fifteen years with only 12 months of forbearance, I have come to the conclusion that I must make at least a wage of twenty dollars an hour simply to cover my basic living expenses in order to simply survive.
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First, it wants, as noted, to establish a tax-funded universal entitlement to basic living income (set at JPY 70, 000 a month, up from the current JPY 66, 000) for all elderly and retired persons, with, however, a phased reduction and final elimination of the entitlement in relation to pension benefits being received from pension plans into which had previously contributed premiums (i.e, the current system).
The Living Wage is calculated according to the basic cost of living in the UK. Employers choose to pay it on a voluntary basis.
To clarify, men like Yeager are forced to actually remove growth capital from the banking system in order to sustain their most basic standards of living.
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And secondary school teacher Craig Macartney, from Suffolk, said he had noted that increasing numbers of children from middle to lower income households were missing school trips as families struggled to meet the basic cost of living.
"We're trying to cut that amount of time that they had to be in those close quarters, " NASA spokesman Kelly Humphries said, noting the spacecraft has a basic bathroom but little living space.
It is the basic inequity that retirees living in the USA, for instance - about 30 minutes as the crow flies from where my mother lives in Ontario - do receive the cost of living adjustments.
With each human being made up of trillions upon trillions of atoms -- 10 to the power of 28 to be precise -- the technology to perform a sufficiently accurate scan to produce even the most basic approximation of a living person does not exist, and probably never will.
Increasingly, providing support for runners while others living nearby lack basic comforts was becoming a public-relations disaster.
Acknowledging each other is our basic responsibility as human beings living in community with other human beings.
They include such things as paying workers based on a formula that allows them to meet basic cost-of-living needs.
At this time I had already reduced my expenses significantly, and had little more possible without sacrificing some of my basic requirements for quality of living.
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The organization I lead, the Network for Teacher Entrepreneurship (NFTE), was founded by Steve Mariotti on one basic principle: teaching young people living in poverty how to create wealth for themselves is the surest path to poverty alleviation.
And we use a basic surround-sound system in our living room.
Conditions for the refugees now in Kutum are poor, with the majority of those displaced from the camp living in open areas without basic services, such as clean water, food, sanitation facilities and health care, UNAMID said Friday.
Living conditions in these are basic at best - a one-room family-house with a tiny shed-like kitchen-conversion and often no private toilet - but it is this unusual mix of ancient aristocratic architecture and current-day, salt-of-the-earth locals that gives the hutong alleys their unique character.
We need to make certain we leave room for the basic research that drives our high standard of living.
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Despite the untenable living conditions and lack of jobs and basic services, many children are back in school.
Dr Matsuura has advanced a wide range of programmes including universal basic education, freshwater management and the preservation of living arts and culture.
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Basic stuff to those who design glasses for a living: maybe Google should have called Warby Parker earlier on in the development process?
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