Sentences with phrase «many upper middle class»

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

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.

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.

«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.

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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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.

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.

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.

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.

Especially among upper middle class and affluent parents, there's a strong belief that going to a top - tier college — especially one in the Ivy League — will provide unimaginable advantages in the professional world.

Middle and upper middle class parents are more likely to adopt what she calls a «Concerted cultivation «style of parenting, while working class parents adopt «natural growth» parenting styles.

There is no future in it if you aren't already in the upper middle class or better.

I personally will never forget Denny Barrett, a middle or upper middle class father who is so food - ignorant that he feels he has no choice but to rely on fast food to feed his kids.

The researchers set out to look at the relationship between homework load and student well - being in the upper middle class advantaged communities (where median household income is more than $ 90,000, and 93 percent of students go to college) because it is there that homework is largely accepted as having value.

Cheating is not, by any measure, the upper middle class problem reflected in these Stuyvesant anecdotes.

I had been raised in an upper middle class family in the Chicago suburbs and, for the most part, had a great childhood.

There are a lot of upper middle class women who will ask indignantly, «Isn't this just for wealthy women?»

It's implicit in the price tag that these dolls are for middle to upper middle class girls only.

People who were shut out of the upper middle class until then and became union leaders instead, were coopted into the establishment based upon their abilities and the content of their character.

2) the movements in Africa were mainly run by upper middle classes, this is also true for india untill they slashed the cost of joining the INC indian congress to become affordable m allowing to poor to have a say in the running of the party.Africa on the other hand had a more tribal approuch in that there were opinions and they were voiced, but the popularity of the «chief» was not often challenged