0 a person who works at a job for money
1 a person who works at a job for money, esp. to support a family
After 1924, wage earner cases exceeded business cases in each year, and the gap widened as the rate of wage earner bankruptcy increased.
Lawyers found a lucrative business in bankruptcy and retailers found wage earner bankruptcy an increasingly common problem.
Creditors did not appear in court because there was nothing for them to gain by participating in wage earner cases.
Families below the federal poverty line, or receiving government assistance or with an unemployed principal wage earner, are classified as experiencing economic disadvantage.
In wage earner cases there were no assets for creditors to liquidate.
While the recommendations to add wage earner workouts and business reorganization were implemented, the recommendations to move toward officialism were not.
Wage earner cases were necessarily voluntary and by the mid 1920s represented the largest category of bankruptcy cases.
Several made the transition from wage earner to independent businessman while at the same time expanding their links with the urban poor through the construction of ties of patronage.
