self-help, hourly wage, executive pay, help them help themselves

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"To those people in the huts and villages of half the globe struggling to break the bonds of mass misery, we pledge our best efforts to help them help themselves." — John F. Kennedy

Forced From Executive Pay to Hourly Wage 
By MICHAEL LUO
Mark Cooper’s tumble from security manager to janitor is one of the often hidden consequences of the downturn.
QUOTATION OF THE DAY 
"It has been the hardest thing in my life. It has been harder than my divorce from my husband. It has really been even worse than the death of my mother."
AME ARLT, who took an hourly wage job in customer service after 20 years of working as an executive.

self-help
adjective, noun [U]
the activity of providing what you need for yourself and others with similar experiences or difficulties without going to an official organization:
[before noun] self-help groups
It is a group providing self-help for single parents.