Sentences with phrase «lower middle class people»

The ability of lower middle class people to afford homes has been reduced, particularly in high cost of living areas.

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It's a lot of hardworking, blue - collar - type people and they were just sick, it seems like, anything that was done to help was never to the middle class or the slightly lower than middle class.

He addressed this problem a bit by lowering the bottom rate to 10 percent from 12 percent in the campaign plan, but it's still likely that a Trump proposal that includes these elements will result in a tax increase for millions of middle - class people, and the lower standard deduction doesn't help:

The basic idea is that while most economists believe corporate taxes are primarily paid by owners of capital (that is, people who own stock in corporations) in the form of lower profits, a sizable minority, including White House chief economist Kevin Hassett, think that a lower tax rate would spark so much additional investment in the United States that it would bid up wages and leave the middle class better off through its indirect effects.

Poorer people typically earn less than $ 30,000 per year while lower middle class individuals have incomes estimated at ranging from $ 30,000 - 60,000.

According to research by economist David Macdonald of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, they also benefit well - off people far more than the middle class or low - income people.

And people wonder why those with greater means are indifferent to the financial burdens of the lower and middle classes.

Meta - analyses also indicate that young people of low socioeconomic status benefit more from attending these schools than do students from the middle and upper classes.

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.

Lower class persons with the same number of stress factors as middle class counterparts develop more personality illness.

In the light of this analysis, then, my own scenario is cautiously hopeful, depending on (1) whether a creative minority of dreamers and doers with visions of a new life - fulfilling social order really emerges in strength, (2) the alliances that can be worked out with blacks, the poor, and other minorities now excluded from major social benefits, (3) the extent to which the populist idealism of the lower middle classes and working people generally favoring the extension of rights and equality to the «little man» everywhere wins out over the reactionary fears and prejudices which establishment elites and opportunist politicians are all too willing to exploit, and (4) what takes place at the center of the political spectrum itself under the pressure of events and in response to challenges to the established system from militant seekers of change.

Yeah, fasting and praying so that health care can be denied sick children, so that taxes can be lowered on the rich and raised on struggling middle - class families... praying that education loan programs be gutted and that social services for people in need get eliminated.

The economic argument is debatable and opinions differ, but do you think the large numbers of struggling upstaters enjoy the high taxes, ever increasing fees (example: the cost to have your vehicle inspected DOUBLED from 2010 to 2011 and is now one of the highest in the nation) and endless financial burdens they as lower and middle class people endure while the rich bankers and CEOs downstate laugh at them?

In my experience in focus groups with lower middle class and affluent working class swing voters, people are obsessed about two things: the NHS; and welfare.

People who belong to the enlightened, cosmopolitan, middle and upper classes often argue that right - wing populism is the result of a demagoguery that is especially attractive to uneducated people from the lower clPeople who belong to the enlightened, cosmopolitan, middle and upper classes often argue that right - wing populism is the result of a demagoguery that is especially attractive to uneducated people from the lower clpeople from the lower classes.

Interesting question, but I think that if you're not satisfied by the answers given, it is because you already know the right answer: indeed in the US, «middle class» means «hard working» while «lower class» has a clear pejorative connotation of «people who don't want to work, who live off state's aid, food stamps, or petty criminality».

Under the governor's budget proposal, two of the top items on his wish list — covering state college tuition for hundreds of thousands of low - and middle - income New Yorkers, and a package of tax cuts aimed at the middle class — would be made possible in part by a three - year extension of a higher tax on people who make more than $ 1 million a year, another policy favored by liberals.

The program would be offered to lower income people, as well as the majority of the middle class, with the income limit set at $ 250,000 a year.

I was there on the ground and was amazed at how much of their vote seemed to be coming from working and lower middle class voters, eurosceptic and socially conservative people, many of whom will have voted Labour at some point in the near past.

Rather than looking at self - reported levels of turnout in post-election surveys ComRes did regressions on actual levels of turnouts in constituencies by their demographic profiles, finding the usual patterns of higher turnout in seats with more middle class people and older people, lower turnout in seats with more C2DE voters and younger voters.

«In the period that the NDC has been in office, we have seen the greatest upward movement of people from lower classes into the middle class, and yet when people get into the middle class because of the perception that our party is social democratic and it's against property owning and seeks to equalize poverty, then those same people that we have created the conditions to be upwardly mobile drift into the property owning classes and therefore identify themselves with a different ideology.

