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The Tefl work was poorly-paid and precarious, and I often combined four part-time jobs.
Dear Jeremy Jeremy Bullmore 2010
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Those businesses might well have a barbell-shaped income distribution: highly-paid people at the top, and poorly-paid people at the bottom doing the things the computers can't do.
Barbell Labor Market?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Every public college I have taught at -- and I've been doing so for the past nine years -- has been heavily dependent on poorly-paid adjunct faculty, for the simple reason that they have tight budgets and they try to make them go as far as possible, in order to serve as many students as possible.
The Academic Job Market, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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As women approach pay parity with men in the work force, sectors that historically depended on a continuing supply of well-educated but poorly-paid women (K-12 education and health care) are in crisis to the point where the entire economy is impacted
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As women approach pay parity with men in the work force, sectors that historically depended on a continuing supply of well-educated but poorly-paid women (K-12 education and health care) are in crisis to the point where the entire economy is impacted
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Are they reasoning that poorer people should have more poorly-paid teachers, and, I suppose that teachers who teach in wealthier neighborhoods should be paid more?
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But he deplored the ill-gotten gains by the Junkers who now reaped large profits by charging wartime prices for food produced by poorly-paid POW labor.
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People like me, women like me, who have been in the trenches doing the hard, poorly-paid but ultimately rewarding daily work of progressive movements for decades (unlike Paul Krugman who has had a cushy tenured job in the insular world of academia) are getting behind Obama.
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Afterwards, law candidates participated for six years in a poorly-paid legal training program in a court or a law office before being able to establish themselves as a full-fledged lawyers or judges.
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The other discovery was that most of the low-level security personnel were poorly-paid minority workers.
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