Sentences with phrase «middle class period»

Auto schemes are welfare programs for the middle class period.

Wake up people!!!!!!!!!!! Romney signed that pledge with Norquist and that is a clue that this man does not care about the middle class period.

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A recent New York Times piece on middle - class incomes confirms what Stephen Gordon has been telling us, that the 2000 - 2010 period was a strong one for after - tax incomes of the Canadian middle class.

What follows are eight important trends of the 2000 - 10 period that contributed to the strength of Canada's middle class.

Whatever is the current cause of the rise of prices in the housing market, when computed as the mortgage cost in labour time in terms of the average weekly salary, residential properties, with the exception of the 1988 - 1991 period, are now clearly less affordable for middle - class Canadians than they were for the last five decades.

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).

There was a one week period in mid-july, coinciding perfectly with the peak of the Shanghai Composite, that middle class Chinese people opened up more than half a million brokerage accounts.

Similarly, the urban population is projected to grow about 1.6 % per year over this period, and this can be used as a proxy for growth of the middle class to a lower bound of 3 billion.

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

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.

Most middle class Americans are familiar with circumstantial poverty — one bad investment or the loss of a job leads to a period of financial difficulty.

Is it only a coincidence that old - line denominations have declined in the same period when middle - class parents find themselves less able to expect their children to conform to the family tradition?

Lasch supports his periodization by reminding us that the period from 1890 to 1920 was a time of intense participation by middle - class women in civic life.

Throughout the postwar period, the all - encompassing and largely successful middle class provided ballast for our political system.

Mr Robb says the sector is entering a period of significant opportunity thanks to growing middle class populations in China and around the Asian region.

So, the term «extended breastfeeding» assumes that the specific cultural and material conditions that middle - and upper - class contemporary Westerners experience — widespread misunderstanding and stigma surrounding women's breasts and children's biology; widespread availability of commercial formula; clean water to prepare it with; the time and space to wash, sterilize, and store bottles, and so forth — are «normal,» while literally everything that has ever existed outside of this limited cultural experience and relatively short, unique period in time is somehow abnormal.

Request to Editor: Again because I'm often referred to as Mikey by my critics, I request this blogger cease and desist from using «Middle Class Mikey» as an ID period.

It would cost hundreds of thousands of predominantly working and lower - middle class jobs, it would devastate investment, it would sabotage British public finances, and trigger a prolonged period of crushing austerity.

Labour shadow business secretary Chuka Umunna has suggested his party's failure to speak to «aspirational middle - class» voters during the campaign period may have contributed to their election loss.

The fact that either of these two people would even show their faces in public is disgusting enough... we need legislation that no one that commits crimes can regain any office period... NYC and State are proof that government is a prop only... the rich run everything and have been perfecting modern slavery for years now... the middle class being the modern slave... that why these guys get in and cant wait to commit a crime for money!

«In the period that the NDC has been in office, we have seen the greatest upward movement of people from lower classes into the middle class, and yet when people get into the middle class because of the perception that our party is social democratic and it's against property owning and seeks to equalize poverty, then those same people that we have created the conditions to be upwardly mobile drift into the property owning classes and therefore identify themselves with a different ideology.

They studied more than 200,000 middle - class Americans who had common operations — hysterectomies, bariatric surgery, hernia repair and reflux surgery — over a 42 - month period, and who spent at least one night in the hospital.

Bankruptcies due to medical bills increased by nearly 50 % in a six - year period, from 46 % in 2001 to 62 % in 2007, and most of those who filed for bankruptcy were middle class, well - educated homeowners, according to the report to be published in the August issue of The American Journal of Medicine.

Bankruptcies due to medical bills increased by nearly 50 % in a six - year period, from 46 % in 2001 to 62 % in 2007, and most of those who filed for bankruptcy were middle - class, well - educated homeowners, according to a report that will be published in the August issue of The American Journal of Medicine.

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.

Her intention being to steer away from the «scruffy, slumpy and bumpy» style typically adopted by upper - middle class families during the period and create something of utmost couture instead.

The result of a deadly cocktail of predatory banks, hopeful middle - class people hoping to achieve the American dream, and a government more interested in bailing out the culprits of the crash than the victims, for many people this period changed what it means to succeed and survive in America.

