Sentences with phrase «focusing on the working class»

The Prudential Friendly Society was the first insurance company focused on the working class.

The Canadian photographer, who once said: «I wanted to show the world the way it is», obsessively documented Vancouver, mainly focusing on working class people, and their connections to the city around them.

Focusing on the working class, they offer affordable products with simple terms and low down payments.

Not exact matches

May, however, insisted that the spending plans should focus more on working - class voters who feel they have been left behind by globalisation, and who voted in large numbers to leave the European Union in June.

Austin, who is currently working on a book tentatively titled Not for the Faint of Heart, which focuses on the challenges faced by those navigating the new economy, predicts that psychologists will be the next big class of business writers.

«Recent events have brought home for me that people are more important than work, and that I need to take some time off of the day - to - day to grieve my mother, whom I buried on Friday, to reflect, to work on myself, and to focus on building out a world - class leadership team,» Kalanick wrote in the email, obtained first by Recode.

«We are seeing that our focus on the middle class, by putting more money in the pockets of hard working families, and giving less advantages to the wealthiest, is growing the economy,» Trudeau said, as he also attempted to distract the media horde from his finance minister's loose interpretation of what constitutes a conflict of interest.

This having been the case, it is curious that the Democratic Party, which used to represent the working class, generally were not focused on mitigating the trade deficit issue.

«We are focused now on supporting our team as they execute on our plan — we are going to support our outstanding journalists who create world - class content — and we are working to create superior value for our shareholders.

As a client, that means you can focus on the teacher's voice, the instruction, and close your eyes to work deeper in class.

Notice the rural, working - class focus, as well as on the difficulties in being a man in full when all the key relational institutions — beginning with the family — are broken.

Republican presidential candidates might be more trusted by more voters at every level of the income distribution if they focused more of their attention on policies directly impact the working and aspiring middle - classes.

Most attacks focused on existing income tax + new sales tax =: (Better off sticking with the 9 -9-9 tax plan as middle and working - class tax increase.

If the Republicans want to make gains among the working and middle - classes of all colors and ethnicities, they need to focus on a program that offers more than just the supposed indirect benefits of cutting taxes on «job creators.»

But it's a shaky assumption that just because poor and working - class women are exposed to the lifestyles and tastes of the wealthy they are also susceptible to the neuroses of the wealthy interviewed for the Mothers Movement Online, clinical psychologist Daphne de Marneffe suggests that it's disingenuous to focus so narrowly on wealthy women's «obsession with externals and appearances and competition» and then turn around and ask «Does anyone have an inner life?»

Early in my own discipleship, I was privileged to attend a class that taught one how to explore what particular gifts one had been given and how to work within the Body by focusing on those and also understanding how members with other giftings functioned best.

Using our laptops and a wifi connection as our only materials, this class will focus on the alchemical recuperation of aimless surfing into substantial works of literature.

An immigration compromise would focus on the insecurity of working - class Americans of all ethnicities — regardless of whether they were born in the United States or elsewhere.

AW needs to focus Chambers on CB role, working with likes of Per, Kos and Gabriel to develop a top class defensive team.

And yes, it's also true that many of us (at least those of us who are white and middle - class) are a bit self - absorbed or extremely focused on our careers (we're the «third waver» feminists, and many of us from Day One saw our lives as defined by our work.

A class especially for 4 - to 6 - year - old boys focuses on athleticism of dance, working on coordination and setting them up for future dance and sports.

This works quite well for some students (our Campus and Community page discusses options for what your family can do in our neighborhood while you're in class); other students, however, find they can focus more on their studies when they are here alone and that their children are happier staying with a caregiver in the familiar environment of their own home.

When she's not working as a Doula she works one day a week at a non-profit agency teaching parenting classes and has a private counselling practice that focus» on perinatal mental health, birth trauma and loss.

«While I expect this fight to continue, it is my hope the administration can put this destructive chapter behind them and focus on solving our country's important issues, including funding infrastructure, creating jobs for working - class Americans, and developing a meaningful urban agenda to tackle the serious challenges facing America's cities,» said Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner in a statement.

