Sentences with phrase «as upper middle»

Not exact matches

As Aaron Wherry noted over at Maclean's, 64.9 % of Canadians consider themselves either «upper middle class» or «lower middle class.»

But as these middle and upper classes have a lot of expendable, disposable income, they are turning to golf just as a friendly pursuit,» Dreyer said.

Millennials — born 1977 to 1995 — are moving more and more into the middle and upper ranks of corporate life as boomers leave conventional full - time jobs.

Amazon's moves should help Whole Foods, long derided as «Whole Paycheck» for its high prices, to woo customers beyond its upper middle class clientele, as well as counter the discount chains such as Walmart and even Aldi as they vie for more of the organic and natural foods markets.

As a former activist, she believes that it's hard to reach lower - income communities if you have a staff that's upper middle class.

Respondents to the Palo Alto Weekly's survey cited the area's chronic housing crisis and high cost of living as reasons for identifying as middle - class instead of upper - class.

The assumptions of cutthroat libertarianism were so embedded in the worldview of these lucky newcomers that they spoke as though the victims of tech - fueled displacement and gentrification had chosen to live in poverty and squalor, just as they themselves chose to learn to code, chose a management - track job at a major corporation, and chose to set themselves up for a comfortable upper - middle - class suburban life.

In a 2006 survey, 64.9 % of Canadians identified themselves as either «upper middle class» or «lower middle class.»

To make a real dent, the super rich would need to pay even higher taxes, as would the upper - middle and middle classes.

However, I do think your standard, everyday millionaires in the USA do shop regularly at Walmart, such as farmers, small business owners, and upper middle class suburbanites.

The disorder also seems to afflict white middle and upper - middle class boys more than other ethnic groups, such as Asian - Americans.

Which means as long as we adopt progressive, upper - middle - class attitudes that function well only if you're actually upper - middle - class.

For example, in his days as an undergraduate at Oxford Waugh's fellow student Harold Acton used a megaphone to shout out lines from T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land from an open window of his upper - storey college suite and was later thrown into a fountain by some drunken students in the middle of the night; while another student, Brian Howard, spoke with a stutter and gossiped his head off: all of which got fused in the character of Anthony Blanche in Brideshead Revisited.

Those who choose this approach must beware lest they end up as self - centered and self - righteous communities of upper middle class people playing at being poor, preoccupied with their own problems and contributing little or nothing to helping others or to resolving the world's problems.

One might think that our white, upper - middle - class, nothing - but - the - best youngsters would respond positively to such concepts as «fairness» and «egalitarianism» — but apparently the best lesson we parents taught them was how to say No.

Young people who, as adults, merely retain the same level of upper - middle - class success that their parents have can regard themselves as standing still or coasting on the momentum acquired by their forebears.

But his key analytical model here, presented as a novel insight» that Progressivism was a movement of the middle class caught between perceived threats from the upper class above and the laboring and farming classes below» has been a commonplace of historiographical analysis since the 1950s.

Father Neuhaus has me as a defender of the spiritual life of today's upper middle class.

One of the things I have respected most in Aida Rosa, principal of the elementary school P.S. 30, and the teachers that I talk with on her staff is that they look at children here as children, not as «distorted children,» not as «morally disabled children,» not as «quasi-children» who require a peculiar arsenal of reconstructive strategies and stick - and - carrot ideologies that wouldn't be accepted for one hour by the parents or the teachers of the upper middle class.

Blacks and whites are about equally likely to have thought about it, as are persons from upper -, middle -, and lower - income groups.

I believe that when people espouse the values of a mother or wife exclusively being a homemaker, they are longing for a perceived simpler and easier time as opposed to truth, elevating a nostalgic look at motherhood from the standpoint of the post-war American dream of the white, upper - middle - class rather than Scripture.

We've done so because the people at the top prefer a permissive atmosphere that allows us to do as we wish» as long as we don't hurt anyone, a judgment call that ends up ruling out things upper - middle - class people don't like, such as smoking and putting glass bottles in plastics - only recycling bins.

I know of many groups who are very exclusive, meaning they exclude anyone who does not meet their standards, such as you need to be at least upper middle class, white and live in a good neighborhood to be part of the group.

By now it has been diffused widely through upper - middle - class culture in this country, most strongly on the west coast but elsewhere as well.

Almost everybody felt themselves at home in the «middle,» as the euphemism for the well - off, «upper middle class,» indicates.

«We are developing products that cater more to the upper middle class, as opposed to how many of our competitors brand their products as if they are in Italy,» President Mike McFall says.

