Sentences with phrase «concerns of the middle class»

Though far drier than the governor's State of the State addresses last week, the budget plan made clear that Mr. Cuomo, a Democrat, remained intent on casting his 2017 agenda as an answer to the concerns of the middle class and the economic struggles of upstate New York, a formula that some observers have taken as the prelude to a possible presidential run in 2020.

Education is most likely to turn up when candidates talk about the cost of higher education in terms of the concerns of the middle class.

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Those concerned about poverty, inequality, or living standards of the middle class (every politician's favourite group) should oppose Canada's milk tax.

So far, those concerns have had much less impact on sales in emerging markets, where entrance to the middle class includes consumption of higher - calorie, higher - fat food products that are only available with more disposable income.

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.

Affordable long - term care coverage could fairly be characterized as a solidly middle - class concern: Poorer seniors can generally qualify for Medicaid, and the more affluent can generally afford to pay for nursing - care expenses out of their savings.

In a letter to U.S. Comptroller General Gene Dodaro, Democratic Senator Ron Wyden and Representative Richard Neal said they were concerned that the U.S. Treasury could be pressured to adopt tax withholding tables that take too little federal tax out of employee paychecks to make good on White House predictions of a middle - class windfall.

Government action to influence the price of goods might strike Canadians as out of place in the Conservative playbook but Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Tories are acutely concerned about dispelling the notion they're the party of «big business» as they target middle - class voters.

And where others see little regard for Main Street, Obama sees a focus on how the government can do more to bolster the economic prospects of poor - and middle - class Americans, and someone who would carry those concerns to the Fed, which has vast powers over interest rates and the financial system.

Kenneth Bentsen Jr., president and CEO of the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, said that «while we can not comment on a proposal we have not yet seen, we have ongoing concerns that the DOL regulation could adversely affect retirement savers, particularly middle - class workers.»

This has happened «even as concern was rising about the plight of the middle class and the growing economic inequality in America.»

Religious people are so concerned about the so - called «culture war» that they're out there voting for the greatest enemies of the well - being and opportunity of the working - and middle - classes.

There is little doubt that the concern for cultures and religions expresses the middle class social location of most process theologians, whereas the focus on political and economic issues and the concomitant demand for justice express the identification with the poor that is the glory of liberation theology.

Their trickle down supply side economic plans for Medicare and the Budget is of more concern, especially when it benefits the wealthy at the expense of seniors and the middle class.

A crippling common image of the gospel and the Christian religion generally is that its main concern is for the maintenance of middle - class American morality.

As more and more commentators now recognize, our political crisis concerns the disintegration of the once expansive and solid middle class.

Where a domesticated piety dominates the commitments of a denomination, the conservation of middle - class ideals can blind both leaders and people to the prominent concern for social justice found in the Bible.

Although many are middle class, they share the concerns of the proletariat with respect to global capitalism.

Middle - class Christian charity and concern for justice do not substitute for power in the hands of the poor.

This means that if a Republican could come up with a message to address the concerns of middle - class voters, «amazingly enough, he'll win a lot more Hispanic votes in the process.

Both kinds of critics argue that in comparison with the scandal of world hunger, with human rights violations and the plight of political prisoners, with oppressive regimes of the right or left, the real or imagined oppression of white, middle - class American women seems a secondary, even trivial, concern.

When Romney ran this combination of middle - class solidarity and lack of interest in the poor through his campaign's glitchy conservative - to - English translation program (the same one that produced formulations like «severely conservative») the result was «not very concerned about the poor.»

Whether it is Michael Strain on employment, James Capretta on health care coverage, Robert Stein on taxes or Scott Winship on economic mobility, Republican candidates have a series of approaches they can select from in order to address the concerns of families who are middle - class or aspire to join the middle - class.

If it takes place, for instance, in a middle - class suburban congregation in the United States, it must deal with the issues and concerns of that congregation, but it must not do so at the expense of its catholic context.

The minority who constitute the middle class, whose minds are set free from immediate physical concerns, are presented as the fountainhead for most of society's novel ideals, which serve as a lure for social reform.

Even with strong expansion of the country's middle class, a large proportion of India's population remains poor, and being able to afford products is still a major concern for many in the rural economy.

