Sentences with phrase «lower class homes»

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In the past, Brahmins, the so - called upper class, painted their homes in the royal hue of blue to differentiate their properties from those of the lower class.

According to Richard Rothstein, the author of The Color of Law, this was achieved when zoning ordinances began «to reserve middle - class neighborhoods for single - family homes that lower - income families of all races could not afford.»

We believe the Bush administration will be under increasing pressure in 2007 to argue for a guest worker amnesty as the U.S. middle class begins to experience increasing home foreclosures in a market where employment in the lower - skilled job categories are increasingly difficult to find.

Since classes are held at the schools, this is a low - overhead, home - based business.

But, as Vale shows, this success and popularity rested on sustaining the projects as the home to a very narrow spectrum of the Boston poor, those deemed both deserving and respectable: two - parent, mostly white, single - earner, low - income, working - class families of good character in need of a temporary leg up — a stratum «below the bulk of blue - collar employees but above that of the unemployed, the irregularly employed, and the welfare - dependent.»

There is every indication that he was brought up in a pious Jewish home of what we would call the economic and social lower middle class.

In general the Upper - Lowers drink at home and in the taverns, which provide a kind of club for Lower - class people.

Differences in ethnic backgrounds are also conspicuous in the drinking customs of the Upper - Lower class — Irish, Jewish and Italian immigrants, for instance, retain customs that still have a «home color» when they settle in this country..

I am a home economics teacher and I had my Creative Foods class make these as we are learning about recipe substitutions and making things that are considered lower fat / sugar / calories, etc..

We know that RE's classes had a habit of having a few home runs, but with a large quantity of lower rated 3 stars.

People have already pointed out that other countries with midwives working with Obs are strict on who can call themselves a midwife and who can be classed as low risk and deliver at home (I live in one of these countries).

Urban and lower class women were driven to hospitals to give birth because dirty and crowded living conditions made home births more difficult.

Originally it was just the lower class or urban women who gave birth to their babies in hospitals while middle - class and wealthy women still labored and delivered at home.

It is not «biased» to tell women that as a low risk, middle class white woman, if they opt to have their full term, singleton baby at home with a CPM, using MANA's own statistics, their baby is almost 5 times more likely to die than if they give birth in the hospital.

Although the IFPS II over sampled disadvantaged mothers (illiterate, non-English speaking, very low - income, very low education and without a stable home) compared to IFPS I, the results of our study may best describe practices of middle class American mothers rather than of disadvantaged American mothers [28]; thus, results can not be generalized to all women in the United States.

A young woman juggling an entry - level administrative job and classes at a community college; a divorced dad working 40 hours a week as a custodian to help support his two kids; a veteran trying to make a living back home after serving our country overseas: They, and millions of other hard - working Americans, struggle to make ends meet because their jobs pay low wages.

Now, we must fix the economic ladder that has enabled generations of New Yorkers, including the many immigrants who make Lower Manhattan their home, to climb into the middle class.

AM, if you think that new labour caused damage to the working class, I take it you feel people who bought their council homes and consider themselves to be middle class, are actually middle class, fact is, they would still fit the demographics of working class, those are the people that Labour in the 80's list and new labour got back, but yes lebour did lose, the unskilled Borthern working class because labour were more interested in getting the lower middle class, and we'd never had won if we hadn't, so think if that before we criticise new lebour giving up on the lower working class, as we had to do it too win, unless you dint think winning is important.

• What I've picked up from the Liberal Democrat conference so far is that Nick Clegg wants to cut the pay of classroom assistants, home helps, lollipop men and women and other low - paid public sector workers, to means test middle - class mums to decide whether they deserve child benefit, and to keep tuition fees.

Tony, I can take what you're saying and applying it to the idea, that Labour had the working class who'd bought their council Home in the early 80's, by the late 80's were back voting labour as unlike in 1983 we weren't standing on manifesto to buy them back and then the swing voters we needed but couldn't quite get in 1992 were the Aspiring lower middle class, skilled blue collar voters

Rockland County Legislator Nancy Low - Hogan explained the bill's content, which states that when placing a child in a special education class, the school district must take into consideration any differences in educational impact between a school's environment and the child's home environment and family background.

The assumption is that if you are black and come from a socioeconomically middle class home, you no longer suffer the significant disadvantage of race, as race - related disadvantages are overcome when the lower socioeconomic status is overcome.

For example, financial innovations are responsible for home mortgages and auto loans, which empower lower and middle class consumers; credit to entrepreneurs who have built successful enterprises; and credit to emerging markets, which has helped raise millions of people out of dire poverty.

Again, lower - class subjects whose attitudes toward greed had been nudged in this way became just as likely as their wealthier counterparts to sympathize with dishonest behavior (taking home office supplies, laying off employees while increasing their own bonuses, overcharging customers to drive up profits).

