Sentences with phrase «among upper middle class»

Especially among upper middle class and affluent parents, there's a strong belief that going to a top - tier college — especially one in the Ivy League — will provide unimaginable advantages in the professional world.

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But 4.8 percent of Americans would see taxes go up, with hikes concentrated in the upper middle class and among the very rich.

First among these drivers is the growing number of upper middle class and affluent households, or those with more than $ 24,000 and $ 46,000 in annual disposable income, respectively.

Likewise, Clinton would limit itemized deductions, raise the estate tax and increase taxes on capital gains (profits from the sale of stocks and other assets held at least a year); these are concentrated among the wealthy and upper middle class.

The 1960s ushered in many changes, one of which was the end of the broad social consensus, call it bourgeois morality, that held sway among white Americans of all classes, upper, lower, and middle.

My own experience in teaching religion and theology to middle - and upper - middle - class undergraduates and graduate students in America for the past decade or so certainly suggests that this way of thinking about religion fits neatly with a strong tendency toward the kind of knee - jerk relativism that is also widespread among those in the same social strata.

Even among those who consider themselves upper or upper - middle class, fully 52 % say upper - income people pay too little.

While socioeconomic status is a major contributor to the greater burden of heart disease and stroke in African Americans, the statement notes that among the growing middle - and upper - class African American community, health outcomes are still poorer in African Americans, even when their socioeconomic status is comparable to white Americans.

How to Raise More Grateful Children (Wall Street Journal) «In some communities, specifically among the white middle and upper - middle class, there's good reason to believe that kids are less grateful than in the past,» says psychologist Richard Weissbourd, faculty director of the Making Caring Common initiative at Harvard's Graduate School of Education.

Fiora's family is solidly middle class, yet gauche and awkward among the upper - class parents at Ault.

The article described «the atavistic rage among those who went to law school seeking the upper - middle - class status and security often enjoyed by earlier generations...» And if you are one of the few who succeeds in getting on the wealth track, you will be subject to the billable hour and many other horrible tyrannies.