Sentences with phrase «better than the middle class»

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

Not exact matches

«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.»

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.

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.

Without a widespread sense, in the crucial Rust Belt swing states and elsewhere, that good working - class and middle - class jobs are harder to come by than they used to be, Trumpism could not have succeeded.

I think one way to mitigate the pain for exurban areas in to put in place a land value tax as well, which would also tend to hit the urban hippies harder than the suburban middle class.

«All families in my upper middle - class neighborhood regularly enjoy a living standard better than that achieved by John D. Rockefeller Sr. at the time of my birth.

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.

I'm firmly ensconced in the middle class and will pay less for a good round of golf than I will to take my family to a football game, and about the same as to take them to a movie anymore.

I think Giroud has better sense of positioning than Welb in the middle and Welbeck can use his pace better from the wing.Both of those players are not top class players but with a aquad of sanchex, Walcot, Chambo the goals can be shared.

Mesut — back in the middle of the field as the 10 where he can roam and more easily link up with both Alexis and Lacazette Alexis & Ox — I don't believe that Ox has the class to finish as he should, but his link up play is better than Theo and he'll work defensively.

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.

She believes many schools have become a mere diversion from the academic agenda of middle - class parents — who want their children trained OUTSIDE the classroom by people better than «just teachers.»

The proportion is even higher among middle - class women with well - paid jobs — more than 90 per cent of mothers in managerial or professional roles breastfeed.

Although the IFPS II over sampled disadvantaged mothers (illiterate, non-English speaking, very low - income, very low education and without a stable home) compared to IFPS I, the results of our study may best describe practices of middle class American mothers rather than of disadvantaged American mothers [28]; thus, results can not be generalized to all women in the United States.

«The candidate, this election more than ever the candidate who focuses best and convinces middle class folks they can get incomes moving again, make it easier to stay in the middle class, make it easier to get to the middle class,» Schumer said.

I'm sick and tired of suburban politicians citing «hurting the middle class» as their mantra against good policy that actually helps the middle and working class — i.e. those who commute by another other means than driving in the Central Business District (and somehow afford to park!)

Nobody has a better, stronger, clearer record of delivering for working class and middle class New Yorkers than I do.»

We're cutting taxes for the middle class, making record investments in education with $ 1.4 billion in new funding, turning failing schools into community schools, and ending the GEA in New York once and for all because we believe that our tomorrows can be better than our yesterdays.

«I don't think there's anyone who knows more about what the middle class needs, to get incomes back up, good paying jobs staying here in the U.S., than Hillary Clinton,» Schumer said.

«Despite being in the minority, we have consistently outraised House Republicans because our supporters believe we have a path to the majority and that the middle class deserves better than this Republican Congress of chronic chaos,» Israel said in a statement.

While the party had fared especially well in the more working class parts of the city at the 2009 Local and European elections and the 2011 General Election, Labour actually fared (slightly) better in the more middle class Dublin constituencies at the 2014 Local Elections than they did in the more working class electoral areas.

Bill Kristol, editor of The Weekly Standard, stated that Oprah is «more sensible on economics than Bernie Sanders, understands middle - class Americans better than Elizabeth Warren, is younger than Joe Biden and nicer than Andrew Cuomo.»

Change you name to Economic Terrorist Mike as its evident you're more concerned with wealthy environmental billionaires than you are helping the middle class and poor people upstate have a good economic opportunity.

March for Main Street: Middle Class New Yorkers Deserve Better Than Paying More, Getting Less Wednesday January 07, 2009 at 02:11 pm

In my own view, the Labour Party have actually managed in the last eleven years to create, in ascending order of wealth (i) a working underclass that is actually poverty - stricken (ii) a large benefit - sustained, inactive element that is now economically better off than most of those who work (iii) the working middle - classes, who are being hammered into submission by rising taxes and prices and over-regulation (iv) the rich who are either exempt from or indifferent to taxation or regulation.

Green voters are younger, more female, better - educated and more middle - class than the average — whereas Ukip voters are older, more male, more working class and far less likely to have a university degree.

