Sentences with phrase «bigger than middle class»

Raise their taxes to 95 %, if they earn 1 % of the average richer class, the rich has to pay more than 0.95 % of tax, and their power is still bigger than middle class» vote power.

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«There has absolutely been no bigger champion for New York's infrastructure than Gov. Andrew Cuomo,» LaBarbera said, adding that a myriad of development projects have created much - needed middle - class jobs.

«The Republican Tax Scam is nothing more than huge tax cuts for the rich and big corporations, paid for by tax increases on millions of middle - class families,» said DCCC spokesman Evan Lukaske.

But naturally the gap between the very top and bottom groups of a detailed class schema are much bigger than those between middle and working classes broadly defined.

In Both the 92 and 2010 elections, there were bigger swings towards us from the middle class than the working class, for different reasons, maybe those who came to us in 92 were Ex SDP, voting for us after it's collapse, and the working class, were sticking too the Tories in Essex, as they hadn't lost so much under the recession, and weren't losing their jobs in the city, the way the middle class were, and read the Suns twaddle about labour saying they'd put the basic rate of tax, when we said we weren't going too.

If New York loses these wealthy citizens to other states, it will have a bigger direct impact on the state revenues than if middle class or low - income citizens left the state.

Second is what I call global flattening, which is really just my shorthand for the rise of middle classes all across the world in bigger numbers than ever before from China to Brazil to India to Russia; middle classes that increasingly have the kind of energy and consumption patterns, demands, and aspirations of Americans; and at the same time, global crowding — global population growth.

Bigger Than Life (Criterion) Ostensibly a drama about prescription drug misuse and abuse and drawn from an article in The New Yorker, this portrait of a grade - school teacher and middle class father (played by James Mason, who also produced and helped develop the project) is as much about adult male masculinity and responsibility as a husband and father, and the pressure on him to live up to the ideal, as Rebel Without a Cause is about the emotional realities of being an American teenager.

If socioeconomic differences are a major force driving discipline disparities, than we would expect to see bigger discipline disparities in districts with bigger socioeconomic disparities — that is, in places where most of the white students are middle class or above and most of the African American students are poor.

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.

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.

Its upmarket persona means the Passat Estate occupies a middle ground between the big - selling Ford Mondeo and Vauxhall Insignia Sports Tourer estates, as well as the Hyundai i40 Tourer, but offers more for your money than the Audi A4 Avant, BMW 3 Series Estate or Mercedes C - Class Estate.

Are you able to point to any possible downside (other than the fact that you will be going to prison once millions of middle - class people learn about the role you have played in supporting the biggest act of financial fraud in U.S. history — that's not a good reason because the reality is that your prison sentence will be a lot shorter if you come clean today than it will be if you do not come clean until after the next price crash)?

I've always considered Qatar Airways to be the better of the 3 big Middle Eastern carriers - less «bling» than Emirates, less penny - pinching than Etihad and offering a better Business Class product than both.

So, if you are a bunch of friends travelling together and split the cost, it actually doesn't cost more to live in these stunning retreats than the price / night at a middle class hotel in a big city like London or New York!

Aug. 9, 8:55 a.m. Updated In a column in The Times Sunday magazine, Judith Warner cautions against celebrating downsizing, asserting that the Great Recession has been far more wretched than redemptive for most people, with the rich just getting slightly less rich while the poor got poorer and the middle class lost a big slice of its hard - won wealth.

But that excludes those lawyers who have clients wealthier than the middle class, which means lawyers with highly specialized professional clients, and those in the big law firms.