Sentences with phrase «just as the middle class»

These teachers are presumably just as middle class, public spirited, and committed to education as other teachers are; but because they don't work in the district where they live, they do not have an occupational stake in their local school - board elections.

Just as the middle class is tightening their wallets when it comes to eating out, they're also being more prudent in their purchases of brand name items.

Not exact matches

The financial industry frequently touts 70 % as the percentage of your working income that you'll need to replace, but most middle - class Canadians replace only about 50 % to 60 % of their working income in their golden years, and they say that's just fine.

But as these middle and upper classes have a lot of expendable, disposable income, they are turning to golf just as a friendly pursuit,» Dreyer said.

The assumptions of cutthroat libertarianism were so embedded in the worldview of these lucky newcomers that they spoke as though the victims of tech - fueled displacement and gentrification had chosen to live in poverty and squalor, just as they themselves chose to learn to code, chose a management - track job at a major corporation, and chose to set themselves up for a comfortable upper - middle - class suburban life.

Just as importantly, lower growth will not create social disturbance because Chinese households, especially the poor and middle classes, will keep a larger share of that growth.

The Pew Research Centre, an American outfit, reckons that just 6 % of Africans qualify as middle class, which it defines as those earning $ 10 - $ 20 a day.

This group of super spenders is expected to see its population double over the next five years to 100 million households, and as an economic force they are poised to eclipse the impact of rising but less - wealthy consumers: Their consumption is currently growing at 17 percent a year, compared to just 5 percent among emerging - middle - class and middle - class consumers.

But as the country's middle class gets more comfortable, giving back is on the rise — to the tune of 70 Billion RMB just last year.

The person on income support who is struggling to make ends meet can please and honour God with their giving just as much as the financially comfortable middle - class family.

Despite the rhetoric of both the Democratic and Republican parties heralding the U.S. as a republic of stockholders, Phillips observes that «middle - class families held (just) 2.8 percent of the total growth in stock market holdings between 1989 and 1998, but accounted for 38.7 percent of the rise in household debt.»

Just as Reagan listened to unionized Democratic workers, today's populist conservatives should listen to Henry Olsen on working - class whites and Artur Davis on middle - class African - Americans and Latinos.

, just published in paperback by ISI: «As more and more populations are added to the immense «global middle class,» each people is commanded to divorce itself from its culpable past» one said to be defined by intolerance and oppression.

The erosion of middle - class church membership could be explained away as just another indication that blacks are no different from whites.

Remember if you aren't at the head of the class when it comes to the development of young talent, which means eyes on the ground everywhere, a vast array of connections with soccer associations throughout Europe and beyond and a manager willing to properly train and play said blue chippers, (like the 90s Arsenal or clubs like the modern day Monaco and Dortmund) you need to spend to win... anything in between is highly problematic... failure to make the necessary changes leaves you in the proverbial «no man's land» and that is currently where we reside... it's difficult to get out of this rut... just ask either of the Milan teams... next step after that is being known as a «seller», which could be us already if and when Sanchez leaves... there are only two teams that have worn this moniker in recent times and had some decent success and that is Athletico Madrid and Dortmond, which only occurred when they both brought in new, charismatic leaders in Simmone & Klopp... the odds that Wenger could conjure up the magic to repeat the performances of a bygone era are incredibly low, so why prolong the agony... he's not willing to create the hierarchy necessary to go the youth route and he's unwilling to put his team's potential success ahead of his job security by laying it on the line with Moustache, so it's time to place all your chips in the middle or go gently into that good night

an we are just as plastic as they are, since highbury we've become middle class, stadium filled with day trippers an executives.

You can count Ridgewood, Saddle River, Alpine and possible parts of Englewood and Tenafly as towns that require a considerable amount of wealth just to pay the real estate taxes but the rest of Bergen is upper middle to lower middle class.

