The cost can be especially burdensome for teachers who make meager salaries and live paycheck to paycheck. (cascd.org)
Before they successfully organized in the 1950s and 1960s, teachers endured meager salaries, political favoritism, tyrannical principals and sex discrimination against a mostly female work force. (wacharterschools.org)
I volunteer weekly, give what I can of a meager salary to the poor, and work for groups that help the less fortunate. (religion.blogs.cnn.com)