Sentences with phrase «classes than middle class»

Students from disadvantaged groups experience two to three times the average gains from smaller classes than middle class white students.

She is now a «stay at home mum» - but in what sense is that more working class than middle class?

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Most developing countries are growing faster than developed ones, and there's plenty of opportunities for investors to capitalize on these countries» growing middle class.

In other words, more than 300 million middle - class consumers with rising disposable incomes are propelling the consumption of China.

She responded to criticism by doggedly sticking to Liberal talking points about growing the middle class rather than addressing the issue head - on.

«The issue is not that middle - class workers are doomed by automation and technology, but instead that human capital investment must be at the heart of any long - term strategy for producing skills that are complemented by rather than substituted for by technological change.»

In an analysis of the changing shape of the American middle class, Pew Research Center divided the population into three groups: Lower - income Americans made less than 2/3 of the median household income, middle - income households had incomes between 2/3 and 200 % of the median, and upper - income households had income more than twice the median income.

The French president warned that trade wars, rather than trade deals, «destroy jobs» and raise prices for the middle class.

Despite early signs that a fast - food diet is no healthier in Beijing than it is in Boston, consumers who are new to middle - class dining seem less concerned about the health risks of the high - fat, high - sodium fare that many Americans now seek to avoid.

One independent analysis, though, estimated the GOP framework could actually increase taxes on more than a quarter of middle - class Americans over time.

Tyler Law, a spokesman, said in a statement that Ryan «sees what is coming in November and is calling it quits rather than standing behind a House Republican agenda to increase healthcare costs for middle - class families while slashing Social Security and Medicare to pay for his handouts to the richest and largest corporations.»

It's a lot of hardworking, blue - collar - type people and they were just sick, it seems like, anything that was done to help was never to the middle class or the slightly lower than middle class.

For instance, there are fewer members of the middle - class that are addicted to cigarettes today than there was in 1976.

China has some 300 million consumers it considers middle class, although with an average annual income equivalent to $ 5,000, such consumers earn considerably less than their U.S. counterparts.

Other than «middle class economics» there was no economic concept that this summer received more press than the «skills gap.»

Mexico's middle class now boasts more than 40 million people, surpassing the total population of Canada.

Looking ahead to 2030, China is expected to have a mind - boggling 1 billion people — more than three times the current U.S. population — enjoying a middle class lifestyle filled with middle class things, from cars to designer clothes to electronics and appliances.

Remember, China's middle class is already larger than that found here in the U.S., according to Credit Suisse.

But multiple analyses of the proposals Trump has put out thus far have found that they would result in much larger tax cuts for the wealthiest households than for the middle class.

«There is room to grow here, and export jobs here have been shown to create many middle class jobs with wage premiums that pay a wage of 20 percent higher than other jobs,» Kessler says.

And the seemingly logical move into developing markets — where the rising middle class meant billions in new consumer spending — proved more volatile than anticipated.

But when the Great Recession hit, Penney's core customer — the middle - class mom — suffered more than most.

By 1919, the self - taught pioneer with an eighth - grade education was producing more than half the cars in the U.S.. By lowering the cost of the automobile — eventually to $ 350 — he made cars part of the fabric of middle class America.

«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.»

An HSBC report released last year predicted more than 500 million Chinese will join the middle class by 2030.

«We know that our system right now encourages the wealthiest Canadians to set up a private corporation so they can pay a lower tax rate than middle - class Canadians.

FiveThirtyEight pointed out that the number of people who thought tax cuts enacted under Presidents Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush would help the rich more than the middle class increased after those plans passed.

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.

Stagnant wage growth isn't just a problem for those at the bottom of the salary scales: middle - class family incomes are slightly lower now than they were in the 1970s.

He gave the example of Russian President Vladimir Putin, who he would argue has less power today than five years ago because of economic turmoil caused by sanctions and a middle class of an unprecedented size and aspirations.

«We are changing the rules for three per cent of private corporations, because the wealthiest Canadians should not be able to use private corporations to pay less tax than the middle class,» Morneau said.

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.

And in a country of more than 150 million people, even a proportionally small middle class like Bangladesh's can be quite large in terms of absolute numbers and buying power.

The country's growing middle class has increasingly attracted North American fast - food chains, but many have found it a harder market to crack than they expected.

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.

The rich are getting richer because the middle class can't buy property, they can't buy property because the cost of normal things are exponentially higher today than 10 year ago, rents keep going up because people can't buy property making it harder to get away from renting.

«In those countries, by and large, government works for ordinary people and the middle class, rather than, as is the case right now in our country, for the billionaire class,» he told This Week's George Stephanopolous in May.

Middle - class couples are working harder than ever.

Whatever is the current cause of the rise of prices in the housing market, when computed as the mortgage cost in labour time in terms of the average weekly salary, residential properties, with the exception of the 1988 - 1991 period, are now clearly less affordable for middle - class Canadians than they were for the last five decades.

Nowhere in the world will this revolution be more profoundly felt than in China — with its new and burgeoning middle class, accelerating urbanization, and expanding digital technologies.

While the economy has more than doubled in size in the past 30 years, middle - class incomes have gone up just 13 per cent.

McKinsey has predicted that more than half of China's urban households will be in the upper middle class by 2020, compared to 14 % in 2012.

The middle class will end up paying less taxes in 2018 than when you wrote this in 2012.

Clinton says the tax is to make sure the richest people pay higher tax rates than «middle - class families.»

But it is a different story if we use the low income measure, which looks at the gap between poor children and the middle class, calculating the number of children who live in a family which has less than one half of the income of a comparable middle income family.

First among these drivers is the growing number of upper middle class and affluent households, or those with more than $ 24,000 and $ 46,000 in annual disposable income, respectively.

The cost of some key middle - class expenses has risen much faster than inflation.

President Obama has been touting the Buffett Rule, which proposes that millionaires and billionaires like Buffett shouldn't pay a lower percentage of their income in federal taxes than middle - class households.

Speaking at Tmall's Super Kitchen event, an offline expo of home goods held by Alibaba Group's business - to - consumer site, Stewart said she saw an opportunity to expand her brand into the world's second largest economy as rising incomes in the middle class there were increasingly being spent on lifestyle and experiential purchases rather than staple goods.

The continent's consumer and business spending is estimated to be worth $ 4 trillion between now and 2025, and more than 50 million new middle and upper class households will emerge in the next decade,» said Tim Sutton, chairman, EMEA and Asia Pacific, Weber Shandwick.