Sentences with phrase «middle class folk»

Whites and middle class folk have enjoyed choice through private and magnet schools for a long time.

The absurdity of suggesting that Iain Duncan Smith's Christian motivations were any kind of secret and of criticising the use of moral categories to justify his policy approaches - only lefties are allowed to have morals, after all; to be Right Wing is, by definition, to be evil, seeking to impose final solutions on the poor, force them to eat rotting horse - flesh, and cleansing them from beyond the sight of nice middle class folk; any right - winger employing a moral term such as «wrong» or «sin» must have some sinister ulterior motivation - has been covered already by the Editor and by Cranmer.

The Beach Boys were a pretty good model of what thoroughly middle class folk with no blues or country apprenticeship possibilities can aspire to do, working to keep a rhythm n» blues feel while trying to work something fresh out of elements (barbershop, surf instros) that reflected their backgrounds.

If we see rising wages for working and middle class folk, it could push more people up the income distribution which means higher savings rates.

«The candidate, this election more than ever the candidate who focuses best and convinces middle class folks they can get incomes moving again, make it easier to stay in the middle class, make it easier to get to the middle class,» Schumer said.

With Man Down, following the jarring, harshly lit opening sequence, Montiel plays with three time periods, the first being the picaresque, Apple - pie glow afforded white, suburban middle class folks who follow each other through familiar life trajectories.

SVB, I wish the Roth IRA did not have any income limits or at least they considered raisiing it to include more middle class folks.

Too many educated middle class folks know what's going on, they're offended, and they know the law is on their side.

«These credits can be a tool for middle class folks like state government employees and teachers who want to buy or renovate historic homes,» she said.

Not exact matches

One of the biggest miscalculations among Democrats has to do with the level of suffering among disaffected working class and middle white folks.

But, one thing you feel in Reading is that there are these middle class and working class white folks who feel very angry and are pointing to the Latino population for all their woes.

«If folks in Washington want a «grand bargain,» how about a grand bargain for middle - class jobs?»

«If folks» taxes go back up, and the middle - class family is looking at two to three thousand dollars in additional taxes, those are the margins in dollars that really make a huge difference in our industry,» said Rowen.

12k / year could easily be 10 extra years of saving for most middle - class folks.

If you build it, white middle - class folk will come.

It will cut taxes for us rich folks while raising taxes on the middle class by up to $ 2,000 a year... great plan!

It's also a way of educating the middle class about the viewpoints of the poor, since middle - class folks buy these newspapers and like to read reviews.

Consider how Martin Buber's studies of Hasidism evoked rather good feelings from well - educated, middle - class Jews toward the Hasidic tradition (relieving the prejudice that the Haskalah, or Jewish Enlightenment, had raised against the Hasidim) Consider also that very few of these folk seriously contemplated taking up a Hasidic lifestyle.

Poor people on average consume the same level of vitamins, minerals, and protein as do middle - class folk, and poor children actually eat more meat and protein than do their middle - class peers.

White middle - class folk especially value community for the personal nurture it promises us, while we ignore its challenge of political and economic justice.

Thus the Atlanta speaker declared: «You [of the middle class] will extol their folk religion as the authentic experience of an authentic people, but it is not the religion you prefer or know best.»

The problem of growth in black middle - class churches will not be solved by their being emotional like the folk.

The classic situation is for a city to havethree clubs: top - status for the elite, middle - class for the strivers and justplain folks, and the minority club for the Jews.

it's the economy, folks; and as the ragin» cajun James Carville argues in his new book, It's the Middle Class, Stupid, that the m - c's angst may determine the outcome.

Folks on middle incomes, people who self - identify as middle class, do appreciate the benefits they recieve from the welfare state.

Yes, and if the Assembly tax cut bill had been included in the state budget middle class and low income folks would have received more relief.

The quartet - a middle - of - the - road folk band with a big, predominantly middle class following - have attracted attention for their privileged backgrounds.

While some folks work tirelessly to protect tax breaks for billionaires and corporate special interests, Sean has been working to grow small businesses and fight for middle class families.»

