Sentences with phrase «affluent families in»

But if DC officials want to keep more affluent families in the District, they'll need to figure out a way to make high - quality school pathways more convenient and predictable for them as well.

Independent schools chair argues the private sector already contributes significantly to charity by supporting less affluent families in education

Despite the prohibition, the most affluent families in Montgomery County still provided hundreds of thousands of additional dollars to enrich their children's school experiences.

They represented the more affluent families in town.

Suppose that a large number of affluent families in America made a conscious choice to restrict their consumption.

I grew up in an affluent family in a country where I had rights and many opportunities.

Marcellus Gallio (Richard Burton) a self - centered and brazen centurion is the product of an affluent family in a conquering nation.

Kusama, who was born to an affluent family in Japan in 1929, began as a painter but shifted her focus to installation and sculpture in the mid-1960s.

Not exact matches

I grew up pretty affluent — frankly — spending summers touring with rock bands in Europe and in Asia with my family.

But despite the sisters» affluent upbringing in one of the best - known Norwegian families, they aren't just any rich kids.

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.

Recently, Aaron and I came out of retirement to launch Kennon - Green & Co., a global asset management firm that specializes in value investing for affluent and high net worth individuals, families, and institutions.

Modern research has shown that approximately 90 percent of the wealth in affluent families is dissipated by the third generation.

While on paper many families are affluent, the bulk of their assets are tied up in an incredibly illiquid resource: their home.

Family income splitting, costing $ 2 billion this year in lost revenues, will proceed as planned, again primarily benefitting the most affluent while making it much more difficult to balance the budget.

By contrast to the so called middle - class tax cut which favours the more affluent, the CCB will have a positive impact upon the lamentably high rate of child poverty in Canada (which stood at 16.5 % in 2013), and will promote greater income equality among families with children.

I often tell the story about my family in 1969, moving into Harrington Park, New Jersey, this relatively affluent town, as the first black family.

For years, starting in the 1990s, Perry and his family attended the same affluent Austin - area United Methodist church that Bush 43 did.

Mariani notes that Stevens had a withdrawn manner at home and an unpleasant one in the office, but none of this stopped him from becoming rich and successful and, eventually, joining affluent society after the family settled in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1916.

A lot of us grew up in families that wouldn't seem at all affluent now.

Unless the majority of us in affluent countries change our greedy lifestyles of enormous consumption and waste, the children of the human family will have an impoverished planet within a few decades.

I don't like Johnny Depp,» says B.J.. He's put posters of Tiger all over the family's condominium in an affluent Honolulu suburb.

Born into an affluent family with a long tradition in Hong Kong, Fu said he spent too much time on sports during his secondary - school education at St Paul's College and failed to secure a place at the University of Hong Kong, forcing him to go to the US to further his studies.

Ms. Agrell suggests that stamps in children's passports are merely status symbols for the aforementioned «affluent, affected parents», and even quotes the godfather of travel guidebooks, Arthur Frommer, as questioning how children or parents benefit from family travel.

Ryan says many of the young men he works with are already marginalised, from ethnicminority groups or less affluent backgrounds; some may have come from families with a history of abuse or mental health issues, or have been in trouble at school.

Levine, who practices in super-rich Marin County, Calif., often sees this relentless focus on achievement in affluent families.

In recent years, numerous studies have shown that bright, charming, seemingly confident and socially skilled teenagers from affluent, loving families are experiencing epidemic rates of depression, substance abuse, and anxiety disorders - rates higher than in any other socioeconomic group of American adolescentIn recent years, numerous studies have shown that bright, charming, seemingly confident and socially skilled teenagers from affluent, loving families are experiencing epidemic rates of depression, substance abuse, and anxiety disorders - rates higher than in any other socioeconomic group of American adolescentin any other socioeconomic group of American adolescents.

In the mid-20th century, people believed that using formula was healthier for babies and showed that a family was affluent.

As a result, low income kids have fewer opportunities to become accustomed to those more challenging foods, while children in more affluent families are offered the multiple exposures almost all kids need to overcome initial picky eating behavior.

I live in a fairly affluent school district, but there are still many families in need right near me.

According to the research, only child in the family develops close relationships with parents, builds self - esteem, attains high grasping power, becomes orally advanced, more affluent in education, and receives more support and encouragement from parents.

«Plans to hand free school meals to the under - 8s across the country were mired in chaos last night after senior Tories denounced the proposal to pay for the lunches of affluent children... London Mayor Boris Johnson rejected the plans, saying that better - off families should pay for their children's food.

Combined with caps on housing benefit and significant hikes in social housing rents, poorer families could be chased out of more affluent areas.

While families in affluent parts of the state rail against assessing student learning, children in high need communities suffer.

Rockefeller, an environmental lawyer and member of the affluent Rockefeller family, doesn't mention the governor's party affiliation in the new ad, but instead refers to him simply as «mainstream.»

Because many first - generation graduates come from less affluent families, such socioeconomic differences are common, says Rebecca Lamb, assistant professor of plant cellular and molecular biology at Ohio State University in Columbus and a first - generation college grad.

They found a greater persistence of potentially problematic eating attitudes in women from less affluent families.

In black families, not only is debt higher, but there is no difference between wealthy black families and less affluent black families.

Children from families of low socioeconomic status generally score lower than more affluent kids on standardized tests of intelligence, language, spatial reasoning, and math, says Priti Shah, a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Wisconsin who was not involved in the study.

Alwitt and Donley also have posited that when more affluent families moved out of many inner cities in the U.S. during the 1970s and 1980s, supermarkets left as well.

Think about how many people born in very affluent families end up feeling bored, taking for granted all the wealth they have and feeling depressed (Of course is not always the case but, it does happen).

Even across affluent families that live to be around i like to relax is to immerse myself in a new culture is greatest.

Critic Consensus: Donald Sutherland delivers a powerful turn as the titular Getty in Trust, yet another telling of the affluent family's saga.

A successful family man worries that his four children are losing touch with black culture because they are growing up in an affluent, mostly white neighborhood.

Synopsis: As an affluent New England family prepares for one daughter's wedding, another named Kym (Anne Hathaway)-- just out of her latest stint in rehab -... [MORE]

Based on the memoir by Solomon Northup (as told to David Wilson) and adapted for the screen by John Ridley, 12 Years a Slave sees an affluent black American — a violinist and family man born free in New York state - pitched into a waking nightmare when he's kidnapped by slavers in 1841.

They were friends as girls; now nearing the end of their high school years, they drifted apart, particularly after a grisly incident involving Amanda and one of her family's horses essentially made her a pariah in their affluent Connecticut community.

, The Oranges — taking its cryptically metaphorical name from the affluent New Jersey neighbourhood in which the film is set — finds two close families rended asunder when Meester's Nina rebounds from heartbreak with her father's best friend, David (Laurie), whose loveless marriage has him sleeping in his «man cave» most nights and counting down the minutes'til his perfunctory mid-life crisis can begin in earnest.

A struggling family that's determined to make a better life for themselves in one of America's most idyllic cities is learning the hard way that the affluent community isn't as glamorous as they initially believed.

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.