Sentences with phrase «middle class service»

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The newly designed aircraft, built partially with lightweight composite materials and powered by Pratt & Whitney's fuel - saving engines, is targeted at established carriers looking to replace older, inefficient planes, and new airlines launching in developing countries, such as China, to service the growing middle class and airport expansion.

Tutoring services are becoming a big business in China thanks to a growing middle - class and a job market that values English - language proficiency.

Take that funding away and the market settles back into something more closely aligned with the underlying reality — the one of high unemployment / underemployment, high oil prices, stagnant middle - and lower - class incomes, unprecedented wealth concentration in the upper class, demolished savers, under - investment in capital, and an ongoing transition to a low - wage service economy hard - pressed to service debt.

But an order was included that demanded such a report pay «extra consideration to the effects such a policy change may have on the middle class, manufacturing and service sector workers, and foreign direct investment into the United States.»

Its growing economy (slated to surpass the U.S. as the world's largest in a decade or so) and burgeoning middle class provide ample opportunity for Canadian companies to expand abroad and build a new export market, particularly in the agricultural and services sectors.

More middle class consumers means more spending on goods and services and more investing.

He believes the service will give the middle class a greater stake in a capitalist system that has become skewed towards the rich.

Additionally, China's rapidly growing middle - class will drive accelerating demand for goods and services that Canadian companies, large and small, are primed to meet, notably in agriculture and food.

Changes in the cost of certain goods and services that middle - class Americans consider essential may not be adequately captured in this bundle.

«The post-recession reality is that the customer base for businesses that appeal to the middle class is shrinking as the top tier pulls even further away... big stores and restaurants are chasing richer customers with a wider offering of high - end goods and services, or focusing on rock - bottom prices to attract the expanding ranks of penny - pinching consumers.»

A draft presidential memorandum at the end of the document that could be used to order the review of NAFTA orders the report to pay «extra consideration to the effects such a policy change may have on the middle class, manufacturing and service sector workers, and foreign direct investment into the United States.»

A recent task force report from APF Canada and the Canada West Foundation points to the importance of export diversification for the Canadian economy and how trans - Pacific energy trade can provide the vanguard of a broader effort to develop new Asian markets for Canadian products and services to service growing middle class demands in Asia.

In turn, this can make it easier for advisors to deliver a fiduciary level of service to more middle - class Americans.

• Cooperating with Beijing to develop social services in China as the country faces growing social pressures to bridge the rural - urban divide and appease a burgeoning middle class.

John is the founder and general manager of #FotoNet, an internet café that provides IT services, internet access, and computer training to low - income and middle - class communities in the Dominican Republic.

The ground is rumbling beneath you and the Postal Service that propelled thousands to middle class life is on the cusp of major changes.

We are not seeing that; rather, we see a thriving service sector, productivity innovations and a growing middle class.

This near - term drive for growth, coupled with longer - term trends of increasing urbanization and a growing middle class, will require greater and greater quantities of the wood, metals and minerals and other goods and services that Canada has to offer.

November 23, 2016 www.business.financialpost.com Rotman Professor Wendy Dobson, with Kevin Lynch, on the untapped potential of Chinese markets: «The untapped potential of Chinese markets and their burgeoning middle class offer tremendous scope and scale for export sales of both goods and services, creating new Canadian jobs and attracting additional investment.»

The REAL ISSUE is that Romney doesn't have a darn thing to offer the middle class, students, women, minorities, gays, vets / armed services, etc..

We should also be able to agree that policies designed to reduce services to the poor and to put a larger part of the tax burden on the shoulders of the lower middle class is not Christian.

Welfare indirectly allows many in this country to buy I - phones, flat screen TVs and cars that are nicer than those owned by the middle class with their marginal income, by paying for all of life's necessities (food, clothing, shelter and medical services) that those in the middle class pay for out of pocket.

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 on our middle - class income, we have received tangible (a $ 6000 check to cover dental expenses last week) and intangible blessings (alarm company not charging us $ 200 for the service charge and sensor replacement after a recent break - in).

A congregation of moderate size located in an upper - middle - class bedroom community in New England, Wiltshire offered the scholars a chance to demonstrate the range of insight that could be gained through the use of their specific disciplines in the service of congregational analysis.

