Sentences with phrase «middle class child benefit»

«I read (Nick Clegg's interview) in the Guardian that we were going to look at middle class child benefit.

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Look a the progressive things we've coming forward with — the Canada Child Benefit, the middle - class tax cut, the investments in affordable housing, the investments in early learning.»

We made it clear we need to make significant investments in infrastructure and middle - class families, so we talked about reducing the tax rate for middle - class families and increasing the child tax benefit to deal with the rising costs and anxieties.

The Liberal's recently announced «Canada Child Benefit» and «Middle Class Tax Cut» are largely funded by eliminating Conservative tax cuts and by the by the introduction of a new high - income tax rate of 33 percent.

«At the time, people looked at our plan for more generous and means - tested child benefits, tax increases for the rich and tax cuts for the middle class as a bit of a curiosity,» he said, according to a copy of his remarks.

There are good political and social reasons behind making pre-K available to everyone, including the benefits to all children of socioeconomic integration and the fact that middle - class voters are more likely to be invested in programs that aren't narrowly targeted at the poor.

«Working collaboratively with the Broome County Promise Zone, those interested in serving as mentors will be matched with children in schools that are part of CCPA's University - assisted community school effort, which aims to level the playing field for students from low - income families who lack some of the supports for academic success from which children from middle - class families benefit,» Bronstein said.

On 25 November 2010, a week after the announcement of his intended peerage, Flight provoked controversy by suggesting that the government's cuts to child benefits would «discourage the middle classes from breeding» - a politically charged term in discussions on class - «but for those on benefits there is every incentive».

Child benefit should be scrapped to cut the amount of the welfare budget going to middle classes, a think tank has recommended.

The article «quoted» a «senior source» in government as saying: ««We looked into who would be adversely affected by scrapping the # 87 a month child benefit for middle class families and realised pretty quickly that it was Oddbins and Majestic».

The major policy announcement on free school meals was the obvious move in this direction — as well as being a sop to middle class voters who lost out after cuts to child benefit — but Nick Clegg's speech is full of references to policies which help in day - to - day life: the pupil premium, flexible parental leave, free childcare, a cap on social care costs.

After a day of partisan bickering over whether the Republicans» sweeping tax plan would truly help the middle class, a key House panel approved late changes, restoring the tax exemption for employees receiving child care benefits from their companies, but also putting new requirements on a tax credit used by working people of modest means.

• Short - term savings from cutting the middle class out of state benefits as Nick Clegg suggests on child benefit (Britain needs «savage» cuts, says Clegg, 19 September) would weaken public support for the social safety net on which the poorest depend and ultimately endanger the future of the welfare state itself.

• What I've picked up from the Liberal Democrat conference so far is that Nick Clegg wants to cut the pay of classroom assistants, home helps, lollipop men and women and other low - paid public sector workers, to means test middle - class mums to decide whether they deserve child benefit, and to keep tuition fees.

Iain Duncan Smith has, for some time, wanted to base the extra # 10billion cuts needed from his budget on changing universal benefits so that the middle classes and higher earners do not receive unjustified handouts (child benefit for higher earners, for example), rather than balance his budget on the backs of the poor and vulnerable.

The Sunday Times warns Cameron not to neglect the middle classes: «Instead of wooing the middle classes, [Conservatives] now talk of removing benefits such as child trust funds, child tax credits and Sure Start children's centres.

The evidence is clear that middle - class children can benefit substantially and that benefits outweigh the costs for children from middle - income as well as those from low - income families.

In other words, any new funding for preschool education must benefit middle - class children if it is to gain their parents» political backing.

But vouchers would not, in Illich's view, offer poor children those benefits that truly set middle - class children apart: the conversation of educated people, books in the home, travel.

Upper - middle class and wealthy parents do not need universal preschool options, on average, but low - income children may substantially benefit from these programs.

The stark contrast between those at the very bottom and everybody else is important because decades of academic research have shown that children from low - income families who attend pre-K benefit immensely, but those benefits decrease as you move up the income ladder and may even disappear beyond the middle class.

... Significant benefits [also] accrue to children from middle - class households, but at considerably lower levels of magnitude.

A recent study of Boston's universal pre-K program provides additional evidence that pre-K programs have benefits greater than costs for children from middle - class families.

The parents who mailed in all those applications believe that the new Wayne school will have a more motivated staff than most city schools (300 teachers applied for 14 jobs), that it will benefit from its association with the university, that it will be a magnet for philanthropy (before opening it had attracted $ 575,000 in corporate donations), that it will be smaller (city middle schools have 600 to 1,000 students) and have smaller classes (25 students versus 35 for city middle schools), and that it will demand more from their children.

Middle - class black families benefited most from the Brown ruling because it gave them the opportunity to move to white neighborhoods and put their children in better schools, said Baum, a professor in the urban studies and planning program at the University of Maryland, College Park.

For a bill that the G.O.P. is trying to market as a «boon» to the middle class, the House bill does not just tax graduate student tuition waivers, but also it takes aim at tuition benefits for higher education employees and their children.

Enhancement to the federal child tax benefit — which will cost the government almost $ 3 billion this year — is just one of an array of financial goodies Canada's three major political parties are rolling out to woo coveted middle - class voters.