Sentences with phrase «into upper middle class»

Law school was a shelter from the storm, and an arts student's dream — a guaranteed ticket into the upper middle class, through a prestigious, cerebral profession that had gone largely unchanged for the last 500 years.

The automobile had been invented and entered mass production in the early 1900s, but just as the internal combustion engine started to prevail over electric cars at that time and mass production took hold with Ford's Model T bringing some cars and trucks into upper middle class households and into use by businesses and farms, the Great Depression and World War II dramatically reduced private personal consumption, so for the two decades from about 1929 until the several years after World War II that it took to convert factories from war production to civilian peacetime production, the automobile industry's private sector sales were greatly suppressed, domestic civilian road and bridge construction came to a near halt during World War II as government funds were diverted to the war effort, and domestic oil consumption was likewise suppressed.

All of these things will likely have to be taken on step at a time, but they can be very important steps for making it into the upper middle class.

Many of these degrees (e.g., sociology, humanities, gender studies) are effectively worthless without pursuing a P.h.D. Even with a doctorate one would barely make it into upper middle class even as a professor.

Not exact matches

In an analysis of the changing shape of the American middle class, Pew Research Center divided the population into three groups: Lower - income Americans made less than 2/3 of the median household income, middle - income households had incomes between 2/3 and 200 % of the median, and upper - income households had income more than twice the median income.

Take that funding away and the market settles back into something more closely aligned with the underlying reality — the one of high unemployment / underemployment, high oil prices, stagnant middle - and lower - class incomes, unprecedented wealth concentration in the upper class, demolished savers, under - investment in capital, and an ongoing transition to a low - wage service economy hard - pressed to service debt.

They are much more tied into the liberal upper - middle class in academia, entertainment and their friends from college.

I point to the callous way in which upper - middle - class deconstructions of traditional morality have made marriage into a luxury good.

Never once taking into consideration that many of the upper - middle class white collar crowd sitting in your pews are some of the most despicable hypocrites you ever want to meet.

We can choose now to retreat once again into those echo chambers or begin to listen more attentively to one another — to love our neighbors by learning about them and their needs and perspectives whether black, white, Asian, or Latino / a; whether Christian, Muslim, or none; whether upper, middle, or working class; whether voter or one of the nearly half of eligible voters that sat out this election.

People who were shut out of the upper middle class until then and became union leaders instead, were coopted into the establishment based upon their abilities and the content of their character.

Shah's journey into politics is a far cry from the PPE - at - Oxford template of the traditional upper - middle - class career politician.

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

After her father's project reached completion, Nicole and her family returned to Australia.Raised in the upper - middle - class Sydney suburb of Longueville for the remainder of the 1970s and well into the eighties, Kidman grew up infused with a love of the arts, particularly dance and theatre.

The subject — a disastrous honeymoon on the Dorset coast in 1962 — can only be explained by digging into the backgrounds of Florence (Saoirse Ronan), a bright, rebellious violinist from upper - middle - class parents (Samuel West, Emily Watson), and Edward (Billy Howle), an earnest history graduate snootily regarded by his in - laws as a country bumpkin.

You know the kind, where ordinary, upper middle class - ish suburbanites get thrown into some wacky underworld or genre situation.

That nuttiness - albeit safely couched in middle - age and upper - middle class comforts - is on display in Lawrence Kasdan's Darling Companion, a shambling and not exactly deep ensemble piece centered on a long - married couple (Diane Keaton, Kevin Kline) and the dog that comes into, and then out of, their lives.

Thoroughbreds (Mar. 9th) Two alienated girls come into each other's lives at just the right time to tear a bloody swath through upper - middle - class suburbia: Lily (Anya Taylor - Joy) has finally had it with her abusive stepdad; and junior sociopath Amanda (Olivia Cooke) is just merciless enough to float the idea of killing him.

Death Wish This is a credible remake of the famous Charles Bronson thriller, taking into account the differences between today and 1974, and starring Bruce Willis as the mild - mannered, upper - middle - class man who becomes a vigilante when his wife and daughters become victims of violent crime.

Season one saw upper - middle - class parents of two, Frances (Sarah Jessica Parker) and Robert (Thomas Haden Church), descend into an increasingly hostile separation after 10 years of marriage.

It would have been unthinkable 10 years ago: middle - and upper - class New Orleanians clamoring to get their 5 - year - olds into a C - graded public school.

In reality, however, this underrepresentation reflects the education system's own failure to identify such kids and counsel them into a sufficiency of classrooms, schools, and programs — a failure that inevitably advantages upper middle class youngsters with pushy, well - educated, well - connected parents.

It found 6 % admitted attending church services when they did not previously do so, to get their child into a church school - including 10 % of upper - middle - class families surveyed.

Sixth grade students at this school were divided into three classes: the lower, the middle and the upper level.

What would you impart to young teachers from upper / middle class backgrounds who are coming into places like Brownsville, Bed - Stuy, and the South Bronx?

Some New York City neighborhoods are currently undergoing dramatic demographic shifts as white middle and upper - class families move back into the city, essentially a reversal of the white flight that occurred in the early 1950s in an attempt to escape the growing populations of African Americans in the cities (Burns Stillman 2012).

More specifically, Perez finds that elementary schools in middle and upper middle class neighborhoods such as the Upper East Side of Manhattan had more access to the books than areas such as Spanish Harlem where the books were distributed late into the application process and sometimes Spanish - language versions were never distributed (Perez 398).

With its 740 and 760 models, Volvo advanced into the so - called upper middle class of cars.

Want to turn your passion and talent for writing into a legitimate, upper - middle - class livelihood?

This brings into mind perhaps the most important aspect of being in the upper middle class: net worth.

We were both exceptional students but from poor families, and we feel like we basically bought / borrowed our way into upper - middle class, white collar careers we wanted.

Almost the entire fauve movement settled into making middle - brow salon paintings for a middle - brow, upper - middle class audience almost immediately after its shocking debut.

It discovered that no matter how much they paid in tuition, successful applicants came predominantly from middle - class and upper - middle - class neighbourhoods, with only a smattering of household incomes trailing off into the $ 250,000 range.

In 1907 John Bowlby was born into a typical British upper - middle - class family.