Sentences with phrase «majority of middle class»

Majority of middle class Americans are very happy about the teachers of their kids.

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.

Pricing would help the vast majority of middle class Long Islanders who travel regularly to NYC.

If the majority of our middle class citizens work for our state government, and the administrtion keeps taking money away from our livelyhood, how can we contribute to the efforts of trying to restore our economy?

by We wholeheartedly endorse peaceful revolution, but unfortunately, history tells us that when tyrannies force the majority of the middle class into poverty in any country, violent revolution will result.

Not exact matches

Obviously this isn't the majority - the median wealth of people in the 55 - 64 cohort is something like $ 200,000 - but a non-trivial percentage of middle class workers ultimately reach this milestone.

A large majority, 82 %, believe themselves to be part of the middle class, suggesting that the problem isn't so much the pay as the perception.

They had been solidly middle class for the majority of their working careers, but now they were feeling angry, disaffected, and in some cases, they actually had tears in their eyes.

«The vast majority of our hosts in Massachusetts, California, Hawaii and across the county are middle class people who depend on home sharing as a way to address economic inequality,» Chris Lehane, head of global policy and communications at Airbnb, said in a statement.

We all still break but not so often because of hunger anymore, at least not in the western world where the middle class is now easily the majority by population and poverty is a small percent.

As members of the predominantly white, middle - class, law - abiding majority, we condone their ritual deaths in order to affirm our own «humanity» and identification with the existing social order.

There was some diversity, though the overwhelming majority of attendees were white and appeared to be upper - middle class.

Wall explores the meaning and application of the religious freedom amendment in the Bill of Rights for our pluralistic society with its many religious minorities, and a majority that is Christian, white and middle class.

They will not be with you in Heaven of course, for Heaven is a Gated Community that is off - limits to middle - class losers, but they are useful in a democracy where the majority rules instead of Your Holy Upper Cclass losers, but they are useful in a democracy where the majority rules instead of Your Holy Upper ClassClass.

By the standards of Jesus» time, the vast majority of Christians in America are very rich, even ones we consider lower middle class.

In not a single denomination, of course, are members of the new middle class a majority.

Indeed, I suspect that the vast majority of those connected with First Things would argue against the Bodies exhibition even if all its specimens came from middle - class Americans who had unquestionably decided to donate their bodies to science for the anatomical education of the masses.

While a majority of AB and C1 (i.e. middle - class) social group voters wish to remain in the EU, a majority of C2 and DE (i.e. working - class) voters want to leave.

This proposal will also completely disenfranchise the majority of working class and middle class voters, and empower those who will be utterly alienated from the consequences of exploiting them.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo said the recently enacted state budget included the majority of the priorities that he named in his January State of the State message, including raising the age for adult criminal responsibility from 16 to 18, providing free public college tuition for some middle - class families and allowing ride - hailing services to operate upstate.

In a statement, Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan said that middle - class taxpayers are «struggling under the crushing weight» of various taxes, as well as the «skyrocketing» costs of higher education.

Since the middle class comprise the majority of eligible voters, the Democratic Party has been targeting them in its message, while continuing to preserve and enhance the programs that target the poor.

«By forming a majority coalition, the bold leadership of the IDC — who throughout their existence have carried most of the legislation important to workers — protects the values and visions of the working - and middle - class and ensures that important policy advances in the Senate.

The hall is offered none of its customary sacrifices, such as crime and Europe, not to mention the fact it must swallow Lib Dem a partnership, an end to the middle class benefits and a leader who couldn't secure a majority.

Although 3 of the 7 Ukip council seats in a havering were took from former Labour councillors, and 5 of those seats would be described as working class areas, the other two were above middle class areas where the average price of a house is 650,000 ′, If anything in havering Ukips vote destroyed he 4,000 majorities of some Tory councillors resulting in them winning with 350 votes

«Despite being in the minority, we have consistently outraised House Republicans because our supporters believe we have a path to the majority and that the middle class deserves better than this Republican Congress of chronic chaos,» Israel said in a statement.

