Sentences with phrase «lowest economic classes»

Worldwide, the four billion people in the lowest economic classes represent a $ 5 trillion consumer market.
This isn't a political film, except in those broad strokes of the difference between Sacha's (voice of Chloé Dunn) life before setting out on her journey and how she lives by adapting to the ways of a lower economic class.

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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.
During a time of rising income inequality, the American left is increasingly invoking Scandinavian countries as models for how to maintain the economic growth that capitalist competition allows, while achieving more security and stability for the middle and lower classes.
Obama cited statistics released the same day in the White House's new report from his Council of Economic Advisers which show that conflicts likely lead, on average, to 1 percentage point lower annual returns on retirement savings as well as $ 17 billion of losses every year for working and middle - class families.
Conflicts of interest likely lead, on average, to 1 percentage point lower annual returns on the retirement savings of middle - class families, according to a recent report by the White House Council of Economic Advisers (CEA).
They failed to take credit or make the case for the economic upturn, and how their policies have much to do with lower unemployment (5.8 %), significant debt reduction, healthy corporate balance sheets, greater financial stability (Dodds - Frank), record stock market numbers, as well as reducing the gap between high earners and the middle class through Obamacare and reducing the Bush tax cuts.
Id say the justice system is harder on poor or lower socio - economic classes which happen to be more non caucasion.
Meanwhile, the APP report suggests that conservatives need to do more to explain how our economic policies will help all Americans, but particularly middle - class and low - income Americans.
Now the Republicans what to put the lower and middle classes EVEN FURTHER down the economic ladder be driving Social Security and Medicare «off the road».
The undemocratic class bias in education extends even farther than the tests that automatically discriminate against students from the lower social and economic strata of society.
They all saw abuses in the modern economic society often exploiting the poor and lower class.
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.
It was a working - class enclave at the time, distinctly lower on the social and economic scale than Great Neck.
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?
The claim to «support» the middle class is to say they will have economic / social policies that keep those in the middle class from falling lower and to help lower class move up.
«New York City's future will depend on leaders who understand how to keep New York City's middle class population growing while developing the economic and social policies that move our low income population into the middle class,» she said.
The $ 41 billion Housing New York: A Five - Borough, Ten - Year Plan is the most expansive and ambitious affordable housing agenda of its kind in the nation's history, and Mayor de Blasio pledged it would reach New Yorkers ranging from those with very low incomes at the bottom of the economic ladder, all the way to those in the middle class facing ever - rising rents in their neighborhoods.
While middle and working class Americans have been devastated by Great Recession, the wealthiest have done just fine, while their tax burden remains the lowest it's been in over 40 years.The last few months have seen the emergence of a counter-narrative which focuses attention on economic inequality and a tax system in New York State out of kilter with notions of fairness and equality.
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.
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.
In that vein, Cuomo announced the Middle Class Economic Recovery Act — a set of proposals aimed at creating jobs and infrastructure, improving access to education, and lowering the tax burden for the middle cClass Economic Recovery Act — a set of proposals aimed at creating jobs and infrastructure, improving access to education, and lowering the tax burden for the middle classclass.
«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.
The county democratic party hardly focuses on judicial races and judicial candidates seldom reach out to local clubs for endorsements; however, I have elected to include their ratio in this piece because courts have the ability to deeply impact anyone who is involved in the justice system, and people in a lower socio - economic class are likely to have less control over and support with their legal matters.
These differences are often connected to location and economic status While the media covers such high - profile current issues as discrimination, low - income jobs, and a dwindling middle class, there's little discussion regarding the limited access to healthy food that many in the United States experience every day.
Lady Bird is acutely aware of economic distinctions and the prickly vulnerability of a lower - middle class increasingly fearful of slipping downhill.
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.
It could be considered a thankless role under some circumstances (she doesn't get a lot of the script's comedy), but it allows her to unlock the uneasy balance between motherly love and disappointment and economic anxiety and social status and all of the things that a lower class family has to contend with.
