Unlike her husband, she had difficulty securing research positions, and the ones she obtained provided meager pay.

It seemed like pretty meager pay for going through a night like this.

Many have been abused and taken advantage of on the job, he said, working long hours, six or seven days a week, for meager pay.

The meager pay she earned teaching forced her to work numerous menial jobs during the summer months, when school was not in session.

Throughout his life, Olaff held a number of jobs to supplement the meager pay, ranging from nine to thirty dollars per game, for playing soccer.

But it is also forcing some immigrants into a world of seven-day workweeks, meager pay, dangerous working conditions and no way out.

Speaking little English, his parents took cleaning jobs, but knowing that their son would do better made the long hours and meager pay easier to accept.

He was forced to take a job in the enlisted men's kitchen to augment his meager pay.

The problems of class size come as complaints of teacher shortages and meager pay have largely dissipated.