Sentences with phrase «middle class residents»

The Climate and Community Reinvestment Act would be a major step forward on climate action, while ensuring that low - income and middle class residents are fully protected in the transition to clean energy.

More than likely, these residents — many of whom are first - generation middle class residents, entrepreneurs, and blue - collar workers — would use a Patent Trigger law to remove control of P.S. 45 from the New York City Department of Education, and lead an overhaul so that all families and their kids have a wider array of choices.

«State and local deductibility is a dagger aimed at the heart of New York and particularly of so many of our middle class residents,» Schumer said during a press conference with Cuomo on the front lawn of a home in the suburbs of Albany.

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WBEN)- Governor Andrew Cuomo on Thursday signed a measure to lower taxes for middle class residents and began the next stage of his subsidized college tuition program.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is anticipating how cuts to the federal government could affect the state's middle class residents.

At 10 a.m., Assemblyman Anthony Brindisi, a Democratic congressional candidate; Republican Oneida County Executive Anthony Picente, and other local officials and community members will discuss the impact of the House GOP tax reform plan on Mohawk Valley middle class residents, state Office Building, first floor, 207 Genesee St., Utica.

Borelli, who previously served as Ignizio's chief of staff, promised to fight for middle class residents of the outer boroughs when he gets into the council.

Congresswoman Nita Lower says the plan could increase taxes by thousands of dollars for middle class residents in NY

Quinn's final speech focused on new initiatives to keep the city affordable for middle class residents.

The states have relatively high taxes, and the loss of the deductions will mean middle and upper middle class residents, and wealthy residents will pay more in what Cuomo calls «double taxation.»

This comes after the state began its Excelsior Scholarship earlier this year, which offers tuition - free college at SUNY schools for middle class residents.

Not exact matches

More Californians are moving from the Golden State, particularly lower - income residents, although even middle - class residents are saying goodbye, according to experts.

Many are bracing for a rapid change in Birdland's demographics once Apple Park opens, as longtime residents — many of whom are retired and middle class — cash in on skyrocketing housing prices and increased demand.

When Irving Howe, the good democratic socialist critic of Dissent fame, was attacking in 1966 the whole idea of Counter-Cultural style — I guess Beatle boots, beads, long hair, turtlenecks, denims, etc. — , he said that it rested upon the ``... basic assumption... of the middle class: that values can be inferred from, or are resident in, the externals of dress, appearance, furnishings, and hair - dos.»

The primary residents of these communities were middle class families where Mom stayed home and Dad commuted to work.

Across the street stands a 13 - story middle - class high - rise apartment building whose residents are white.

It examined its membership, too, and proudly reported — as the minutes note — «We are Protestant and Catholic, clergy and laity, black, white, Hispanic, poor and middle - class, old and young, and all residents of the community.»

During a fitness class at the Recreation Center in Palos Heights, resident Melissa Gracias, 42, said she likes the personal relationship she has with her instructor and the other middle - age women who regularly attend the classes.

The tax cuts included in the Assembly's one house bill were larger for middle class NY residents.

«I will prioritize passing meaningful ethics reform, supporting our middle class families and small business owners, fighting tirelessly for better public education, and providing the residents of our district with the resources and services that they deserve.»

«Dell is a lifelong Brooklyn resident who has dedicated his career to fighting for working and middle class New Yorkers.

Our working - and middle - class residents can not afford to lose these benefits come tax time.»

There is evidence to suggest that, over the twenty - five years of its operation, the opportunity to participate directly in local politics has resulted in lower levels of tax avoidance among wealthier middle - class residents.

With fears of losing a congressional seat, a Rhode Island state representative has created a bill to lure people to the state, proposing to pay «middle class» families up to $ 10,000 in tax credits or incentive payments to become residents for a year.

And his support of the so - called tax «reform» deal last December (along with the entire Senate GOP, it's worth noting) that ended up cutting middle class taxes, but also raising taxes on the state's wealthiest residents — albeit less than a straight reinstatement of the millionaire's tax would have — didn't win him many friends on the right, either.

In the six months since he won a February special election, state Assemblyman David Weprin (D - Little Neck) said he has hit the ground running and will continue to fight for middle - class residents if he is fortunate enough to win re-election in November.