Individuals with MDD were randomized to the high dose group, three 90 - minute classes a week along with home practice, or the low dose group, two 90 - minute classes a week, plus home practice.

The article points to skepticism that, although home equity represents a large amount of total wealth among the middle - class, potential benefits to low - and moderate - income homeowners are questionable due to challenging mortgage terms and lower home value and appreciation rate.

Studies at Rice and Columbia Universities reported eye - opening findings about how many more words children who grow up in middle and upper - class homes hear on a daily basis as compared to lower - income children.

Some spinning classes can provide an excellent option for people with lower back pain or you may choose to purchase one for home use or head to the gym.

Don't want to host a class in your own home, or are interested in a lower priced option?

The small unit or apartment in a well - to - do area is superior than the most grand home in a lower class neighborhood, when it comes to rubbing shoulders with a wealthier group of people or rich male singles.

The core plot involves two very different citizens of New York who are both driving on the freeway on the way to a big day in court, one being the hotshot lawyer out to control a dead man's charity and the other a lower - class father trying to get his family back after succeeding in getting a loan for a home.

The pint - sized world, smack dab in the middle of the Arizona desert, presents an opportunity for the lower middle - class couple from Omaha to be millionaires in the miniature world, since you can stretch a dollar farther when your house is the size of Barbie's Malibu dream home.

The film takes place in Pawtucket, Connecticut in 1974, and follows Tim Dunphy (Hatosy, The Faculty), a stoner low - class loser who ends up being sent to a preppie academy after getting into too much trouble at home.

Setting the scene: CLIFFORD WORLEY (Dennis Hopper) returns home from work to his lower - middle - class trailer park.

Each unit pack includes: - 7 engaging lesson plans (one for each 10 - word section, plus a revision / sentence - building lesson for the end of the unit), written by qualified teachers and covering all 4 key skills - Ideas for adapting each lesson to suit your class, including extension activities, suggestions for differentiation, homework activities and substitutions for low - tech classrooms - Full timings and guidance for teachers to help you access all the resources easily - Printable resources to complement the lessons and save you time This unit pack is for Languagenut's Unit 3 - Where I Live 1, covering countries, local area, houses, rooms, furniture and home activities.

Bangladeshi, Indian, black African and Pakistani pupils from poorer homes were also found to perform «well above» the national average, while white working class boys achieve the lowest grades at GCSE of any main ethnic group.

These intangible middle class advantages include such things as a computer with internet access at home, a quiet place to study and complete homework, working parent (s) above the poverty line, no pressure to get a low - level job in high school to help pay the rent or support the family, and no fear of the streets upon which they live.

As a black Harvard College male student, born in New York City and predominately raised in a small town in the South, I grew up in a lower, middle class home.

She suspects it is because those living in poor families today have «poor health, limited access to home environments with rich language and experiences, low birth weight, limited access to high - quality pre-school opportunities, less participation in many activities in the summer and after school that middle class families take for granted, and more movement in and out of schools because of the way that the housing market operates.»

Among these dynamics were the «school is your job, home is my job» attitude common among lower - class parents.

The cultural differences between the newcomers and the old - timers in gentrifying neighborhoods can be easily, though inadequately, summarized: white, upper - middle - class families prefer a progressive and discursive style of interaction with their children, both at home and in school, and lower - income, nonwhite families prefer a traditional or authoritarian style of interaction with their children in these same venues.

At Brighton all students have an Apple MacBook Pro and O'Neill says the students can independently watch their teacher's instruction video at home, and with the pre-learning at the lower level done the teacher can do the higher order thinking work during class time with the students.

The Lower Merion School District near Philadelphia finds itself defending against a potential class action after a student complained last month of being photographed inside his home by a webcam from a school - issued laptop computer and accused of selling drugs.

Education research suggests smaller class sizes, particularly in grades K - 3, can boost student performance and some say it could even assuage longstanding achievement gaps between children from low - income and affluent homes.

Student's in Chuck Sillence's shop class work with construction material to help Habitat for Humanity Tucson build three - bedroom homes for low - income families.

Even «common» knowledge is knowledge that must be taught, and right now — at home and at school — far too many children from low - income homes don't have an opportunity to learn that knowledge (which is common to youth from middle - class and wealthy homes).

On average, by age 4, children from low - income homes are exposed to 13 million fewer words than their working - class peers and 33 million fewer than children of professionals.

While the federal No Child Left Behind law «shined a spotlight» on the needs of the most disadvantaged students, says Petrilli, «let's not overlook their slightly less disadvantaged peers — the boys and girls who come from low - income but perhaps not as dysfunctional homes and who aspire to graduate from college and enter the middle class.»

Because white middle class families who represent a large portion of the housing market are reluctant to pursue homes in black neighborhoods, property values tend to fall if a neighborhood becomes majority black and remain low compared to white neighborhoods (Fletcher, 2015).

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