Sentences with phrase «middle class homes who»

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«We welcome any opportunity to work with lawmakers and regulators who want to learn more about how home sharing helps the middle class address the issue of economic inequality.»

«The vast majority of our hosts in Massachusetts, California, Hawaii and across the county are middle class people who depend on home sharing as a way to address economic inequality,» Chris Lehane, head of global policy and communications at Airbnb, said in a statement.

Those regions are home to a soaring number of middle - class shoppers, who represent much of Unilever's growth potential.

The continent is home to a growing group of mega-rich, and an even bigger middle class, who are hungry for everything luxurious.

Here is a story about a young man in my area who came from a upper middle class home, mother and father married, never divorced.

The «comfortable» include most of our workers, the large middle class — those who have sufficient resources to afford decent housing, a new (or recent vintage) automobile every so often, occasional vacation trips, and numerous little amenities around the home.

When Shane was speaking of Psalm 139 and the «not so nice» part in the middle, I thought of my friend, M, who last week shared that one thing she doesn't like about church is that she has to go home on Sunday and correct the things her children have been mistaught in Sunday School class.

In the case of Moon's Unification Church, hordes of young, well - educated hippies left college and their comfortable middle - class homes to work up to 18 hours a day on the streets, selling flowers or candy and urging others to follow a Korean who declared that he was the messiah.

From 1983 to 1992, I collected data on the pregnancy and childbirth experiences of 100 middle and upper - middle class mainstream pregnant women and mothers, and on the health professionals (physicians, nurses, midwives, childbirth educators) who care for them, through observation and interviews in hospitals, offices, and homes.

Originally it was just the lower class or urban women who gave birth to their babies in hospitals while middle - class and wealthy women still labored and delivered at home.

Bloomberg emphasized the need to «help the city's middle class,» including preventing foreclosures, coming to the aid of those who have already lost their homes and making mass transportation more affordable.

The men who spoke framed the issue in terms of preserving New York as a home for the middle - class.

Bassetlaw MP John Mann argued the levy should fall on «middle class» party members who live in homes worth upwards of # 1m.

Now, we must fix the economic ladder that has enabled generations of New Yorkers, including the many immigrants who make Lower Manhattan their home, to climb into the middle class.

Now most of those struggling middle class owners are going to struggle even more to put food on the table for a hungry family, pay an urgent bill to a utility so that family has electric so teenagers who live at home with mom and dad can get more money to go to the movies or buy weed with.

AM, if you think that new labour caused damage to the working class, I take it you feel people who bought their council homes and consider themselves to be middle class, are actually middle class, fact is, they would still fit the demographics of working class, those are the people that Labour in the 80's list and new labour got back, but yes lebour did lose, the unskilled Borthern working class because labour were more interested in getting the lower middle class, and we'd never had won if we hadn't, so think if that before we criticise new lebour giving up on the lower working class, as we had to do it too win, unless you dint think winning is important.

His district in Wakefield is home to thousands of middle - class, home - owning African - Americans who, mostly through their churches, can be socially conservative.

Tony, I can take what you're saying and applying it to the idea, that Labour had the working class who'd bought their council Home in the early 80's, by the late 80's were back voting labour as unlike in 1983 we weren't standing on manifesto to buy them back and then the swing voters we needed but couldn't quite get in 1992 were the Aspiring lower middle class, skilled blue collar voters

For example, financial innovations are responsible for home mortgages and auto loans, which empower lower and middle class consumers; credit to entrepreneurs who have built successful enterprises; and credit to emerging markets, which has helped raise millions of people out of dire poverty.

India is a rapidly developing country with hundreds of millions of citizens who want to move into the middle class, drive cars and cool their homes with air - conditioning.

Studies at Rice and Columbia Universities reported eye - opening findings about how many more words children who grow up in middle and upper - class homes hear on a daily basis as compared to lower - income children.

Funny Games U.S. is Austrian director Michael Haneke's shot - for - shot American remake of his 1996 film of the same title, in which a middle - class family are terrorised in their holiday home by two effete, creepy young men (played by Michael Pitt and Brady Corbet), who occasionally break the fourth wall for Brechtian asides intended to point out that we're watching people suffering for our entertainment.

Nicholson plays the now iconic cad Bobby Dupea, a shiftless thirtysomething oil rigger and former piano prodigy immune to any sense of responsibility, who returns to his upper - middle - class childhood home, blue - collar girlfriend (Karen Black, in an Oscar - nominated role) in tow, to see his estranged, ailing father.

Taylor's latest collaboration with Allen, «Blue Jasmine,» opens July 26 and stars Cate Blanchett as an upper - class Manhattan housewife who, in the middle of a personal crisis, heads to the San Francisco home of her working - class sister Ginger.

Sitcom follows the going - on in the home of a dysfunctional upper middle - class French family who no longer know how to communicate with one another.

