The Mittster, like Warren Buffett and some other billionaires, has been paying a smaller proportion of his income in federal taxes than many ordinary Americans who live on modest wages.

Life is precarious for those who live on wages and have no reserves or additional revenue.

I understand the economic issues of living on low wages here - am counting every switched on electrical device and calculating the likely cost.

They lived on such wages, or, at least, they did not die on them.

The depletion of the state stores is hardest on those trying to live on low wages or retirement benefits.

Ryo, the main protagonist, has assured to himself that all is well; he and his sister are living on well-paid wages, and he only needs his sister.

Er...even people living in cheap areas and on low wages even pay out half their income on renting or buying.

"It's very difficult to live on wages here in Ukraine - especially for people with a family."

Living frugally on wages as busboys and bartenders in downtown hotels, the brothers pooled their savings of US$3,500 in 1914.

We have people living on desperately low wages alongside billionaires in the capital.