You can count Ridgewood, Saddle River, Alpine and possible parts of Englewood and Tenafly as towns that require a considerable amount of wealth just to pay the real estate taxes but the rest of Bergen is upper middle to lower middle class.

Some of the signs for meningeal presentations include nuchal rigidity, Kernig's sign, Brudzinski's three signs (upper, middle, and lower), the «tripod» sign, and Guillain's and facial signs; the presence of these signs was regarded as meningismus syndrome.

Hmmm... I think by «American parenting», they might mean American upper - middle - class - and - probably - white - and urban - as - well, parenting.

In the bottom position, the outside light is off; in the upper position, the light is on as it normally would be; and in the middle position, the outside light flashes.

Like the middle school, the upper school will educate boarding students from all over the world and the United States as well as day students from throughout Northeast Ohio.

The researchers set out to look at the relationship between homework load and student well - being in the upper middle class advantaged communities (where median household income is more than $ 90,000, and 93 percent of students go to college) because it is there that homework is largely accepted as having value.

It seems to me that a lot of the excitement around noncognitive skills comes from middle class and upper - middle class parents who want to know how their children can be as successful as possible in an ever more competitive world.

Studies show that breastfed children don't get sick as often as formula - fed children — and that means fewer upper respiratory, middle ear, and gastrointestinal infections.

All of the women in the study were classified as having middle - to upper - class financial income levels, having supportive partners, and in the care of obstetricians.

So if you take a broad definition of «middle class» as the three middle classes (upper - middle don't think of themselves as rich, working don't think of themselves as poor), then you can appeal to about 88 % of the population.

As a result of years of overestimated revenues and underestimated expenses, along with a top - heavy government over-reliant on middle and upper management, Rockland County's finances are in crisis.

Stephen Crabb, Andrea Leasdom and Liam Fox have all presented themselves as «One Nation» Conservatives who would unite working, middle and upper classes.

«Looking over the period of the consolidation as a whole, poorer households have done worse than those in the middle and upper middle parts of the income distribution, though it remains the case that the some of the biggest losers have been those right at the very top of the income distribution.»

UPPER WEST SIDE — With three of his potential rivals seated in the front row, Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer positioned himself as the candidate who will «reclaim» the city for the middle class during his annual State of the Borough address Thursday night.

As Chingos said, the concessions to middle - class (and upper - class) families «raise the concern that the drift is in helping politically vocal middle - and - upper - middle - class families as opposed to doing more for lower - income families.&raquAs Chingos said, the concessions to middle - class (and upper - class) families «raise the concern that the drift is in helping politically vocal middle - and - upper - middle - class families as opposed to doing more for lower - income families.&raquas opposed to doing more for lower - income families.»

The IFS says it shows, once all of the benefit cuts are considered, the tax and benefit changes announced in the emergency budget are «clearly regressive», as on average, they hit the poorest households more than those in the upper - middle of income distribution in cash.

State officials, as they did last time, framed this year's opt - out movement as largely a middle - and upper - middle - class phenomenon.

While the effect of moving from a lower - to a middle - tier school or from a middle - to an upper - tier school was found to be positive, it was so small as to be barely measurable.

At least as important was the appeal to «excellent young people» attracted by the excitement and glamour of cutting - edge work and kept in their jobs by opportunities to build careers providing secure, upper - middle class lifestyles.

In contrast, he found that younger patients — such as middle - aged corporate CEOs with stiff upper lips — were often reluctant to reveal their feelings, such as fear of dying.

Middle - and upper - middle class people, as a result, express high expectations for their marriages, centering on self - fulfillment, deeply engaged parenting by both parents, and psycho - emotional awarMiddle - and upper - middle class people, as a result, express high expectations for their marriages, centering on self - fulfillment, deeply engaged parenting by both parents, and psycho - emotional awarmiddle class people, as a result, express high expectations for their marriages, centering on self - fulfillment, deeply engaged parenting by both parents, and psycho - emotional awareness.

Funds are distributed to providers and families through mechanisms such as federally funded Head Start programs, public pre-kindergarten programs that are funded primarily by states or local jurisdictions, and state Child Care Assistance Programs, which tend to target resources to low - income families, as well as tax preferences that benefit middle - and upper - income families.

In middle and high school, increased opportunities such as science camps like SciGirls, recruitment of girls to participate in upper level science courses or extracurricular activities, informal science learning experiences and increasing visibility and access to women scientists both fictional and real are other methods to sustain girls interest and engagement in so called «hard science» fields.

As SEP events may produce very large enhancements in the ion production rate in the Venusian upper and middle atmosphere, investigations of space weather effects at Venus are relevant to future missions to the planet, particularly those carrying low - frequency radar instruments (Nordheim et al. 2015).