Sentences with phrase «lower than middle class»

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.

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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.

By 1919, the self - taught pioneer with an eighth - grade education was producing more than half the cars in the U.S.. By lowering the cost of the automobile — eventually to $ 350 — he made cars part of the fabric of middle class America.

«We know that our system right now encourages the wealthiest Canadians to set up a private corporation so they can pay a lower tax rate than middle - class Canadians.

Stagnant wage growth isn't just a problem for those at the bottom of the salary scales: middle - class family incomes are slightly lower now than they were in the 1970s.

Still, in an economy where low and middle class consumers are bogged down by weak job growth and stagnating wages, better to have the rich spending than nobody at all.

But it is a different story if we use the low income measure, which looks at the gap between poor children and the middle class, calculating the number of children who live in a family which has less than one half of the income of a comparable middle income family.

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

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.

It is no accident that in Gerbner «s TV - violence profile, lower class and nonwhite characters are especially prone to victimization, are more violent than their middle class counterparts, and pay a high price for engaging in violence (jail, death).12.

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.

Thanks to the Bush Tax cuts, you're in a lower tax bracket than a middle class working American.

It is no accident that in the Gerbner TV - violence profile, lower - class and nonwhite characters are depicted as especially prone to victimization, as more violent than their middle - class counterparts, as paying a high price for engaging in violence (jail, death).

Those who are on the upswing, who have cut their racial moorings and learned to live by mind rather than emotion, can find a resting place neither in lower - class religion, which offers only emotion, nor in middle - class religion, which offers neither mind nor emotion.

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.

Heckman, a Nobel laureate, argues that ability gaps between middle - class and low - income children open up early in life, and that the skills they need to close that gap have more to do with personal traits than with knowledge acquisition.

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.

The currency issue has become more complicated rather than less, and middle class financial insecurity and low oil prices are unlikely to be answered by greater political instability.

To clarify: I would define «largely cut taxes for the rich» as meaning the taxes of the top 1 % were in some way shape or form lowered a lot more than the taxes of the middle class or their wealth was significantly increased via corporate tax code changes

Senators and Assemblymembers were set to vote on bills that would raise rates on New Yorkers earning more than $ 2 million dollars a year for the next three years, but would slightly lower the tax rates for the middle class permanently.

New Yorkers will save nearly $ 6.6 billion in just the first four years, with an annual savings reaching $ 4.2 billion by 2025 with the start of the new middle class tax cuts - the lowest tax rate in more than 70 years.

As the new rates phase in, they will be the state's lowest middle class tax rates in more than 70 years.

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.

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.

What's more, polling found that Corbyn's supporters were far more likely to have an income of below # 40k, and to be in working class and lower middle - class occupations, than those who favoured Burnham, Cooper and, particularly, Kendall.

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.

«This comprehensive plan will reduce the tax rate for middle class families to their lowest levels in more than fifty years, create thousands of new private sector jobs, and begin to turn our economy around.

Beginning in 2018, when existing tax cuts are set to expire, the plan would establish the lowest middle class tax rate in more than 70 years.

Republicans and Democrats celebrated the deal, in part because it kept part of the tax in tact and allowed fiscal conservatives to say they had cut middle - class taxes to their lowest levels in more than a generation.

If New York loses these wealthy citizens to other states, it will have a bigger direct impact on the state revenues than if middle class or low - income citizens left the state.

«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.»

«Lower - income students in China found to have better vision than middle - class peers.»

She is one of the poorest kids in a student body drawn mostly from the upper - middle class but finds friendship with an overweight girl even lower than her on the economic ladder.

His upper middle class twits have no more depth than his lower middle class twats.

Marion is a double - shift - working psych ward nurse, who lives with her husband Larry (Tracy Letts, acting older than he is), sullen adopted son Miguel (Jordan Rodrigues), and Lady Bird in a lower - middle class neighborhood.

Other research indicates that low - income students in particular benefit from college, becoming nearly three times more likely to make it into the middle class than their peers who earn some (or no) college credits.

Middle - class parents are more adept than low - income families at navigating the social networks that link their children to school opportunities.

In his words, «No matter how competent the teacher, the academic achievement of lower - class children will, on average, almost inevitably be less than that of middle - class children.»

Previous studies have shown that minority and low - income students tend to participate in AP courses and take AP exams at lower rates than middle - class white students at the same high schools.

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

A student from a poor family is much more likely to succeed academically in a school filled mostly with middle - class students than in one filled mostly with lower - income students.

Twenty percent of lower income White students in city schools read proficiently in eighth grade, as do more than half of urban middle class White students.

Students who are Black, Latino, and English language learners are disproportionately suspended, expelled, and placed into substantially separate special education programs and lower academic tracks at significantly higher rates than their white and Asian, middle class peers.

«When low - performing students are concentrated in the same schools, it is more difficult to raise their achievement than when these children are integrated into the middle - class population,» Rothstein writes.

The Obama Administration's decision to allow states to implement supposedly «ambitious» yet «achievable» proficiency targets — usually with lower proficiency rates for poor and minority kids than for middle - class and white counterparts — allow districts and schools to do little to help those kids succeed.

Whatever the focus, however, middle - class students showed larger positive effects than did low - income students (Cooper, Charlton, Valentine, & Muhlenbruck, 2000).

Low - income students also lose more than two months in reading achievement, despite the fact that their middle - class peers make slight gains.»

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.