Sentences with phrase «class families by»

The first - ever independent consumer watchdog, the CFPB protects middle class families by making it safer and simpler to apply for a mortgage and know that it is sustainable.
This would also help middle class families by preventing new debt related to public education.
«These women are leading the fight to protect middle class families by raising the minimum wage, ensuring equal pay for equal work, protecting funding for Planned Parenthood, women's health care access, and reproductive rights,» Matthews said of the endorsements in a statement.
It will lower the cost of health care for a middle - class family by thousands of dollars a year.

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Amazon Description: «From Woody Allen, «Crisis in Six Scenes» is a is a comedy that takes place in the 1960's during turbulent times in the United States and a middle class suburban family is visited by a guest who turns their household completely upside down.»
Born in the» Peg, Waugh had a working - class upbringing; his father, a firefighter, supported their extended family by taking extra jobs as a house painter and stonemason, while his mother raised the family.
«However, by all accounts, they have found a way to cut out the government middleman and pick the pockets of middle class families directly.»
Countless stories shared on World AIDS Day by survivors and patient family members describe Americans who, ignored by the political class and facing a dearth of treatment options, simply accepted HIV and AIDS as a death sentence just three decades ago.
Median debt for all families increased by 25 % since 1998 but rose much more sharply for the lower and working classes.
But instead of a «learning center» where children came to a central location for classes — the model then used by chains like Sylvan and Huntington — Lucas provided one - on - one tutoring in the child's home, based on class curriculums and tailored to the family's schedule.
The eight members of the Beaudoin - Bombardier family — heirs of Joseph - Armand Bombardier, who invented the snowmobile — control the company through a dual - class share structure that gives class A shares, 54 % of which are owned by the family members, 10 votes apiece.
«We are seeing that our focus on the middle class, by putting more money in the pockets of hard working families, and giving less advantages to the wealthiest, is growing the economy,» Trudeau said, as he also attempted to distract the media horde from his finance minister's loose interpretation of what constitutes a conflict of interest.
The acquisition of IPD expanded MSCI's multi-asset class offering by facilitating the integration of private real estate assets into our models, as well as adding a family of real estate indexes to MSCI's suite of equity indexes.
«As we prepare to come back to Ottawa for the fall session of Parliament, it is also important to ensure Canadian middle class families understand the threat posed by Thomas Mulcair's risky and dangerous economic plan,» said the memo, from Conservative national campaign manager Jenni Byrne.
«Among the working - age population, the rise in income for middle - class families has been fuelled by higher female employment rates, and, to a lesser extent, by higher wages and tax reductions,» says the presentation delivered to Flaherty.
Real after - tax income of middle - class families (considered the middle quintile or middle one - fifth of families) in Canada grew by only seven per cent between 1976 and 2010 — or 0.2 per cent per year — according to the report, with the average family income (after taxes and transfers) totalling $ 49,700 in 2010 for the middle - income families.
But it would not only totally offset the new limit on deducting state taxes — it would amount to a sizable tax cut for many middle - class families and would vastly simplify tax preparation by freeing people up from filing their own state taxes.
A common frustration shared by both family offices and those hoping to work with family offices is the experience of a person misrepresenting themselves as a family office or ultra-high-net-worth individual only to find that the person is either exaggerating, lying, or simply misunderstanding the distinction between a large single family office and an upper - class family.
«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.
By contrast to the so called middle - class tax cut which favours the more affluent, the CCB will have a positive impact upon the lamentably high rate of child poverty in Canada (which stood at 16.5 % in 2013), and will promote greater income equality among families with children.
She does say that Pearachute plans to focus heavily on data analytics, endearing itself to its clients by providing them big - picture information that they might not have otherwise, such as what days and times families might be inclined to sign up for a music class.
Since then, however, Ratner has lost standing with the parent company, long controlled by family members, which in late 2016 announced it was dismantling its two - class share structure and that he would leave the board.
Conflicts of interest likely lead, on average, to 1 percentage point lower annual returns on the retirement savings of middle - class families, according to a recent report by the White House Council of Economic Advisers (CEA).
Biden's first presidential run was derailed by a plagiarism scandal, and the former vice president will face much more scrutiny after the publication of Breitbart News Editor - at - Large and Government Accountability Institute President Peter Schweizer's blockbuster new book, Secret Empires: How the American Political Class Hides Corruption and Enriches Family and Friends.