Think of the gulf that separates the fundamental attitudes toward drinking of a certain upper - class Episcopal church with its occasional «sherry parties» after services from the attitudes of a middle - class Baptist church with its annual «temperance speaker.»

However tenuously, they have moved upward into the middle class, and the new aggregate demand for goods and services they exert is everywhere visible in the quantity of economic activity in the world today, as opposed to twenty - five years ago.

The best friends that capitalism has in this country today are the antitrust laws, the graduated income tax, the inheritance taxes, the social security program, and all the other legislation that has tempered the capitalist system, spread the wealth, provided for adequate public services, and created the great middle class that makes the American economy strong.

Yeah, fasting and praying so that health care can be denied sick children, so that taxes can be lowered on the rich and raised on struggling middle - class families... praying that education loan programs be gutted and that social services for people in need get eliminated.

With classes costing # 300 a course, the NCT's services are not reaching many parents - to - be and Nick Wilkie is reported as saying that the service is too middle class and must do more to attract parents from disadvantaged backgrounds.

These include Whisconier Middle and Brookfield High School Support Services Staff, as well as the Prince of Peace Preschool Staff in Brookfield, while offering parenting classes in Brookfield and surrounding towns.

«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.»

The Tories haven't decontaminated their anti-public service brand, and the decision to target middle class people for spending cuts is breathtaking...

In all reality is unfair to remove important services to all New Yorkers and in the same token stop a tax that supplements those same services to benefit the most wealthy who don't have to suffer the unfortunate woes of the poor and middle class families.

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.

«Without dramatic action, middle and working class New Yorkers will continue to suffer the consequences of the MTA's budget crisis, with ongoing fare hikes and diminished services.»

Gov. Andrew Cuomo said the recently enacted state budget included the majority of the priorities that he named in his January State of the State message, including raising the age for adult criminal responsibility from 16 to 18, providing free public college tuition for some middle - class families and allowing ride - hailing services to operate upstate.

It was this upbringing, and it's embrace of the shared and common struggles of Queens middle - class families, that inspired Grace to lead a life of public service as a public interest lawyer and now as a member of the New York State Assembly.

Over the past week I've heard the following arguments - they want to lift the poor out of tax, actually the main beneficiaries of this policy won't be the poor because they don't pay tax, but will instead be the middle class, anyway, on a point of principle we need to simplify the tax system, and we need to cut public services by # 80 billion per year, or maybe we don't.

«Throughout his years of service as a state Assemblymember, Joe fought hard to create solid middle - class jobs.

«Throughout his career of service to the community, Hector has proven to be a tireless voice for good paying jobs and real benefits that support a robust middle class.

UFT President Michael Mulgrew appealed to delegates at the April 13 Delegate Assembly to join and bring colleagues along for a big action on Thursday, May 12, to call on the wealthy to pay their fair share of taxes instead of cutting services to the middle class and the safety net for the poor.

That means that details remain elusive on the status of, among other things, expanding ride - hailing outside of New York City, offering free tuition to SUNY and CUNY schools for middle - class students, and requiring local governments to come up with shared services plans.

The largest state worker union, the Civil Service Employees Association, calls it «corporate welfare» and a «tax giveaway to business at the expense of local communities and middle class jobs.»

«But I think the speech missed the mark by failing to address the concerns many middle class New Yorkers have today — such as how his administration can improve the delivery of core city services and make this city more affordable for all of us,» Ignizio said.

Schumer, who 16 years ago spoke at Spota's inauguration, extolled Sini's middle - class upbringing in West Islip and his service in both the U.S. attorney's office in Manhattan and the Suffolk police department.

Jumia is part of broader ecosystem of services providing opportunities for local African businesses to do business with the fast - growing African consumers and middle class.

AXA and Jumia view Africa as a fast - developing market for financial services and insurance products, benefitting from strong fundamentals such as low penetration rates, rise in middle class, urbanization, as well as the youth of its population.

There aren't any Nick but there are plenty of studies that show they do hurt Middle and Working Class families and the small businesses that help or service them.

The impact on municipalities would cripple community colleges and prevent local governments from providing the essential public services that middle - class New Yorkers need.»