Sentences with phrase «bigger share of my income»

When groceries were a bigger share of my income, I kept track of what I spent for a couple of months to figure out an average per month.

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«But it's a bigger deal for lower - income families, because a bigger share of their budgets goes to things like gasoline.»

Put simply, the nation's daunting demographic math dictates that the benefit programs keep absorbing bigger and bigger shares of national income.

The very wealthiest Americans earned more than 19 percent of the country's household income last year — their biggest share since 1928, the year before the stock market crash.

The bill's main objective — capping future government spending on healthcare at rates that won't gobble up a bigger and bigger share of national income, as well as leaving more resources for investment and entrepreneurship — is exactly what government needs to do.

It's also important to note that the share of middle - income jobs has been declining, reflecting a polarized labor market that offers ever - bigger rewards to those with specialized knowledge and skills.

The finance sector on Friday launched the first - quarter 2012 earnings season with unexpectedly good results from some of the nation's big banks, as JPMorgan Chase reported better - than - expected earnings per share, and Wells Fargo posted a 13 % rise in net income.

Educated professionals like scientists and architects could use their skills more productively, while many less - educated workers, like bank tellers and travel agents, saw their jobs being displaced by technology.6 This led to bigger employment shares for high - and low - skilled jobs at the expense of middle - skilled jobs in Canada, along with a modest increase in income inequality.7

I'm feeling pretty good with it and if the overall share price value drops by 25 % following a crash, well no big deal since most of the income stream continues and I don't have to sell anything.

Unlike other investment accounts, contributions to Traditional IRAs can be deducted from your income taxes, allowing you to put away a bigger share of your paycheck.

Indeed, when we look at the median income of the «other» Premier League clubs as a proportion of the total including the Big Six both today and 24 seasons ago, we see that the proportional share of the cake taken by the «rest» is greater than it was in the beginning of the Premier League era.

In Japan, a system of lifetime employment in many big businesses, a tradition of employer provided benefits such as housing in many cases, and a wage system in those kinds of businesses where workers receive a substantial share of their annual income in the form of an annual bonus whose size can be used to buffer good and bad years for a company sharing risks and rewards with workers instead of limiting the risks and rewards to an investor class, have contributed to low levels of income inequality in the Japanese economy relative to comparably developed countries with comparable levels of government spending on welfare state type programs in other countries.

This seems not to be compatible with what we find in our data: high overall popular agreement with the following statements «Government should redistribute incomes» (agree 52 %, disagree 23 %), «Big business takes advantage of ordinary people» (agree 77 %, disagree 8 %), «Ordinary working people do not get their fair share» (agree 72 %, disagree 11 %), «There is one law for the rich and one for the poor» (agree 71 %, disagree 14 %), and «Management will always try to get the better of employees» (agree 68 %, disagree 12 %).

In the interview with Osborne, O'Neil observes a «seemingly never - ending rise in the share of big corporate profit and income».

As Mr Redwood points out, «as they earn 13 % of all the income, that means they pay twice as big a share of the tax as their share of the income.»

Another long - shot challenger, Green Party candidate Kevin Bott, suggests a different approach: Institute a progressive city income tax to raise more revenue, and demand that state leaders share a bigger cut of New York's income tax receipts with Syracuse and other cities.

While education reformers and policy makers grapple with big fixes and the politics of national initiatives, most teachers and parents share the simple and urgent desire for students — especially those from low - income communities — to be on the road to college and ultimately to develop into people who will be equipped to thrive in the unpredictable future ahead of them.

The biggest advantage of DRM is providing security that prevents unauthorized sharing of eBooks, protecting your authors from theft and loss of income.

But as we move down through various different «tax brackets,» from those making $ 500K down to those making $ 10K, the Big Five authors in each subsequent lower - earning tax bracket are seeing smaller and smaller shares of their Amazon income come from ebooks and audio.

Once again, it appears to be the very longest - established Big Five authors who are now seeing the highest share of their Amazon income come from ebooks and audio.

I'm feeling pretty good with it and if the overall share price value drops by 25 % following a crash, well no big deal since most of the income stream continues and I don't have to sell anything.

Unlike other investment accounts, contributions to Traditional IRAs can be deducted from your income taxes, allowing you to put away a bigger share of your paycheck.

Thanks for sharing, although I feel like it depends a lot on your income more so than your loans as well as bigger loans will have a bigger required payment thus compromising more of your income.

The 10 markets (among the top 50 largest) with the worst change in mortgage affordability (those with the biggest increase in the share of income needed to afford a typical mortgage payment from historic norms to current)

In addition to creating a gaping hole in public finances, the way the cuts were structured to favour business means that an ever - growing share of this foregone revenue will go to big corporations, at the expense of personal income taxes and support for the poor.

If big polluters don't pay their fair share for the price for pollution, the heavy burden will continue to fall on low - income families, communities of color, our children, wildlife and future generations.

In other words, a bigger share of the 240 W / m 2 of the vertical energy transport will be transported by convective / advective means with a stronger GHE, and a smaller share by radiative means because the sum of convective vertical energy transport plus the diminished radiative flux must add up to about 240 W / m 2 in order to balance the incoming shortwave radiation.

«Buying a home is a big part of the American Dream — equally shared by millennials and baby boomers alike — but it's becoming extremely difficult to make it work on a single income,» Gudell says.