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  • If only the 35 million lowest wage-workers leave their job-based plans, federal spending will rise by another $1 trillion in just the first decade.

    Health Care Repeal Won't Add to the Deficit Douglas Holtz-Eakin 2011

  • If only the 35 million lowest wage-workers leave their job-based plans, federal spending will rise by another $1 trillion in just the first decade.

    Going after ObamaCare Jennifer Rubin 2011

  • And third and last comes my class, the proletariat, which is composed of the wage-workers.

    Chapter 9: The Mathematics of a Dream 2010

  • In the first place, in defense of world capitalism, they are being handled by soldiers and mercenaries, by wage-workers and paramilitary death squads.

    The global debacle is a profound structural energetic crisis 2009

  • The broad fact that the United States census of 1870 estimated the average annual income of our wage-workers at a little over $400 per capita, and that the census of 1880 estimates it at a little over $300 per capita, is the quite sufficient evidence that there is a labor question coming upon us in this country.

    Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007

  • It needs no stretch of the imagination to see what a startling tendency the announcement that all vacant land was free to settlement upon condition of cultivation would have to the depopulation of over-crowded cities like New York, Baltimore and Savannah, where the so-called pressure of population upon subsistence has produced a hand-to-hand fight for existence by the wage-workers in every avenue of industry.

    Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007

  • It needs no stretch of the imagination to see what a startling tendency the announcement that all vacant land was free to settlement upon condition of cultivation would have to the depopulation of over-crowded cities like New York, Baltimore and Savannah, where the so-called pressure of population upon subsistence has produced a hand-to-hand fight for existence by the wage-workers in every avenue of industry.

    Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007

  • Leaving upon one side the class of skilled labor, a large proportion of our wage-workers are notoriously inefficient.

    Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007

  • Leaving upon one side the class of skilled labor, a large proportion of our wage-workers are notoriously inefficient.

    Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007

  • If the colored men of the South are to continue their grip as the wage-workers and wealth-producers of that section they must bring to the employments common intelligence and skill; and these are to be obtained in the South as in the North, by apprenticeship and in schools specially provided for the purpose.

    Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007

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