Sentences with phrase «members of the middle class»

On the other hand, members of the middle class take jobs they don't enjoy «because they need the money, and they've been trained in school and conditioned by society to live in a linear thinking world that equates earning money with physical or mental effort.»

Moreover, many people are inclined to believe that they are members of the middle class, even when they're not.

For all Dworkin's intellectual elegance and flashes of humanity, he ultimately offers the «autonomous» members of the middle class a comforting rationale for serving our own interests while continuing to feel that we are good people.

Tough shows even the most naïve reader how difficult it is to grapple with the question of how to take an entire community of mostly disadvantaged children and mostly undereducated parents without financial resources and transform them — or at least the children as they grow — into fully functioning members of the middle class.

The final agreement not only burnishes Cuomo's liberal credentials by extending (though not expanding) the millionaire's tax, raising the age of criminal responsibility of New York and addressing the high cost of college tuition for members of the middle class, it also dramatically increases his (already considerable) budget powers, enabling him to single - handedly make spending cuts in the event of widely expected future federal funding reductions.

New York state Gov. Andrew Cuomo's Middle Class Recovery Act increases taxes on millionaires and cuts taxes on members of the middle class in state.

The Democratic priorities in the SOTU include taxing the wealthy and big banks to help pay for education and child care for members of the middle class.

Worse still suicide amongst Nigerian professionals (including bankers, lawyers and doctors) and members of the middle class as a consequence of the harsh and intoleralble economic conditions that they are facing has reached alarming and epidemic proportions.

Margaret, her younger sister Helen (Philippa Coulthard) and their younger brother Tibby (Alex Lawther) are half - German members of the middle class, who pretty much fend for themselves, although they live with their aunt, Juley (Tracey Ullman).

They do this not just by imitating the way members of the middle class dress, but also by adopting the middle class gaze as can be seen in the first quote above, or by going to the bars / clubs middle class youth frequent and having / trying to have fun there.

The effort to look like a member of the middle class even though one is not middle class actually indicates the incredible violence embodied in the ostracizing gaze directed at those bodies that do not belong to the middle class in Turkey.

Thus as being a member of the middle class becomes a position that is desired, aspired to, it also turns into a position stirring emotions of rage / hate as a constant reminder of a shortcoming, a lack.

Members of the middle class may choose annuities as an investment because of the ease of use and guaranteed income that won't end during their lifetime.

Heck, nobody even seemed to notice that Donald Trump's tax plan actually raises the tax rate by 5 % on certain members of the middle class!

«It has given them an opportunity really to become members of the middle class, and we have done a good job of helping.»

When the youth of the Occupy Wall Street movement joined forces with teachers, transit workers, and members of the middle class of every age and stripe, the enthusiasm burgeoned.

That lag is making the process of seeking legal help more expensive, he said, which is causing problems in access to legal services for members of the middle class and large corporations, who are becoming increasingly less inclined to pay hefty legal fees.

Members of the middle class may choose annuities as an investment because of the ease of use and guaranteed income that won't end during their lifetime.

Not exact matches

For instance, there are fewer members of the middle - class that are addicted to cigarettes today than there was in 1976.

The United Nations Population Division and Goldman Sachs recently reported that by 2030 China would have about 1.4 billion members of what the World Bank defines as the middle class, compared to 365 million in the U.S. and 414 million in western Europe.

One out of every 3 soybeans grown in the U.S. is exported to China, largely to feed a rapidly growing hog industry for a booming middle class in China, said Rincker, who's also a board member of the Illinois Soybean Association.

Team members took turns to stop by and support each other — bringing snacks and coming to the middle - of - the - night classes to cheer on the teammates that drew the «short straw.»

Analysts point to the growth of an urban «middle class,» composed of favoured members of the Workers» Party and military, official, entrepreneurial, and technical elites.

In the coming years, Asia's middle class will account for around 90 % of the world's next billion middle class members.

