音标:['weɪdʒ,wɜːkə] ;
n. 劳动者;靠工资生活者

NOEL KING, HOST: A basic principle of economics is that when demand for something goes up, the cost of it goes up, too. So economists wonder why today's high demand for workers isn't translating into bigger increases in pay. Even Federal Reserve Chai

发表于:2018-12-18 / 阅读(101) / 评论(0) 分类 2018年NPR美国国家公共电台8月

AS IT IS 2015-06-14 The Living Wage Debate Has Many Sides Workers and employers around the world argue over the issue of a minimum wage. Workers says they want to receive a minimum living wage that permits them to meet the most basic needs of life su

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Labor Advocates Celebrate Los Angeles Wage Victory LOS ANGELES Los Angeles is about to become the largest American city to raise its minimum wage to $15 an hour, an increase to be phased in over five years. The wage is more than twice the current min

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ECONOMICS REPORT - On the Job, at Minimum WageBy Mario Ritter Broadcast: Friday, January 13, 2006 I'm Faith Lapidus with the VOA Special English Economics Report. Minimum wage is the lowest hourly pay

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RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Gaming industry tycoon Steve Wynn is denying charges that he sexually abused some of his employees. Restauranteurs John Besh and Mario Batali have stepped away from their businesses amid similar allegations. These men gained prom

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MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: When Congress passed a sweeping tax overhaul last December, it lowered the corporate tax rate, and dozens of companies promised to share the good fortune with employees. The Walt Disney Company was among them, offering its wo

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In South Texas, Fair Wages Elude Farmworkers, 50 Years After Historic Strike DAVID GREENE, HOST: Fifty years ago this summer, farmworkers in South Texas walked off the fields to protest poor wages and appalling working conditions. They marched 400 mi

发表于:2019-01-17 / 阅读(161) / 评论(0) 分类 2016年NPR美国国家公共电台8月

Walmart and McDonald's, two of the biggest and oldest brands in the US, have for years faced widespread complaints about poor customer service. 近年来,顾客们普遍抱怨美国两个最大最老品牌沃尔玛和麦当劳的顾客服务差。

发表于:2019-01-26 / 阅读(116) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

The living wage 最低生活工资 Wage flaws 工资缺陷 Sense and nonsense about minimum wages 最低工资的意义何在 What unites Ed Miliband, the Labour leader; Boris Johnson, Londons Tory mayor; and Barclays Bank? All are keen on the living

发表于:2019-01-27 / 阅读(153) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人财经系列

JUDY WOODRUFF: As bad as circumstances are for people who can't find a job, there is a different, buttangible challenge for Americans who have work, but earn barely enough to get by. For them, as NewsHour correspondent Kwame Holman reports, there is

发表于:2019-01-27 / 阅读(136) / 评论(0) 分类 PBS访谈商业系列

GWEN IFILL: The battle over the minimum wage heated up across the country today, as fast-food workers in several cities launched a one-day strike. Outside Chicago, near the corporate home of McDonald's, workers protested as the company held its annua

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The country has the most generous national minimum wage in the developed world, according to a report from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. 经济合作发展组织的一份报告显示,澳大利亚在发达国家中享有最

发表于:2019-02-03 / 阅读(83) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

BEIJING, Feb.?9 (Xinhuanet) -- The government aims to raise its minimum wage at least 13 percent each year from 2011 to 2015, according to a national employment promotion plan released on Wednesday. China raised its minimum wage by an average of 12.5

发表于:2019-02-05 / 阅读(124) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

After the Job Conference in Auckland two weeks ago, (see February 27th 2009)the government has moved quickly to bring in a nine-day fortnight. The idea is for workers to take one day off every two weeks for training. This will help employers who do n

发表于:2019-02-05 / 阅读(110) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

By Jeff Swicord Washington, DC 19 July 2006 watch Minimum Wage report U.S. law has guaranteed most workers a minimum wage since the 1930s. The last increase in the wage was in 1997. Now Democrats in the U.S. Congress say it's time for another raise.

发表于:2019-02-06 / 阅读(179) / 评论(0) 分类 2006年VOA标准英语(七月)

You probably don't know me, but I am one of those .01 percenters that you hear about and read about, and I am by any reasonable definition a plutocrat. And tonight, what I would like to do is speak directly to other plutocrats, to my people, because

发表于:2019-02-16 / 阅读(154) / 评论(0) 分类 英语语言学习

Thousands of protesters marched through the Indonesian capital Tuesday demanding better working conditions to mark international Labor Day. While increasingly frequent strikes have revealed discontent within the labor force, analysts say Indonesia is

发表于:2019-02-18 / 阅读(90) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

Rapid wage gains in China that began after the 2009 global financial crisis have begun to fade as the economy slows, and that could create problems for officials trying to boost domestic consumption. 中国的涨薪潮开始于2009年全球性金融危

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Leaders 社论 Minimum wages 最低工资标准 The logical floor 多少才合理 Moderate minimum wages do more good than harm. They should be set by technocrats not politicians 实施适度的最低工资标准利大于弊,但是它们应该由技术

发表于:2019-02-19 / 阅读(127) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人综合

Listen to February 18th 2011 to hear the background to this. In February this year, workers who care for intellectually disabled people, won their case for better night pay. The court said that they should be paid the minimum wage for sleeping at nig

发表于:2019-02-25 / 阅读(104) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语
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abruquinone
acatastasia
al furuthi
ananabasia
average shading
Bacoli
be at grips with
bicolons
bismuth peroxide
Bochdalek's ganglion
brahminisms
broken apart
caimito
canal paresis
card for record only
carrier phage
carvacrotinic acid
chaetoceros mitra
combustion fired MHD generator
contactless type automatic voltage regulator
d.e.a
dark lane
deflection method of measurement
delibrate
Dicerostylis
dilection
dimethylsulfanilamidoisoxazole
draconarius labiatus
dress ... in
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flocked carpets
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foreign-owned
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heartburning
hiroaki
horse cavalries
Hummelfeld
I. B. R. D.
iso-amylethylbarbituric acid
justifiable
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laevo-
lateral leaching
lipoma of scrotum
litidionite
lo dose (of toxin)
log landing
lump sugar
Magheragall
manned satellite
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N-DODECYLRESORCINOL
nonreclining
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polyphase motor
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psophiidaes
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push bicycle
Putranjiva
rack-out
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refusnik
Rifacyclotizone
right horizontal stabilizer
rock-crystals
satellite subsystem design
scouring cloth
stria membran? tympani anterior
surface of package
Swan Hill
table salt
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terra cognita
tough strings
tracheomalacia
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turbine genared propulsion unit
turd burglers
Typhlopidae
ujongs
up to the last notch
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Van Wyck Brooks
vine raek
wearihood
weipe
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