It's draining we lost to spurs but more over than anything the way we lost was embarrasseing and shocking we were played off park most game that has concern us as fans spurs bullied us out played us hungry in every department it's has fall with wenger when is time when he just accepts game has passed him matter of fact it has passed us arsenal fans aswell no control in middle very poor from xhaka and elneny and again dembele bought mortgage in midfield he's the owner my god vieria would of knocked he's house down but look we're very poor and away from home sad really how wenger keeps he's job is just pure stupidity but not just with today's results over all away from home we're relegation side go get Enrique before Chelsea get him and let but of class and youth take our great club back before Tottenham spuds leave us so far behind we won't even complete this series lack lustrous club

Stoking the fires of R v D is just a way to blind us from the real divide which is billionaires versus the middle class (spoiler alert: they are winning, bigly, think of it as the NFCCG and they are the Eagles and we are the Vikings).

It is said that in the process of negotiating positions with the superstars (not just contracts are negotiated with them), the three different coaches this season for the club have given a raw deal to players such as Santiago Solari and Guti, who have been described as «middle class players» in the club set - up.

What Geoff says, and as I write in book, is that over the last 20, 25 years in the United States, there's been this big revolution in what we think in middle - class communities about parenting, that there's just this emphasis on the zero - to - three years that didn't used to exist before, and that information didn't really penetrate communities like Harlem.

What I am criticising, and will continue to criticise, is the escalating inability of the middle - class left to talk to or about anyone who is NOT middle class and middle - aged as if they are human beings, to really listen to their needs and thoughts and strategies and accept that they too have political ideas which are just as important as yours.

The principle authors argue that this basic settlement survived both the revisionism of Tony Crosland and the changes wrought by New Labour in the 1990s, contributing to the defeat of 2010, and the situation where Labour has alienated large swathes, not just of the middle class electorate, but of its traditional core working class vote as well.

Resort to offensive analogies that might just about pass muster at a north London middle - class stand - up comedy gig are not a substitute for serious debate on matters as weighty as the future direction of the Labour Party.

Mario Cilento, President of the New York State AFL - CIO, said «It's not surprising to see that Nate Shinagawa's energy and commitment to middle class values has gained traction in the district just as it inspired union members to support his campaign.

«So the evidence shows that if a working - class child manages to overcome all the barriers they face and achieve three good A-levels, they're just as likely as their middle - class peer to go to university.»

The «cheap» plans just mean that you're going slightly less bankrupt if anything happens to you and now even middle class people who previously had OK plans will also likely go bankrupt with any major medical expenses as all, but the most premium plans have been forced to go the high deductible route with many deductibles so high that they still virtually guarantee financial insolvency.

Jeremy Vine: Just on the priority question though, isn't it rather strange that the Lib Dems, with all this money you're going to be collecting from supposedly rich people, are going to give that money as a first priority, to middle class students.

«Eliminating the state and local deduction, while slashing taxes for the wealthy and huge corporations, will hurt middle - class taxpayers, and various attempts at a «compromise» are just as bad,» Schumer said.

I'll be dreaming of world where art is power, healthy forests back negative interest currency, former Wall Street bankers wear clown suits to work as human pollinators, the middle and working class are as strong as ever, Bernie Sanders is President, Charles Eisenstein is his Chief Economic Advisor, and all those things that could be... If only... everyone would just shut up and listen to Tacocat.

Ive been pitched as more upper middle class just because of this flighty life I used to live.

They do this not just by imitating the way members of the middle class dress, but also by adopting the middle class gaze as can be seen in the first quote above, or by going to the bars / clubs middle class youth frequent and having / trying to have fun there.

What we found in our initial prototypes — launching an innovation lab space, creating a design thinking professional development experience, and running student - facing design challenges for middle - and high - school classes — was that the design thinking process functioned as a kind of oasis for educators, reconnecting them to their creativity and aspirations for helping students develop as deep thinkers and doers, not just as test takers.

Limiting the access of middle class families to wide - ranging school choices (and even more - expansive Parent Power) just because they have the perceived financial means to buy homes and send kids to private schools is just as intellectually and morally indefensible as limiting the choices of the poor.

Famous institutions like Harrow, Marlborough, Shrewsbury and Brighton College − to name just a few − are clamouring to meet a growing demand for a «traditional» English education among the burgeoning middle classes of these countries as well as the increasing number of British ex-pats who have relocated there.

Just as these teachers would be entering their peak years of effectiveness, all too frequently they are leaving the teaching profession, or more infrequently, leaving Wisconsin to teach in other states where teachers are not bashed 24/7 and still have the opportunity to earn compensation that keeps them in the middle class.

