Sentences with phrase «lower class workers»

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In recent days, Sanders has stumped with striking Verizon workers, railing about large corporations destroying the middle class through cost - cutting and low wages that create economic stagnation and widen the gulf between the 1 percenters and everyone else.

While Bush's business - themed policy proposals will likely offer a mixture of traditionally Republican tax cuts and so - called trickle down economics, he's likely to define his views on how to support the middle class, lift up the lowest wage workers, and close the income gap, which would continue on the themes he started talking about earlier this year.

To drive down labor costs, a company replaces a regulated, protected class of worker (members of a union) with a non-protected worker (by relocating to non-union states or countries with a lower labor cost).

Market volatility is low, U.S. census data shows income gains have reached the middle class, and workers are clawing back a larger share of national income.

But it allowed workers to enroll in any accredited college or university based on what made the most sense for them, including in - person classes that experts say are especially critical for low - income workers to succeed in their education.

The lower wage growth for middle - class workers can be attributed partly to technological changes that have increased the demand for skilled workers, it says.

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.

How could anyone suppose that the lower class — the workers, employees, peasants — will unprotestingly accept the dominance of the upper class — bourgeois, capitalist, bureaucratic, technocratic or whatever?

For the Republican Washington political class, anything seems preferable to paying higher wages to low - skill workers when the economy improves.

All the respectable, well - spoken, well - scrubbed Republicans with high - class business consultant jobs on their resumes say America needs more low - skill workers.

What is clear is that his whole analysis was such as to create sympathy for the «little people» (workers as well as members of the lower - middle class) who were joining the Nazi movement.

In most cases the life of a slave was not much different from the life of any lower - class worker.

Being a low - class worker in antiquity probably wasn't much fun either.

Unforgivably in the eyes of these latter, he was an unapologetic defender of the lower - middle - class moral traditions from which many knowledge workers of his generation had emerged and escaped.

In Japan, a system of lifetime employment in many big businesses, a tradition of employer provided benefits such as housing in many cases, and a wage system in those kinds of businesses where workers receive a substantial share of their annual income in the form of an annual bonus whose size can be used to buffer good and bad years for a company sharing risks and rewards with workers instead of limiting the risks and rewards to an investor class, have contributed to low levels of income inequality in the Japanese economy relative to comparably developed countries with comparable levels of government spending on welfare state type programs in other countries.

Farmers, migrant workers and lower / middle - class urbanities grumble about rising living costs, and a perceived lower quality of life.

Employers (class 1.1), self - employed (4) and lower supervisory (5) and routine manual workers (7) have the highest levels of support to UKIP.

In parts of old industrial Lancashire and Yorkshire, Ukip are beginning to pick the votes of disaffected working class voters, especially the low paid and low skilled workers who feel left behind by Labour.

Miliband argued that immigration should be seen as a class issue, since the evidence shows lower - paid workers and the unskilled suffer disproportionately, especially from the impact of cheap eastern European labour.

Citing the billionaire investor from Nebraska, who has met with Senate Democrats to discuss tax inequality, Obama said millionaires should not pay a lower tax rate than middle - class workers.

«Instead of reaching out to union leaders to gain consensus on an affordable housing program that ensures middle - class wages for workers, (de Blasio) coordinated with a lobbying group — led by billionaire developers — to run an anti-union campaign that would lead to unsafe job sites and a low - wage workforce,» The Greater New York Laborers - Employers Cooperation and Education Trust and the New York City and Vicinity Carpenters Labor Management Corporation said in a joint statement.

«It is unfathomable that the Senate GOP wants to ask middle - class and low - income workers to pay more money for less coverage, all to cut taxes for insurance companies and the wealthiest among us,» the New York Democrat said in a statement.

In my three plus years in the Senate, I've delivered on my promise to ensure our region gets its fair share, which includes record school aid, lowering middle class taxes, enacting equal pay for women, and supporting a better business environment while protecting the rights of workers.

