Sentences with phrase «affluent american»

Dissecting the January Modern Homebuyer Survey data further, what's particularly interesting is that more affluent American households — typically more confident in housing given their stronger purchasing power — are not reporting the highest housing confidence levels among other income cohorts today:

The paper, a result of a study conducted by Harrison Group on the luxury real estate market, focuses on affluent American consumer's wants and needs in today's economic environment.

The Expatriates By Janice Y.K. Lee Penguin • $ 16 • ISBN 9780143108429 The second novel from the author of The Piano Teacher is an eye - opening look at three affluent American women — Hilary, Mercy and Margaret — adjusting to life as expats in present - day Hong Kong.

Throughout the book, told in alternating stories of refugee camps in Africa and living as an immigrant in affluent American suburbs as a foster child, the reader comes to realize that even as an adult, successful American citizen, Clemantine has yet to come to a place in her life where all the broken pieces fit together as a whole.

The story opens in 1906 in New Rochelle, New York, at the home of an affluent American family.

By high school, those leaders assert, their students will be learning at a level just as sophisticated as the children of affluent American families who attend schools like St. Mark's.

The family lives in an ordinary, affluent American suburb and appears to be mostly normal, if a little formal with one another, until a menacing stranger enters their midst.

The white, affluent American, presumably, has it made already, and it is his heavy foot, he is told, which rests on the neck of the black, the poor, and the discontented.

For evidence, one need only note how the diet of those living in poor countries saves them from many of the diseases that plague affluent Americans.

In the first place, it is not true that such programs as MacNeil - Lehrer Report, Washington Week in Review, Morning Edition, All Things Considered and Garrison Keillor's Prairie Home Companion appeal only to affluent Americans.

Many of these affluent Americans leave with the conviction that Mary has now come to save the world from socialism — thus sanctioning the economic system which has allowed them to accumulate their wealth, and leaving undisturbed their pleasant way of life.

Meanwhile, in Iowa, a group known as the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, originally founded to aid Democratic Congressional candidates in 2010, has started broadcasting an advertisement that shows Mr. Obama, in 2008, promising to reverse the tax cuts for the most affluent Americans.

Although new research commissioned by Priorities USA, a Democratic super PAC, concluded that many Obama - to - Trump voters believed that Democrats are out of touch with less affluent Americans, a recent, high - profile Democratic brainstorming session in Washington was held at the opulent Four Seasons Hotel.

To our knowledge, this is the first survey of a nationally representative sample of affluent Americans, defined as college graduates who are in the top income decile in their state.

Most affluent Americans remain optimistic about the schools in their local community.

Ford had been slow to move beyond the Model T mentality of basic, cheap, commoditized transportation, and Alfred P. Sloan's Pontiac, Oldsmobile, and Buick — a trail of increasingly expensive bread crumbs leading increasingly affluent Americans from Chevrolet to Cadillac — were eating the Blue Oval's lunch.

When the researchers broke down the data by income, they noted that the most affluent Americans are the more likely group to have moved at least once.

(Reuters)-- Affluent Americans are showing a growing preference for paying taxes on their retirement savings sooner rather than later.

Solar consumers tend to be more well - off than non-solar customers, which means that less affluent Americans are paying for wealthier rooftop solar consumers.

It's for complex financial plans, so the one - percenters, the most affluent Americans.

The bottom line is this: The «income effect» discovered by Howard and Reeves is partly a consequence of stable marriage, as well as a cause of stable marriage (more affluent Americans are more likely to get and stay married).

Right now we are only providing housing for the most affluent Americans.

According to the Summer 2012 Merrill Edge Report, many mass affluent Americans are willing to make short - term sacrifices in order to get their finances in better shape.

According to the findings, 70 percent of mass affluent Americans say they took on home improvement projects in the last year, such as plumbing, painting, and home cleaning, that they would normally hire someone else to do.

Not only are almost 98 % of affluent Americans online, but they average 30 hours a week online.

Not exact matches

Originally, and somewhat unimaginatively, dubbed «American Hill» because of the large numbers of Americans who had settled there, this neighbourhood got an assist in establishing its affluent bona fides from the Canadian Pacific Railway.

