Sentences with phrase «level of affluence»

Older Americans have made dramatic gains in their level of affluence relative to younger generations, says a new study by the Pew Research Center.

It was a model Chevy Biscayne and BelAir owners could aspire to as their level of affluence increased.

We seek to put greater ownership in the hands of parents and families, professional educators and local community leaders — who are passionate and motivated to serve every child no matter what their socioeconomic background, level of affluence, upbringing, native language or country of origin.

Beyond a certain level of affluence, he says, we spend proportionally less on resource - intensive staples such as food, housing and clothing, and more on services.

As Jose Lutzenberger when Minister of Environment in Brazil, said: «If development is to be the continuation of the present mode and we must help the developing countries to reach our level of affluence, while the developed countries must still continue developing to even higher levels of consumption, then what we are doing is suicidal» (1991, p. 11).

Familiar examples of such action would include the advocacy of social services aimed at the redistribution of material well - being so that there would be some agreed - upon level of affluence for all, including refusal to live above this parity level, unilateral disarmament, pacifism, nonviolent refusal to abide by existing laws that perpetuate injustice with the willingness to suffer the penalties that existing laws demand.

What little information has emerged in the public record suggests that the Cruz family, at least at first, enjoyed a certain level of affluence.

The current debate will soon be rendered moot as global energy supplies enter a new phase of terminal decline and take the industrialized worlds grossly disproportionate levels of affluence down with them.

Not exact matches

It takes for granted the culture of celebrity and affluence and overlooks the question of whether it is morally possible to live with integrity at any level of material comfort in our industrialized society.

If by some way humanity were able to reduce the environmental impact of all its technologies by 10 per cent and there were no increase in per - person affluence, world population growth would return the collective impact of humans to the previous level in about five years.

According to Peter Drucker: «On Taylor's «scientific management» rests, above all, the tremendous surge of affluence which has lifted the working masses in the developed countries well above any level recorded before, even for the well - to - do.

Dr Philip Withington at the University of Cambridge has found that affluence rather than poverty has tended to drive consumption levels, especially among the middle classes and higher, even though legislation and enforcement is often focused on the poorer parts of the population.

It is widely believed that a nation's metal use plateaus when that country's gross domestic product (GDP) reaches a threshold of $ 15,000 per person; with rising affluence, the theory goes, nations achieve a new level of resource efficiency.

«Rather than static groups that experience continual high levels of economic attainment, there would appear to be more movement into and out of these income levels,» the authors write in «The Life Course Dynamics of Affluence,» published Jan. 28 in the journal PLOS One.

After comparing historical data on regional air pollution and the affluence level of communities, scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and the University of North Carolina have projected air pollution scenarios into the end of the 21st century.

Larry has a suburban home (bland) and family (unappreciative) and a level of middle class affluence that give him a comfortable living.

The mobility report goes on to suggest that there is also no direct correlation between the affluence of an area and its ability to sustain high levels of social mobility.

With both methods, researchers were able to rule out any potentially skewed factors, such as parents» affluence or level of involvement, more effectively.

Rising affluence and rising debt have become almost indistinguishable, as year - over-year consumers embrace higher levels of debt together with lower levels of savings.

At any given level of technology, there is a trade - off between how many people can be born into a society and the level of per capita physical affluence that can be sustainably supported.

Even though she grew up in the affluence and excess of the Westside of LA (think of all the negative stereotypes of Beverly Hills, Hollywood, Bel Air, Malibu), she's a strong, compassionate woman with a level head and wonderful values.

This seems unfathomable given the high levels of education, affluence, and respect lawyers enjoy (or will enjoy), factors which predict happiness and job satisfaction in other areas of life.This class will present the research to date on lawyers and happiness.

It's primarily about economic well - being, but: «Children living with both biological parents reported higher levels of life satisfaction than children living with a single parent or parent / step - parent... Controlling perceived family affluence, the difference between joint physical custody families and single mother or mother / stepfather families became non-significant... [and] children in the Nordic countries characterised by strong welfare systems reported significantly higher levels of life satisfaction in all living arrangements except in single father households.

At the urban neighbourhood level, liveability can be seen in the demeanour of people, the affluence expressed through cars and clothes, and through the quality of neighbourhood retail and restaurants.