«When you bring these jobs into the city at least give some of the lower - income people or the lower - middle class, an opportunity to be able to work at these jobs,» Hudson said.

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.

«This job - creating economic plan defies the political gridlock that has paralyzed Washington and shows that we can make government work for the people of this State once again,» Cuomo said in a statement, noting that the change would create the state's lowest tax rate in 58 years for middle class families.

«Elise Stefanik refuses to support a common sense measure that would ensure millionaires and billionaires don't play a lower effective tax rate than the people that work for them, than their middle class employees.»

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.

In the specific context of hiring decisions, it is common for people who are middle class, White, and formally educated to make decisions about who will teacher lower - income Brown and Black children without the feedback, solicited or otherwise, of parents and children in that same community.

«In our nation's public schools today, most teachers are white, middle class, and female, while most of their students» families are people of color living in low - income neighborhoods.

In fact, gifted children, gifted people, occur in all sectors of the population, and occur more often in the larger middle and lower class sectors, than the supposedly privileged upper class described in The Bell Curve.

Attitudes belong to all layers of a person's identity, whether it is their role in schools as a student, teacher, paraprofessional, janitor, school board member, or bus driver; as a member of a racial or ethnic group; whether a person is an English Language Learner, is fluent in multiple languages, or is a non-English speaker; and whether a person identifies as poor, working class, low - income, middle income or high income.

Madeline Pérez echoes this comment in her dissertation proclaiming a school will only «fulfill its espoused theory of ensuring choice and equity when educational administrators cease to operate a process that serves a majority of low - income people of color based solely on white middle - class assumptions and redesign appropriately.»

He says the changes are needed because, in the past, the tax system had encouraged wealthy people to use small - business mechanisms to pay lower taxes than those in the middle class.

I started my business for a small amount of money, and offer asset management services at low cost to upper middle class people.

Encourage home ownership by making home ownership more affordable for lower and middle - class people.

The largest groups of people who apply for and receive cash advance loans are single moms, low - to - middle class families, racial minorities, and 20 - 30 year - olds that never went to college.

Mostly this amounts to lowering the taxes on the rich today — along with some lowering of many people's taxes that are in the middle class.

is a first person shooter about an average Tuesday night for the lower middle class life of a soul collector.

Its abundance and low - cost profile make coal essential for powering the world's best economies and helping to move hundreds of millions of people to cities... and to the middle class.

Residential solar energy, although growing by leaps and bounds, tends to only be within reach of people with a middle class or higher income, but a new initiative in California aims to try to change that, by offering home solar arrays with no up - front costs to lower income homeowners.

Whether they live in the industrialized or the developing world, they're the ones who must bear the costs of the transition, not only by curbing the emissions associated with their own consumption, but also by ensuring that, as people in the «underdeveloped world» rise into the global middle class, they are able to do so along sustainable, low - emission paths.

firstly; there are too many people in this country who are still uneducated and have NO chance of moving up and sustaining «even lower middle class living».

But what does scare people is the Al «Noah» Gore flood scenario — where lower and middle class carbon sins cause a sudden flood that wipes out coastal cities.

We would use the money raised by selling them to set up local services, housign and transport to which we would give people means - tested access — so as to ensure that the poor and lower middle class were looked after.

In my view, that duty ought to be understood to at least require that the debate on ABSs and access to justice include consideration of possible means for ensuring that the new and improved services ABSs are expected to develop will benefit not just the middle class, but people living on low income as well.

People generally assume that attorneys are expensive and unaffordable, especially for those who are middle to lower class.

The people I want to help are the potential clients (most of them with middle class incomes and lower) who, despite their incomes, can not currently afford a barrister, for those potential clients are the ones who face, by far by a factor of 200 to 1, the highest barrier.

The cost of any protracted trial can thus quickly become prohibitive, not only for lower - income litigants, but even for middle - class people.

The Delhi silver rate is influenced by every class of people in the society, right from the middle class to that of the lower income groups.

Typically, people falling under the lower income bracket are more vulnerable to serious health problems at an early age and hence, their life expectancy would be comparatively lower vis - à - vis people falling in the middle - class bracket.

Here is the real competition and future growth as most of the people in India are lower or lower middle class.