Sentences with phrase «good middle class housing»

Now, her plan for the city creates decent - paying jobs by supporting small business and tech companies in neighborhoods that are often ignored; expands pre-K and child care; and builds 80,000 units of good middle class housing.

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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.

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.

The basic idea is that while most economists believe corporate taxes are primarily paid by owners of capital (that is, people who own stock in corporations) in the form of lower profits, a sizable minority, including White House chief economist Kevin Hassett, think that a lower tax rate would spark so much additional investment in the United States that it would bid up wages and leave the middle class better off through its indirect effects.

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.

«For over 15 years the WFP has been the progressive voice for working class and middle class New Yorkers, it was founded to fight for good jobs, affordable housing and quality schools.

He said the city needs «a new, comprehensive approach that builds needed affordable housing citywide, while also offering construction workers good middle - class wages and benefits.»

The group's mission is to support «city council candidates who are committed to creating good jobs, affordable housing and strengthening the middle class,» according to its website, with the shared bond that they are pro-development.

But he said House leaders promised their revised plan will be a better deal for the middle class and working poor in states like New York, New Jersey, California and Illinois.

«Despite being in the minority, we have consistently outraised House Republicans because our supporters believe we have a path to the majority and that the middle class deserves better than this Republican Congress of chronic chaos,» Israel said in a statement.

Above all, the Conservatives have a progressive trump card in the shape of their education policy, which could smash the middle - class opportunity hoarding made possible by high house prices in the catchment areas of the best schools.

«She has worked tirelessly to create good middle - class jobs through community projects, provide affordable housing so folks have a decent place to lay their head at night and invest in education so that the children in her district receive the quality education they deserve.»

Hawkins said the housing affordability crisis reaches well into the upper - middle - class in New York's cities.

«The combination of a high cost of living, shortage of good jobs, lack of affordable housing and poor performing schools makes it hard for middle class families — and their children — to get ahead, or even hold their own,» she said.

In one of many gleefully nonsensical plot twists, Beanie decides that the best way to prevent Mitch from having to move is to establish a fraternity based out of the house, and he promptly courts a pledge class comprised of a motley crew of anonymous students and out - of - place adults that include a middle - aged Asian businessman and an eager geezer named Blue (Patrick Cranshaw).

Claustrophobically sexual, the tale involves a young, upper - middle - class woman named Helen (Virginia Madsen, in a career - best turn) who, in the course of studying the customs of the tenement - dwellers of Chicago's Cabrini - Green housing development, finds herself the inamorata of the Candyman (Tony Todd): the manifestation of an Urban urban legend, a black man lynched in another time for having the temerity to fall in love with a white woman.

In urban areas especially, the supply of good schools hasn't nearly kept pace with the demand, and the old standbys for middle - class parents (moving or paying private school tuition) have become less viable options in a «down» economy going through a housing crisis.

The groups pointed to gains at Webb Middle School and Reagan High School, where the school district doesn't just provide an education, but also access to a web of social services for families with health, employment and housing needs, and even education and language classes for parents who need better skills to support their children.

Housing prices, thanks to the bubble and inflation, have risen well past the point where the median (or typical middle - class) family can afford them.

Recognizing the «anxiety that middle class families feel about the rising cost of college,» Tim Walz (D) supports the Bipartisan Student Loan Certainty Act as «the best deal for families that could pass both the House and Senate and become law.»

«You'd have to live closer together, maybe have similar incomes so you can offer the child similar housing... It's a situation really that would work better for middle to upper middle class families,» she says.

The Best Cities for Middle - Class Families Index by the Chapman Center for Demographics and Policy looked at housing affordability, employment trends, migration patterns, income growth, and how long it takes to commute in U.S. metropolitan areas with a population more than 500,000 and determined that many of the top areas for middle - class families are miMiddle - Class Families Index by the Chapman Center for Demographics and Policy looked at housing affordability, employment trends, migration patterns, income growth, and how long it takes to commute in U.S. metropolitan areas with a population more than 500,000 and determined that many of the top areas for middle - class families are midClass Families Index by the Chapman Center for Demographics and Policy looked at housing affordability, employment trends, migration patterns, income growth, and how long it takes to commute in U.S. metropolitan areas with a population more than 500,000 and determined that many of the top areas for middle - class families are mimiddle - class families are midclass families are midsize.

The house is now recognised as the best surviving example of a late Victoria middle - class home in the UK, complete with its original interior decoration and contents.