Most of the Amalgamated residents, who are whiter and more middle - class than the district as a whole, don't really know or care about Rivera's childhood.

The states have relatively high taxes, and the loss of the deductions will mean middle - and upper - middle - class residents and wealthy residents will pay more in what Cuomo calls «double taxation.»

The group's members — ranging from the NAACP to developer heavyweights including the Durst Organization, RXR Realty and Related Companies — filed a lawsuit in state Supreme Court claiming NYC's property tax system is racially biased and tipped in favor of affluent homeowners at the expense of working - and middle - class residents.

The Sheffield Street Trees «scandal» has had the effect of sparking a moment of democratic engagement among (mostly middle class) residents of the city.

«I was encouraged when you approached me after the hearing and said that if we can find a collaborative path forward, you would help champion Airbnb's efforts to support working and middle - class residents across the five boroughs,» Lehane stated in his letter.

Opponents gathered at the foot of the Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge in Long Island City said Move NY burdens middle - class residents in the outer boroughs as well as small businesses.

Rather than place blame and point fingers, New York State will help prepare residents for future jobs and promote economic growth while aiding middle class and poor New Yorkers, the governor said.

For many upper - middle - class residents of high - tax states, Tuesday will be the last time we can file to receive a full tax deduction for our state and local income and property taxes.

No. 2, interestingly, is the middle - class tax cut achieved through the extraordinary session tax code reform deal passed earlier this month — a move that also resulted in a higher than pre-millionaire's tax rate for the state's wealthiest residents, causing some on the right to accuse the governor of breaking his no - new - taxes pledge.

«New York must continue to lessen the burden of property taxes for all residents, lift middle - class families up out of challenging times, and empower voters to engage their local leaders to make real, positive fiscal change,» Cuomo said.

«When he took office, Governor Cuomo recognized that taxes on New York's residents and businesses were far too high which is why he enacted the state's first ever property tax cap, established the lowest tax rate for the middle class in 58 years and brought state spending under control.»

Miner said she changed her mind after Katko voted for a Republican overhaul of the tax code that she fears will disproportionately harm working poor and middle - class residents of Syracuse and Central New York.

Green Party candidate Howie Hawkins declared Gov. Andrew Cuomo's deal with the Working Families Party a «quid pro Cuomo» that will help the state's wealthiest residents at the expense of the middle class and poor.

The more residents of the Hudson Valley / Catskills region learn about Julian's vision for creating middle class jobs, growing our economy and protecting Medicare and a woman's right to choose, the more they know Julian will represent them in Washington.»

Instead, Cuomo worked out a deal with the Senate Republicans that continued only a modified version of the millionaire's tax on the state's wealthiest residents and gave middle - class New Yorkers a tax cut.

Faulkner spoke of reaching people not normally reached by Republicans, such as NYCHA residents, his ability to reach the «middle class, the downtrodden, the dispossessed» but little of specific issues.

Are middle - class state residents taxed at the lowest rate in seven decades?

PolitiFact New York checked Cuomo's claim that middle - class New York State residents will have the «lowest tax rate in 70 years» and found his statement to be Mostly True.

«At a time when Queens residents feel like they are being squeezed out of the middle class, we need a person with great integrity who will put the needs of working New Yorkers first,» Mr. Flake said in a statement to the Observer.

In thematically distinct speeches at opposite ends of the state, Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Monday unveiled elements of a 2017 agenda that reached out to a middle class empowered but angered by national political rhetoric, and to upstate residents who feel left behind by the post-recession recovery.

In his State of the State address Monday, Cuomo laid out a series of proposals, from free college tuition to a childcare tax credit increase, that he says will help the state's middle class and poor residents while maintaining its historically progressive values.

But his campaign will emphasize the middle class, which is often a code phrase for outer borough residents.

When middle - class residents of Midrand near Johannesburg woke recently to find a rash of squatter shacks had gone up in their backyard overnight, they jammed the switchboard of the town council with complaints.

However, my research shows that despite their distinct middle - class character, ethnoburbs have lost a steady flow of white residents over the past 20 years,» said Samuel Kye, author of «Revisiting White Flight and Segregation: The Consequences of Ethnoburbs.»