Sentences with phrase «class working families»

I ask you to vote for Michael Harkavy who has long been a friend of middle - class working families.

We must stand together and hold the line against attacks on middle class working families and on the most fragile and powerless among us.

«There is a recent and powerful belief that America's diversity, openness and acceptance is in conflict with the success of America's middle class working families,» Cuomo said referencing the mood that many believe helped lead to Donald Trump's election.

Furthermore, it does not attempt to pay for health care on the backs of middle class working families by increasing taxes on the health care that families are already struggling to pay for», stated Hughes.

Not exact matches

Abrams, who could become the country's first - ever black female governor, describes the realities of growing up in a working class household and providing financial support to numerous family members.

I grew up in a working class family in South Dakota, married an astonishing woman, and 55 years later we're still together through good news and bad news — including cancer.»

Having grown up in a working - class New Jersey family with nine siblings, Barbara Corcoran starting working from a young age.

We are working on a message, so if you are flying with a family and you choose that class of fare, «How can we better communicate with you, especially if you are traveling with young children?»

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.

Median debt for all families increased by 25 % since 1998 but rose much more sharply for the lower and working classes.

He grew up in a working - class family in Newcastle, had a pretty rough time of it, and got out as soon as he could.

In a recent interview with The New York Times, Barr had said she made Roseanne a Trump supporter on the show because it seemed like an «accurate portrayal» of the political preferences of many working - class American families.

Born into a working - class family in Brooklyn, he dropped out of college and was driftless until he discovered the world of agency — an entertainment niche that relied not on specialized knowledge but guile and relationships.

«The president is going to continue to look for partners on Capitol Hill, Democrats or Republicans, who are willing to work with him on policies that benefit middle - class families,» White House spokesman Josh Earnest said on Tuesday.

«This new economy is not a fair economy for the middle class and the working families of this country,» Andrew Cuomo said.

And he gave a speech about class divisions, a favorite subject for the senator from Delaware, who grew up in a working class family in Scranton, Penn..

New housing development — including affordable housing — will be critical to ensure that Amazon's arrival does not price out lower - and working - class families.

As I was building my Pure Barre family, it was crucial that we all worked together each day; not only to ensure that our clients have a great experience, but to also help one another (with covering classes, shifts etc.) We celebrate birthdays and holidays together and even have occasional contests to engage in some friendly competition.

Yet there has been no increase in transfer payments to the provinces for universities, meaning that working - and middle - class families have an incredibly difficult time sending their kids to post-secondary institutions (without housing and feeding them for an extra five years).

Their work didn't get a whole lot of publicity, at least not until recently, when it was mentioned in an Atlantic magazine cover article, «The Secret Shame of Middle - Class Americans,» about relatively affluent families living paycheck to paycheck.

I was in a middle - class family with hard - working parents.

«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.

Obama cited statistics released the same day in the White House's new report from his Council of Economic Advisers which show that conflicts likely lead, on average, to 1 percentage point lower annual returns on retirement savings as well as $ 17 billion of losses every year for working and middle - class families.

«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.

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.

Opinion: Leaders of high - profile family foundations across Canada on the need for world - class research, for their work and for future businesses

«Middle - class families are working harder and harder, but falling further and further behind with the current government,» NDP finance critic Nathan Cullen said in the Commons on Feb. 24.

«We come back and make the middle class and working families pay to fill that hole.

In addition, conflicts of interest are cited as leading to $ 17 billion of losses every year for working and middle class families.

Pope Francis» main economic message is exactly in line with Pope Benedict and Pope JPII — all have stated in various ways that unbalanced Corporate Financial interests, and the idolatry of money negatively impacts families and takes advantage of the poor and also the working class.

This is a humble man, a prince of the church born into a working - class family who's noted for riding public transportation and cooking his own meals.

Some of those observations also apply to much of the working and middle - classes, and especially families with minor children.

Family - Friendly Tax Reform - This plan would save thousands of dollars for working - class and middle - class parents and cut taxes on investment income.

This plan would encourage both work and family formation among the working and middle - classes while making the tax code more efficient.

Notice the rural, working - class focus, as well as on the difficulties in being a man in full when all the key relational institutions — beginning with the family — are broken.

From Wikipedia on «All In The Family»: «All in the Family revolved around the life of a working class bigot and his fFamily»: «All in the Family revolved around the life of a working class bigot and his fFamily revolved around the life of a working class bigot and his familyfamily.

I explained how these families are largely working class, black and Latino families who find their kids and loved ones caught in a maze of broken systems and structures as soon as they make a bad decision or mistake in judgment.

Sir Michael, the head of education watchdog, Ofsted has also claimed poverty is too often used as an excuse for educational failure among white working - class families.

Can people in bad, poor areas break out of the cycle of family instability that puts children at risk academically, economically, socially, and emotionally — a cycle currently working its way through the working class?

But, as Vale shows, this success and popularity rested on sustaining the projects as the home to a very narrow spectrum of the Boston poor, those deemed both deserving and respectable: two - parent, mostly white, single - earner, low - income, working - class families of good character in need of a temporary leg up — a stratum «below the bulk of blue - collar employees but above that of the unemployed, the irregularly employed, and the welfare - dependent.»

The New Yorker Book of Kids» Cartoons (2001) features only three cartoons with families of more than two children — one a family of fish, another of cats, and a third an obviously poor, white, working - class family.

Policy moves like these would strengthen the fragile financial foundations of many poor and working - class families.

These working - class Trump voters were not poor, and their own lives were not a mess, but they were the neighbors, siblings, parents, and grandparents of those who were struggling to form families.

I acknowledge that the social environments of family, race, class, education, work, culture, cult and nation are the inescapably human contexts that shape all our possibilities and achievements as well as our blindnesses and follies.

The election cycle happily fading into the rear - view mirror brought the sorry condition of many white working - class communities to national attention; no one tells the story of one part of that world, its strengths and its pathologies, better than J.D. Vance in Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Harper)-- a tough and occasionally hilarious book that also suggests, inadvertently, an enormous evangelical failure on the part of both Protestants and Catholics.

At the other end of the spectrum, children in middle - to - upper - class families grow up knowing that college, work, and a strong family are all desirable and attainable.

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.»

But working - class families, who in the not - so - distant past enjoyed a strong marriage culture and steady work, are fragile.

But it is impossible to understand the crisis of trust among working - class young adults without considering the loss of stable family structures.