Sentences with phrase «for white middle class»

In modern times, the net median household wealth for a white middle class family was $ 141,900 in 2013 compared to only $ 11,000 for a black middle class family (Reeves, 2013).

Now, while the term mommy blogs does not offend me as such - I am a mom, I blog - the connotations of it being a futile hobby for white middle class American women does bother me.

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The White House has framed the proposal as tax relief for the middle class.

But, one thing you feel in Reading is that there are these middle class and working class white folks who feel very angry and are pointing to the Latino population for all their woes.

The White House, with its big promise to help create jobs and raise incomes for the middle class, might have taken note.

Jacobs: I was talking to Fordham professor John Pfaff recently, and he said that difference in this race is that the traditional base that votes for a DA is white, middle - class, affluent, and not that knowledgeable on the issues.

«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.

Leave out white middle - class, subtract wealth, a privileged education and hovering parents, take away the luxury of worrying about performance instead of subsistence, and today's 20 - something suddenly doesn't much resemble the poster child for her brand anymore.

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.

But it's hard to imagine students from the largely white, solidly middle - class Florida suburb being painted as «thugs» or «extremists» for their actions.

White House salesmen Gary Cohn and Steven Mnuchin did their own damage by defending cuts for the wealthy and vastly overstating middle - class income.

This DVD contains five short films that are full of thought - provoking questions for white, middle class, young professionals.

Having lived with a servant of the Word for more than fifty years in three Lutheran churches, I have this question: Why is it that the «white, middle - class, traditional, orthodox theologians» being told that their understanding of the church is no longer relevant, are told this by «white, middle - class theologians?»

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For example, comparing the experience of someone who is black, middle class and female with someone who is white, working class and male.

My wife, Cheryl, and I were among the crowd of 3,000 mostly - white, middle - class suburbanites listening as Dr. Reese pounded away about Jesus» dire warnings to the wealthy and His passion for the poor.

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.

They make me wonder if their Christianity is only for straight, middle - class, white people?»

For a long time, «white middle class Americans» was an expansive cohort that ran from factory workers to doctors, lawyers, and other professionals.

Historically, however, the idea of the ministry as a middle - class, white - collar profession is more the exception than the rule for most American denominations, and in many traditions today it is still a relatively unfamiliar concept.

Over half of New Yorkers are immigrants or the children of immigrants, and the city hosts many thriving immigrant churches, Orthodox, Catholic, and Evangelical, Pentecostal, and charismatic, but Bishop Rimbo's focus — at least in this profile — is on the white middle class, the traditional constituency for mainline churches.

Wall explores the meaning and application of the religious freedom amendment in the Bill of Rights for our pluralistic society with its many religious minorities, and a majority that is Christian, white and middle class.

In seeking for equivalents, I have often thought that the phrase «bourgeois morality» could simply be rendered «middle - class morality,» that «bourgeois society» is close to what has been called by others «a business civilization,» and that the «bourgeois mentality» has many features of what more recently has been identified as the white Anglo - Saxon Protestant (WASP) outlook.

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.

Black compliance with «white middle - class values» should no longer be taken for granted; such compliance involved, at best, heroic self - restraint, given the cruelties inflicted on blacks; at worst, it made blacks complicit in sabotaging the redress of their powerful grievances against America.

Similarly, though many would cite, Betty Friedan's 1963 book The Feminine Mystique as having triggered the current women's movement, its primary concern was for the white, middle - class American housewife.

This is a conclusion she has every right to argue for; but then she might better have subtitled the book The Betrayal of the Working - to - Middle Class (Mostly White) American Man — which, I grant, does not make for a very good sound bite.

In a country with an educated white population of over four million, with a middle class mixed race group of about two million, and the largest black middle class in Africa (admittedly a small part of the total black populace), the largest single print run is under half a million, for the weekly Sunday Times.

It is possible for many white, middle - class Americans to distance themselves from other liberation movements.