State senators in favor of this bill made a three - pronged argument: property taxes have become too burdensome for middle - class homeowners; the property tax caps for municipalities outside the city have been — according to Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan — «a tremendous success,» as well as a job creator; and that the city had benefitted so much from uncapped property tax collections that the mayor shouldn't be surprised about the governor's proposal to shift Medicaid cost to the city.

«Senator Flanagan and the members of our Republican conference are focused on cutting taxes and making New York more affordable for the middle class,» said Scott Reif, a spokesman for Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan (R - Suffolk County).

Tony Blair has tried to maintain the coalition of the working and middle classes that has delivered him two thumping majorities.

We are going to win the majority because we have the right candidates and the right message, and whether it's providing record support for schools, delivering a 20 percent middle - class income tax cut, or ensuring every region of the state gets its fair share of infrastructure and economic development funding, New Yorkers know that Senate Republicans have their backs.»

In a country where the majority of senior national, and even local, politicians are middle - class, middle - aged men, any attempt to make it easier for women and single - parents to get involved in politics can only be a good thing.

Instead of ensuring cuts to all New York taxpayers, the federal tax plan will create a scenario in which 3.3 million New Yorkers - the vast majority of whom are middle class - will be double taxed.

He said the majority of SALT deductions for middle - class families in New York state are from income taxes.

Instead of ensuring cuts to all New York taxpayers, the federal tax plan will create a scenario in which 3.3 million New Yorkers — the vast majority of whom are middle class — will be double taxed.

«The Democrats abandoned the poor, the majority of whom are women, decades ago, instead focusing their rhetoric on the so - called «middle class».

In a statement, Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan said, that middle - class taxpayers are «struggling under the crushing weight» of various taxes, as well as «skyrocketing» costs of higher education.

Governor Andrew Cuomo says the recently enacted state budget included the majority of the priorities he named in his January State of the State message, including raising the age for adult criminal responsibility from 16 to 18, providing free public college tuition for some middle - class families, and allowing ride hailing services to operate upstate.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R - Ky., asked whether the Senate's proposed repeal of the property tax deduction could bring higher taxes for some middle - class Americans, acknowledged there would be some taxpayers who end up with higher tax bills.

«You itemize your state and local taxes as well as your interest, and even if you do that, it doesn't amount for the vast majority of people in this district, especially the middle class, it doesn't amount to more than $ 24,000 for a family of four,» Katko said Monday.

And even if you are right in your unresearched assumption, and the majority of Corbyn supporters are middle class, isn't that a positive sign for the future?

Rather than safely becoming middle - class melting pots, however, the once majority - white suburbs in Kye's study appeared especially sensitive to the growth and emergence of non-white populations.

The 2017 film updates the plot for a post-Great Recession America, using the unlikely robbery at the heart of the story as a commentary on the outrage felt by the majority of middle - class Americans burned by the 2008 / ’09 economic crisis.

It all takes place within the comfy - cozy environs of an upper - middle - class London that the vast majority of audience members couldn't even begin to afford.

These parents, probably the majority of home schoolers, are mainly middle - class parents who believe in prolonged intimate contact between family and child, but who do not mean to impede their children's access to higher education and jobs or their ability to act as good citizens.

We still are talking about the majority, when the president of Harvard spoke on my campus last week, she was saying, there's still a big gap between kids of color and upper middle class white kids, that the majority of upper middle class kids, the top quarter, the majority get a college degree.

Even if we could double that proportion, there would still be a large majority of poor and working class kids needing another path to the middle class.

«Even if we could double that proportion, there would still be a large majority of poor and working - class kids needing another path to the middle class,» Petrilli points out.

Ninety - eight percent of the people who followed those norms aren't poor; the vast majority are in the middle class.

The growing black middle class soon joined the exodus, leaving urban schools with the difficult task of educating the majority of the nation's poor and minority students.

According to a 2002 study of children in Dane County, Wisconsin, by urban - policy consultant David Rusk, low - income children at schools with a middle - class majority scored 20 - 32 percent higher on standardized tests compared with what their scores would be at schools with a lower percentage of middle - class students.