(Oh... wait... I forgot... Liberals only believe in abortion for African - Americans and poor people, not upper - middle class married white folks.

«Eliminating state and local deductibility is a dagger aimed at the heart of middle - class folks throughout New York State.»

He is going to drive all hard working middle - class folks right out of NEW York.

In 2010, these folks stayed home or voted for the Republicans / Tea Party types and in the wake of that election, we've seen assaults of middle class workers rights.

«She has worked tirelessly to create good middle - class jobs through community projects, provide affordable housing so folks have a decent place to lay their head at night and invest in education so that the children in her district receive the quality education they deserve.»

Certainly everybody that I saw in my short time was extremely interested in purchasing a car and if they happen to be from the more upwardly mobile kind of middle class, they were very interested in buying not a fuel - efficient car but a hummer even, you know, pretty much following the exact same model as the American aspiration or, you know, the «American dream» model and certainly the suburbs seem to be a growing trend and if you noticed that, Philip, you know, I visited a suburb called Orange County outside of Beijing and it really looked like Orange County and they even had like the palm trees and everything and I saw these in all the cities I visited Chongqing, Chengdu, various other cities that I visited, they were ringed by suburbs and the folks who live there, you know, the privileged few were using cars to commute into the cities for work.

These are not middle - class folks.

Still, 99 Homes stays on track as a sharp and topical critique of everything from the mortgage industry to the court system, and the struggle for middle - class folks to get a fair shake as their American dream turns into a nightmare.

This time Woody Allen has no problem identifying his principal characters as Jewish, including one Member of the Tribe who is an outright gangster (Corey Stoll as Ben Dorfman), and two folks who are lower - middle - class products of 1930's Jews living in a humble Brooklyn residence (Jeannie Berlin as Rose and Ken Stott as Marty).

And if takes him a white middle - class family living in an expensive home attempting to find The One while swearing like common folk to tackle such ambitious topics, then screw it, darling, there's no use crying over spilt champagne on the billiards table.

You could argue that this represents a real cross-section of Southern attitudes and how they evolved through the Civil Rights movement and into the modern day, or you could see it as simpering, middlebrow - pleasing pabulum meant to assure its middle - class elderly white audience that it's not racist and appreciates good, Oscar - feted movies about black folk (written / directed / produced by white folks) based on Pulitzer Prize - winning plays (by white folks).

Unlike Cannes, where participants can be grumpy and venues overcrowded, Telluride is a lovely way to spend Labor Day weekend and is designed more of less for the kinds of people who will eventually be voting on the Oscars — upper - middle - class folks who can shell out thousands for a four - day stay.

Another consideration: choice in education already exists (as any real - estate agent knows well), but is so highly correlated with socioeconomic status as to preclude low - income (and some middle - class) folks from availing themselves of the choice — and the resulting social and political capital — which others enjoy.

Some middle - class folks have opted to educate their kids at home.

When a Black grandparent can point to a school and system that failed them, their children, and, now, their grandkids, yet middle class (mostly White) folks tell them not to opt out of that school / system, something sinister is askew.

The middle class and even most lower class folks don't have this problem because if they're stuck in a failing school, they can always MOVE out of the neighborhood.

Because the hungry pets of the homeless are being joined more and more by the hungry pets of people who simply are having trouble making ends meet... middle - class folks pummeled by the economy, white - collar workers recently laid off; the unemployed, the underemployed, single parents, heroic victims of domestic violence, proud war veterans, the disabled, fixed income seniors and more.

But the narratives that are presented in the media and popular culture normally showcase middle / upper - middle / upper class folks — aka those who could probably travel abroad.

Janet: Whatever smart, practical applications turn out to be most scalable for the middle class and low income folks needing legal services.

They think that if they get rid of fixed fee legal services for AVA Legal Services, they're going to make it better for the folks on the frontline of serving middle class people.

The cons for whole life come from the fact that it isn't for the average folk that are part of the middle to lower middle class.

A third group, the upper middle class / slightly rich folks, would invest it, since they have less shelters than the really rich folks and more of their real income passes through and is taxed as ordinary income.