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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The emphasis on education also indirectly affected the cost of living, argue Harvard Law School professor Elizabeth Warren and writer Amelia Warren Tyagi in the Two-Income Trap (Basic Books, 2003).

哈佛大学法学院教授Elizabeth Warren和作家Amelia Warren Tyagi在《双薪的陷阱》(2003年基础读物)一书中讲到，对于教育的重视也间接影响了生活成本。

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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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