Sentences with phrase «middle class professionals»

There are relatively few (perhaps in the order of 50) Constituencies that are really in play between the two main parties at any General Election, most of which are urban or suburban and populated primarily by middle class professionals (i.e. me and those like me).

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.

Skilled manual workers, not middle class professionals.

Middle class professionals remain the heaviest drinkers, for instance.

At the Library of Law and Liberty, Greg Weiner reconsiders Daniel Patrick Moynihan's criticisms of the War on Poverty, and suggests conservatives who frequently cite his work on the subject miss Moynihan's broader point: It was not that too much money was being misspent on the poor, but rather that those resources which were directed at the poor were all too often funneled through the middle class professional classes:

Emily was presented as one of Labour» s middle class professional MPs and should have said she was brought up on a council estate — would have put things more into context.

Bald and angry white - guy Bruce Willis effectively channels the rigid, one - note screen presence of Charles Bronson as vigilante Paul Kersey, the well - to - do middle class professional who comes to accept that lone - wolf justice is better than anything the cops or courts can offer.

Dr. Frank Furedi, Sociology professor at the University of Canterbury, said the study made sense as chore sharing took place more among couples from middle class professional backgrounds, where divorce rates are known to be high.

Not exact matches

They bought into the American Dream of studying for a degree, becoming a professional of some sort, and hoping for a decent middle class existence.

Zappacosta hopes Thumbtack can be a source of stable, longterm income for its professionals, leading to a middle class lifestyle.

Even in Canada, we do have to make an effort to have that middle class life and retirement life and plenty of people who had two professional incomes did not save nearly enough and / or make the right financial moves, and struggle in retirement even with pensions.

In Panama City's central Parque Lefevre neighborhood, where many middle - class Panamanian professionals make their homes, a two - bedroom condo — with a balcony, a newly remodeled kitchen with granite countertops, and all appliances and window treatments included — is selling for just $ 122,000.

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.

Luca is the co-founder at NOON Capital, a real estate developer and manager specialized in aspirational housing for young professionals and middle class families in South - East Asia.

Company believes high standard of living should be accessible to everybody and specialize in stylish yet affordable spaces catered to young professionals and middle - class families in search of vibrant neighborhoods.

This DVD contains five short films that are full of thought - provoking questions for white, middle class, young professionals.

I was thinking about enclaves of upper middle class & professional blacks established in Atlanta and similar areas in the country.

For a long time, «white middle class Americans» was an expansive cohort that ran from factory workers to doctors, lawyers, and other professionals.

Joseph had a middle - class profession — he was a builder — and so he was skilled and therefore what we would call «professional», these days.

That same secular world with its nagging empirical criteria of meaning and validity remains in power in academia and among the middle and especially the professional classes — and we who try to do theology are still ourselves very much a part of that same world.

As a result, in the past 30 years many clergy have been living within the professional middle class while keeping their distance from the professional label.

The latter group might include clergy who surrender a lifestyle they once expected, and clergy who never expected to be part of the professional middle class.

Ministers» difficulty in retaining a place in the professional middle class comes into sharp relief when they face financing college education, retirement and even elder care for their parents.

Until recently, people have assumed that clergy are members of the professional middle class and can accumulate the same assets as other professionals — including some property — and pass them on to children.

Now, however, the clergy's place within the professional middle class is becoming increasingly tenuous.

They will eliminate those who hope to maintain their families within the professional middle class but have only a clergyman's earnings.

Instead, Betty Friedan and a loose coalition of professional feminists and child - care advocates proffer Smithies and other middle - class women a strategic bargain.

Again, the middle - classes tend to be culturally «white collar», professional or academic types.

Business people continue to believe, mutatis mutandis, that «what is good for General Motors is good for America»; the new middle - class professionals, no doubt with equal sincerity, believe that the «reordering of national priorities» that guarantees their privileges benefits the poor, the underclass or whatever other morally acceptable beneficiary can be plausibly cited.

the equally mindless endorsement of all types of domestic radical isms from the Black Panthers to Greenpeace, the insouciant acceptance of millions of abortions as simply an expression of the right to choose, not to mention the other (less tangible) damage done to many lives by the brashs social engineering of new middle - class professionals (for instance.

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.

This being the case, he continues, «young Catholic women have quite sensibly decided that, if they wish to do good works or be political activists while dressing like middle - class professionals and living in apartments, there is little reason to bind themselves, even in an attenuated way, to the classic vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience - each of which has undergone a radical reinterpretation in the LCWR congregations.

There have been setbacks, and the advance has been uneven — more pronounced for the professional middle class than for the working class.

It will not do to blame middle - class churches for the crisis, to scold them for having lost their roots and their evangelistic fervor, to say that they have waxed too fat — too institutional, professional and formal.

Unlike the historic churches, with their traditions, middle - class clientele and professional and bureaucratic standards, the Pentecostal field is, by comparison, young, fast - expanding, popular and sectarian.

Especially among upper middle class and affluent parents, there's a strong belief that going to a top - tier college — especially one in the Ivy League — will provide unimaginable advantages in the professional world.

Mothers who try to live up to the new parenting standards of the professional middle class seem to have few options: They can overwork themselves, or they can leave the workforce.

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.

The proportion is even higher among middle - class women with well - paid jobs — more than 90 per cent of mothers in managerial or professional roles breastfeed.

I only hope that he and the other candidates, all of whom were excellent last night, understand that university and a move into middle - class professional circles are not an answer for everybody.

Polls show consistently higher support for the EU among middle - class professionals than those in working - class categories.

For all the changes the area has gone through, it's held on to a large part of its middle class core: white and blue collar civil servants, private sector professionals, union workers and small entrepreneurs.

While they lost ground in seats with high concentrations of working - class voters, or those with no cars and poor health, they gained 2 percentage points or more in English and Welsh seats with the highest concentrations of middle - class professionals, car owners and those in good health.

It's not a good look: the evasive tactics, the actions which require decoding by political journalists to find their meaning, the use of managerial terms like «stakeholder» — this all reflects the problems Labour had in the past, where professional middle - class politicians conducted themselves in a way which alienated the party's supporters.

We need to provide opportunities for our middle class and young professionals as well,» he said.

It may be comforting for Labour to think this is the normal situation, that Labour and the Conservatives are normally seen as working class and middle class respectively, but when YouGov asked a similar question about Labour in 2007 the party were seen as closer to professional and business people than to the working class and the poor.

A upper middle class higher managerial, administrative or professional B middle class intermediate managerial, administrative or professional C1 lower middle class supervisory or clerical, junior managerial, administrative or professional C2 skilled working class skilled manual workers D working class semi and unskilled manual workers E those at lowest level of subsistence state pensioners or widows (no other earner), casual or lowest grade workers

The vibrant middle class that once defined urban life moved to the suburbs or exurbs long ago and, with the notable exception of New York City, an influx of well - educated young professionals has not made up for that exodus.

Leader Nigel Farage told Good Morning Britain it was unfair that middle - class professionals such as nurses had been sucked into the higher rate.

Furthermore their illiberal and authoritarian approach to civil liberties and social non-conformity were also damaging to their support among the professional middle classes.