Sentences with phrase «middle class issues»

EDIE WINDSOR ENDORSEMENT OF CHRISTINE QUINN IS IRRELEVANT BECAUSE THE RACE TO LEAD NYC IS «NOT» ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE — The race to lead New York City is about many issues, including the commitment to core middle class issues like fair and affordable housing, job growth, equal pay and expanding opportunity for the middle class.

The Democratic Party failed to retain the presidency and make electoral gains last year because they didn't give voters «anything to vote for» in November and failed to boost middle class issues, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said at a fundraiser on Monday night.

«He's really in touch with middle class issues.

In his 2011 report, Mark Cooper, director of research for the Consumer Federation of America, stated that 84 % of middle - class people are greatly concerned about gas prices, highlighting that «gasoline prices have become a middle class issue.»

Not exact matches

And so, whatever the economic issue — foreign direct investment, the GST, the Keystone XL pipeline — Trudeau links it to its implications on the middle class and bringing them better jobs.

She responded to criticism by doggedly sticking to Liberal talking points about growing the middle class rather than addressing the issue head - on.

«The issue is not that middle - class workers are doomed by automation and technology, but instead that human capital investment must be at the heart of any long - term strategy for producing skills that are complemented by rather than substituted for by technological change.»

This should be a top of mind issue for any government, particularly one that campaigned on helping the middle - class and those working hard to join the middle class.

Schumer is right to caution th at middle class tax breaks ma y be in jeopardy, said Clint Stretch, a former congressional staffer on budget issues a nd former top tax lobbyist.

The Occupy movement may have failed to trigger a middle - class tax revolt against the rich, but the issue of tax fairness is gaining political traction.

Financial technology firm MarketX lets upper - middle class and institution Chinese investors to invest in tech firms that have not yet issued shares to the general public.

Jacobs: I was talking to Fordham professor John Pfaff recently, and he said that difference in this race is that the traditional base that votes for a DA is white, middle - class, affluent, and not that knowledgeable on the issues.

«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.»

Democrats call the Republican proposal a giveaway to corporations at the expense of the middle class, issuing dire warnings about the $ 1 trillion or more it is projected to add to federal budget deficits over a decade.

We have to start resolving structural issues like excess debt and need to focus on how to get fertility rates up for the middle class if we wan na grow without relying too much on immigration.

One of the themes is the stagnation of middle - class incomes, an issue I examined a few weeks ago in this post.

«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.»

Alibaba and Fitbit, which opened a flagship store on Tmall two years ago, have taken notice of a rising awareness of wellness issues among China's middle class.

«Our United States population and the volume of people that we're having entering the United States while we have impoverished veterans and veterans that aren't being served and middle - class Americans who have had stagnated wages is a very serious both national security issue and an economic issue and its one that we can not afford to ignore when we have $ 23 trillion in debt,» Hagan told Breitbart News.

The old alliance between sensible LIBERTARIANISM and SOCIAL CONSERVATISM can't hold in the face of the vanishing middle class, the birth dearth combined with increasing longevity, the depoliticizing challenges of the 21st competitive marketplace, the irresponsibility of our techno - meritocracy, our inability to keep Locke in the Locke box on issues having to do with families and our erotic lives, and the connection between increasing individualism and growing dependency on the state summed up in the phrase «single mom.»

The REAL ISSUE is that Romney doesn't have a darn thing to offer the middle class, students, women, minorities, gays, vets / armed services, etc..

Moreover, the period precipitated the deep polarization of the middle classes on social and moral issues that has defined subsequent religious and political debate.

And during the era of middle - class America that would indeed have been simplistic: politics wasn't defined by economic issues.

There is little doubt that the concern for cultures and religions expresses the middle class social location of most process theologians, whereas the focus on political and economic issues and the concomitant demand for justice express the identification with the poor that is the glory of liberation theology.

inotherwards why can't our president be a agnostic or a buddist or even a good muslim or a hindi or admit he's not comfortable with organized religion???? Who really give a sh @@ t??? let's concentrate on the important issues, like the inability of this countries middle class to make ends meet!!!

