Frequently, this leaves them trapped in work earning below the poverty line.
"There is literally one sentence which divides us and surely we can thrash that out while employees are back in work earning money and carrying out their duties as normal, " said Mr Le Blanc.
So by borrowing money at the holding company level at, say, 10% pretax, Catacosinos and his investors can put it to work earning 125 basis points more, aftertax, at the operating company level with nary a risk.
Nor is it very transparent how much companies are earning from their Iraq work.
There were Caterpillar, Owen-Illinois and many other plants (many of the now gone) where they could work, earning good wages (of a half century ago) and benefits.
Joey Hudy has entrepreneurial-minded parents that understand the value of work and how earning something gives the earner a deep sense of accomplishment and achievement.
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Meanwhile, members of the 1946-64 baby-boom generation will be hard at work, presumably earning rising incomes and paying swelling Social Security taxes, even without a further increase.
He led Germany's successful campaign to win a seat on the UN Security Council, earning praise for his ministerial work, and has taken the lead in calling for the withdrawal of German troops from Afghanistan beginning in 2011.
He put his faith in the American people. (Applause.) And as a result, today, the auto industry is back on its feet again, and more importantly, people are back at work again, earning a living. (Applause.) And remember how folks were telling Barack not to take on health care.
If only they knew about the hard work that went into earning that T-shirt.
His career was forged in failure at Texas Instruments (TI), where he went to work in 1978 after earning a finance degree from the University of Texas.
Previous Work Experience: Started earning my stripes (and war wounds) in 2003 by working in Publicity, Finance and Physical Production Departments at Miramax Films and then Focus Features.
If, like most families, you are on a budget that stretches every dollar, you would tell the first caregiver to stop work (and stop earning money) at 40 hours of service.
In the short run the market is at work: financiers are already earning much less.
Pensions have become a lot more flexible in recent years and so it is possible to be taking an income from a pension and earning an income from part-time work.
And while you may be inclined to believe that people should work even if it means earning less than if they allow the government to pay for them in the guise of welfare, it becomes difficult for individuals to live up to that standard when the ability to feed their children hangs in the balance.
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Yet Syria offered them no prospect of earning a living: few Iraqis could get work permits.
Many even provide benefits if you have returned to work full-time but are earning less income.
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In poorer countries, meanwhile, those lucky enough to get work end up trapped in jobs earning poverty line wages.
Over 90% of on-ramping women do not want to return to the company where they used to work. 73% of women trying to on-ramp have trouble finding a job, and those who manage to return to full time work lose 16% of their earning power and often re-enter at lower organizational levels.
After "Cool Hand Luke" (1967), in which he played the egg-eating malcontented title character, he turned to directing, earning raves for his behind-the-camera work on "Rachel, Rachel" (1968), starring his wife.
It could, in principle, mean that more people are working and earning enough so that fewer people need to enter the work force.
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Those who enter the work force during downturns tend to go for decades earning lower wages than their counterparts who started their careers when the economy was healthy.
Put a different way, it could mean that workers are earning enough to support other family members who then do not need to work.
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Even those earning minimum wage would accumulate a meaningful nest egg by the end of their work lives.
After earning her undergraduate degree in engineering and design from Harvard, she went to work for Buckminster Fuller.
Rival firms will, after all, struggle to tempt a worker earning 80% of a full-time wage for 50% of the work.
But ministers also know that at least some of the 4.89 million earning less than a living wage are people who have recently "priced themselves into work" to avoid unemployment.
Brolin has traveled his own path to stardom, earning a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination for "Milk" after years of film and TV work.
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