Sentences with phrase «about the middle class»

When I look at the Phnom Penh Post, I see lots of stories about the middle class buying properties.»

There will also be inevitable blowback from business interests, but their Republican allies in Congress should think twice about backing them up: No party and no politician that opposes the new overtime rules can credibly claim to care about the middle class.

Wake up people!!!!!!!!!!! Romney signed that pledge with Norquist and that is a clue that this man does not care about the middle class period.

This tells me that the only reason he is in play is because he is white and rich, because he does not have a clue about anything that is going on around him but the boardroom, nor does he understand anything about the middle class.

What are we going to do about the middle class hollowed out by economic globalization?

Can this ruthless political guy who does not give a damn about the middle class be trusted?

Can this ruthless business guy who does not give a damn about the middle class people be trusted?

Supposedly, now he cares about the middle class.

«It's about a middle class black guy having a crack at becoming Mayor of London,» she said.

If the «peoples» house» is so concerned about the middle class, it should quit ripping off its own middle class workers.

How about middle class tax cuts and higher taxes on the rich?

He is a rich guy with rich friends who understands little about the middle class.

The DNC released a special video for the occasion, accusing the GOP hopefuls of pledging «allegiance to the Tea Party» and not caring about the middle class.

«If Elise Stefanik cared about the middle class in this district, she would have taken this opportunity to call for an immediate vote on the Fair Minimum Wage Act,» said Woolf.

Staten Islanders — defensive and proud outliers, a borough of lawn signs in a city largely without lawns — simply didn't respond that well to generic talking points about the middle class or minimum wage.

Ira Sachs borrows Chris Cooper for his Married Life and begins to establish himself as the next American filmmaker with maybe something to say about the middle class.

she volleys back, reconfirming all we've been taught about middle class French attitudes towards marital affairs.

But expanding school choice into suburbia isn't just about the middle class who populate the well - manicured subdivisions.

Josh hits on something about middle class people who are not touched by charter schools.

In Italy, when you talk about the middle class, you also discuss about normal people who struggle every day to survive.

What about poor people and what about middle class people?

Not exact matches

Trudeau and his ministers know the urban middle - and upper - middle - class Canadians that form the core of their political constituency are sensitive about housing.

In recent days, Sanders has stumped with striking Verizon workers, railing about large corporations destroying the middle class through cost - cutting and low wages that create economic stagnation and widen the gulf between the 1 percenters and everyone else.

So even as Tesla woos middle - class buyers in the U.S. (the Model 3, due to arrive this fall, will start at about $ 35,000) buyers in China have mostly resembled Vanessa Zhu: wealthy drivers who view Teslas as luxury vehicles, or at least as the coolest new piece of tech since the iPhone.

Doing so would please the people Castaldo and McIntyre wrote about, and surely would be welcomed by those seeking the trappings of the middle class.

Those concerned about poverty, inequality, or living standards of the middle class (every politician's favourite group) should oppose Canada's milk tax.

She responded to criticism by doggedly sticking to Liberal talking points about growing the middle class rather than addressing the issue head - on.

A typical middle - class couple with their home paid off needs only about 50 % to 60 % of the income they earned earlier in life to live an equivalent lifestyle.

It's unclear where the next middle class will come from, but until we figure that out, it should be clear why people are raising the roof about raising the wage floor.

As an example, a cap of $ 500,000 in tax - free capital gains on any principal residence means that a home sold for $ 1 million that was purchased for $ 100,000 in 1985 say, would have $ 400,000 taxed at the owner's tax rate at the time of the sale (about 35 % for the average middle class Canadian).

Trudeau easily pirouetted from Cruickshank's question about income inequality to the central theme of his campaign — helping Canada's middle class.

CNBC»S Jim Cramer and David Faber ask Alibaba Group Executive Vice Chairman Joseph Tsai about the company's future and China's growing middle class.

Despite early signs that a fast - food diet is no healthier in Beijing than it is in Boston, consumers who are new to middle - class dining seem less concerned about the health risks of the high - fat, high - sodium fare that many Americans now seek to avoid.

Labeling the world class as snobs is another way the middle class finds to feel better about themselves and their chosen path of mediocrity.»

Before you glance at the cover of Business Start - Ups and say «Duh,» consider the insight of author Robert Kiyosaki, a multimillionaire who penned Rich Dad, Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not (Techpress, $ 15.95, 800-308-3585).

«I would go to class one day and I would learn about transactions and I would go to work on Monday and be in the middle of the transaction, and I would think, «Thank God I went to class,»» says Cole.

Unions are about establishing balance, about winning for the middle class, about winning opportunity and winning a reasonable standard of living with a reasonable work life.»

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.

While Bush's business - themed policy proposals will likely offer a mixture of traditionally Republican tax cuts and so - called trickle down economics, he's likely to define his views on how to support the middle class, lift up the lowest wage workers, and close the income gap, which would continue on the themes he started talking about earlier this year.

Middle - class earners (who make between $ 55,000 and $ 93,000) would see a tax cut of $ 280 or about 0.4 percent.

«The reality is,» he says, «millionaires think differently from the middle class about money, and there's much to be gained by being in their presence.»

«If folks in Washington want a «grand bargain,» how about a grand bargain for middle - class jobs?»

«We welcome any opportunity to work with lawmakers and regulators who want to learn more about how home sharing helps the middle class address the issue of economic inequality.»

The rich habits study is really a five - year study of 233 millionaires, 128 poor people, and what I found out was that wealth, success, being in the middle class, being poor, is all about your habits.

They do everything an official loves to boast about: They create jobs, drive innovation and bolster the middle class.

We made it clear we need to make significant investments in infrastructure and middle - class families, so we talked about reducing the tax rate for middle - class families and increasing the child tax benefit to deal with the rising costs and anxieties.

The United Nations Population Division and Goldman Sachs recently reported that by 2030 China would have about 1.4 billion members of what the World Bank defines as the middle class, compared to 365 million in the U.S. and 414 million in western Europe.

You've heard the promises over and over again during the Presidential campaign about the need to increase wages and incomes for the working middle class.

Doing this puts the annual cost of a middle - class single retirement at about $ 28,000 to $ 42,000, and the cost of an upper middle - class single retirement at $ 42,000 to $ 49,000.

Democrats call the Republican proposal a giveaway to corporations at the expense of the middle class, issuing dire warnings about the $ 1 trillion or more it is projected to add to federal budget deficits over a decade.