wage-earner household

  • 1wage-earner — wageˈ earner noun 1. Anyone who works for wages 2. The person who earns the money that supports, or money that helps to support, the household • • • Main Entry: ↑wage …

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  • 2wage earner — noun someone who works for wages, especially if that wage supports a household See Also: breadwinner …

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  • 3Household income in the United States — For information on the income of individuals, see Personal income in the United States. Median household income in the United States, by county, in 2008 Income in the United States …

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  • 4household allocative system — A term first coined by Jan Pahl, in a series of articles written in the 1980s, to describe the distribution of financial resources within households. The Pahl model provided a more sophisticated understanding of intra household dynamics than had… …

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  • 5alpha earner — (AL.fuh urn.ur) n. A wife who earns all or most of her household s income. Example Citation: They call them the new alpha earners. They are women, they bring home America s bacon and they are set to take over. Women are beginning to rise steadily …

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  • 6wageearner — wage earner n. 1. One who works for wages. 2. One whose earnings support or help support a household. * * * …

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  • 7Social Security (United States) — This article is about the retirement/disability program. For the general concept of providing welfare, see Social security. For other uses, see Social Security (disambiguation) …

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  • 8Women in the workforce — Part of a series on Women in Society …

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  • 9Sweden — /sweed n/, n. a kingdom in N Europe, in the E part of the Scandinavian Peninsula. 8,946,193; 173,732 sq. mi. (449,964 sq. km). Cap.: Stockholm. Swedish, Sverige. * * * Sweden Introduction Sweden Background: A military power during the 17th… …

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  • 10United States — a republic in the N Western Hemisphere comprising 48 conterminous states, the District of Columbia, and Alaska in North America, and Hawaii in the N Pacific. 267,954,767; conterminous United States, 3,022,387 sq. mi. (7,827,982 sq. km); with… …

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