Sentences with phrase «lower middle class households»

First, substantial direct or indirect wealth transfers from the state sector to Chinese households will unleash a surge in household consumption as household income rises (and because the interest on bank deposits is an important source of income for most middle and lower middle class households, if the authorities reduce interest rates, as struggling borrowers are demanding, China actually moves in the wrong direction).

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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.

Just as importantly, lower growth will not create social disturbance because Chinese households, especially the poor and middle classes, will keep a larger share of that growth.

Hardest - hit are households in the lower middle class, which in 2013 meant incomes from $ 23,300 to $ 40,499.

President Obama has been touting the Buffett Rule, which proposes that millionaires and billionaires like Buffett shouldn't pay a lower percentage of their income in federal taxes than middle - class households.

-- When changes in the composition of families are taken into account — including fewer adults per household as family sizes decrease — the real after - tax income of middle - class families increased 30 per cent from 1976 to 2010 — on par with other income groups, but still lower than the top earners

«The amount gambled is controlled in all households, including the wealthier ones, and this situation especially affects the lower - middle classes and immigrants,» comments one of the authors of the study, José Antonio Gómez Yañez, a professor in UC3M's Political Science and Sociology Department.

Young children are far more likely to experience attention and hyperactivity problems if their mother develops diabetes during pregnancy and they are born into a poor or lower - middle - class household, a new study suggests.

As he explains in his testimony, the mission of Match Beyond «is to help students from low - income households earn quality college degrees at affordable prices and to leverage those degrees into career - track, middle class jobs.»

Those in opposition to free community college argue that beneficiaries end up coming from upper - middle class backgrounds rather than low - income households.

... Significant benefits [also] accrue to children from middle - class households, but at considerably lower levels of magnitude.

Research has shown by the time a child from a low - income household enters first grade, that child has gained only a 5,000 word vocabulary, compared with 20,000 words learned by a middle - class child.

The low - quality curricula that has long been a problem for poor families is also proving to be difficult for middle class households as well.

I grew up in a low - to middle - class household, my mother working two jobs to make ends meet.

A carbon tax will therefore hurt low - income families and seniors more than it will hurt middle - and upper - class households.

Payday loans are short - term loans geared toward working - class and lower middle - class households that possess access to bank accounts and can prove sustained employment.

«We're finally seeing the record growth in renters slow down, but while the market has responded to rental housing needs for higher - income households, there are alarming trends that suggest a growing inability to supply housing that is affordable for middle - and working - class renters, let alone those with very low incomes.

NAR has let HUD know - the reduction should be put back on the books and the association will be moving aggressively make sure the Administration understands how the lower premiums will benefit middle - class households.

New analysis of government data by the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) reveals a connection between rising student loan debt and the onset of the housing slump, and offers yet another example of how lower home values have hurt millions of middle class households and threatens the fragile economic recovery.

What's more, most of the poor now possess items that you would find in most middle - class households; according to a 2011 Census report, 53 percent of households in the lowest income quintile have a computer, 65 percent have a clothes dryer, and 38 percent have a washer, dryer, refrigerator, stove, dishwasher and a telephone.

By threatening the value of the largest asset held by most Americans, these changes will hurt the middle class by lowering household wealth.