Is it common sense to see that every person has a job and makes a livable wage?

"For the first time, they're going to be able to earn a livable wage."

They sought only clear skies and a livable wage, a means of providing food for their families.

"But we are giving them a solution and the solution is to pay police officers a livable wage."

"They're not going back until the contractors come back with an offer they can accept, that would be a livable wage."

"That is not a livable wage," she said.

My mother, with her eighth-grade education, raised me alone on welfare, government cheese and, yes, food stamps, as she sought jobs with a livable wage.

In the meantime, Mr. Hollingsworth is happy making "a livable wage," he said.

- $3,500, which the Bureau of Labor Statistics described at the time as a livable wage for a family of four.

I would gladly pay more in taxes and for products if I knew it meant that hard-working people like Payne were paid a livable wage.

Why do you instantly blame people wanting a livable wage and not those who will do anything to avoid contributing towards the society that enabled them?

If it is so convinced that $5.15 an hour is a livable wage, I propose a constitutional amendment setting representatives' salaries at the minimum wage.

"I think it's fairly obvious that the New York Police Department is not paying a livable wage," Mr. Lynch said.

But unless a livable wage and affordable health care are also offered, there will be no way to attract the hundreds of thousands of new workers who are needed.

The right to a livable wage, adequate benefits, union membership and a safe workplace are principles forgotten in the rush to be first on line in the global marketplace.

The party plans on doing this by giving financial incentives to business that are energy efficient, are located in developing areas within Vermont, and provide workers with a livable wage.

She backed the strike, saying, "I think the workers deserve a livable wage so they don't have to go out and find a second job, so they'll have enough to provide for their families."

A requirement that local workers be employed at a livable wage and a plan to house them may be the best social plan and be consistent with the need for prompt action.

The American Basketball League paid her $40,000 the previous season, a livable wage, but the A.B.L. folded last December, leaving Stern's annex as the only game around.

After three years, the advertising agency of Bestgen & Cussler prospered to the point where I could stop working in the liquor store and we could make a livable wage.

"Until workers are paid a livable wage a sweatshop will continue to be a sweatshop," declared Medea Benjamin, director of Global Exchange, a human rights group based in San Francisco.

Mr. Keady said he changed his mind about Nike when he learned that its labor initiatives did not address the questions of paying workers a livable wage and guaranteeing them the right to organize unions.

"It's not a function of achieving a livable wage; it's a function of getting people to work," said Robert L. Martin, a spokesman for the United States Chamber of Commerce.

"On balance, I believe our paramount obligation is to working people, and I cannot endorse a bill which provides them less than a livable wage," the Governor said in a two-page veto message to the Legislature.

"The janitors aren't being paid a livable wage," said George Jepsen, the majority leader in the Connecticut State Senate, who has urged cleaning contractors and building owners to grant higher wages and union recognition.

She makes about $30,000 a year as an administrative assistant, once a livable salary.

You had a job with a livable salary, guaranteed tenure, in a place where no one was ever going to demand too much of you.