IDC spokeswoman Candice Giove said in a statement, «As we enter the campaign season the Independent Democratic Conference will continue to work to elect Democrats who will fight against the draconian policies coming out of Washington and have a laser beam focus on protecting labor and our middle class.»

While seats will be up for grabs throughout the country, observers have placed most of their focus on the Senate race in Buenos Aires province, a predominantly working class region of Argentina that holds nearly 40 percent of the national electorate.

We shall focus here on two points: (1) the bargaining power of the working class and (2) the decommodification of labour.

The Tory tactic of focusing all of their resources on defending their most vulnerable seats worked because Labour did not inspire the working class vote with a real alternative.

The Education Trust — New York Applauds Tuition - Free Plan for Advancing a College - Going Culture for All New York Students, While Calling for Expanding Focus on Access, Affordability and Completion NEW YORK — As New York leaders work to finalize the state budget including Governor Cuomo's landmark tuition - free degree proposal for middle - class...

The main campaign focus has been on those traditionally working - class Labour seats that voted strongly for Brexit.

The initial Labour reaction to the success of UKIP at attracting working class voters in many areas has focussed on the right policy response.

Farages's focus on unemployment, education and immigration, shows that he is trying to reposition the party as that of the working class.

Appealing to the north of England, working class voters and ethnic minorities with an aspirational agenda was at the heart of this launch, with a focus on «bread and butter issues such as the cost of living,» as well as ensuring environmental problems aren't merely seen as a concern of the left.

While middle and working class Americans have been devastated by Great Recession, the wealthiest have done just fine, while their tax burden remains the lowest it's been in over 40 years.The last few months have seen the emergence of a counter-narrative which focuses attention on economic inequality and a tax system in New York State out of kilter with notions of fairness and equality.

If May really wants to help working class kids she should focus her attention on improving standards at all schools, not just the ones which educate a select few.

At an Albany press conference later that month, Nixon called his focus on transparency a «classic stall tactic,» and said, «Cuomo's entire argument on school funding is just one big excuse to ignore the lives of students who are black or brown or working - class.»

And I'm working very hard now to see that we as Democrats, and I hope Republicans as well, focus on the middle class.»

«While Comptroller DiNapoli has been fighting for tax relief for working and middle - class people in New York State, Hedge Fund Harry Wilson has been focused on ensuring that his fellow Wall Street millionaires make out like bandits by opposing President Obama's Wall Street reform package,» Sumberg said.

I agree with Lichtenberg that the «subjective factor» is what is missing, that the American left needs to focus on building independent mass working - class party instead of disappearing into reform Democratic campaigns.

She expressed her hope that the Trump administration will focus on infrastructure funding, job creation for working - class people and «a meaningful urban agenda» to solve problems that cities deal with.

We have to continue to focus on the economy, and we especially have to focus on the economy for the middle class and working class.

Would it not have been wiser, therefore, for her to have focused her speech on the lack of working - class and ethnic minority women among Labour's ranks and offer some practical remedy?

«At every turn, Republicans seem to be making it tougher for women to be able to focus on working hard, playing by the rules and climbing those ladders to the middle class,» Wasserman Schultz said.

While the baker excoriated both candidates as corporate - backed elists whose policies were misaligned with that of the working class, he focused the brunt of his attacks on Woolf, who opted to ignore him, even up until the second debate, when Funiciello took him to task for it.

Grassroots organizing in working - class communities and speaking up for a Green New Deal for New York will be our focus going forward,» Hawkins said, speaking at a new conference in Albany on Thursday.

She also called for a greater focus on the district's cramped public schools, which have some of the largest class sizes in the city, and where students often work in trailers.

She is currently focusing on her love of teaching, working with students informally when she's in the field and teaching classes at the university when she's not.

The work focused on a class of RNA granules called stress granules.

Bear in mind, there's no need to hit a 6 a.m. spin class when you're not feeling well; just focus on working up a sweat at some point during the day.

In fitness, the focus is usually on a specific muscle group and Total Barre works your entire body for the full class while distracting you with fun.