Sentences with phrase «middle class like»

Anyway, if you are in the middle class like I am, rejoice in the fact that you can't invest in hedge funds.

How do the buy such expensive cars where as middle class like us are struggling to save few thousands..

While politicians blame speculators and Americans whine about gas prices, emerging economies are growing their middle class like gangbusters.

And in a country of more than 150 million people, even a proportionally small middle class like Bangladesh's can be quite large in terms of absolute numbers and buying power.

Not exact matches

If a tiny portion of India's population reaches college educated, upper - middle class status, say 5 per cent — that's like 65 million people.

Clinton's tax proposals, like many Democratic plans, emphasize relief for the middle class.

(The Atlantic) Hundreds of millions of people in Asia, Latin America, and Africa have lifted themselves from destitution into something like the middle class.

Years ago, he met a middle school student on a class tour through DC who was struggling with his stutter, and wrote him a letter: «You can beat it just like I did.

It's a lot of hardworking, blue - collar - type people and they were just sick, it seems like, anything that was done to help was never to the middle class or the slightly lower than middle class.

The new vehicle would make investments between $ 500 million to $ 2 billion on long - term themes like diverging demographics globally, the growing middle class and millennial spending patterns, said the person, who asked not to be named because the information is private.

Obviously this isn't the majority - the median wealth of people in the 55 - 64 cohort is something like $ 200,000 - but a non-trivial percentage of middle class workers ultimately reach this milestone.

Nike (NKE)-- Phil Knight's shoe company stands to benefit from the explosion of the middle class in emerging markets like China and Mexico.

Like many middle - class Americans, she assumed the health care overhaul would give her access to affordable care through Illinois's state - run exchange.

I know it's not popular to say in 2011, but compared to places like Argentina, the U.S. remains a pretty good place for a middle class person to start a company:

As emerging middle classes in places like China and India adopt Western - style diets, global consumption of animal protein skyrockets.

Like other packaged food companies, it is betting that staking an early claim in countries with multiplying ranks of middle - class customers will secure its own future.

«Under this bill the working class, middle class and upper middle class get skewered while the rich and wealthy corporations make out like bandits.

I'd like to eliminate FICA taxes in the next recession as a stimulus, but I doubt that happens cuz Dems will come in and say «morally wrong» cuz «equality» even though FICA hits the middle class the hardest, but okay.

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.

Liberal strategists are betting that thrusts like infrastructure and superclusters will shore up Trudeau's rhetoric about middle - class prosperity being his government's preoccupation.

We have to do 50 things right to recreate that broad middle class of the»50s and»60s, and platforms like Airbnb's are just one of them.

The more it's paid by capital, the more progressive it is and the less harmful it is to the middle class; the more it's paid by labor — or, at least, labor apart from executives like the CEO — the worse a deal it is for average workers.

But vilifying easy targets like doctors and other high wage earning professionals is a convenient distraction from the extraordinary and far - reaching impact these proposed changes will have on hundreds of thousands of middle - class small business owners from coast to coast.

All told, though, the plan is, like its House counterpart, a proposal to dramatically slash corporate tax rates, open up a big new loophole for wealthy individuals, and pay for the cuts by dramatically expanding the national debt and ending a number of tax deductions that could leave a substantial share of middle - and upper - middle - class people paying more.

Retirement assets are by far the largest middle class asset in aggregate (something like $ 20 trillion now).

President Obama has been touting the Buffett Rule, which proposes that millionaires and billionaires like Buffett shouldn't pay a lower percentage of their income in federal taxes than middle - class households.

Though college has traditionally been painted as a ticket to middle - class security, economists like Steinbaum argue higher education can also be a kind of trap.

«In some way, L.A. respects the young guy that's out there just trying to make it happen, but in some ways, they disrespect that too,» says Kalanick, who'd grown up middle class in Los Angeles's San Fernando Valley, close enough to people like Ovitz to want what they had and also to hate them for it.

Another thing that's growing fast in China is the middle class, which the publication notes is one of the driving forces behind the consumer revolution drawing U.S. retailers like this one to the market.

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With the cancellation of the health care levy (which it should be pointed out was graduated and not a flat amount like the old premium), and the NDP tax increases kicking in at 130K and not 100K like the Prentice budget, the NDP has made sure the upper middle class (and some of the upper class) are paying less taxes than under Prentice's budget.

The rising cost of necessities like health care, housing and education is crowding out discretionary spending for middle - class Americans, said Stephanie Pomboy, founder of MacroMavens, an independent economics consulting firm in New York.

There have certainly been periods when the rich, the middle class and the poor all have done well (like the late 1990s), as well as periods when all have done poorly (like the last year).

With the apparently low rate of compliance, the report is recommending the city enact legislation that requires companies like Airbnb and vacation - rental site VRBO to provide hosts» addresses and booking information and give San Francisco's planning department the ability to fine platforms listing unregistered hosts — measures that Airbnb says «would make it even harder for middle class families to stay in San Francisco and pay the bills.»

Many money books (like From Middle Class to Millionaire written by David) actually help you plan your life, decide what you want, put a cost towards it and budget.

Are middle - class cuts from the budget framework (like doubling the standard deduction and expanded child tax credits) included?

By focusing on the fundamentals like supporting a skilled and trained workforce, we can have a sustainable, diversified economy that creates new opportunities, good jobs, and builds a strong middle class.

Like it or not, the middle class became global citizens through consumerism — and they did so at the mall.

When it became obvious that the third nine was a 9 % value added tax on top of the 9 % sales tax and the 9 % flat income tax, my thought was «This sounds like a middle - class tax increase.»

Of course, what Cain doesn't acknowledge is that a sales tax, especially one like his that has no exemptions for items like good such as many state sales taxes do, would disproportionally impact the poor and the middle class.

So I like to think that that was the moment that I became an aware middle class, white, man.

The humanistic presumptions of New Criticism nicely fit the aestheticism of the middle class that dominates Christianity in America — at least the Christianity that produces intellectuals like us.

Still, people like this author clamor for more bureaucracy as a defense of the rest of society, the middle class and the poor.

«Cosmic struggle» sounds like a video game that middle - class children play.

If all American families looked like the intact middle - class ones, we wouldn't have nationally low education....

Well it is almost election time Obama seems to be doing a lot of things for the first time like acting like he cares about eh middle class, acting like he supports business and acting like he wants to be bipartisan.

As a middle - class twentysomething living in a city, I breathe cynicism like it's oxygen — so mocking both candidates for superficiality comes as a thoughtless response to me.

It gives technologically savvy young people in countries like India livelihoods that move them into the ranks of the middle class.

You must be someone like one of those CEO's that run the oil companies complaining that my taxes are going up because I make considerably more than a poor or middle class person, right?

Most, like the Wesley brothers, came from middle - to lower - class families and had few job prospects outside the church.