This is only enough to cover the basic cost of living.

这些钱只够支付他们基本的生活花费。

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And we will develop a legal framework for the system of urban and rural basic cost of living allowances to be established.

我们将要开始的实行覆盖城乡的低保制度也要用法制保障。

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Underneath the Socialists' brief commitment to cost-of-living organizing lay a basic indifference to the issue itself.

在社会主义者对生活成本组织的简短承诺之下，是对问题本身的基本漠不关心。

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The Living Wage is calculated according to the basic cost of living in the UK. Employers choose to pay it on a voluntary basis.

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And secondary school teacher Craig Macartney, from Suffolk, said he had noted that increasing numbers of children from middle to lower income households were missing school trips as families struggled to meet the basic cost of living.

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They include such things as paying workers based on a formula that allows them to meet basic cost-of-living needs.

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