Smoothly staged in one take, the sequence reminds not - unfavourably of A Serious Man, getting most of its period authenticity — the year is 1969 — and middle - class dread from an aesthetic ape of that film.

«Looper's storyline puts us in a period of time where most of the citizens are lower middle class.

In the middle of the class period, students can create tasks lists and set deadlines for tasks.

Seventh graders in the second period social studies class at Bennet Middle School got to flex their debating muscles during a debate on the war in Iraq.

The Texas Public School Nutrition Policy, which went into effect in 2004, prohibits the sale of and access to unhealthy food and beverages until the end of the last class period at the elementary school and middle school levels and during meal periods in high schools.

The webquest can be completed in one class period and is geared for upper elementary and middle school...

If a middle school teacher can «reset» the class only 3 times per period, instead of 5, that's probably 1,440 fewer times per year that he has to deal with misbehavior.

If you build this practice in as a routine in the middle of a long unit or class period — a kind of seventh - inning stretch — students will look forward to having a chance to clear up any mysteries and will not get overwhelmed.

Madison middle school students could soon have an extra class period and smaller class sizes without adding minutes to the school day under a plan being developed by the Madison School District.

Last fall Farmington's two middle schools joined the district high school in transitioning to fewer, longer periods during the day — four 80 - minute classes, instead of nine, 44 - minute classes.

Small group instruction within a 50 - minute middle school class period is still a challenge for my practice.

For example, Math classes are held 1st period throughout the Lower, Middle, and Upper School.

The greatest gains in reducing gaps in achievement and opportunity have been made during periods when concentrated poverty has been dispersed through efforts at integration, or during economic growth for the black middle class and other communities, or where significant new investments in school funding have occurred.

The top 1 percent's share of income rose to 23.5 percent in 2007, the last year before the beginning of the Great Recession, up from 9.12 percent in 1974, while over this same time period, the share of income going to the middle class (defined as the middle 60 percent of the population) fell from 52.2 percent to just 46.9 percent.

But another charter middle school that accepts new students at all grades, E.L. Haynes, maintained a class size of 101 between 6th and 8th grade for the same period.

One out of every five suburban fourth grade young men from middle - class backgrounds were reading Below Basic in 2011, according to Dropout Nation «s analysis of NAEP data, just three points better than levels of illiteracy four years earlier; big - city districts brought down the levels of illiteracy for their middle class students by four percentage points in that same period, with nearly as many students from those backgrounds struggling with reading.

For a few privileged interests, those he went to school with and grew up rubbing shoulders with — the royalty of New York's banking circles — that period enabled their dynastic wealth to explode and transferred untold riches from the former middle class to the elite.

the spread of pet - keeping among the urban middle classes in the early modern period is... a development of genuine social, psychological, and indeed commercial importance.

In addition, Lan Airlines grew their net income by 150 % over the whole of the study period, as a growing middle class flew more often.

We know about an investing strategy that beats Buy - and - Hold in 102 out of 110 time - periods, an investing strategy that permits us to obtain far higher returns at dramatically less risk, an investing strategy that permits us all to retire years sooner and that would bring us out of this economic crisis if we could share it with millions of middle - class investors (if people could switch to an investment strategy that would put their retirement plans back on track, they would feel free to start spending again and businesses could start hiring again), and our first reaction is to come up with convoluted arguments as to why the best thing to do is to AVOID learning more about it and to AVOID getting the word out to the millions of middle - class people whose lives we have destroyed with our promotion of Buy - and - Hold.

India's tourism industry is experiencing a strong period of growth, driven by the burgeoning Indian middle class, growth in high spending foreign tourists, and coordinated government campaigns to promote «Incredible India.

This exhibition is described by the museum as the first - ever to present the perspectives of women of color «distinct from the primarily white, middle - class mainstream feminist movement — in order to reorient conversations around race, feminism, political action, art production, and art history in this significant historical period.»

It is the first exhibition to highlight the voices and experiences of women of color — distinct from the primarily white, middle - class mainstream feminist movement — in order to reorient conversations around race, feminism, political action, art production, and art history in this significant historical period.