Sentences with phrase «anything?other than middle class»

It's a lot of hardworking, blue - collar - type people and they were just sick, it seems like, anything that was done to help was never to the middle class or the slightly lower than middle class.

FiveThirtyEight pointed out that the number of people who thought tax cuts enacted under Presidents Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush would help the rich more than the middle class increased after those plans passed.

«We are changing the rules for three per cent of private corporations, because the wealthiest Canadians should not be able to use private corporations to pay less tax than the middle class,» Morneau said.

According to research by economist David Macdonald of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, they also benefit well - off people far more than the middle class or low - income people.

The poor in the US live better than the middle class do in about 99 % of the countries in the world.

It is no accident that in Gerbner «s TV - violence profile, lower class and nonwhite characters are especially prone to victimization, are more violent than their middle class counterparts, and pay a high price for engaging in violence (jail, death).12.

As a result, when electoral politics enlarged the political community of India by bringing the groups other than the middle class into it, it produced popular leaders more inclined to the unrenewed traditions.

Thanks to the Bush Tax cuts, you're in a lower tax bracket than a middle class working American.

For a long time (and even now here and there), American Catholic education, even for working class kids in South Philly or South Boston, was a lot more than middle class.

Raise their taxes to 95 %, if they earn 1 % of the average richer class, the rich has to pay more than 0.95 % of tax, and their power is still bigger than middle class» vote power.

Working class (DE) voters in the South are more likely to vote Conservative than middle class (AB) voters in the North (page 5) but there is an important public / private sector split to this.

She is now a «stay at home mum» - but in what sense is that more working class than middle class?

I think the rich people need to pay more taxes than the middle class,» added Batista, who works at a children's program at P.S. 115.

«Elise Stefanik refuses to support a common sense measure that would ensure millionaires and billionaires don't play a lower effective tax rate than the people that work for them, than their middle class employees.»

WASHINGTON — Central New York voters oppose the Republican tax plan making its way through Congress, and believe the plan benefits the wealthiest Americans more than the middle class, according to a new poll.

Research has shown that working class parents are directed toward different activities than middle class parents [xvii].

I mean, poor kids come to school with less social capital than middle class kids.

Students from disadvantaged groups experience two to three times the average gains from smaller classes than middle class white students.

Many pay lower rates than the middle class.

They think that a wealthy country should have no one living in poverty, and they believe in a fair wage for a full - time job, and that the wealthy should not have lower tax rates than the middle class via loopholes.

But that excludes those lawyers who have clients wealthier than the middle class, which means lawyers with highly specialized professional clients, and those in the big law firms.

A poor college student in Maryland may live in a neighborhood with a higher crime rate than a middle class family with small children.

Not exact matches

Most developing countries are growing faster than developed ones, and there's plenty of opportunities for investors to capitalize on these countries» growing middle class.

In other words, more than 300 million middle - class consumers with rising disposable incomes are propelling the consumption of China.

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

«The issue is not that middle - class workers are doomed by automation and technology, but instead that human capital investment must be at the heart of any long - term strategy for producing skills that are complemented by rather than substituted for by technological change.»

In an analysis of the changing shape of the American middle class, Pew Research Center divided the population into three groups: Lower - income Americans made less than 2/3 of the median household income, middle - income households had incomes between 2/3 and 200 % of the median, and upper - income households had income more than twice the median income.

The French president warned that trade wars, rather than trade deals, «destroy jobs» and raise prices for the 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.

One independent analysis, though, estimated the GOP framework could actually increase taxes on more than a quarter of middle - class Americans over time.

Tyler Law, a spokesman, said in a statement that Ryan «sees what is coming in November and is calling it quits rather than standing behind a House Republican agenda to increase healthcare costs for middle - class families while slashing Social Security and Medicare to pay for his handouts to the richest and largest corporations.»

For instance, there are fewer members of the middle - class that are addicted to cigarettes today than there was in 1976.

China has some 300 million consumers it considers middle class, although with an average annual income equivalent to $ 5,000, such consumers earn considerably less than their U.S. counterparts.

Other than «middle class economics» there was no economic concept that this summer received more press than the «skills gap.»

Mexico's middle class now boasts more than 40 million people, surpassing the total population of Canada.

Looking ahead to 2030, China is expected to have a mind - boggling 1 billion people — more than three times the current U.S. population — enjoying a middle class lifestyle filled with middle class things, from cars to designer clothes to electronics and appliances.

Remember, China's middle class is already larger than that found here in the U.S., according to Credit Suisse.

But multiple analyses of the proposals Trump has put out thus far have found that they would result in much larger tax cuts for the wealthiest households than for the middle class.

«There is room to grow here, and export jobs here have been shown to create many middle class jobs with wage premiums that pay a wage of 20 percent higher than other jobs,» Kessler says.

And the seemingly logical move into developing markets — where the rising middle class meant billions in new consumer spending — proved more volatile than anticipated.

But when the Great Recession hit, Penney's core customer — the middle - class mom — suffered more than most.

By 1919, the self - taught pioneer with an eighth - grade education was producing more than half the cars in the U.S.. By lowering the cost of the automobile — eventually to $ 350 — he made cars part of the fabric of middle class America.

«Turning highly sought - after entry level management careers into hourly jobs where employees punch a clock and are compensated for time spent rather than time well spent is hardly an improvement on the path from the working class to the middle class.»

An HSBC report released last year predicted more than 500 million Chinese will join the middle class by 2030.

«We know that our system right now encourages the wealthiest Canadians to set up a private corporation so they can pay a lower tax rate than middle - class Canadians.

There was no better way to become a popular kid in school or to accomplish middle - class family peace and happiness than an afternoon at McDonald's.

Stagnant wage growth isn't just a problem for those at the bottom of the salary scales: middle - class family incomes are slightly lower now than they were in the 1970s.

He gave the example of Russian President Vladimir Putin, who he would argue has less power today than five years ago because of economic turmoil caused by sanctions and a middle class of an unprecedented size and aspirations.

Still, in an economy where low and middle class consumers are bogged down by weak job growth and stagnating wages, better to have the rich spending than nobody at all.

And in a country of more than 150 million people, even a proportionally small middle class like Bangladesh's can be quite large in terms of absolute numbers and buying power.