Sentences with phrase «at least middle class»

With the Gutenberg press, books could be in the hands of at least the middle class.

Or at least middle class wealthy, which these days is nothing to sneer at.

Most Labour MPs are at least middle class.

Not exact matches

So even as Tesla woos middle - class buyers in the U.S. (the Model 3, due to arrive this fall, will start at about $ 35,000) buyers in China have mostly resembled Vanessa Zhu: wealthy drivers who view Teslas as luxury vehicles, or at least as the coolest new piece of tech since the iPhone.

If you're a typical middle - class Canadian couple, a retirement nest egg of between $ 250,000 and $ 750,000 should be enough, at least after you add in the government help you get from the Canada Pension Plan and Old Age Security.

«This is absolutely symptomatic of a deteriorating middle class, or at least what we used to consider to be the middle class in America,» Stephens told Business Insider.

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.

The more it's paid by capital, the more progressive it is and the less harmful it is to the middle class; the more it's paid by labor — or, at least, labor apart from executives like the CEO — the worse a deal it is for average workers.

As those exceptions indicate, the intent of the mortgage interest deduction (at least as it was amended in 1986) was to benefit the typical homeowner, and to encourage middle - class homeownership.

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 humanistic presumptions of New Criticism nicely fit the aestheticism of the middle class that dominates Christianity in America — at least the Christianity that produces intellectuals like us.

We all still break but not so often because of hunger anymore, at least not in the western world where the middle class is now easily the majority by population and poverty is a small percent.

This prohibition may seem almost trivial today, at least for many middle - class Americans.

They created greater freedom for the middle class but on the whole, at least initially, undercut the social structures that gave some security to the poor.

This brief article will be my last on the subject — at least unless or until one word of gratitude for an unprecedented share of life's blessings, along with a promise to hold themselves to a standard worthy of respect, issues from the community of America's middle - class women.

Kyung stressed that she did not want to be a Jonah, bringing liberation theology to save middle - class women — at least not before she had a chance to explore her own gardens.

An Untouchable had no chance of becoming a Brahmin, and a member of the lower feudal orders had few opportunities to make it into the aristocracy, but the poor in a class society have at least a reasonable chance of making it into the middle class and some middle - class individuals do make it into the ranks of the rich.

Over half of New Yorkers are immigrants or the children of immigrants, and the city hosts many thriving immigrant churches, Orthodox, Catholic, and Evangelical, Pentecostal, and charismatic, but Bishop Rimbo's focus — at least in this profile — is on the white middle class, the traditional constituency for mainline churches.

They had been at least minor movers and shakers in their communities, people who felt some responsibility for what went on around them largely because of a match between the moral teachings they grew up on in church and the possibilities inherent in their middle - class social roles.

At least you weren't asked to leave - unlike a black family that once came to my middle - class Presbyterian church near Detroit.

Printing brought ideas, if not to the masses, then at least to the middle classes.

Let's assume he's right» at the least, we know that the upper and middle class are more likely to eventually get married and to enjoy stable marriages.

From overheard conversations in restaurants during our journey (and people seemed to be talking about the election everywhere outside of the DC area) at least some people, middle - class people who go to Ed's Steakhouse or Shakespeare's Coffee Shop, are convinced that Obama's reelection would unleash all the worst implications of the proposed policies of the last four years.

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.

In so doing, however, they will be increasing the pool of middle - class blacks and decreasing the membership (at least relatively) of middle - class black churches; for it is common knowledge that the faster blacks become middle - class the faster they leave the church.

And yes, it's also true that many of us (at least those of us who are white and middle - class) are a bit self - absorbed or extremely focused on our careers (we're the «third waver» feminists, and many of us from Day One saw our lives as defined by our work.

Tough shows even the most naïve reader how difficult it is to grapple with the question of how to take an entire community of mostly disadvantaged children and mostly undereducated parents without financial resources and transform them — or at least the children as they grow — into fully functioning members of the middle class.

No one had all the answers yet, but they had, at least, a new set of questions: What specific resources did middle - class children have that allowed them to succeed at such higher rates than poor children?

Tax the Rich: If New York were to return to the more progressive personal income tax it had in the early 1970s, working and middle class New Yorkers would get a tax cut and the state would still raise at least $ 8 billion more in revenues.

Yet the recent elections in Italy have shown that this equilibrium has collapsed in that country at least, where austerity has been so punitive to the middle classes.

The Council tax really digs into the incomes of the poorest earners in society, but at least the Lib Dems where shielded from making a decision that would had the potential to them unpopular among the middle classes.

And it will mean that taxpayers will subsidize the wages of at least 75,000 teen - age students — many of whom come from middle - class families.

But this play is at least as much about what it means to be comfortable, middle class and black as it is about politics.

Quinn's definition of «middle class,» at least when it comes to housing development, is unclear.

If you REALLY care about them vote for an electable candidate or at least tell us why you think Corbyn is electable in the middle class constituencies that swing elections.

«When you bring these jobs into the city at least give some of the lower - income people or the lower - middle class, an opportunity to be able to work at these jobs,» Hudson said.

They studied more than 200,000 middle - class Americans who had common operations — hysterectomies, bariatric surgery, hernia repair and reflux surgery — over a 42 - month period, and who spent at least one night in the hospital.

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.

New Ph.D. researchers with «stronger academic ability,» as indicated by having received university support in the form of a fellowship or assistantship or by having at least one parent with a college degree (which, especially in poor or middle - income countries, places the family among an educated class that is much smaller than in a rich country) are likelier to stay than those who lack these presumed correlates of academic strength.

Or at least not the first one, which he believes occurred in the 1940s and»50s, courtesy of his grandmother and the emergence of the car as a middle - class commodity.

Pascal clearly has a capacity for violence but at least he is not one of the snobbish, middle - class islanders who are so censorious about anyone remotely non-conformist.

Most know by now that the way to earn middle - class pay is to acquire at least some postsecondary education.

The middle class and urban journalists have been forced to encounter people completely unlike themselves — or at least perceived as such — in this part of the city they have never had to go to, that they have always heard about from a distance.

Several years ago, Isabel Sawhill and Ron Haskins of the Brookings Institution made a startling discovery: Even young people with just a high school diploma can make it into the middle class if they work full - time and delay parenthood until they are at least twenty - one and married.

In Arizona, a state that has always had charter schools that draw middle - class students, there is evidence that, on average at least, charters are not doing any better at raising student achievement than district schools; outside of urban areas, they appear to do a bit worse.

«At least in San Antonio, the big difference between low - income and middle - class parents,» said Victoria Rico.

A short time later, they learned that it often snows in the Middle Eastern city, enough to force the cancellation of classes at least one day so far this winter.

Kevin has come to some conclusions that don't sound all that remarkable at first: That college — or at least postsecondary education — is essential for poor kids to make it into the middle class; and that it's not enough to exhort his students to raise their aspirations, or even prepare them academically.

Teaching, at least in major cities, is also a profession in which minorities are heavily represented; when reformers argue that we need to take down teachers unions to give more opportunity to minority youth, the argument veers perilously close to «We need to destroy the black middle class in order to save it.»

This is precisely the appeal of pre-k programs that are universal, or at least are broadly enough targeted that they serve middle - class families, not just low - income families.