Sentences with phrase «less affluent households»

While increased buyer demand contributed to the run - up in prices, it also likely squeezed less affluent households looking to purchase vacation properties.

The third, which is by far the most important, is that children from less affluent households suffer a double whammy.

The Census Bureau data also indicate that among less affluent households, fewer directly owned stocks and mutual fund shares in 2011 (13 %) than in 2009 (16 %), meaning a smaller share enjoyed the fruits of the stock market rally.

Not exact matches

For example, less - affluent households own little stock and are less likely to own their own homes.

During the first four years of life, a child from a lower - income household hears roughly 30 million fewer words, less than a third, than her more affluent peers.

Adults with an annual household income of less than $ 30,000 are about twice as likely as the most affluent adults to be non-book readers (33 % vs. 17 %).

Relationships between our consumerism measures and both smoking and drinking were largely similar for males and females and for those from less affluent compared with more affluent households.

The SHeS analysis showed no variation with household income for boys or girls, but boys in areas of high deprivation were less likely to meet physical activity recommendations than those in more affluent areas, with no clear pattern for girls.

Capital and mortgage financing rules being drafted in Washington and elsewhere raise the possibility that the United States will become increasingly split between affluent home owners and less affluent renters, because lenders will be constrained to stay within tight mortgage underwriting rules that many households won't be able to penetrate.