South of the border, there's a lot of attention being paid to the rich, as President Barack Obama and some wealthy Americans like Warren Buffett call on the most affluent to pay a greater share of taxes in that recession - torn nation.

As the world's largest sourcing and logistics company, Li & Fung plays matchmaker between poor countries» factories and affluent countries» vendors, finding the lowest - cost workers, haggling over prices and handling the logistics for roughly a third of the retailers found in the typical American shopping mall, including Sears, Macy's, JCPenney and Kohl's.

«Despite the fact that polls show how dissatisfied Americans are with Congress overall, there's been no change in our appetite to elect affluent politicians to represent our concerns in Washington, Sheila Krumholz, executive director of the Center for Responsive Politics, said in a blog post.

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Their work didn't get a whole lot of publicity, at least not until recently, when it was mentioned in an Atlantic magazine cover article, «The Secret Shame of Middle - Class Americans,» about relatively affluent families living paycheck to paycheck.

Bellwether provides discretionary investment management focused on North American Dividend Growth investing and is dedicated to serving the distinct needs of affluent families, foundations, estates and trusts.

And following this hope, it seemed logical enough to Russians that if they really were to become as affluent as Americans, they should follow the advice offered by American diplomats and IMF technocrats.

As result, low - income Americans will again have a less - merry season than affluent consumers, who are more flush thanks in part to surging stock markets.

The research tells me less about what Walmart is doing right and more about the character and mindset of affluent Canadian shoppers versus American counterparts.

Look to American Express, which appears to be doubling down on rewards — a favorite among affluent transactors with high credit scores, historically the issuer's core customer base.

During times of wrestling with God and in rereading the teachings of Jesus, I uncomfortably came to see that for ten years I had failed to challenge the American assumption that affluent Christians can enjoy the benefits of a life with God without seriously compromising their lifestyles.

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Two such schools of thought have been North American process theology based on the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead and liberation theology which originated in the struggles of Third World peoples for economic, political, and social independence but now has broadened to include the aspiration of minority groups (e.g., women and blacks) even within affluent First World countries.

One irony of recent American politics is that the exodus of wage - earning whites from the Democratic party has tended to make the rump of white Democratic voters more affluent, better educated, and more doctrinaire leftist.

As more and more affluent Chicagoans left the high taxes of Illinois for the pristine lakeshore of Kenosha, Wisconsin, a sixty - something African American man, lounging on his porch all day and watching the world go by one cigarette drag at a time became increasingly out of place.

Although payTV only reaches a limited portion of Latin American TV households, it represents an affluent and a growing market for advertisers.

Such «poor» people are poor in the sense that they are less affluent than other Americans, but they are not poor in any way that constitutes a national crisis or moral outrage.

As a recent study conducted by Pew Research Center makes clear — and this is supported by other studies including a significant study released last fall, «A Survey of American Political Culture,» by Dr. James Davidson Hunter, who wrote the book Culture Wars — White Evangelical Protestants are not, as the Washington Post famously called them in 1993, «less affluent, less educated, and more easily led than the average American.»

We are trying to make a big, beautiful impression upon the affluent nonreligious American who is riding by on this busy freeway.»

Many of Medjugorje's American visitors come from the affluent upper - middle class.

O'Malley has been writing, not about college professors or committed adult Christians (or about those, like myself, who are faithful readers of First Things), but about teenagers» American high school students, primarily those from middle «class and affluent families, who are the objects of Catholic «catechesis.»

This is particularly important for congregations composed mostly of those who are relatively powerful in a society — more specifically, in our society, of white affluent North Americans — and who therefore in their daily dealings are not forced to listen to or to learn from those who are less fortunate.

Assessing such evidence, Heckman says policymakers intent on closing the achievement gap between affluent and poor children must go beyond classroom interventions and supplement the parenting resources of disadvantaged Americans.

While marriage is struggling against cultural, social and economic headwinds in poorer communities, it is flourishing among affluent, well - educated Americans who are both more likely to marry and more likely to stay married: