Sentences with phrase «for upper middle»

The American Scholar — Upper Middle Brow — William Deresiewicz — Somewhere between the content of a fireside chat and a mathematics paper lies middle brow, the purpose of which «is to make consciousness safe for the upper middle class.»

What will he do when the next Cordray comes in and finds all of his loans were done for upper middle - class white people below age 50?

As a former Fellow in the Society of Actuaries, I was in the vanguard of those trying to apply actuarial principles to risk management, both when I managed risks for insurance companies, worked for non-insurance organizations, and manage money for upper middle class individuals and small institutions.

I manage stock and bond portfolios for upper middle class people, and for small institutions.

On the other hand, if you aspire to something a bit better — such as an increase in your travel budget — you can plan to spend $ 42,000 to $ 50,000 a year as a single for an upper middle - class lifestyle.

I manage separately managed stock and bond accounts for upper middle class individuals and small institutions.

The «Steps to Financial Fitness» is geared for the upper middle grades as is «Shaping Your Financial Future.»

I decided to get it for 2 reasons: 1) the included CD - Rom makes it much easier to print the reproducible pages that I need for testing and 2) this edition includes an extra two hundred pages... Those 200 pages include a word list and passages for upper middle school and high school (which were absent in the QRI - II).

This workshop is recommended for upper middle and high school social studies, civics, and humanities teachers.

This site is appropriate for upper middle school and high school students.

The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), for example, estimates that full implementation of the TFA can reduce trade costs by up to 14.1 percent for low income countries, 15.1 percent for lower middle income countries, and 12.9 percent for upper middle income countries.

Murray emphasizes in particular the degree to which the better educated and professional have concentrated in certain neighborhoods, and how opportunities for the upper middle class of college - goers to interact with and know neighbors of lower classes have declined.

THE DESERT BRIDE --(Chile / Argentina) Dir, Cecilia Atan, Valeria Pivato A middle - aged woman who works as a maid for an upper middle - class family in Buenos Aires goes back to her hometown of San Juan after decades away to visit her dying sister.

Grace, whom Timothy characterizes as «a society lady who spends her time rescuing wretched niggers,» seems a stand - in for upper middle - class whites who have «good intentions» with regard to racial justice.

But things are going to get more painful for the upper middle class in 2018 with the proposed elimination of state income taxes, capping mortgage interest deduction, and limiting property tax deduction to $ 10,000.

Not exact matches

We focus on income differences, since that is how lower -, middle - and upper - income classes are defined for tax purposes.

This proposal provides a more moderate boost to CPP coverage for middle and upper earners than the Wolfson - Sheridan Wedge.

But for most middle - and even upper - middle - income earners, the prospect of making one's savings stretch into what seems like an endless retirement is a daunting one, increasing the uncertainty around how to invest, how to pay for medical care, and whether you can leave a legacy behind for the kids or your community.

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.

Recent studies indicate that while spending patterns shift in retirement, the overall trend in real dollars is down, and for the majority of retirees in the middle and upper income quintiles, they may find themselves with income that exceeds their spending.

The upper level is mostly living and sleeping (or berthing) quarters for the crew, the middle level is operational space, and the lower level has the nuclear reactor and other engineering devices.

Stereotyped for appealing to a niche of upper middle class men, golf is a sport that engages a diversity of backgrounds.

Respondents to the Palo Alto Weekly's survey cited the area's chronic housing crisis and high cost of living as reasons for identifying as middle - class instead of upper - class.

The assumptions of cutthroat libertarianism were so embedded in the worldview of these lucky newcomers that they spoke as though the victims of tech - fueled displacement and gentrification had chosen to live in poverty and squalor, just as they themselves chose to learn to code, chose a management - track job at a major corporation, and chose to set themselves up for a comfortable upper - middle - class suburban life.

Abolishing the Alternative Minimum Tax, which increases taxes for certain affluent or upper - middle - class households.

The alternative minimum tax, which increases taxes for certain affluent or upper - middle - class households, is repealed.

German's excessive debt burden after the Great War, for example, was «forgiven», unwillingly, mainly by middle - and upper - middle - class households and civil servants, whose fixed income portfolios withered to nothing in the hyperinflation that began in mid 1921 and ended in early 1924.