«People see that I'm upper middle class, that I'm a woman who stays at home, who is kept by her husband, and instantly there's no clout.

These parents, probably the majority of home schoolers, are mainly middle - class parents who believe in prolonged intimate contact between family and child, but who do not mean to impede their children's access to higher education and jobs or their ability to act as good citizens.

The teachers in predominantly poor, minority schools, who are reportedly mostly black and have adopted the more teacher - centered, authoritarian style of instruction that they view as appropriate for their students, are turning off white, upper - middle - class parents who want school climates similar to their own progressive homes, where problems are discussed.

But the reality that many kids must travel as long as two hours away from home in order to attend school (often on inefficient public transit) has also put a strain on the Crescent City's poorest families, who, like middle - class households, want high - quality schools within their own neighborhoods.

The changes are likely to raise some middle - class hackles, especially among those who take on big mortgages to buy homes in catchment areas in the hope of getting their children into popular schools.

Specifically addressing problems at Lakewood Middle School, which has 1,207 students grades 6 - 8 who are 87 percent Latino and 9 percent Black (77 percent are economically - disadvantaged and about the same percentage speak Spanish at home), Ms. Morales detailed her child's struggle in a math class that had no teacher for a month.

The author explains that the rising costs stemming from tech entrepreneurship and skyrocketing housing prices continue to drive out working class or middle class professionals who are unable to afford multi-million dollar homes.

High - quality tutoring can meet each student at his or her individual level, 22 a level of differentiation that is impossible for even the most dedicated of teachers to provide.23 Essentially, every student with an educated, engaged parent has access to one - on - one tutoring at home, which is perhaps one of the reasons why homework compounds the advantages enjoyed by middle - class children.24 For students who, for a variety of reasons, may not have access to that kind of academic assistance at home, receiving more tailored instruction from their schools can help to level the playing field and close achievement gaps.25

While the federal No Child Left Behind law «shined a spotlight» on the needs of the most disadvantaged students, says Petrilli, «let's not overlook their slightly less disadvantaged peers — the boys and girls who come from low - income but perhaps not as dysfunctional homes and who aspire to graduate from college and enter the middle class.»

Because white middle class families who represent a large portion of the housing market are reluctant to pursue homes in black neighborhoods, property values tend to fall if a neighborhood becomes majority black and remain low compared to white neighborhoods (Fletcher, 2015).

Nidali mixes humor with a sharp, loving portrait of an eccentric middle - class family, and this perspective keeps her buoyant through the hardships she encounters: the humiliation of going through a checkpoint on a visit to her father's home in the West Bank; the fights with her father, who wants her to become a famous professor and stay away from boys; the end of her childhood as Iraq invades Kuwait on her thirteenth birthday; and the scare she gives her family when she runs away from home.

Are they the well - heeled, middle classes in the Home Counties who might enjoy their subscription to the Times or Telegraph; are they «heat seekers» looking for their next beach reads; are they urban types who want to be ahead of any new trend?

However, even Canadians at the modest end of middle class stand to garner thousands of dollars a year — that includes some who own their own homes and have saved amounts similar to Erica.

For consumer who can't afford to buy, failure to include rental history presents an obstacle to owning a home, which is an obstacle to joining the middle class.

The importance placed on property ownership, both as a hold of value and as a status symbol, is amplified by Asian immigrants who are more likely to own their own home and have property investments — a key reason why as many as 81 % of immigrant poll respondents say they feel happily middle class.

Suburbs in this part of Sydney include the old money homes around the harbour and the middle class who live in suburbs from the Southern Ocean Beaches.

«Germany's Renewable Ownership Society — the Green Middle Class» «For the most part, Germany's new energy producers are home owners, small and medium - sided businesses, and farmers, many of the latter who faced ruin only a decade ago.

Less action movie style, imagine that this is the home of a middle class independent comic book publisher who has a gun ready to go at home after receiving many death threats for publishing comics that show Zeus in a disrespectful light where an intruder could have mixed motives to steal and / or kill.

«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.

«Reforming the tax code is a worthy goal, but it should not lead to the middle class, who primarily build wealth through owning a home, footing the bill.

First - time home buyers from middle class families have used family help in raising down payments, but those who can't obtain financial assistance from their families can't afford to buy homes, even at these extremely low mortgage interest rates.

«A Dream Too Far» confirms what I have gleaned from anecdotal evidence on the street and studies published by the Fed: The rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer, and it is becoming a barrier for many middle class people who want to own their own homes.

But for most middle - class households who own homes, the new standard deduction won't be high enough to offset what they would lose on the itemization side.

Still, the historically low home ownership rate isn't great news for working and middle class people, or millennials who are eager to move into their first home and not able to participate in the recovery.

As home prices and interest rates continue to rise, the number of middle - class Americans who can afford a home has fallen in many cities.