Among the millions with hourly earnings at or below the minimum wage level, the overwhelming majority are from multiple-earner, relatively affluent families.

在每小时工资处于或低于最低工资水平的数百万人中，绝大多数来自有多收入者、相对富裕的家庭。

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As reported on the Huffington Post, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics has released a new report on women's earnings which shows that the gender wage gap continues.

赫芬顿邮报报道，美国劳工统计局最新发布的女性收入显示性别差异导致的收入差异仍然存在。

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Sometimes it pays off handsomely but other times the earnings, given the hours you put in, don't even add up to minimum wage.

有时候你能大赚一笔，但是也有些时候那绵薄的收入相对于你投入的时间成本而言是入不敷出的。

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Republicans oppose a proposed surtax on high wage earnings to pay for the new system, and assert that plan amounts to a government takeover of health care that would be far more expensive than Democrats and the president project.

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To the point that my idea that the personal allowance for income tax should be set, by law, at the full year full time minimum wage earnings will be in the manifestos of at least two political parties (likely, those who will come third and fourth, but you cannot have everything) at the next general election.

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Social Security considers all your covered earnings from age 16 on and indexes, based on historic wage growth, all earnings through the year you are age 60.

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In America, the minimum wage for adult workers was 39% of median earnings in 1997, but the special low minimum wage for workers aged under 20 was equivalent to 53% of mean youth earnings.

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