For, «political systems incapable of counter-balancing unusually swollen middle class, myriads of white collar jobs, non-local means of subsistence, irresistible passion for consumer goods and a social life making sense only in the idiom of science and technology hardly grant an easy walk - over for anti-development movemenFor, «political systems incapable of counter-balancing unusually swollen middle class, myriads of white collar jobs, non-local means of subsistence, irresistible passion for consumer goods and a social life making sense only in the idiom of science and technology hardly grant an easy walk - over for anti-development movemenfor consumer goods and a social life making sense only in the idiom of science and technology hardly grant an easy walk - over for anti-development movemenfor anti-development movements.

White middle - class folk especially value community for the personal nurture it promises us, while we ignore its challenge of political and economic justice.

By his own telling, for a long time he saw himself «as a middle - class, white Anglo - Saxon Protestant male, born and reared in the United States — a vintage WASP.»

The next hurdle for us is to love him back as we are very white middle class with only a few racial minorities, pray for us.

From the outside looking in, this is a white, middle - class movement trying to educate other populations about what is good for them while ignoring the structural inequalities that make breastfeeding a pipe dream or a total impossibility for less privileged families.

The research advances have been most convincing for white, middle - class women with a high level of education; those are the mothers most likely to breast - feed.

It certainly did not have the cachet it has now for middle and upper class white women.

The political left has taken up this principle with enthusiasm - in fact, it often feels like there's an army of white middle class left - wingers looking for things to be offended by on other people's behalf.

Even still, all citizens will have documents checked and there is always the problem that ethnic minority citizens may be more likely to be considered «migrants» than, for example, middle class white people.

For all the changes the area has gone through, it's held on to a large part of its middle class core: white and blue collar civil servants, private sector professionals, union workers and small entrepreneurs.

Myrick visited the White House again in 2015 where he and 27 other state and local officials met to discuss ideas for boosting the middle class.

«Only democrat not taking tons of money from the teachers union which is the largest single lobby to the democrats... if not for Cuomo, thousands of children of color and white middle class kids would have been forced out of the charter schools their parents fought hard to get their kids into,» she wrote.

«For Chuck Schumer, after decades of his open borders and job - killing behavior in Washington, to ride in on a big white horse and announce in this campaign that he's going to fighting for the middle class, is the picture they put in the dictionary next to the definition of chutzpah,» Long saFor Chuck Schumer, after decades of his open borders and job - killing behavior in Washington, to ride in on a big white horse and announce in this campaign that he's going to fighting for the middle class, is the picture they put in the dictionary next to the definition of chutzpah,» Long safor the middle class, is the picture they put in the dictionary next to the definition of chutzpah,» Long said.

«White ethnics, middle class voters, independents — the real heart of the Bloomberg and Giuliani days — either didn't vote for him or did because de Blasio's rivals were so uninspiring or they were tired of Bloomberg,» said Dan Gerstein, a political consultant and analyst.

(Oh... wait... I forgot... Liberals only believe in abortion for African - Americans and poor people, not upper - middle class married white folks.

«It punishes the poor for being poor, it punishes the middle class for living in a society that does not protect them and it rewards those who already have it made by either growing up white, growing rich, or growing up in a state that protects only those who are in the top quintile or in some cases the top one percent of income earners.»

But the white, middle - class suburbanites who voted over the years for D'Amato, Mondello, Gulotta and King are still there, and they're seething.

Already, it is clear that once again the House of Commons is too white and too male and too middle class to reflect the people who voted for it.

Debra Smith, head of the family and community advocacy committee of the Erie County Opiate Epidemic Task Force, acknowledges the opioid epidemic has become more of an issue for white, middle - class people.

Mr. Weiner cast himself as being in the vanguard for the middle class and as a native son of predominantly white neighborhoods outside Manhattan.

Many tests are the product of middle - class, middle - brow, middle - aged, middle Americans and may not be appropriate for people from other groups, leading to the charge that personality tests are biased in favour of the white, middle - class males.