Sentences with phrase «even as middle class»

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So even as Tesla woos middle - class buyers in the U.S. (the Model 3, due to arrive this fall, will start at about $ 35,000) buyers in China have mostly resembled Vanessa Zhu: wealthy drivers who view Teslas as luxury vehicles, or at least as the coolest new piece of tech since the iPhone.

Amazon's moves should help Whole Foods, long derided as «Whole Paycheck» for its high prices, to woo customers beyond its upper middle class clientele, as well as counter the discount chains such as Walmart and even Aldi as they vie for more of the organic and natural foods markets.

China's air travel growth is estimated at closer to 6.1 percent as its already - massive middle class expands even more.

I'd like to eliminate FICA taxes in the next recession as a stimulus, but I doubt that happens cuz Dems will come in and say «morally wrong» cuz «equality» even though FICA hits the middle class the hardest, but okay.

«The post-recession reality is that the customer base for businesses that appeal to the middle class is shrinking as the top tier pulls even further away... big stores and restaurants are chasing richer customers with a wider offering of high - end goods and services, or focusing on rock - bottom prices to attract the expanding ranks of penny - pinching consumers.»

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

To make a real dent, the super rich would need to pay even higher taxes, as would the upper - middle and middle classes.

This profound alienation of the ghetto poor from mainstream American life has continued to grow worse in the years since the triumphs of the civil rights movement, even as the success of that movement has provided the basis for an impressive expansion of economic and political power for the black middle class.

That most theologians, even those whose social location in the white North American middle class, verbally support efforts to achieve the changes needed in our society to make some minimum of justice possible elsewhere, such as in Latin America, is already a testimony to the power of the gospel.

«If a proposed action is perceived as contrary to middle - class interests, even some persons who favor «social action» in theory will begin to oppose that particular action.

Is it really right and even moral to require sacrifices only from the middle class and lower class as Ryan's plan would do with his proposed cuts while not requiring any sacrifice from the wealthies?

requires as its first premise great wealth and even greater expectations — conditions that for the American educated middle class came to be ever more taken for granted as the postwar years wore on.

This «flawed humanism,» as Sennett and Cobb call it, provides a perverse justification of the inequities of the class system, and confirms those on the bottom or middle or even uppermost rungs in their anxiety about their lives.

Even as the affluent population in the U.S. has increased in size and financial resources (according to the Ipsos Survey USA»), a shrinking middle class is looking to more cost - effective options.

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

By 1850 pigeon racing was solidly established in Belgium, and Charles Dickens wrote, «The members of the Antwerp Pigeon Training Society were citizens of the middle class of Society, but in Belgium pigeon - training has its attractions even for persons of rank and wealth, many of whom are enthusiastic pigeon fanciers; indeed, pigeon flying is as fashionable an amusement in Belgium as horse - racing in England.

Even if you don't class West Ham as a top third team they're only 1 -1-5 against middle third teams.

Tough shows even the most naïve reader how difficult it is to grapple with the question of how to take an entire community of mostly disadvantaged children and mostly undereducated parents without financial resources and transform them — or at least the children as they grow — into fully functioning members of the middle class.

As someone who grew up in a lower - to -(eventually)- middle class family I would get so frustrated when I we would go back to school shopping and we could only buy off the sale rack, and my mom's rebuttal to my complaints was that I was lucky to even get * new * clothes, considering she grew up extremely poor and only got hand - me - down clothes & shoes and one winter coat to last her until she moved out of the house.

Jon Cruddas, perhaps surprisingly, even made a case for middle - class tax cuts as part of an argument to reduce the economic burden on Middle Enmiddle - class tax cuts as part of an argument to reduce the economic burden on Middle EnMiddle England.

As important as public employment is to the black middle class, the pensions provided by public employment are perhaps even more crucial to the retirement security of black workerAs important as public employment is to the black middle class, the pensions provided by public employment are perhaps even more crucial to the retirement security of black workeras public employment is to the black middle class, the pensions provided by public employment are perhaps even more crucial to the retirement security of black workers.

As an adult I was pretty shocked to learn that many black parents (even middle - class suburban black parents) give their teenagers very explicit «how not to get shot by police during a traffic stop» instructions.

The federal - state program that began in the mid-1960s as health insurance for the very poor now covers the working poor and even the middle class.

The «cheap» plans just mean that you're going slightly less bankrupt if anything happens to you and now even middle class people who previously had OK plans will also likely go bankrupt with any major medical expenses as all, but the most premium plans have been forced to go the high deductible route with many deductibles so high that they still virtually guarantee financial insolvency.

I was there for most of it — the protesters, a few of whom were pretending to be obnoxious rich people hell - bent on filching even more middle - class money, argued for increased taxes on the rich and more government spending as the way to get the economy going.

It's Nice Ed's coming back he was at stoke after all, Ed dropped the triangulation line that Blair liked, funny as he actually appealed to both Daivd Owen, Maurice Glasman and Tony benn in 2010 ′ but the triangulation of middle / working class votes has gone that it's not even Left / Right anymore, and the dozen or so policies that unite ex Labour voters who vote Libdem, and the ones who vote Ukip can be summed up in, ignore Soctland and Northern Ireland politics concentrate on the economy, Defence, freedom of speech and women's rights,

Gillibrand said it includes the economy, education, health care reform, middle - class tax cuts, veterans» care, agriculture and, as a member of the Foreign Relations Committee, even oversight of Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton - whose Senate seat she holds.