Green also reminded the Congressional members present that the «unregulated OTC derivatives market was at the heart of the 2007 - 2008 financial crisis, which cost 8.7 million Americans their jobs, 10 million families their homes, and eliminated 49 percent of the average middle - class family's wealth compared with 2001 levels.»

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.

As increasingly more members have moved out of the lower - income bracket and have been joined by middle - class charismatic defectors from mainline churches, their worship has become more contained.

To this fact one must add that rather than making an «option for the poor,» many members of the former middle class — the mainstay of many non-Pentecostal Protestant churches in Latin America — have found that impoverishment has made an option for them.

For instance, says Kaus, Loury wants blacks to accept responsibility for their lives as individuals and not as members of a racial tribe, while he at the same time calls on middle - class blacks to act as though they are responsible for the tribe, especially those members of the tribe who are in the urban underclass.

They're a step up from the Waffle Housers but still usually members of our middle - to - lower middle class.

The pastoral psychology movement was developed by sincere and far - sighted churchmen who were, for the most part, members of the mainline, middle - class denominations in the United States.

An Untouchable had no chance of becoming a Brahmin, and a member of the lower feudal orders had few opportunities to make it into the aristocracy, but the poor in a class society have at least a reasonable chance of making it into the middle class and some middle - class individuals do make it into the ranks of the rich.

Until recently, people have assumed that clergy are members of the professional middle class and can accumulate the same assets as other professionals — including some property — and pass them on to children.

What is clear is that his whole analysis was such as to create sympathy for the «little people» (workers as well as members of the lower - middle class) who were joining the Nazi movement.

Despite the equality acquired by women and Afro - Americans during the 1960s, members of middle - class churches are still relatively unaware of the extent to which most congregations are still sexist and racist.

However, the pattern of moving up in America is so strong that this orientation grows weaker as members become more middle - class.

To be sure, the Christian community to whom Paul wrote was not exactly the upper class of this metropolis; in all likelihood, its members were mostly what we would today call lower middle class.

White middle class people often take the attitude that if only criminals, members of racial minorities, welfare recipients, Third World peoples, behaved like us and shared our values, they would not have the problems that they do.

In terms of lived experience, the middle class world and values of the members of the Classification Committee were foreign to the inmate.

Much to the dismay of the middle class members of the committee, she refused!

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

But there is also a new middle class, based on the production and distribution of symbolic knowledge, whose members are the increasingly large number of people occupied with education, the media of mass communication; therapy in all its forms, the advocacy and administration of well - being, social justice and personal lifestyles.

The more intense religiosity of black and lower - class churches remained largely unavailable to the white middle - class members of the counterculture.

Those who dismiss critics of Amoris Laetitia as members of a «middle - class lobby» are missing the point.

The middle class was on the march, drawing into itself members from both above and below, and if that meant everybody gave up some of his or her ethnic, class, and religious particularities, so be it.

If the middle - class churches are to grow, they must recruit new members from among the mass of blacks, who, obviously, are lower - if not under - class.

By 1850 pigeon racing was solidly established in Belgium, and Charles Dickens wrote, «The members of the Antwerp Pigeon Training Society were citizens of the middle class of Society, but in Belgium pigeon - training has its attractions even for persons of rank and wealth, many of whom are enthusiastic pigeon fanciers; indeed, pigeon flying is as fashionable an amusement in Belgium as horse - racing in England.

Prior to coming to Brooklyn in 2016, Steve was a longtime faculty member at Hawthorne Valley Waldorf School; during his 26 years there, he served as a class and high school teacher, middle school math and arts teacher, and Council of Teachers chairperson.

The 99 % slogan drew in not just the newly frustrated white middle - classes of Britain, but the members of «the 99 %» that had been suffering this disenfranchisement much longer.

We need U.S. Senators, members of Congress and state legislators who have the guts to take on the big money interests whose greed is destroying the American middle class.