All told, though, the plan is, like its House counterpart, a proposal to dramatically slash corporate tax rates, open up a big new loophole for wealthy individuals, and pay for the cuts by dramatically expanding the national debt and ending a number of tax deductions that could leave a substantial share of middle - and upper - middle - class people paying more.

I recently saw a «for sale» in an upper - middle class neighborhood in Denver which advertised, «no money down, lender on site.»

If you want much bigger government, you have to pay for it with broadly based taxes, even if the rich and upper middle class bear the biggest burdens.

Social Security represents a substantial share of income for the bottom quintile but is less important for higher - earners — reflecting the progressive nature of the benefit formula and the fact that higher - earners have many other sources of income — whereas private retirement income is less important at the low end but is more important for middle and upper - income groups (those at the very top mostly rely on investment or business income).

Yesterday, for example, the PowerShares Nasdaq 100 ETF ($ QQQ), a popular ETF proxy for the Nasdaq 100 Index, rallied into resistance of the upper trend line of its ascending trend channel, then sold off to close in the middle of its intraday range.

Chang — who said upper - middle - class investors are buying smaller apartments for themselves or their children — said that his Beijing contacts expect investment to pick up now that the Communist Party's 19th Congress is in the rearview mirror.

The woman would enjoy certain luxuries and entitlements simply for being upper middle class.

It is not uncommon for middle - and upper - class Americans to seek out diverse neighborhoods and to worry aloud that their children are not encountering enough people from other races.

Middle and upper class couples limit their families, oftentimes because BOTH parents have careers they don't want to be derailed from for too long.

The middle - and upper - class male peer group is also a milieu for sexist development.

There is this tendency within certain sectors of Christianity to assume that if our theology «works» for relatively privileged (often for white, upper - middle - class American men), then it should work well enough for everyone else, and everyone else should conform to it.

For example, in his days as an undergraduate at Oxford Waugh's fellow student Harold Acton used a megaphone to shout out lines from T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land from an open window of his upper - storey college suite and was later thrown into a fountain by some drunken students in the middle of the night; while another student, Brian Howard, spoke with a stutter and gossiped his head off: all of which got fused in the character of Anthony Blanche in Brideshead Revisited.

What happens to middle and upper class women who travel abroad for an abortion?

Parents ordinarily pay fees, with the government providing some subsidies directly for the poor, and indirectly — through tax credits — for the middle - and upper - middle income groups.

My own experience in teaching religion and theology to middle - and upper - middle - class undergraduates and graduate students in America for the past decade or so certainly suggests that this way of thinking about religion fits neatly with a strong tendency toward the kind of knee - jerk relativism that is also widespread among those in the same social strata.

One of the things I have respected most in Aida Rosa, principal of the elementary school P.S. 30, and the teachers that I talk with on her staff is that they look at children here as children, not as «distorted children,» not as «morally disabled children,» not as «quasi-children» who require a peculiar arsenal of reconstructive strategies and stick - and - carrot ideologies that wouldn't be accepted for one hour by the parents or the teachers of the upper middle class.

For those of upper - middle class sensibilities, the neoliberal order predicted by the 1990s remains inevitable.

Through movies, magazines and advertising the upper middle class has become «our reference point for what the American good life is supposed to look like and contain.»

Kids well socialized by upper middle class parents are sensitive to these risks, and for the most part they keep their distance.

I believe that when people espouse the values of a mother or wife exclusively being a homemaker, they are longing for a perceived simpler and easier time as opposed to truth, elevating a nostalgic look at motherhood from the standpoint of the post-war American dream of the white, upper - middle - class rather than Scripture.

The schools are good there, they said, which is true, and also a euphemism for an incalculable range of social and cultural benefits that flow from being raised in the upper middle class.

I am upper - middle class now, but I survived on Ramen Noodle soup and tuna for a long time.

Middle or upper class Americans who feel depressed can be doubly assaulted, first by their emotional condition and second by their knowledge that, compared to those in the developing world, they still have so much to be thankful for even if they can find no thanks to give.