This brief article will be my last on the subject — at least unless or until one word of gratitude for an unprecedented share of life's blessings, along with a promise to hold themselves to a standard worthy of respect, issues from the community of America's middle - class women.

Now this doesn't mean that the Republicans should do NOTHING on immigration, but it does mean that their economic agenda should focus on issues that would help people in the two middle quartiles (and the last quartile) get what Reihan Salam called «the basics of a dignified middle - class life — affordable high - quality medical care, education, and housing» With that in mind, here is a partial (and I'm not sure totally compatible) list of policies that Republicans should be looking at:

He's addressing the real issue of the economic and cultural degradation of the lives of the bluecollar part of the middle - class.

He came out against middle - class tax increases, said he now supported the mid-1990s welfare reform, and he made an effort to seem like an abortion moderate who struggled with the moral complexity of the issue.

a very thin skinned religious person who basically focuses all of his energy on worshiping on himself... What do you call it when the President disregards the definition of radical islamic muslims... wolf in sheep clothing... The bigger issue at hand is the economy, job creation, national debt, and maintaining a good middle class... all of which over the last 4 years has been failing..

Even middle class people have broken marriages, addictive issues, financial problems, emotional stress, grief and loss and self harm.

Unless, that is, our essentially middle - class life style is challenged by the poverty and oppression which is the lot of most of humankind, and we confront the hard truth that the issue is not reform of the welfare system, no matter how much that is needed, but the end of a capitalist economic order which increasingly divides the world into those who have and those who have not.

Dismissing feminism as a white, middle - class movement may therefore be a means of avoiding personal commitment, or a way of trivializing the issues.

These religious issues — personal formation and making sense of life — are often disguised by our relative affluence and the apparent assumption that getting everyone to middle - class economic status will solve all problems.

For middle class man, the pull of paying work and the exposure of the sheltered to vice are not the main issues.

If it takes place, for instance, in a middle - class suburban congregation in the United States, it must deal with the issues and concerns of that congregation, but it must not do so at the expense of its catholic context.

Food contamination scandals and environmental issues have changed food buying habits of the rising Chinese middle class, which perceives imported food to be safer than the domestic food supply.

Food contamination scandals and environmental issues have changed food purchasing habits of the rising Chinese middle class, which perceives imported foods to be safer than the domestic food supply.

Short, concrete, and reassuring talks with young children, more detailed talks with middle age children focusing on their concerns and questions, and digging deep with interested teenagers around issues of values, inequality, and class divisions.

I think it is important to point out that this isn't just an issue for middle class families who care deeply about their child's diet and are able to provide abundant healthy food choices but school menus have great impact on many, many poor children who, through no fault of their own and often with no agency to change the situation, end up being pawns in the lunch tray wars.

(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.

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

But when we talk about which women are able to breastfeed and why, it's important to note that there are a ton of societal issues at play — and many of them favor upper middle - class white women.

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

WFP evaluates the records of all the candidates and supports only those who stand up for working - class and middle - class families on issues like good jobs, affordable healthcare, fair taxes and quality schools.

The currency issue has become more complicated rather than less, and middle class financial insecurity and low oil prices are unlikely to be answered by greater political instability.

In a statement announcing his formal support, Dadey called Long an «authentic conservative» who will give New Yorkers a «real choice» on a wide range of issues from taxes and job creation to upholding «middle - class values.»

If Mike Long considers Wendy Long «more decisive on the issues,» then Ms. Long must be anti-choice, anti-marriage equality, pro-cutting taxes for the rich and raising them on the middle and working classes, anti-Medicare and Social Security, etc..

In the election campaign of that year, the Social Democrats emphasized issues that appealed to middle - class insiders and had less to say about the problem of unemployment than they had in 1994.

«This is not a partisan issue ---- it is an issue of fundamental fairness that will greatly affect the quality - of - life for millions of middle - class taxpayers.»