Though not clear how many «middle - class» homeowners there are in a city where the median home prices even in Queens are well over $ 500,000, Johnson floated a $ 400 tax rebate for co-op and condominium owners making less than $ 150,000 a year, Crain's reported.

Cuomo's budget office estimates that the provision will hurt 1.7 million middle class to wealthy homeowners in New York who pay much more than $ 10,000 annually — 46 percent of all homeowners statewide itemize deductions — as well as reduce property values because of the eroded tax shelter of homeownership.

The governor says the money is needed to pay for a middle class tax cut, agreed to last year and which is scheduled to begin phasing in later this year, as well as a plan to provide free tuition at public colleges for New Yorkers earning less than $ 125,000 a year and to spend more on public schools.

«You itemize your state and local taxes as well as your interest, and even if you do that, it doesn't amount for the vast majority of people in this district, especially the middle class, it doesn't amount to more than $ 24,000 for a family of four,» Katko said Monday.

The initiative is an attempted, kind of, grassroots intellectual movement to come up with a series of ideas that will move us towards a more stable economic arena, [in] which the middle - class gets more benefits than it is getting now from the wealth in this country, and also puts the country on a trajectory that supports the good things the country has traditionally done.

The authors raise the possibility that for men without a four - year college degree, frontline allied healthcare jobs may be the ticket to a stable middle - class lifestyle as they pay better and are more stable than blue collar work.

«Lower - income students in China found to have better vision than middle - class peers.»

Ms. Doyle Melton is attractive and slender, lives in an upper middle class neighborhood, has a husband (although they are now separated), three good - looking children and more - than - adequate finances.

Bald and angry white - guy Bruce Willis effectively channels the rigid, one - note screen presence of Charles Bronson as vigilante Paul Kersey, the well - to - do middle class professional who comes to accept that lone - wolf justice is better than anything the cops or courts can offer.

How to Raise More Grateful Children (Wall Street Journal) «In some communities, specifically among the white middle and upper - middle class, there's good reason to believe that kids are less grateful than in the past,» says psychologist Richard Weissbourd, faculty director of the Making Caring Common initiative at Harvard's Graduate School of Education.

Education gives the middle class a shot at the brass ring, and for every parent, it fuels the hope that their children's lives will be better than their own.

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.

But this claim needs to be tested, for there is clearly a plausible alternative: that teachers are not only better educated and more middle class than the average citizen, but also more public spirited, more committed to public education, and thus more likely to vote in school - board elections regardless of their personal stakes.

Are the charter schools pulling in middle - class parents any better than the schools those children left?

These results imply that being the best student in a class of relatively weak students and being the worst student in a class of relatively strong students are both better than being the middle student in a heterogeneous class.

With postsecondary education more important than ever for entering and staying in the middle class, our nation urgently needs to find better ways to help more Americans access higher education and complete their degrees

In looking out for what is best for low - income and minority students, Brill contends, Wall Street hedge fund managers are a much more reliable ally than the middle - class teachers who educate schoolchildren every day.

Students generally perform significantly better in schools with strong middle - class populations than they do in high - poverty schools.

Smart kids from well - connected, upper - middle - class families more often than not will receive a solid education.

As with black and Latino families from the middle class, poor families of all backgrounds move into suburbia thinking that traditional district schools in those communities will do better in providing their kids with high - quality teaching and curricula than the big city districts they fled.

According to three Harvard researchers writing in the Wall Street Journal on Aug. 18, NAEP data «show students in charter schools doing less well than the nationwide public - school average, which includes middle - class students from well - heeled suburbs.»

The average low - performing teacher in math in a Florida school serving mostly - middle class kids is just two - hundredths of a standard deviation better than an equally laggard peer in school serving poor kids, according to a 2010 study from the National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research.

One out of every five suburban fourth grade young men from middle - class backgrounds were reading Below Basic in 2011, according to Dropout Nation «s analysis of NAEP data, just three points better than levels of illiteracy four years earlier; big - city districts brought down the levels of illiteracy for their middle class students by four percentage points in that same period, with nearly as many students from those backgrounds struggling with reading.