WAGES WERE PEANUTS and PREPOSITIONS

[Jesule]

Hello to everybody! How is it going?. First of all, thanks to everyone for helping me with my English. Thanks indeed!. And now, one question again:

1.- I wanna say that "wages were poor and now they are too".

Would it be like this?

a.- Wages were peanuts and they still are the same.
b.- Wages were peanuts and they are still (But I need
something, not?)

Any of these sentences is right?

Maybe there´s a way in English to say that expression:

I mean, more or less as I tried to say in the sentence before, that something, for instance, happened but it´s
still happening at present, it was but it is now as well...



2.- Well, this is really methaporical. "My heart lives "in" yours".
But I wanna know if I used the correct preposition.


Thanks in advance!

Jesús

[queenbu]

Wages were peanuts and they still are.