Sentences with phrase «became more middle class»

But fortunately, as my brother and I entered high school, our family became more middle class because my dad's cotton crops had gradually become more profitable.

Black districts are becoming more middle class and Hispanic districts are beginning to encompass a greater range of Latino ethnicities,» Bositis said.

Melbourne Ports has become more middle class in recent years with accelerating inner - city gentrification and high density housing developments.

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Some forecasts predict that growth of new solar installations globally will decline to the single digits, due to market saturation in the U.S. and China, but will surge ahead again by 2019 as more markets (such as the middle and lower class) open up as technology becomes more affordable.

At a time when more and more people are slipping out of the middle class into poverty, more people are becoming rich.

The longer Europe refuses to debate honestly about debt and the euro, and the the longer it suffers from stagnation and unemployment, the more credible the Front National becomes in denouncing centrist parties for sacrificing workers and the middle class to protect the interest of bankers.

Similarly, investment opportunities become more plentiful, which leads to credit demand and small - business growth — both of which can disproportionately benefit the middle class.

It seems that churches today are becoming little more than a glorified social club — a country club for the middle class, if you will.

As increasingly more members have moved out of the lower - income bracket and have been joined by middle - class charismatic defectors from mainline churches, their worship has become more contained.

The booming neighbourhood attracted more middle - class families and became one of the biggest Christian communities in Iraq.

However, the pattern of moving up in America is so strong that this orientation grows weaker as members become more middle - class.

With the impact of climate change and more diversified diets across the growing global middle class, temperate rice production is becoming increasingly important to ensure global food security.

As the middle classes become more football oriented, the city could take advantage, if it were not for two factors — a serious town v gown split that again sees the chief soccer club again corralled in a distant burb and recent misfortune that has seen the Abbey Stadium outfit drop out of the league.

Were Clegg and co to actively push tax hikes for those earning over # 50,000, their middle class support would become more than a little strained.

2) the movements in Africa were mainly run by upper middle classes, this is also true for india untill they slashed the cost of joining the INC indian congress to become affordable m allowing to poor to have a say in the running of the party.Africa on the other hand had a more tribal approuch in that there were opinions and they were voiced, but the popularity of the «chief» was not often challenged

The currency issue has become more complicated rather than less, and middle class financial insecurity and low oil prices are unlikely to be answered by greater political instability.

Naomi Andrews, who has worked for Shea - Porter for more than a decade and managed two of her past campaigns, became the ninth Democrat to join the September 11 primary ballot, touting her middle - class background and experience working with Shea - Porter.

State senators in favor of this bill made a three - pronged argument: property taxes have become too burdensome for middle - class... (read more)

As the «establishment» became more open to the middle classes during that century, the range of people to whom honours were awarded widened.

Debra Smith, head of the family and community advocacy committee of the Erie County Opiate Epidemic Task Force, acknowledges the opioid epidemic has become more of an issue for white, middle - class people.

The research centers on MESA, a 48 - year - old enrichment program operating throughout the United States that uses classes, hands - on competitions, academic support and industry involvement to help first - generation, low - income and socioeconomically disadvantaged students from middle school through college become more involved in STEM fields.

There is more to it, naturally, and it becomes a moral issue about right, wrong, consequences and corruption, especially from the perspective of the tormented middle - class.

With the middle class growing weaker and the upper class growing stronger, the discrepancy of incomes is liable to cause our economic strains to become more pronounced rather than diminished.

Other research indicates that low - income students in particular benefit from college, becoming nearly three times more likely to make it into the middle class than their peers who earn some (or no) college credits.

She has more than 20 years experience starting up new schools and was also instrumental in setting up the Boston's first performing arts middle school — an experience she shares in her class, which is for students thinking about becoming educational entrepreneurs.

Yet another reason middle - class parents are becoming more familiar with charters is the «intentionally diverse» school movement.

The danger is that preschool will become a new middle - class entitlement, displacing the more intensive (and extensive) efforts needed to shrink the achievement gap among severely disadvantaged children.

American families are now taking on more debt than ever before, and our nation's middle class has become fragile and faces mounting uncertainty.

Parents became more alarmed after learning that mold - infested ceiling tiles were being removed Friday at another school, Williamstown Middle School, while students were still in class.

Middle - class, mixed - income neighborhoods have become less common as more neighborhoods of concentrated poverty and concentrated affluence have developed.

However, as education in California becomes steadily more impoverished and schools become more and more incapable of providing different levels of instruction, the middle class too has begun to bow out of public education over the last 30 years or so.

Making the situation even more unfair, Malloy has provided no meaningful additional support for public schools in Connecticut's middle - income communities meaning that the burden of local property taxes has become even more unfair for middle - class families.

The result has been a loss of local control for Connecticut's poorest towns and no meaningful support for middle - class towns that have become even more reliant on regressive local property taxes.

The income cutoff was raised, and more middle - class families became eligible.

Towards the end of the Times review Mr. Sepinwall notes that, «As «the middle - class movie» — which couldn't «be made on the cheap or guarantee an opening weekend of $ 50 million or more» — became increasingly difficult to get made, artists who might once have gravitated to the big screen moved to the little one».

IR: I loved your quote at the end of the review... «As «the middle - class movie» — which couldn't «be made on the cheap or guarantee an opening weekend of $ 50 million or more» — became increasingly difficult to get made, artists who might once have gravitated to the big screen moved to the little one».

My guess is that terminology of the type I have described above will become more «acceptable» in the minds of many only AFTER many middle - class investors have lost large amounts of capital due to the misplaced confidence that they have placed in conventional methodology SWR research.

But Buy - and - Hold is becoming less and less popular as the economic crisis it brought on causes more and middle - class investors to lose confidence in their retirement hopes.

Therefore, the long term economic effect would be potentially tremendous as the professional middle class became unburdened with student loan debt and had more disposable cash every month.

The painters and sculptors of the Italian Renaissance are most noted for their melding of religion and realism; the Romantic movement in England, appropriately, centered on the artist's individual feelings and motivations while still making the language accessible to the common reader; China's Tang Dynasty allowed art and poetry became more popular among the middle and lower classes than ever before, and while landscapes and nature remained the focal point of most art, increased contact with new foreign countries expanded their own artists» techniques.

While the era of consumer - driven growth may be ebbing, the sheer size of the mushrooming global middle class, even if it becomes an energy - thrifty culture, guarantees the need for far more electricity.

As people become less poor and become a little more wealthy — moving through middle class lives toward upper income lives — we develop appetites.

More than any other honorary assembly that we know of, the Fastcase 50's reach across law for the poor, the middle class, and the corporate class; law for those with lawyers and without; and law for citizens and those who might become so.

That lag is making the process of seeking legal help more expensive, he said, which is causing problems in access to legal services for members of the middle class and large corporations, who are becoming increasingly less inclined to pay hefty legal fees.

Thanks to the second income contributed by a working spouse, households are buying larger, more expensive homes, putting themselves in a precarious financial position should one of the earners become unemployed, according to «The Two - Income Trap: Why Middle Class Fathers and Mothers are Going Broke» (Basic Books), by Harvard Law School Professor Elizabeth Warren.