Chicago, April 9, 2006 — The Ontario government is building more prosperity for families by helping to expand the MaRS Discovery District, a world - class centre for research and innovation in Toronto, Premier Dalton McGuinty announced today.
«It's all about generating ideas, testing assumptions and getting to the bottom of how middle - class families and individuals can be best served by their government,» he said Monday in an e-mail.
By contrast, the class of people who are most responsible for abuse of children is, tragically, peers and family of the children themselves, who are usually not in the celibate state.
What has been interesting is that our political classes are, by and large, indifferent to the importance of family life for the well - being of society.
That system seemed to undercut the democratic gains that were being made in law, politics, education «and family life; it tended rather toward a new feudalism, dominated by robber barons and served by a new class of.
Coming from a lower class blue collar family I did pick myself up by my bootstraps and made it happen.
But another reading seems equally plausible — that many sought to shore up their status as part of the «responsible middle - class» by underscoring the discrepancy between their own «fit» families and those of the underclass.
equally important is the fact that in addition to family physicians, the clergymen of the community,... and the other guardians of mental health can consult with the center's professional staff to aid in serving individual patients about whom they share concern, as well as to add to their own knowledge of mental health and mental illness through formal and informal classes and meetings presented by the center's staff.
On the one side is elite capitalism, in which a few families or individuals own a large percentage of the wealth, there is a consequent absence of a large middle class, and control of the economic system is by the elite.
One way of doing it is by bringing together families from different walks of life — truly supporting families, especially those on the margins — by fostering personal relationships and an inclusiveness that transcends class.
But the barriers erected by class - based stratification are closely related to those which keep working - class parents from joining churches or forming stable families.
Researchers David and Amber Lapp have written convincingly of the need to address the alienation felt by working - class American families: «There's no substitute for the service of being a good neighbor.»
The very notion of the family and the legal framework that supports it is now being dismantled by our ruling classes.
His family belonged to the upper classes of Tarsian society, for Paul was a Roman citizen by birth (Acts 22.27 - ~ -8) as well as a citizen of Tarsus (21.39).
But since instantaneous spaces are determinable only by what appears to actual observers (albeit perhaps in different families of durations — CN 177), these spaces taken together constitute all nature as it may be divided into alternate classes of durational experiences.
Class status is defined by such matters as occupation, the length of a family's residence in a community, income and property, the quality and place of residence, the mores and values which guide them, and education.
If [poor black families] are matriarchal by choice (i.e., if lower - class men, women, and children truly prefer a family consisting of a mother, children, and a series of transient males) then it is hardly the federal government's proper business to try to alter this choice.
Traditionally, marriage was governed by norms that aimed to help all people, regardless of class, to attain a thriving family life» which resulted in a more equitable society.
On this last point, middle - class, status - seeking families seem to be disturbed the most deeply by parental alcoholism.
Born in 1940 in Muskegon, Michigan, Bakker was reared in a working - class family marked by hard work, little affection, and fervent Pentecostal religion.
Not sure what muslim countries your talking about, but culturally most of them do have sharia law in one form or another, which is why most of them consider christians second class citizens & if they ever step out of line by offending muslims there will be rioting and murder of christian families.
Traditionally the practice of rich men with the land and money to support a large family, polygamy is now practiced by middle - class and poor men, said Isabel Phiri, a theology professor at the University of KwaZulu - Natal in South Africa.
So on this happy day, as the students of the class of 2014 celebrate a milestone achievement with their families, their friends, and their teachers, I come to congratulate you, to wish you well, and to address each of you as a person who has received the good turn of a fine education, and who should feel a responsibility to repay the debt of that education by living well as a person, mindful of the personhood, the individuality, and the good of others around you, in the various communities through which your life will take you.
We are making these again this year for our family and also providing the GF dough for our synagogue's Purim Carnival (where many hamantaschen will be made) as well as the recipe for our older daughter's 3rd grade (public Waldorf) class, which is studying Judaism this year, and learning about Purim, in part by making hamantaschen as a school activity.
Jackson Family Wines» wineries are all class and this beautiful Sonoma Coast Pinot Noir is characterised by the rugged beauty of the region.
The 100 block of Pepper Street is lined with small, tidy houses, most of them owned by working - class black families.
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