Sentences with phrase «as more affluent»

Americans with an annual household income between $ 50,000 and $ 100,000 are adopting smart home technology at nearly the same pace as more affluent home owners, according to Coldwell Banker's recent survey.

Excluding persistent economic hardship as an adverse experience, poor children and near - poor children are more than twice as likely as their more affluent peers to have had three or more other adverse experiences.

As more affluent consumers return to urban areas — especially empty - nesters who have long cherished pet ownership — they are making decisions whether to include taking their pets along.

This fully flexible architecture will underpin vehicles targeting millennials (age 17 - 38) and Generation Z (17 and younger), as well as the more affluent Generation X (age 39 - 50) and the even more prosperous former baby boomers (age 51 - 69).

The program affords low - income families with the same opportunity as more affluent parents — the financial resources to send their child to the school of their choice.

Research shows that low - come children need more support to achieve at the same level as their more affluent peers.

And unlike other cities, low - income students appear to move as quickly as their more affluent peers.

«This is a huge victory for the Louisiana Scholarship Program, which provides low income families with the same opportunity as more affluent parents already have — the financial resources to send their child to the school of their choice.»

Head Start was created as part of President Lyndon Johnson's «War on Poverty» agenda to help children from disadvantaged families become as school ready as their more affluent peers.

The schools are designed around the belief that low - income students can achieve at the same academic levels as their more affluent peers when given access to similar opportunities and resources.

A project called Challenging the Gap, which helped schools to collaborate with each other to help poorer pupils achieve as highly as their more affluent peers, had no impact.

By age 3, children from low - income households know fewer than half as many words as their more affluent peers.

They have to have the same ability to compete as their more affluent peers.

More than 15 million children are living in poverty, and they are more than twice as likely as their more affluent peers to be exposed to multiple adverse experiences including trauma, abuse, or neglect [19][20].

Children who live in poverty are as worthy of attending good schools as their more affluent counterparts, and much is known about what it takes to transform schools into places that better meet their needs.

Chris Barbic, founder and CEO of the stellar YES Prep network, says that «starting new schools and having control over hiring, length of day, student recruitment, and more gives us a pure opportunity to prove that low - income kids can achieve at the same levels as their more affluent peers.

Importantly, low - income families participate at about the same rate as their more affluent peers; the same is true of ELL and non-ELL families and of special education and non-special education families.

«Regarding urban performance, I think that our state is not unique, in that disadvantaged students have not performed as well as some more affluent students,» Norton said.

Air quality in cities is of increasing concern to China's stability - obsessed leaders, anxious to douse potential unrest as a more affluent urban population turns against a growth - at - all - costs economic model that has besmirched much of the country's air, water and soil.

Air quality in cities is of increasing concern to China's stability - obsessed leaders, anxious to douse potential unrest as more affluent citizens turn against a growth - at - all - costs economic model that has polluted much of the country's air, water and soil.

But social advantage may be a factor, as more affluent and better educated mums - to - be tend to drink more than women who are less well off, say the researchers.

Air quality is of increasing concern to China's stability - obsessed leaders, anxious to douse potential unrest as a more affluent, urban population turns against a growth - at - all - costs economic model that has besmirched much of the country's air, water and soil.

It has, however, been distorted into a weapon of discrimination used against the poor, who tend to show up for trial as readily as their more affluent neighbors.

Not exact matches

As the demographer Lyman Stone notes, immigrants from Africa tend to be far more educated and affluent than typical residents of Africa.

Affordable long - term care coverage could fairly be characterized as a solidly middle - class concern: Poorer seniors can generally qualify for Medicaid, and the more affluent can generally afford to pay for nursing - care expenses out of their savings.

Yun points to volatility in the financial markets in late 2015, which continued into the presidential election in 2016, as causing more affluent buyers to curtail purchases.

Which is why more and more of Canada's most affluent people turn to what are known as family offices.

«As the technology - fluent millennial generation grows more affluent and demands more flexibility from the goods and services its members buy, opportunities abound for organizations to respond in ever more innovative ways,» the report says.

So La Marca struck a deal with another, more affluent firm: give me a desk and make me look as if I belong, and I'll give you a share of the profits as my business grows.

That's the question pundits are asking, as they take note of the many more affluent Chinese who might not be all that interested in homemaking, given the steady supply of cheap domestic help at the ready.

A recent report by the Academy of Finland warned that some schools in the country's large cities were becoming more skewed by race and class as affluent, white Finns choose schools with fewer poor, immigrant populations.

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.

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.

More than 60 countries have now successfully negotiated what is known as Approved Destination Status (ADS) from Beijing, putting them on the list of group travel destinations for the increasingly affluent Chinese middle class.

The common cap is $ 1 million in liquid assets to invest as a definition because if you've got much more, then you're obviously a millionaire and not part of the mass affluent crowd.

Things that are regarded as luxuries in one economic bracket are considered necessities in the more affluent circles.

So even though trying to live faithfully as part of an affluent society, with all the temptations this entails, is in some ways more difficult and more uncomfortable than living the radical response, it does have several important advantages:

And, as affluent volunteers and congregations back home get excited about seeing that their surplus wealth can make a difference, the new pattern of giving may yield more money.

However, more affluent muslim countries have on average the same amount of children as most in the modern western world... that is, 2.

This is even more apparent when we realize that the proposed scenario assumes continuing growth of resource use in the already affluent world as well.

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.

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.&raquAs 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.&raquas the Washington Post famously called them in 1993, «less affluent, less educated, and more easily led than the average American.»

I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attirbuted to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at a commensurae speed.

And as for your claim that you are white, educated, and affluent — is that supposed to give your opinions more credibility?

Capital and community, we thought, could keep two separate sets of books and still be all right so long as each set looked a little more affluent year after year.

«It continues to be the largest growing consumer market in the world and so it has the power of population, but that population is growing more affluent, as well.

Adding to that trend, the demand per - person for protein is also rising as people become more affluent throughout the world.

Younger Affluents with Higher Incomes More Willing to Pay for Fine Wines: As a consumer's income bracket increases, the likelihood of drinking wine once per week also rises, according to a new survey by the Luxury Institute...

Even as the affluent population in the U.S. has increased in size and financial resources (according to the Ipsos Survey USA»), a shrinking middle class is looking to more cost - effective options.

But one of the complaints I most often hear from parents at more affluent schools is that their kids are «double - dipping» at breakfast, eating a full meal at home and then eating some or all of the school meal as well.