Sentences with phrase «above subsistence»

Far from needing many more college graduates, which would push wages even further down, we need an economy where people who work full time without a degree can survive well above subsistence level and closer to their college educated peers as they used to before 1980.

Possessed economy and quality of life above subsistence - level farming, and did not depend on unusually rich natural resources.

Staying home limits your ability to act and react to the birth to just above subsistence level.

Mexican labor is so abundant, that the movement of more factories south of the border is unlikely to raise Mexican wages above subsistence.

They are unparalleled in their power to unleash the creative energies which can raise living standards above subsistence.

Russian labor is to be paid wages above subsistence levels only to the extent that it can be taxed, thereby «freeing» as much non-wage income as possible from taxation — in particular, income for the privatized land, mineral resources and hitherto public utilities.

Not exact matches

One also continues to adjust to his or her new income and maintain a happy state regardless of income above a certain subsistence point.

The bankers» ideal is for the entire surplus over and above bare subsistence to be paid in the form of interest and fees — all disposable personal income, corporate cash flow and real estate rent.

The aim of bankers is to calculate just how much their customers can pay to the FIRE sector, defined as everything they make over and above basic subsistence costs and «non-discretionary» spending.

It is clear that some groups, especially those who live from the investment of capital, will gain by increasing the size of markets and that labor now living above the global subsistence level will lose.

Churchill's safety net is at the bottom: holding people at subsistence level, just above the abyss of hunger and homelessness.

International Whaling Commission (IWC) regulations protect western gray whales from commercial and aboriginal subsistence whaling; the range states of the Russian Federation, Japan, the Republic of Korea, and China, are members of the IWC (but as noted above, some limited illegal hunting may continue).

And what has always been true for bloggers is now true for anyone hoping to live above the basic subsistence level.

If scientists are able to utilize the methods and approaches described above appropriately, there is likely to be better representation of changes in climate, shifts in seasonality, and any resulting influence on subsistence fish and game species or existing infrastructure.

In relation to the striking of the balance referred to above, the judge referred to the husband's tax returns which revealed payments for expenses, travel and subsistence in excess of # 100,000 per annum and passport showing trips abroad to, for example, the Maldives at Christmas.