Sentences with phrase «middle class couples»

In fact, the new limit is designed to benefit middle class couples.

An interesting article on the decline of the Labour vote amongst the middle classes coupled with the decline of Labourism (fewer trade unionists and the ABC1s are now more likely to vote Labour than the C2DEs):

Margherita Buy and Antonio Albanese play an affluent middle class couple whose lives are upended by unemployment and uncertainty in Silvio Soldini's drama of middle class confidence short circuited by the wild pitches of life.

In it, a middle class couple with a young son discover he was switched at birth and must decide whether to keep raising him or to swap for their biological child who's been raised by poor parents in a small town.

They're a typical upper middle class couple working in the civil service — and their combined pensions are worth a staggering $ 3 million.

While her fees vary according to client needs, Martin typically charges about $ 3,750 plus HST to prepare a comprehensive financial plan with a few years of follow - up monitoring and check - ins for a middle class couple with kids and reasonably straightforward planning needs.

It's enough to add $ 40K / yr to one's retirement income and sustain a middle class couple.

Not exact matches

A typical middle - class couple with their home paid off needs only about 50 % to 60 % of the income they earned earlier in life to live an equivalent lifestyle.

Assuming you've also paid off your mortgage, that's enough for a middle - class couple to retire on in reasonable comfort even if you have no other savings and no employer pension.

If you're a typical middle - class Canadian couple, a retirement nest egg of between $ 250,000 and $ 750,000 should be enough, at least after you add in the government help you get from the Canada Pension Plan and Old Age Security.

The cost of a middle - class retirement at age 65 can vary from $ 250,000 to $ 750,000 for a couple, and $ 325,000 to $ 675,000 for a single.

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.

Middle - class couples are working harder than ever.

The Singapore Airlines First Suites Class on their A380 aircraft has been impressing fliers since it was introduced in 2007 offering a full double bed to couples flying together in the middle cabin.

People continue to have babies — Chinese couples even more so now that the one - child policy has been lifted — and the global middle class is swelling rapidly.

This near - term drive for growth, coupled with longer - term trends of increasing urbanization and a growing middle class, will require greater and greater quantities of the wood, metals and minerals and other goods and services that Canada has to offer.

Cain kept rising in the polls for a couple of weeks after that, but if other missteps and a sex scandal hadn't destroyed his candidacy first, the growing realization that he had proposed a middle - class tax increase would have finished him.

Middle and upper class couples limit their families, oftentimes because BOTH parents have careers they don't want to be derailed from for too long.

If a middle - class couple is having financial difficulties.

Daniel and Elizabeth's experience (and that of couples like them) makes an important truth very clear: The current practice of middle - class American marriage, with its atomized nuclear families, sparse and carefully spaced offspring, and long empty - nesting period before grandchildren arrive, is a recipe for dissatisfaction.

Second, immigration policy, if it is not coupled with a wider agenda, has a chance to hurt the Republicans among middle and working - class voters if they aren't careful.

One of the older couples stood in the middle and slowly chanted «om nama shivaya,» a Hindu mantra and a white - person yoga - class classic.

Our rundown of the best of the second - tier free agents includes a Super Bowl MVP, a couple of first - round quarterbacks and lots of the kind of steady middle - class talent that makes up the bulk of NFL rosters

The drivers start to arrive in the middle of the afternoon, lining up according to racing class: motorcycles and hot rods towed in on trailers on one side, street - legal sports cars in the middle, and, at the very far end of the pit, a couple lines of high school kids flanked on one side by black and white patrol cars.

Unfortunately (I guess), i am from a upper / middle class, so I did lost couple friends over «home birth» and «churchy» issues.

Amato says the happiest couples are upper - middle - class, two - career couples.

The cap doesn't cap property taxes; the «middle class» income tax cut gave 22,000 to those making over a million and $ 40 to a couple of hundred to the rest of us.

«This election is going to turn on a couple of simple questions: Who's going to be the middle class standard - bearer the Hudson Valley needs?

