Sentences with phrase «middle class problem»

Cheating is not, by any measure, the upper middle class problem reflected in these Stuyvesant anecdotes.

Here is a list of ten things for which most of us can be thankful here in the United States: First, you are fat, but we live in a time when this a possible middle class problem.

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The problem is simple — for all the hype around China's emerging middle class, Chinese shoppers contribute very little to the country's fortunes.

After Morneau released his 2016 budget, I criticized the emphasis on coddling middle - class families, when stagnating economic growth seemed the bigger problem.

The problem is that middle - class people see that as a negative — and it's keeping them poor, he writes.

A large majority, 82 %, believe themselves to be part of the middle class, suggesting that the problem isn't so much the pay as the perception.

In this age of the 401 (k), when the retirement dreams of middle - class America are tied to the integrity of the stock market, crooks in the corner office are everybody's problem.

Stagnant wage growth isn't just a problem for those at the bottom of the salary scales: middle - class family incomes are slightly lower now than they were in the 1970s.

Profit sharing is not going to solve all the economic problems of the working middle class.

He addressed this problem a bit by lowering the bottom rate to 10 percent from 12 percent in the campaign plan, but it's still likely that a Trump proposal that includes these elements will result in a tax increase for millions of middle - class people, and the lower standard deduction doesn't help:

«I have been amazed at how resistant people are to actually fixing an obvious problem that is an obvious source of a grotesque unfairness and basically a transfer of wealth from the middle class to the rich,» he said.

Friedman points out that tour guiding will likely not solve the middle class jobs problem.

There are reports that the Department of Finance has put together some research documenting the problems of the middle class.

The stagnation of middle - class incomes may no longer be a problem that needs solving.

Justin Trudeau and the Liberal Party of Canada have been preparing the ground for a policy agenda focused on the problems of the middle class.

Hey guys, I'm retired now after selling my biz, and I had no problems paying myself as much as possible, but what we are seeing today is the continual lowering of the middle class that came about because of Henry Ford ($ 5.00 per day).

While Madigan would have Illinoisans believe it would only be a tax increase on the rich, recent history and Illinois» spending problems dictate the middle class would face tax hikes under a progressive tax system — where income is taxed at increasingly higher rates, rather than the current flat rate of 4.95 percent.

The problem was that the Cain plan was worse for the middle - class than the Perry and Gingrich flat taxes or the Tim Pawlenty across - the - board income tax cuts.

One problem is that Romney isn't a frustrated working or middle - class guy blowing off some steam after work.

Those who choose this approach must beware lest they end up as self - centered and self - righteous communities of upper middle class people playing at being poor, preoccupied with their own problems and contributing little or nothing to helping others or to resolving the world's problems.

So when middle - class women in mid-20th-century America felt restricted and stressed by society's expectations, was it any wonder that the era of the problem that had no name became the era of the «mother's little helper»?

True believers in the dominant model tell us that the solution of our problems is to reduce taxes on corporations and the rich, reduce government services to the poor and middle class, improve the climate for business by reducing work place and environmental protections and minimum wage requirements, privatizing public services, and facilitating the investment of capital overseas.

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

The tragedy of all this is compounded by the fact that most community mental health facilities are oriented to middle - class goals, vocabularies, patterns of problem solving and models of healing.

White middle class people often take the attitude that if only criminals, members of racial minorities, welfare recipients, Third World peoples, behaved like us and shared our values, they would not have the problems that they do.

This was, if anything, even farther from the truth about the special problem of the modern middle - class American woman than the Freudian - type psychologizing, and even less helpful in offering her an understanding of it.

Byron York has written a very wise column about how Romney's Hispanic problem was primarily a middle - class and working - class problem.

The problem with the former, Moynihan argued, was that it actually redistributed income upward, taxing the poor to pay the salaries of middle - class social workers, teachers and other professionals who ministered to them.

Byron York pointed out that Santorum has been one of the few Republicans who spent the 2012 trying to emphasize the problems of the struggling middle - class.

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.

Besides being «very rich», MItt Romney has said again, that he does have a problem with the middle - class, baby - bommers, senior citizens, veterans, disabled, AARP members, Social Security and benefits, Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps and the poor, and homeless in America.

The problem is the middle class pays for market socialism.

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

While industry standards have picked up as the regulatory environment has changed, the new problem for China is a rising middle class now can't get enough milk.

until THAT problem is addressed the problem of whether the middle class kids or the poverty stricken kids are creating problems for each other is moot.

It is obvious from these posts that homebirth with an incompetent midwife is not a problem exclusive to reasonably educated middle class white women.

Although you stressed the problem in minority and economically stressed areas, you neglected to touch on the fact that a number of middle - class neighborhoods are still struggling to secure equitable park programs — most notably on the far Southwest Side of the city.

In repeated RCTs with samples ranging from clinically referred middle - class preschoolers to low - income Head Start preschoolers at risk for psychosocial adjustment, significant improvements have repeatedly been found one to two years following the intervention in promoting children's prosocial adjustment and reducing children's problem behaviours.

Mothers will be middle class with no psychiatric problems, half primiparous, half multiparous.

Mothers in this study will be middle class with no psychiatric problems; are breastfeeding their infant.

The problem with the Marxist explanation is that neoliberal policies are currently benefiting only a tiny part of the «capitalist class»: the well - off middle classes of entrepreneurs are shrinking, and those truly profiting are now the famous 1 % — or even 0.1 %.

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.

First there are three critical problems with the structure of our economy - the dominance of government spending on recurrent expenses of a public service which employs only a small percentage of Nigerians; the dominance of our oil and gas sector (and until recently power) by an inefficient and corrupt public sector; and the structure of our financial sector which excludes Small, Medium and Micro Enterprises from financing and has been unable to provide mortgages and housing for the middle class.

This approach presents a problem for the Labour leadership who have pursued a policy of «constructive ambiguity» in order to balance affluent middle class remainers with huge swathes of the electorate in its northern heartlands who voted to come out.

Desegregation also improves other important educational outcomes for all students — poor, working class, and middle class alike — including, intellectual self - confidence, leadership skills, critical thinking, creativity, problem - solving, and teamwork.

Johnson is having problems with his marriage so his problems are personal, I have to live with the knowledge after labour I will be fighting to live pay my way because labour not new labour thats branding but Labour attacked the people at the bottom while trying to protected the Middle class labour new front row.

Even still, all citizens will have documents checked and there is always the problem that ethnic minority citizens may be more likely to be considered «migrants» than, for example, middle class white people.

Here's the problem: there is no evidence to support the view that middle class taxpayers will happily subsidise the «less deserving» if they get universal benefits themselves.

That in turn reduces crime, reduces problems in city schools and makes the city more attractive to middle - class people and businesses, he said.

In my view the fact that parliament is still largely comprised of white middle class men who look and sound the same is a significant part of the problem.