Sentences with phrase «american families every year»

This everyday trauma affected millions of American families each year; then, in 2015, a bit of smartphone technology took away some of the worry.
Marriage and family therapists are becoming more important to the lives of American families every year.

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Many believe an engagement is forthcoming, which would make Markle the first American to marry into the royal family in over 80 years.
A little over five years ago, Joel Young found himself in a situation many American families are facing: He was deeply in debt with a less than stable job and young children to provide for.
An excerpt on The Berghoff's official website says its history is the «quintessential American success story of an immigrant who built a hugely successful business that has stayed in one family for more than a hundred years
Griffeth has written four books, «The Stranger in My Genes,» in 2016; «By Faith Alone: One Family's Epic Journey Through 400 Years of American Protestantism,» in 2007; «Bill Griffeth's Ten Steps to Financial Prosperity,» published in 1994; and «The Mutual Fund Masters,» in 1995.
In a preface to the report, U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison, D - Minn., writes, «Each year, Congress spends about $ 200 billion to help house American families.
The Busch family ran the company for nearly 130 years, even after it went public, but the stock stagnated in the early 2000s when Michelob and Budweiser fell into a sharp decline as Americans gravitated to wine and spirits.
Together, Lane and Comley looked at the Broadway theater demographics, which has remained the same for many years — over 40 years old, Caucasian, largely female, higher average education and much higher disposable income than an average American family (the latest figure places the average annual household income of the Broadway theatergoer at $ 194,940).
Every year, the average American family spends between $ 4,000 and $ 5,000 on energy.
That $ 75 is not a lot to an American family — a survey from the American Research Group found shoppers planning to spend $ 929 this year on gifts — but in Syria it goes a long way.
With a market cap of about $ 25 billion at the time, the family - run oil and gas empire was the largest company Elliott had ever gone after, and it occupied a nostalgic place in American culture thanks to the novelty toy trucks it released each year at Christmastime.
«This underscores the fact that it takes time, especially because expenses grow faster than many Americans can save during the homebuying, family - raising years,» McBride said.
Racism motivating delay of demolition of 100 - year - old home in Boulder, Mexican - American family says
A poll conducted by Associated Press - GfK in late March — when oil prices had already risen 26 per cent since the start of the year to US$ 108 a barrel — revealed that two - thirds of Americans expected rising gasoline prices to cause hardship for them or their families in the coming months.
To find out what a typical mortgage with Wells Fargo might cost, we used the American median household income, median single - family home price and a 10 % down payment on a 30 year fixed - rate loan of $ 178,200.
Markle will in some ways be following in the footsteps of Wallis Simpson, a divorced American woman who married into the British royal family nearly 81 years ago.
Instead, some firms have incentivized advisers to steer clients into products that have higher fees and lower returns — costing American families an estimated $ 17 billion a year
Zients noted on the Tuesday afternoon call that a little over a year ago President Barack Obama «called for action to crack down on conflicts of interest in retirement advice, which costs American families billions of dollars every year
Over 5 million American families are caught in a cycle of payday debt each year, paying $ 3.4 billion in excess fees.
Tariffs of $ 30 billion a year would wipe out over a third of the savings American families received from the doubling of the standard deduction in tax reform.
So the truth of the matter is, the chinese make better products, and i have been trying for nearly 10 years to get AMERICAN investors to consider doing what the CHINESE do, have factories with dorms, have cafeterias, and do a big family thing.
Such is the struggle of the family of an American pastor recently sentenced in Iran to eight years in prison for his Christian beliefs.
(The average American eats meals with friends, family or neighbors half as often as he or she did 50 years ago.)
By official statistics, thirteen percent of Americans are poor today» many of them immigrants of the last few years who will not long remain poor, and measured by a standard that counts as poor families with cash income (not income in kind, from welfare benefits, for example) up to about twenty thousand dollars for a family of four.
