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According to the committee that drafted the ADC provision in the law, it was “designed to release from the wage-earning role the person whose natural function is to give her children the physical and affectionate guardianship necessary not alone to keep them from falling into social misfortune, but more affirmatively to rear them into citizens capable of contributing to society.”

A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

This underappreciated arm of the government mission is "To improve the status of wage-earning women, improve their working conditions, increase their efficiency, and advance their opportunities for profitable employment."

Archive 2009-02-01 2009

While, a small portion of the middle class has been able to accumulate capital, others have experienced a decrease in their quality of life as they have joined the ranks of the wage-earning classes who make up the majority of the population.

Majid Rafizadeh: The Character of Syria's Upheavals Majid Rafizadeh 2011

It is even less accessible to women trying to make ends meet in wage-earning positions, or doing unpredictable shift work.

Alice Buttrick: Rhodes Women: Shifting the Power of Balance Alice Buttrick 2011

And "families" are increasingly defined as mothers and children, without men for wage-earning or protection; the men are gone, as the result of war, genocide, and HIV/AIDS in many regions of Central and West Africa, as well as many parts of India, for example.

Jane D. Wurwand: Do More, and Do It Now Jane D. Wurwand 2011

I'm not about to say goodbye to my most essential wage-earning tool for another month, so I enact the process of ordering one by phone through Best Buy Partsearch, still covered by warranty, at least until June.

Best Buy Might Replace Your Lemon Of A Laptop If It Breaks A Sixth Time. Probably Not. - The Consumerist 2009

This underappreciated arm of the government mission is "To improve the status of wage-earning women, improve their working conditions, increase their efficiency, and advance their opportunities for profitable employment."

Women's Bureau of the US Dept of Labor 2009

And the rapid rise in long-term unemployment is a portrait of human loss, the outline of human beings cast out of productive, wage-earning lives into an existence of hopelessness and deprivation:

Richard (RJ) Eskow: Today's Visionary, Not Yesterday's Celebrity: Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Words With Contemporary Images RJ 2011

A wife with a nonthreatening wage-earning job eased the economic burden.

Matthew Yglesias » The Domestic Sphere 2010

And "families" are increasingly defined as mothers and children, without men for wage-earning or protection; the men are gone, as the result of war, genocide, and HIV/AIDS in many regions of Central and West Africa, as well as many parts of India, for example.

Jane D. Wurwand: Do More, and Do It Now Jane D. Wurwand 2011