With the first shots fired in an impending class war, Corvo is liberated from his cell by loyalists and sets about discovering just who is behind the assassination and what they hope to achieve by committing genocide on those from the lower socio - economic echelons.
The austerity measures seriously affected the economic situation for the mid and lower - income classes, measures that the Greek public did not welcome (Matsaganis et al, 2011, pp.8 - 11).
How Understanding Poverty Can Help Low - Income Children Learn Teachers often come from vastly different social and economic classes than their students, which can lead to culture clashes in the classroom.
Chile's voucher program has led to widespread socio - economic stratification and a decline in public school enrollment, all while making little to no impact on student achievement.63 The program's design essentially creates three school systems: public schools attended mostly by the lowest - income students; voucher - subsidized private schools attended by more middle - class students, as they can charge additional fees or tuition; and nonsubsidized private schools attended by the wealthiest students.
But when she compared the end - of - year test scores of low - income children who had attended preschool to those who hadn't, she found that low - income preschoolers who had attended preschool classes with peers from other economic strata performed the best.
«So, everything in terms of the environment and safety and crime and things that are happening in the neighborhoods... thinking about economic development, the fact that we have very high poverty rates, very high segregation rates around race and class and so all of those things play a factor when you're talking about our lowest performing schools,» Driver says.
The other way schools are creating economic diversity is to redraw district boundaries so that more middle class students attend low - income schools.
For parents — especially black, Latino, and Asian families who are joining the middle class for the first time and moving into suburbia — the importance of knowing how schools actually handle students worst - served by American public education (including low expectations) is critical to doing all they can to keep their youngsters out of the economic and social abyss.
Not being able to navigate more intricate relationships with superiors returns to the difficulty of students that have undergone education designed to keep them in the lower class and it hinders a student's ability to develop the skills necessary for economic advancement.
Research finds that sorting, this 21st century version of school segregation, correlates strongly with student race and economic status and predicts and contributes to student outcomes, with students in higher - level classes typically experiencing better teachers, curriculum, and achievement levels than peers in lower - level classes (Carbonaro & Gamoran, 2003).
The BEST ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE AWARD distinguishes the vehicle in each class to hold claim to the lowest cost of ownership when considering purchase and operating costs across the first 6.5 years of vehicle ownership (87,594 vehicle miles traveled, the average distance traveled by the vehicle's first buyer).
ASG's 2016 Study also found the Impala to hold the lowest cost of ownership in class, earning ASG's 2016 BEST ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE Award in the Full - size car class.
ASG's 2016 Study also found the Nissan Pathfinder to hold the lowest cost of ownership in class, earning ASG's 2016 BEST ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE Award in the Full - size SUV class.
ASG's 2016 Study also found the HR - V to hold the lowest cost of ownership in class, earning ASG's 2016 BEST ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE Award in the Compact Crossover class.
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We now see lower potential returns ahead for many asset classes over the next five years, given moderate economic growth and stretched valuations.
Due to gold's low - to - negative correlations with traditional asset classes as well as with major economic variables, it is a proven asset diversifier.
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We offer training classes and behavior modification programs, a low cost spay / neuter center, humane education programs, a free behavior help line, a pet food pantry for residents in economic distress, Project Pet Safe for companion pets of victims of domestic abuse, and Animeals, a program to deliver pet food to elderly pet owners who no longer have the freedom or ability to leave their homes.
Overcoming economic and political devastation, Singapore transformed itself within the past 40 years, offering low taxes for investors, creating a first - class infrastructure; all with a focus on stable government and multi-cultural acceptance.
Cristian graduated with a First Class Degree from Low Danube University with a BA in International Economic Relations.
Haacke turns his critical eye on real - estate transactions in lower Manhattan, chronicling exploitation of dire economic conditions by the wealthy to profit from the displacement of working - class New Yorkers.
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