The young face a more atomized world than did Americans fifty years ago, but even in young people's support for free college, we see their hopes of entering a world with steadier employment and more stable families.
David Blankenhorn, executive director of the Institute for American Values, argues for this kind of pro-family tax reform: Such a family tax credit would boost real income by about $ 750 per child for precisely the families who have suffered an economic squeeze over the past 15 years
At the time Fiori's biography was written there was only a rumor of this, reported by Wladmir Rabi in «Du nouveau sur Simone Weil» (Les Nouveaux Cahiers, Autumn 1971) After many years of silence, to spare the sensibilities of Weil's family, Simone Dietz, who was very friendly with Weil in New York and later in London, where they worked for the Free French, told a meeting of the American Weil Society in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in May 1988 that at Weil's request she herself baptized Weil (as a lay Catholic may do in extreme situations) a few months before Weil's death.
An Urban Institute study from that year estimated that one in six nonelderly (under age 65) Americans lives in a family in which adults work at least half - time but family income falls below twice the federal poverty level.
By the time you've completed watching the staggering, true tale of Solomon Northup — a free black man in the pre-Civil War American North who was kidnapped, taken from his family and sold into slavery for 12 years — you'll be shaken to your very core.
[1] «New Ways of Being Family: Testimonies from Guatemala» by Luz María Coro de Peña in Latin American Pastoral Issues, Year XVIII, 1994.
More than 65 million Americans are caregivers for dying, sick, and disabled family members, according to the National Alliance for Caregiving, and about 1.6 million people are cared for by hospice programs each year.
Another 30 % of the american population list themselves as christians just because they like being in the social club and don't want their loving christian friends and family alienating them even though they have realized over the years that all this garbage they were brainwashed with as children is really quite laughable.
Whatever the cause, it is undisputed today, over thirty years after the Kauai study began, that more American children are in poverty and in broken families than ever before.
When Constance Wu was cast in the ABC sitcom Fresh off the Boat, she didn't realize it was the first time an Asian family has been depicted on TV in nearly 20 years, when Margaret Cho's All American Girl was canceled after just one season.
Dr. Nicholas Cummings, a former president of the American Psychological Association, stated, «In my twenty years at Kaiser Permanente Health Maintenance Organization, 67 percent of the homosexuals who sought help from therapists for issues such as «the transient nature of relationships, disgust or guilt feelings about promiscuity, fear of disease, (and) a wish to have a traditional family» experienced various levels of success obtaining their goals.
Fox tells the story from beginning to end: childhood in the German - American parsonage; nine grades of school followed by three years in a denominational «college» that was not yet a college and three year's in Eden Seminary, with graduation at 21; a five - month pastorate due to his father's death; Yale Divinity School, where despite academic probation because he had no accredited degree, he earned the B.D. and M.A.; the Detroit pastorate (1915 - 1918) in which he encountered industrial America and the race problem; his growing reputation as lecturer and writer (especially for The Christian Century); the teaching career at Union Theological Seminary (1928 - 1960); marriage and family; the landmark books Moral Man and Immoral Society and The Nature and Destiny of Man; the founding of the Fellowship of Socialist Christians and its journal Radical Religion; the gradual move from Socialist to liberal Democratic politics, and from leader of the Fellowship of Reconciliation to critic of pacifism; the break with Charles Clayton Morrison's Christian Century and the inauguration of Christianity and Crisis; the founding of the Union for Democratic Action, then later of Americans for Democratic Action; participation in the ecumenical movement, especially the Oxford Conference and the Amsterdam Assembly; increasing friendship with government officials and service with George Kennan's policy - planning group in the State Department; the first stroke in 1952 and the subsequent struggles with ill health; retirement from Union in 1960, followed by short appointments at Harvard, at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, and at Columbia's Institute of War and Peace Studies; intense suffering from ill health; and death in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 1971.
