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Recent Examples of take-home pay
That would be a quarter of Patterson’s take-home pay, almost twice what consumer finance experts recommend.
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Ryan Gabrielson, ProPublica, 12 Sep. 2024
Recognize that for these workers, the gap between their take-home pay and affordable food can be burdensome.
—Hank Cardello, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
Without the support, Wright-Oviedo said, her family would be spending $2,600 a month on child care, consuming at least half their take-home pay.
—Maya Huter, NBC News, 30 Oct. 2024
In eleven states and the District of Columbia, child care costs at least twice as much as typical monthly rent or mortgage payments, and two-thirds of parents nationwide report spending twenty per cent or more of their take-home pay on child care.
—Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2024
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Ryan Gabrielson, ProPublica, 12 Sep. 2024
Recognize that for these workers, the gap between their take-home pay and affordable food can be burdensome.
—Hank Cardello, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
Without the support, Wright-Oviedo said, her family would be spending $2,600 a month on child care, consuming at least half their take-home pay.
—Maya Huter, NBC News, 30 Oct. 2024
In eleven states and the District of Columbia, child care costs at least twice as much as typical monthly rent or mortgage payments, and two-thirds of parents nationwide report spending twenty per cent or more of their take-home pay on child care.
—Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for take-home pay
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What will the Arizona minimum wage be in 2025? In 2025, Arizona's minimum wage will be $14.70 per hour.Reia Li, The Arizona Republic, 11 Dec. 2024
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Jayaraman cited Michigan, where the state Supreme Court last summer cleared the way for a minimum wage hike, from $10.33 to $12.48 to take effect in February 2025.J.J. McCorvey, NBC News, 10 Dec. 2024
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And the lowest portion of workers living in poverty, demonstrating that workers in New Hampshire are paid a living wage.Matt Robison, Newsweek, 21 Nov. 2024
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All of the cities in the top five, including Toledo, Ohio, required a comfortable living wage between $36 and $38 per hour for one person.Isabela Ocampo Restrepo, Austin American-Statesman, 11 Aug. 2024
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Fix the Court, a nonprofit organization registered under section 501(c)(3) of the IRS, reported on tax forms covering fiscal 2023 paying Gabe Roth, its director, a salary of $168,100.Gabe Kaminsky, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 16 Dec. 2024
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Freelancing can also be a way to access this kind of talent without paying the high salaries that AI engineers command.Raja Krishnamoorthi, Newsweek, 16 Dec. 2024
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Among the positions Tran outlined in his campaign are federal funding for Planned Parenthood; raising wages for teachers and increasing investment in public schools and early childhood education; and expanding Medicare to take on insurance and pharmaceutical companies to cut health care costs.The Hill, The Hill, 11 Dec. 2024
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In its lawsuit filed in February, the FTC alleged that a lack of competition would lead to higher grocery prices, reduce food quality and customer service and harm grocery workers who are pushing for better working conditions and wages.Queenie Wong, Los Angeles Times, 10 Dec. 2024
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Veronica hands Flavia the pay envelope.Han Ong, The New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2021
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The men who built the ships of the U.S. Navy men like Charles Fort of Dundalk and William Hooper of White Marsh had the satisfaction of doing a job right, of contributing to the nation's defense and of bringing home to their eastern Baltimore County communities a regular pay envelope.Jacques Kelly, baltimoresun.com, 9 Aug. 2021
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So what happened to the gap in pay after these changes came into effect?Peter Ubel, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
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She has been suspended without pay, according to a spokesman for the New York Police Department.Shayla Colon, New York Times, 11 Dec. 2024
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“Take-home pay.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/take-home%20pay. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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