This particular example of unwillingness to adapt to the modern world is a reason why just one out of every five middle - school students in seven states — California, Florida, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Washington State — was provided Algebra 1 courses during the 2009 - 2010 school year, as well as why 300,000 students in the nation's Class of 2012 have never taken an Advanced Placement course even though they have demonstrated their aptitude for doing so, according to the College Board.

Senator Mikulski said, «As we look at how best to support jobs and opportunity to help middle class families get ahead and not just get by, we must look at how best to educate the children who will make up tomorrow's workforce.

For a bill that the G.O.P. is trying to market as a «boon» to the middle class, the House bill does not just tax graduate student tuition waivers, but also it takes aim at tuition benefits for higher education employees and their children.

Just as Bernie Sanders believes that the middle class in our country is in jeopardy from the oligarchs, likewise oligarchs such as Bill Gates, Bill Walton, Michael Bloomberg, to name a few of the corporate education oligarch reformers, are threatening to change and destroy public education in the nation by replacing public schools with charter schools.

The top 1 percent's share of income rose to 23.5 percent in 2007, the last year before the beginning of the Great Recession, up from 9.12 percent in 1974, while over this same time period, the share of income going to the middle class (defined as the middle 60 percent of the population) fell from 52.2 percent to just 46.9 percent.

From the so - called gifted - and - talented programs that end up doing little to improve student achievement (and actually do more damage to all kids by continuing the rationing of education at the heart of the education crisis), to the evidence that suburban districts are hardly the bastions of high - quality education they proclaim themselves to be (and often, serve middle class white children as badly as those from poor and minority households), it is clear that the educational neglect and malpractice endemic within the nation's super-clusters of failure and mediocrity isn't just a problem for other people's children.

One out of every five suburban fourth grade young men from middle - class backgrounds were reading Below Basic in 2011, according to Dropout Nation «s analysis of NAEP data, just three points better than levels of illiteracy four years earlier; big - city districts brought down the levels of illiteracy for their middle class students by four percentage points in that same period, with nearly as many students from those backgrounds struggling with reading.

Today, there's no way a middle - class working man could cruise around, as Delamater has, in Ferraris and Maseratis and Lamborghinis and Bizzarrinis and Intermeccanicas and Iso Grifos and Siatas and De Tomasos and Lancias and Alfas and Fiats, to name just the Italian marques he's bought and sold.

Though we do concede the Audi A7 isn't the outright best - in - class in this regard (the BMW 6 Series Gran Coupe and the Porsche Panamera are just as comfortable whilst being that bit more engaging and responsive to drive), the Audi A7 still finds a very much appreciated middle - ground.

As much as I despise the Republicans, I hope they take hold of the reigns again, just to stick it to the Kumbaya - singing, cannabis - worshiping, rainbow - flag - waving haters of white, straight, working, middle - class, Christian maleAs much as I despise the Republicans, I hope they take hold of the reigns again, just to stick it to the Kumbaya - singing, cannabis - worshiping, rainbow - flag - waving haters of white, straight, working, middle - class, Christian maleas I despise the Republicans, I hope they take hold of the reigns again, just to stick it to the Kumbaya - singing, cannabis - worshiping, rainbow - flag - waving haters of white, straight, working, middle - class, Christian males.

Simon Reichley, assistant to the publishers and office manager at Melville House, went further, saying in a blog post: «And just as publishers like Influx have a responsibility to protect the marginalised and to create a cultural space and voice for those most vulnerable to a revitalised nationalism, so too do more mainstream publishers have a responsibility to bring more level heads to the table, to reintegrate the alienated and fearful white middle class, and to rapidly de-escalate the culture war presently looming on the British horizon.»

Just as we are beginning to see signs of recovery in housing, federal regulators are considering a policy that could threaten economic progress and financial opportunities for middle - class families.

OTTAWA — As the Liberals rush to fulfill their headline election vow to siphon more from the rich to give to the middle class, it remains up for debate just how much the plan will help Canada's limping economy.

As for the rest of the world (obviously Asia leads the way), there's a burgeoning middle class population out there that already numbers in the hundreds of millions & you know they're just dying to leap - frog their way headlong into Western consumerism.