What had been a reasonable state tax rate for working people and the upper class under George Pataki has become oppressive with inflation as even lower - income workers are now pushed into higher brackets.

Green Party candidate Howie Hawkins said the state's economic development strategy benefits the wealthy, instead of middle class and lower income workers who need the help.

A upper middle class higher managerial, administrative or professional B middle class intermediate managerial, administrative or professional C1 lower middle class supervisory or clerical, junior managerial, administrative or professional C2 skilled working class skilled manual workers D working class semi and unskilled manual workers E those at lowest level of subsistence state pensioners or widows (no other earner), casual or lowest grade workers

• 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.

For a start you're not questioning why working class socialist labour voters went Ukip in the first place, it wasn't some guardian reading, snobbery that the working class are think, therefore are bigoted, so they must vote UKIP as they're nasty right wingers who dint like immigration, the decrease in wages among blue collar workers, due to immigration, is by the bosses seeking immigration to pay lower wages to make themselves more profits, Appeasing implies going along with something through fear of something worse, to agree with controlling immigration, because ex labour voters are going UKIP isn't appeasing it, why would us being afraid of losing is our votes to.

This is an excellent drama about freedom of expression and the methods those in power use to trample down the hopes and dreams of lower - class workers.

Links between adult basic education classes and other worker training programs are weak, with workers who enter Department of Labor training programs with low skills typically not allowed into training programs and not referred to the DOE - based Adult Basic Education system, and

She includes inspiring stories from around the world — of resistance workers who organize to overthrow a dictatorship in Serbia; of groups of families who deepen their religious beliefs in affluent suburbia; of a sisterhood of lower - class women who train to become health workers in rural India; of study groups that raise the calculus achievement of black and Hispanic students on college campuses.

And we've found, across the public sector, that outsourcing services often sets off a downward spiral in which lower worker wages and benefits can hurt local economies and destabilize middle and working class communities.

Over the previous decade, the school had shifted from a primarily white middle - class school to one with a substantial population of the children of Spanish - speaking immigrants; many of these parents were low - income workers.

The new study offers up detailed recommendations for how schools could use additional support to lower class sizes, add counselors and social workers, and better support teachers.

We're mostly upper - and lower - middle class, with a sprinkling of workers.

Tens of millions of individuals and families previously classified as «middle class» — including many white - collar workers — are now considered «low income» because they:

Meanwhile, workers across the country will presumably take home less pay under the new regime despite the absence of a single, credible study that suggests a retirement savings challenge even exists among low and lower middle - class Canadians.

The lower - class workers bound and flattened the tops of their babies» heads for the first six months of life, so as adults, they could better carry baskets on their heads.

Missionization By the time European explorers arrived in the Santa Barbara Channel, there were some 21 villages on the three largest islands of San Miguel, Santa Rosa and Santa Cruz, with highly developed social hierarchies that featured an upper class of chiefs, shamans, boat builders, and artisans, a middle class of workers, fisherman, and hunters, and a lower class of the poor and outcast.

While these fuels may have brought into the production process primarily to increase profits for the owners of a business, the mechanical work of machines has had secondary benefits for workers especially with the advent of consumer durables and Fordism, the ability of those in the lower middle and working classes to afford major energy using devices like automobiles.

Why do hedge - fund billionaires pay a far lower tax rate than middle - class workers?

This is a very new thought for the highly - educated, white - collar class to think that they may have to compete with low - wage foreign workers.

However «experience rating» raises or lowers the rate for individual employers within the class according to their workers» injury claims and / or lost time involved.

We use the following dominance order: upper service class (highest), farmers, self - employed, lower service class, skilled manual workers, routine non-manual employees and unskilled manual workers (lowest).

It offers an array of temporary tax breaks for individuals and other types of businesses — including rate cuts that will tend to favor the highest earners and an increased standard deduction that benefits low - and middle - class workers.

I am a low middle class blue collar worker, and i don't my kids to have to do some jobs i have done just to earn a paycheck.