To win Senate Republican backing, it was coupled with temporary cuts in middle - class tax brackets.

The business community also isn't happy, despite the massive middle class (applying to couples filing jointly, making between $ 40,000 and $ 300,000 a year) tax cut that will reduce state revenue by more than $ 4 billion a year by 2025.

They add: «Increasingly the Labour party was viewed like middle - class Ryanair passengers having to stomach a couple of hours» flight with people they shared little in common with.

I am submitting to my conference a proposal that will provide $ 2 billion in revenue for the people of New York in each of the next three years by creating a more progressive tax structure, coupled with a significant middle class tax cut.

Mr. Cuomo's embrace of the millionaires» tax comes after years of cutting other types of taxes — including those on businesses and in manufacturing — and was coupled with a plan to slice rates on the middle class, part of a recent leftward tilt that has prompted speculation about his future plans.

But the way the deal was done — with a promise - busting tax increase to help pay for an election - year middle - class tax rebate, and a minimum - wage boost coupled with a tax cut for small businesses — was a vivid illustration of the genius and the expediency of the Andrew Cuomo method.

But Cuomo sputtered a bit when he renewed most of an expiring millionaires tax, coupling it with middle - class tax cuts that all but ensured a higher rate for top payers.

Affordable houses OK fine should help the squeezed middle class will do sod all for the young married couple on the min wage or the four or five million people labour let in or the polish people unless they are middle class, so council houses are out in Milibands Newer labour.

«One of the reasons for us even bringing this up is we know this is looming, coming up next year, and we would like to see the tax rates go down for middle - class families, and coupled with asking wealthy New Yorkers who can give a little more to give a little more,» Heastie said.

For Leicht, the author of books such as «Middle Class Meltdown in America,» the study of high - tech development over a couple decades has been part of his broader research focus on economic development and jobs - related issues.

Much of the research used to support programs like these was conducted in middle - class white couples, Lindberg says.

In «DC,» Diane Keaton and Kevin Kline play an upper - middle - class couple going through a sort of empty - next syndrome now that their children are grown up and have moved away.

Game Night seems to be setting up Max and Annie as a high - achieving upper - middle - class power couple, but it turns out that where real life is concerned, they're only in the middle of the pack.

She was on the way from her prospective adopters, a white middle - class couple who already...

They live in a cul - de-sac, where all middle class suburban couples live in glossy comedies, and host a weekly game night with their friends, longtime couple Michelle (Kylie Bunbury) and Kevin (Lamorne Morris) and the happy, handsome idiot Ryan (Billy Magnussen) and whatever Instagram babe he happens to have on his arm that week.

That nuttiness - albeit safely couched in middle - age and upper - middle class comforts - is on display in Lawrence Kasdan's Darling Companion, a shambling and not exactly deep ensemble piece centered on a long - married couple (Diane Keaton, Kevin Kline) and the dog that comes into, and then out of, their lives.

It's about a very bad Thanksgiving break for a couple upper middle class families in the 70s.

Andra has a somewhat macabre arrangement with her neighbours Kate and Alex, a middle - class, middle - aged couple.

The title comes from Shakespeare's The Tempest, which is quoted in a title card early in the film that promises that our middle class married couple will «suffer a sea change / Into something rich and strange.»

The pairing of act and music isn't so much farce as inane fodder for ensuring The House's removal from anything resembling genuine social commentary, but it also indulges the laziest form of cultural fantasy, where the awkward, middle - aged white couple is allowed to engage in cultural appropriation for a spell before returning to their dull middle - class lives, and all without consequence.

Leila Hatami and Peyman Moaadi play Simin and Nader, a middle class Teheran couple whose very different visions of the future threaten to destroy their fragile marriage.

These qualities are to the forefront in his bracing new film, Amour, in which a middle - class French couple in their 80s, Georges and Anne Laurent, both music teachers, live out the final months of a long marriage.