How to Use living standard in a Sentence

living standard

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  • Economic growth or gross domestic product growth raises a country’s living standards.
    — Stuart Anderson, Forbes, 16 Oct. 2024
  • Critics were especially worried by the prospect of trade hurting American jobs and living standards.
    — Leon Fink, The Conversation, 25 Apr. 2024
  • The price has changed, but your living standard hasn’t.
    — William Baldwin, Forbes, 20 Mar. 2021
  • That living standard, however, varies from city to town and from state to state.
    — Ali Martin, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Feb. 2024
  • That translates into a 5 percent hike in Joe's living standard year-in and year-out through the end of his days.
    — Laurence Kotlikoff, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2022
  • All of us enjoyed the same living standard regardless of who did what in the business.
    — The New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2024
  • The program's pay is based on each location's cost-of-living standard, the website states.
    — Slone Terranella, Detroit Free Press, 21 Feb. 2021
  • That’s a shock to many Chinese who are used to an economy that kept on expanding and living standards that rose with it.
    — Li Yuan, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2023
  • Stock markets can boom when GDP is stagnant, when wages are flat, when living standards are going nowhere.
    — David Meyer, Fortune, 9 Feb. 2018
  • Billions of people in Asia hope that the now-decades long increase in living standards continues.
    — Fang Ruan, Fortune Asia, 20 Mar. 2024
  • The ratio needs to be at around 60% if retirees want to maintain a preretirement living standard.
    — Jing Yang, WSJ, 2 June 2021
  • The other 98% is garnered by the employees and the wider community through wages, cost savings, and living standard.
    — Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2022
  • The collapse in oil and natural gas prices threatens living standards, as the energy sector makes up two-thirds of the country’s exports.
    — Madeline Roache, Time, 24 Apr. 2020
  • The result of this boom was a dramatic rise in living standards almost everywhere.
    — Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Foreign Affairs, 8 June 2023
  • Equipping workers to produce more goods each hour is the key to expanding the economy and raising living standards.
    — David J. Lynch, Washington Post, 10 July 2024
  • Backers have long said that increasing the minimum wage would raise the living standard of workers and help combat poverty.
    — New York Times, 14 Feb. 2021
  • Brexit still hurts the economy and Britons have endured a historic squeeze on living standards after the pandemic and Russia’s war in Ukraine.
    — Prarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 5 July 2024
  • When living standards are rising so fast, taking a chance on a party that promises to shake things up is a much less attractive proposition.
    — The Economist, 30 Oct. 2017
  • The Russian government has gone to great lengths to try to maintain a sense of economic stability and to preserve living standards.
    — Peter Rutland, The Conversation, 14 Aug. 2024
  • Looked at a slightly different way, the richest people in the country would get a huge increase in their living standard — an 8-to-10 percent raise in after-tax income.
    — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 29 Sep. 2017
  • But marching toward a debt ceiling default puts American living standards on the line.
    — Christine Romans, CNN, 27 Apr. 2023
  • Convergence in living standards within and across countries has stalled.
    — Foreign Affairs, 22 Aug. 2023
  • Millennials, on the other hand, see the technology that for us was innovation not a long time ago as a living standard.
    — Pablo Turletti, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2022
  • As living standards go in these communities, Maria Salazar isn’t doing so badly.
    — Kirk Semple, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2017
  • After a prolonged crisis in living standards, these are still unlikely to return to pre-pandemic levels for at least a year.
    — Emma Norris, TIME, 5 July 2024
  • Productivity drives a country’s living standards in the long term.
    — The Economist, 14 Apr. 2018
  • Biden’s surge in government spending sparked a surge in inflation that has battered working-class living standards.
    — Heather Wilhelm, National Review, 9 Nov. 2023
  • Credit card debt recently hit an all-time high of more than $1 trillion as consumers have attempted to maintain their living standards.
    — Robert Barone, Forbes, 12 Aug. 2023
  • Many Ukrainians supported the deal with Brussels, seeing it as a way to lessen Moscow’s influence and improve living standards.
    — Constant Méheut, New York Times, 21 Nov. 2023
  • Recession would hurt the value of Turkey’s stocks and bonds and could create significant problems for the country’s banks, and would be detrimental to living standards in the country.
    — Jon Sindreu, WSJ, 17 Sep. 2018

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