In later years, I myself sometimes wondered whether the whole family wasn't actually German, whether they hadn't pretended to be Yugoslavian to avoid the anger that Americans, and especially Jews, still felt toward Germans after the war.
Fifty - six percent of those surveyed felt that the quality of American family life is getting worse; 62 percent believe that family values have weakened; even higher percentages are pessimistic about the state of the family 10 years from now.
For the sixth year in a row, Gallo Family Vineyards invites Americans to help end senior hunger and isolation with our annual Every Cork Counts ™ program.
I introduced North American cookies and bars to my Italian family and friends and this is what they ask me for every Christmas, «Rosemary are you making cookies this year»?
Videos from Wine Enthusiast Magazine's 2009 Wine Star Awards Ceremony (honoring our 2008 Wine Star Award winners): Reception (3:38) Opening Remarks (6:30) Man of the Year: Robert Sands, Constellation Brands (20:14) Lifetime Achievement: Piero Antinori, Marchese Antinori (11:15) American Winery of the Year: Korbel Champagne Cellars (6:43) European Winery of the Year: The Boutari Company, Greece (9:41) New World Winery of the Year: Casa Lopostelle, Chile (11:02) Winemaker of the Year: Margo Van Staaveren, Chateau St. Jean Winery & Vineyards (6:13) Importer of the Year: Shaw - Ross International Imports (8:46) Retailer of the Year: Spec's Wine, Spirits & Finer Foods (6:20) Distiller of the Year: The Macallan (9:31) Wine Region of the Year: Mendoza, Argentina (8:36) Innovator of the Year: Jean - Charles Boisset, Boisset Family Estates (11:58) 2009 Wine Star Awards Photo Slideshow (7:02) For further information, contact Jacqueline Strum, [email protected], or 914.593.4406.
Reception (5:29) Introduction (6:44) Innovator of the Year: Alain Juppé, Mayor of Bordeaux, France (8:20) Distiller of the Year: Cooper Spirits for St - Germain, Robert Cooper (6:05) Importer of the Year: TGIC, Alex Guarachi (9:53) Restaurateur of the Year: Tyler Florence (5:48) Retailer of the Year: Sherry - Lehmann Wine & Spirits, Chris Adams (9:06) Wine Region of the Year: Rhône, France (8:51) New World Winery of the Year: Bodega Catena Zapata (Argentina), Nicolas Catena (8:17) European Winery of the Year: Sogrape Vinhos (Portugal), Guedes Family (10:54) American Winery of the Year: J. Lohr Vineyards & Wines, Jerry Lohr (8:50) Winemaker of the Year: Genevieve Janssens for Robert Mondavi Winery (8:21) Man of the Year: Bill Foley for Foley Family Wines (9:05) Lifetime Achievement: Baron Eric de Rothschild (21:36)
For the 5th year, Gallo Family Vineyards» Every Cork Counts program invites Americans to send back their corks to benefit the Meals On Wheels Association of America.
Maldonado Family Vineyards - OFFER NOW CLOSED 2013 Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley, CA 2015 Winery of the Year, American Fine Wine Competition Ends Sunday, March 12
For the sixth year, Gallo Family Vineyards invites Americans to help end senior hunger and isolation with its annual Every Cork Counts ™ program.
The average American family of four wastes almost $ 1,500 a year throwing away delicious and nutritious food in their kitchen.
With one of the largest populations in the American Southwest and famously warm weather amid year - round sunshine, the myriad of things attracting families to the area is nothing short of impressive.
Add in CEO Tim Carter's love of almonds, a partnership with leading almond grower Harris Woolf (another 100 - year - old family - run company), plus a growing appetite for this delicious, heart - healthy nut among American consumers, and the decision to stay ever - relevant by expanding into almond butter was really a no - brainer.
«Pie is the cornerstone of American kitchens, bringing family, friends and loved ones together year after year over a simple, delicious piece of our nation's heritage,» said Linda Hoskins, Executive Director, American Pie Council.
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