Sentences with phrase «many upper middle»

As Aaron Wherry noted over at Maclean's, 64.9 % of Canadians consider themselves either «upper middle class» or «lower middle class.»

That ended up pushing more middle to upper middle incomes into the AMT.

Amazon's moves should help Whole Foods, long derided as «Whole Paycheck» for its high prices, to woo customers beyond its upper middle class clientele, as well as counter the discount chains such as Walmart and even Aldi as they vie for more of the organic and natural foods markets.

Stereotyped for appealing to a niche of upper middle class men, golf is a sport that engages a diversity of backgrounds.

Both Saks and Nordstrom are chasing similar demographics, an upper middle - class shopper who values both style and quality in fashion.

As a former activist, she believes that it's hard to reach lower - income communities if you have a staff that's upper middle class.

This essential resource has consistently hovered near the upper middle of the top 20 and doesn't seem likely to go anywhere soon.

Doing this puts the annual cost of a middle - class single retirement at about $ 28,000 to $ 42,000, and the cost of an upper middle - class single retirement at $ 42,000 to $ 49,000.

From these statistics, and from talking to retirees and their advisers, it's fair to estimate that a typical middle - class retirement costs roughly $ 40,000 to $ 60,000 per couple per year, while an «upper middle - class» retirement costs in the range of $ 60,000 to $ 70,000 per couple per year.

«Under this bill the working class, middle class and upper middle class get skewered while the rich and wealthy corporations make out like bandits.

They became firmly established in the upper middle class, if not wealthy.

I'm 13, live in an upper middle - class family, have good grades in school, and wan't to start planning out my future now.

McKinsey has predicted that more than half of China's urban households will be in the upper middle class by 2020, compared to 14 % in 2012.

In a 2006 survey, 64.9 % of Canadians identified themselves as either «upper middle class» or «lower middle class.»

But 4.8 percent of Americans would see taxes go up, with hikes concentrated in the upper middle class and among the very rich.

So after real estate imploded and bottomed out, I bought a nice house in an upper middle class neighborhood with great schools.

First among these drivers is the growing number of upper middle class and affluent households, or those with more than $ 24,000 and $ 46,000 in annual disposable income, respectively.

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«All families in my upper middle - class neighborhood regularly enjoy a living standard better than that achieved by John D. Rockefeller Sr. at the time of my birth.

If you want much bigger government, you have to pay for it with broadly based taxes, even if the rich and upper middle class bear the biggest burdens.

Likewise, Clinton would limit itemized deductions, raise the estate tax and increase taxes on capital gains (profits from the sale of stocks and other assets held at least a year); these are concentrated among the wealthy and upper middle class.

With the cancellation of the health care levy (which it should be pointed out was graduated and not a flat amount like the old premium), and the NDP tax increases kicking in at 130K and not 100K like the Prentice budget, the NDP has made sure the upper middle class (and some of the upper class) are paying less taxes than under Prentice's budget.

However, I do think your standard, everyday millionaires in the USA do shop regularly at Walmart, such as farmers, small business owners, and upper middle class suburbanites.

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But things are going to get more painful for the upper middle class in 2018 with the proposed elimination of state income taxes, capping mortgage interest deduction, and limiting property tax deduction to $ 10,000.

Any real estate agent who wants to work with upper middle class or high net worth Chinese buyers should study her life story.

We call this the mass affluent class, or upper middle class if you're so inclined.

The woman would enjoy certain luxuries and entitlements simply for being upper middle class.

Now any attempt to abstract a person is going to be of limited utility, but I let's try this point of view: maybe Obama is, on domestic policy, a mostly unreconstructed 1970s upper middle - class left - liberal who.

It would be very simple if the world was one neighbor hood and 75 % were middle class and 15 % were upper middle 5 % rich and 5 % poor.

I was thinking about enclaves of upper middle class & professional blacks established in Atlanta and similar areas in the country.

Auburn Avenue was a famous street in Atlanta where middle and upper middle class Blacks lived.

According to Rah, «fifty years ago, if you were asked to describe a typical Christian in the world, you could confidently assert that person to be an upper middle - class, white male, living in an affluent and comfortable Midwest suburb.

Those who choose this approach must beware lest they end up as self - centered and self - righteous communities of upper middle class people playing at being poor, preoccupied with their own problems and contributing little or nothing to helping others or to resolving the world's problems.

i am christian, but i'm also a college graduate and upper middle class and all the worldly things i have cause me to fail to be the person God wants me to be sometimes.

Here is a story about a young man in my area who came from a upper middle class home, mother and father married, never divorced.

Only gradually was it recognized that the talking therapies were really more consistent with the introspective and verbal styles of the middle - class and upper middle - class people they were originally developed to help.

Father Neuhaus has me as a defender of the spiritual life of today's upper middle class.

One of the things I have respected most in Aida Rosa, principal of the elementary school P.S. 30, and the teachers that I talk with on her staff is that they look at children here as children, not as «distorted children,» not as «morally disabled children,» not as «quasi-children» who require a peculiar arsenal of reconstructive strategies and stick - and - carrot ideologies that wouldn't be accepted for one hour by the parents or the teachers of the upper middle class.

Through movies, magazines and advertising the upper middle class has become «our reference point for what the American good life is supposed to look like and contain.»

Kids well socialized by upper middle class parents are sensitive to these risks, and for the most part they keep their distance.

Liberated from food laws, these probably economically upper middle class Christians had become gluttonous.

But resistance to such a discussion may be considerable in upper middle class congregations.

My gay child has a strong father, a two parent household, a upper middle class income, both college graduates, went to church, had a supportive family life, engaged in sports, school activities and I think someone needs to teach you about what the real Jesus would have done.

The schools are good there, they said, which is true, and also a euphemism for an incalculable range of social and cultural benefits that flow from being raised in the upper middle class.

The successful upper middle class now lives at a distance from everyone else.

The status of status is changing, and the upper middle class is choosing high - rise city living over suburbia.

I know of many groups who are very exclusive, meaning they exclude anyone who does not meet their standards, such as you need to be at least upper middle class, white and live in a good neighborhood to be part of the group.

Almost everybody felt themselves at home in the «middle,» as the euphemism for the well - off, «upper middle class,» indicates.

«We are developing products that cater more to the upper middle class, as opposed to how many of our competitors brand their products as if they are in Italy,» President Mike McFall says.