Sentences with phrase «middle class be taking»

Why would I vote for Romney, a man who is going to torpedo the middle class be taking away our tax exemptions?!

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While former secretary of state Hillary Clinton and U.S. Senator from Vermont Bernie Sanders are expected to duke it out in an intensifying battle for the party nomination, themes of the weak economy and the struggles of the middle class are likely to take center stage.

The North American tradition of presenting diamond engagement rings has now spread to China's massive middle class too, and, after taking a hit during the recession, the American luxury economy is rebounding.

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.»

Amazon Description: «From Woody Allen, «Crisis in Six Scenes» is a is a comedy that takes place in the 1960's during turbulent times in the United States and a middle class suburban family is visited by a guest who turns their household completely upside down.»

The lion's share of this expansion is expected to take place in emerging and developing countries such as India and China, where middle class growth is booming.

In a letter to U.S. Comptroller General Gene Dodaro, Democratic Senator Ron Wyden and Representative Richard Neal said they were concerned that the U.S. Treasury could be pressured to adopt tax withholding tables that take too little federal tax out of employee paychecks to make good on White House predictions of a middle - class windfall.

Treasury could be pressured to adopt tax withholding tables that take too little federal tax out of employee paychecks to make good on White House predictions of a middle - class windfall.

One key strategy for achieving this objective is to ensure that SMEs are able to take advantage of the growing market opportunities in Asia — a region that is projected to generate nearly 45 per cent of the world's GDP and represent 42 per cent of the world's total middle class consumption by 2020.

Richard Florida outlines the steps that must be taken to if Toronto and other superstar cities are to make cities more livable and equitable for the middle and lower classes.

With a new iPhone expected in September 2016, Apple stands to benefit as iPhone continues to take premium market share (switchers from competitors), as the middle class continues to grow in emerging markets, and as the modest level of upgrades (only 20 % to date) indicates pulling demand forward from FY 2016 to FY 2015 may not be as severe as some have highlighted.

-- When changes in the composition of families are taken into account — including fewer adults per household as family sizes decrease — the real after - tax income of middle - class families increased 30 per cent from 1976 to 2010 — on par with other income groups, but still lower than the top earners

They're the middle class that he's talking about and you would hit them pretty hard if you took the dividend tax credit away or you reduced it,» he said.

«This is an issue Canada takes very seriously and is working hard to address in collaboration with the G20 and other countries around the world, so that we can bring tax fairness to our middle class.»

But is you don't have the kind of cash lying around that it takes to bribe high level politicians (i.e millions), you are middle class.

Home equity has long been recognized as an important wealth - building tool for the middle class, though this process usually took place over decades (aside from the pre-2007 housing bubble).

The truth from the ground, based on the extensive footwork due diligence I conduct plus emails from readers around the country reporting similar observations, is that the inventory of home listings of soaring (the published inventory reports by design have 2 - 3 month lag), prices are dropping quickly, the time it takes to sell a home is increasing significantly and, most important, the potential pool of middle class home buyers no longer have an income level that will support the size of mortgage it takes to «buy» a home.

In pressing Obama to take cuts to those programs off the table, one Roman Catholic bishop told the president that «the text that we are obliged to obey does not say «as you have done to the middle class you have done to me.

In Poland, however, to take the largest Jewish population center, although there was a Jewish middle class, the per capita income of Jews in the 1930s was less than $ 100 per year, and a quarter of Poland's Jews were kept from starvation only by charity from America.

Never once taking into consideration that many of the upper - middle class white collar crowd sitting in your pews are some of the most despicable hypocrites you ever want to meet.

How do we live comfortably — by which I mean no more than enjoying a lifestyle typical of the American middle class, which compared to most of the world is very comfortable indeed — and also take seriously the needs of our neighbors?

He establishes this point through ipse dixit («The middle - class nuclear family will not be restored to its former place, nor do most people want it to be»), the persuasive force of clichés about the sexual revolution (Had you heard that the 1960s gave us a pill that allowed women to take control of their bodies?)

Months after he took office the economy was in a recession, and by time he left office taxes on the middle class were WAY UP including mine, and the deficit TRIPLED.

To many, it is basically a middle - class organization catering to those who want to take advantage of its insurance policies or its vacation discounts; they do not know of its legal and lobbying work on behalf of legislation to benefit the elderly of all economic levels.

If you choose to go this way, there are only two possibilities: either you deceive yourself about yourself, forgetting that you are a sinful man, confusing the demands of God with the standards of middle - class integrity and thus satisfying yourself; or you really take God's will seriously and fall into despair when you see that you can never be just before that will.

(*** Disclaimer: I am a white, middle - class, cis - gendered male who enjoys and can take advantage of these privileges I'm about to describe.

All goes to show that if Romney becomes President, we'll be a country lead by the rich, for the rich, with lots of advice from Salt Lake City, with the shrinking middle class taking in the shorts and paying all the bills.

I have been asking CatholicMom and others, why the Christians were not taking a stand on the Republican cuts, that are aimed at the poor and middle class.

