Many Dollar General shoppers earn rock-bottom wages, and the increase last spring in the minimum wage created a windfall for the company.

"The rest of the time he spent as a budding entrepreneur, employing dozens at rock-bottom wages, working the system to enrich himself, his partners and his family."

Whites, blacks, Mexicans and American Indians competing for rock-bottom wages on the factory floor simply cannot connect when racial animosities are sharpened by economic fears.

A higher minimum would make it harder for the Sunbelt to woo jobs with rock-bottom wages.

I'm earning the company millions, and I don't want to be on rock-bottom wages!

With their rock-bottom wages and rising efficiency, some can grow wheat and corn and soybeans for much less than rich countries can.

As a result, the already meager international purchasing power of China's rock-bottom wages is suppressed even further.

It is important that employers not gain an unfair advantage by exploiting illegal immigrants willing to work in poor conditions for rock-bottom wages.

Mexicans will pick the fruit at rock-bottom wages, holding down the pay the fruit tramps might otherwise get.

Back then, the building was occupied by dozens of low-end employment agencies offering a day or two of unappetizing work - washing dishes, shoveling snow - for rock-bottom wages.