Giving these mostly low-paying positions to senior citizens seems like exploitation to some advocates for the elderly, but others see the jobs as a welcome opportunity for people who find retired life penurious or dull.

The jobs these minority-group members took were not limited to low-paying positions at McDonald's, Mr. Ehrenhalt said.

Consequently, they took low-paying positions in the beginning, such as laborers or domestics, and sent their small remittances to their families in their home countries.

Nicholas endeavours to find a position, but rejects a low-paying position as a politician's secretary, and a job as a tutor of the French for the Kenwig daughters comes to comic disaster.

Most of us were forced to take low-paying positions, not very often in the fields of our choice.

Before he started training at Applebee's, he was offered a low-paying administrative position as coordinator of basketball operations under then-coach Thad Matta.

Hoping to trade on his celebrity to find a job and emigrate, he was disappointed when his only forthcoming offer was a low-paying janitorial position at the Bangor Mall.

Weslake, who was laid off from his job, is working in a low-paying position at Garvey's pawn shop.

The family of five girls and two boys subsisted on a small piece of land, and Bageshwari also held a low-paying clerical position in a nearby sugar mill.

She said that most of the 44,000 jobs created in the last three years were low-paying positions in health and social services, with few new opportunities in manufacturing and construction.