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they make a precarious living from Ravenal's gambling. At first they are rich and enjoying the good life ("Why Do I Love You?") By 1903, they have a daughter...

A living wage is defined as the minimum income necessary for a worker to meet their basic needs. This is not the same as a subsistence wage, which refers...

Vulture commented, "Few songs capture the sense of living amidst dealers and liars in a precarious economy better than this early single, nor better express...

described as follows: "...it is now nearly deserted. A few Mexicans and Chinamen make a precarious living in working around the abandoned claims, but with...

drinking herself to death in a Nevada trailer. They end up building a precarious but deeply invested life together, trying...to save each other’s lives...

by Chris Owen, explores the life of a family in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea, who make a precarious living by trading in betelnut, one of the world's...

affecting material or psychological welfare. The term is a portmanteau merging precarious with proletariat. Unlike the proletariat class of industrial...

of free blacks in no uncertain terms". For free blacks, who had only a precarious hold on freedom, "slave ownership was not simply an economic convenience...

over the body (statist, racialized, a state of exception, urgency, martyrdom) and how this reduces people to precarious life conditions. According to Marina...

it turns, can make the rich poor and the poor rich; in effect, both states are very precarious, with death never far and life hanging by a thread: when...

oppositional speech". Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence opens a new line in Judith Butler's work that has had a great impact on their...

increasing cost-of-living, tuition payments, and affordable housing scarcity. The Opo Generation has given up an additional two, to make five (o): home ownership...

first book, Kentucky Blood, was a bestseller, but his subsequent works were not successful, leaving the family in a precarious financial position. Unbeknownst...

usually makes up the largest proportion of this estimate, so economists track the real estate market and other housing cost indicators as a major influence...

feature George Dzundza as Max Greevey. It was the first season to include a longer opening sequence and theme (at 81 seconds). And it was also the first...

Video Games of 2022 (So Far)", describing it as "[striking] a sublime balance between precarious dungeoneering and the cozy chores back home." In October...

concern. However, they are a species in a precarious situation, as they are so dependent on such specific food; therefore if a problem arises with the abundance...

the thin and often precarious line between the law and organized crime. Rachel Keller as Samantha Porter, an American expatriate living in Tokyo and former...

and difficulty in expressing vulnerability. Manhood is thought to be a precarious social status. Unlike womanhood, it is thought to be "elusive and tenuous...

specifically, women are more likely to occupy positions that are precarious and thus have a higher risk of failure—either because they are appointed to lead...