I remember taking comparative religion classes in school... albeit I did go to a catholic school and part of it was to show the differences, and I had the first such class whe I was in «middle school» 7th grade.

requires as its first premise great wealth and even greater expectations — conditions that for the American educated middle class came to be ever more taken for granted as the postwar years wore on.

Under these circumstances, as Eric Wolf and others have shown, religious movements were less likely to take the form of sects at all, and when they did, they seldom followed the path of their counterparts in Europe in becoming prosperous middle - class churches.9

Black compliance with «white middle - class values» should no longer be taken for granted; such compliance involved, at best, heroic self - restraint, given the cruelties inflicted on blacks; at worst, it made blacks complicit in sabotaging the redress of their powerful grievances against America.

If anything, social justice requires the middle class to emulate the poor, to be less driven, less eager to take advantage of opportunities that ultimately require taking advantage of others.

In the light of this analysis, then, my own scenario is cautiously hopeful, depending on (1) whether a creative minority of dreamers and doers with visions of a new life - fulfilling social order really emerges in strength, (2) the alliances that can be worked out with blacks, the poor, and other minorities now excluded from major social benefits, (3) the extent to which the populist idealism of the lower middle classes and working people generally favoring the extension of rights and equality to the «little man» everywhere wins out over the reactionary fears and prejudices which establishment elites and opportunist politicians are all too willing to exploit, and (4) what takes place at the center of the political spectrum itself under the pressure of events and in response to challenges to the established system from militant seekers of change.

Niebuhr's «emerging view» of the minister seems to be open to and internally unprotected from the serious threat of being taken captive ideologically as a religious sanction for a certain kind of North American middle - class life and its values.

When I attend weddings, I'm not provided with the opportunity to talk about the really exciting ways that God's moving and using me — through my Master's degree classes, or the research project I'm wading through writing, or the middle school and high school girls Sunday school class I'm privileged to teach, or the fun trips I'm taking and the new people I'm meeting.

Throughout the year, with the support of Sargento, I'm exploring Middle Eastern cuisine — at home, in Brooklyn, at cooking classes, and wherever the flavors may take me.

I'm firmly ensconced in the middle class and will pay less for a good round of golf than I will to take my family to a football game, and about the same as to take them to a movie anymore.

Why continue to be a middling team that misses out on the top player in the class when it only takes a few roster moves to skip ahead to the front of the line?

I thought he would take time to settle in but he is taking it lightly i don't see the passion in him for the club.And i would like to have seen ox played from the beginning rather than 10 effing mins.And theo is in the same class as giroud so i think we should have dropped ozil, played cazorla on one wing and ox on the other with Ramsey and coquelin in the middle and sanchez as false 9.

During Splash's youth, Wauwatosa had been a small bedroom suburb on the western outskirts of Milwaukee, a quiet, tidy enclave whose middle - class affluence was as sturdy as its stone houses, as neatly clipped as its putting - green lawns, a town where men often took the streetcar to work, or else walked whistling under the elms.

It's draining we lost to spurs but more over than anything the way we lost was embarrasseing and shocking we were played off park most game that has concern us as fans spurs bullied us out played us hungry in every department it's has fall with wenger when is time when he just accepts game has passed him matter of fact it has passed us arsenal fans aswell no control in middle very poor from xhaka and elneny and again dembele bought mortgage in midfield he's the owner my god vieria would of knocked he's house down but look we're very poor and away from home sad really how wenger keeps he's job is just pure stupidity but not just with today's results over all away from home we're relegation side go get Enrique before Chelsea get him and let but of class and youth take our great club back before Tottenham spuds leave us so far behind we won't even complete this series lack lustrous club

As the middle classes become more football oriented, the city could take advantage, if it were not for two factors — a serious town v gown split that again sees the chief soccer club again corralled in a distant burb and recent misfortune that has seen the Abbey Stadium outfit drop out of the league.

This year was the first time in decades the historically middle - class district has taken part in the NSLP, spurred by poverty rates that grew from 16 percent in 2007 to 31 percent today.

(or a class of «behavior challenged» Middle Schoolers who could care less about taking a test) Sad that this is what education has come to in an effort to make sure that no child is «left behind»... This is the underlying issue right here ~ too much emphasis on penciling in the correct letter circle and not enough student driven cirriculum.

Growing up in Edison Park as the younger middle child of 4 sisters, she started taking drama classes at the Park District and immediately decided being onstage was the most fun ever.

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.

This is the fourth class of middle schoolers Liz has led at Green Meadow since joining their faculty in 2006, including taking four eighth grade classes; she also serves on the school's Collegium.

The article takes the focus off the prosperous women whose child - care situations raised anxious questions when they were being considered by President Clinton for appointment as U.S. attorney general and instead examines a group it sees as the largest group of mothers frustrated in seeking good day care: middle - class working mothers in urban areas where nearly all the available caregivers are undocmented foreign workers.

It suggests a middle class cabal that only takes action if an issue is dumped loudly and repeatedly on its desk.