Mr. Cuomo has remained a polarizing figure, particularly among Democratic activists, even as he has increasingly shifted leftward in recent years, enacting a minimum - wage increase, paid family leave and free college tuition scholarships for middle - class families.

«You itemize your state and local taxes as well as your interest, and even if you do that, it doesn't amount for the vast majority of people in this district, especially the middle class, it doesn't amount to more than $ 24,000 for a family of four,» Katko said Monday.

And it will spur development,» he said, even as he added that he wanted to see more provisions for middle class and lower middle class housing.

Certainly everybody that I saw in my short time was extremely interested in purchasing a car and if they happen to be from the more upwardly mobile kind of middle class, they were very interested in buying not a fuel - efficient car but a hummer even, you know, pretty much following the exact same model as the American aspiration or, you know, the «American dream» model and certainly the suburbs seem to be a growing trend and if you noticed that, Philip, you know, I visited a suburb called Orange County outside of Beijing and it really looked like Orange County and they even had like the palm trees and everything and I saw these in all the cities I visited Chongqing, Chengdu, various other cities that I visited, they were ringed by suburbs and the folks who live there, you know, the privileged few were using cars to commute into the cities for work.

- Living in the middle - class area was associated with a 69 percent increased risk for nearsightedness, even after adjusting for other risk factors, such as time spent reading, outdoor activity and whether the student's parents wore glasses.

Drowning Mona could be looked at as study on how things happen in a small all - white middle - class town, but even then, the messages you would get from it would be limited.

Following the disastrous knock - on effects when a middle - class couple, who still love each other deeply, but are cripplingly divided on the future (Simin sees no future in the restrictive nation, Nader has to stay to care for his Alzheimers afflicted father), seek a divorce, it displays Asghar Farhadi as one of the great humanist filmmakers working today; he has empathy for everyone the camera points its lens at, from the couple's daughter to the brutish husband of their new employee, even as they do terrible things.

The whole idea of Zionism was summarized for us as an inverted pyramid: in Europe, Jews were mostly middle - class intellectuals, merchants, and financiers, resting on a narrow base of relatively few Jewish blue - collar workers and even fewer farmers.

As one of a few minority boys in his class, his mother was astonished that even black middle class families must find ways to navigate around the low expectations some may have of their students.

As far as middle school, our kids have several wonderful opportunities to tour the school, ask existing middle school students questions and even a day to test opening their lockers and go through their class schedule before the first day (without hallways filled with upperclassmenAs far as middle school, our kids have several wonderful opportunities to tour the school, ask existing middle school students questions and even a day to test opening their lockers and go through their class schedule before the first day (without hallways filled with upperclassmenas middle school, our kids have several wonderful opportunities to tour the school, ask existing middle school students questions and even a day to test opening their lockers and go through their class schedule before the first day (without hallways filled with upperclassmen).

LACES» results stand out even more because the school has many of the challenges that often sink urban schools into the lower - performing category and anchor them there: a predominately urban, minority population; large classes (the average is 29 students in middle - school classes, 34 in high school); few computers, no computer lab, and a building that was new when Franklin D. Roosevelt served as president.

As researchers have documented (see «U.S. Students from Educated Families Lag in International Tests,» features, Fall 2014), even middle - class and suburban parents have reason to find fault with their schools.

The stark contrast between those at the very bottom and everybody else is important because decades of academic research have shown that children from low - income families who attend pre-K benefit immensely, but those benefits decrease as you move up the income ladder and may even disappear beyond the middle class.

Limiting the access of middle class families to wide - ranging school choices (and even more - expansive Parent Power) just because they have the perceived financial means to buy homes and send kids to private schools is just as intellectually and morally indefensible as limiting the choices of the poor.

Even before King and the civil rights era, teaching served as one of the on - ramps to the middle class for Black professionals and a source of great dignity and social respect.

This particular example of unwillingness to adapt to the modern world is a reason why just one out of every five middle - school students in seven states — California, Florida, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Washington State — was provided Algebra 1 courses during the 2009 - 2010 school year, as well as why 300,000 students in the nation's Class of 2012 have never taken an Advanced Placement course even though they have demonstrated their aptitude for doing so, according to the College Board.

As these and many other disadvantages accumulate, children from lower social classes inevitably have lower average achievement than middle - class children, even with the highest - quality instruction (Rothstein, 2008).

It is even more perverse to label that as «middle class tax relief» when the outcome will be potentially disastrous for local schools.

Rather than creating policies with the new white middle and upper - class families in mind, policy and school administrators also need to consider their positions and sentiments, even if they do not have the same social capital or resources as their white counterparts.

Whilst the 16 cubic feet capacity with all the seats in place isn't that much to write home about in this class, the 47.8 cubic feet with the 50:50 split rear seats tucked away is far more reasonable — as is the maximum total of 79.8 cubic feet with the middle row folded down as well (even though rivals like the Honda Pilot and Chevrolet Traverse are noticeably more commodious).

Even better, she uses the Tapes» unusual experiences as early members of the Chinese - American middle class to illuminate the experiences of all Chinese immigrants in the troubled era of the Exclusion Act.

As Passive Guy points out, «[t] he exquisite moral balancing described seems to ignore one big reality — most bookstore employees are working at minimum wage with little hope of being able earn enough from their employment to live in a pleasant residence, support a family or enjoy the even the most modest trappings of a middle - class life.

The middle class of Germany was wiped out during the Wiemar Republic days as prices of even bread became un affordable.