It's draining we lost to spurs but more over than anything the way we lost was embarrasseing and shocking we were played off park most game that has concern us as fans spurs bullied us out played us hungry in every department it's has fall with wenger when is time when he just accepts game has passed him matter of fact it has passed us arsenal fans aswell no control in middle very poor from xhaka and elneny and again dembele bought mortgage in midfield he's the owner my god vieria would of knocked he's house down but look we're very poor and away from home sad really how wenger keeps he's job is just pure stupidity but not just with today's results over all away from home we're relegation side go get Enrique before Chelsea get him and let but of class and youth take our great club back before Tottenham spuds leave us so far behind we won't even complete this series lack lustrous club

Short, concrete, and reassuring talks with young children, more detailed talks with middle age children focusing on their concerns and questions, and digging deep with interested teenagers around issues of values, inequality, and class divisions.

Public schools serve all students in a community: rich, poor, middle class, of various ethnicities, ability levels, health concerns, family backgrounds and more.

We could say that this is a typical white, middle class concern — something that the author shares with a lot of worried middle class parents.

This is less of a concern for most countries, as they rely less on taxes on the rich and more on taxes on the middle class.

«While I support helping middle - class families afford the rising cost of a college education, I'm very concerned that this proposal will put an unfair burden on hardworking taxpayers that have paid for Albany's tax - and - spend culture for far too long.»

«I represent a middle - class community with substantial concerns about the direction of our State.

«But I think the speech missed the mark by failing to address the concerns many middle class New Yorkers have today — such as how his administration can improve the delivery of core city services and make this city more affordable for all of us,» Ignizio said.

It's an odd underrepresentation of the traditional middle class but one that concerns lawmakers.

«I really think the concern is what's happening to the middle class in all of this,» DiNapoli said.

Some of her Democratic opponents have tried to use that against her, suggesting Quinn is too close to a mayor they say has sometimes turned a cold shoulder to the concerns of middle - class and working - class New Yorkers.

Game Night seems to be setting up Max and Annie as a high - achieving upper - middle - class power couple, but it turns out that where real life is concerned, they're only in the middle of the pack.

There is a compelling ugliness to The Hills Have Eyes that mirrors Craven's debut film, finding its horror movie concerns in the displacement of the middle - class, Deliverance - style, as interlopers in the wilderness come upon the base versions of themselves.

At the risk of providing ad copy for Fox Searchlight, the film, which concerns a teenage girl's passion to play soccer, much to the dismay of her middle - class Indian family, plays like a combo of Love and Basketball and a much better My Big Fat Greek Wedding.

Having identified a pressing middle - class concern, Democrats have decided that the best way to fix it is to move America's mixed - market system of higher education toward a publicly controlled system effectively governed from Washington.

Sen. Marco Rubio (Fla.) made reforming higher education an emblem of his focus on middle - class concerns.

On a more concerning note, the survey found that less than half of secondary students feel that what they're learning in class helps them outside of school, with high school students feeling slightly less positively than middle school students.

The concerns of white middle - class parents drive the conversation, demonstrating a fear that higher standards will reveal weaknesses in their schools and knowledge gaps in their children.

When the message is only about 20 percent of the students — even if you're talking about the 20 percent who really are those most in need of help (although they all deserve help, and have a civil right to it)-- it's hard to win a popular election with that message; and listening to the candidates» impassioned speeches about those students, even if the speeches are nobly motivated, can feel oddly alienating and exclusive to middle class parents who are concerned about their own children's too often declining prospects.

My biggest concern is that the demise of the US public school will finish breaking the backbone of our middle class - but I suppose that's what Bush & company have wanted all along.

They have also spurred middle - class backlash by prompting parental concerns about over-testing, threats to student privacy, and a narrowing of the curriculum.

What Kafka wrote about here are the effects of the withdrawal of the father from the family into concerns only peripherally associated with the effective life of the family — the father's continued demands for loyalty and submission in spite of the break - in affective relations, the appearance of the father in the middle - class family as a punitive, castrating figure, and the ability of the individual to reflect upon and understand his position in relation to his father once the father's nurturant role in the family has been given up.

«Governments are now concerned about the cost implications of paying GIS benefits to middle - class Canadians who substitute TFSAs for RRSPs.»

In his 2011 report, Mark Cooper, director of research for the Consumer Federation of America, stated that 84 % of middle - class people are greatly concerned about gas prices, highlighting that «gasoline prices have become a middle class issue.»