Sentences with phrase «middle class situation»

In terms of the middle class situation in the west, they are in many ways the greatest culprits for high carbon standards of living.

Not exact matches

Both situations are evidence of an emerging middle class.

All too often, their character is implicitly diminished in efforts to account for their situation in the first place: they represent the opposite of character traits thought to be the basis of middle - class success and security.

When the requirements of participation and the definitions of life situations that are promulgated by these groups are not seriously challenged, middle - class religious institutions are no match for them.

This is methodologically wise, for the situation of middle - class divorced parents is significantly different from «that of the average never - married young mother.

Historic churches and individual historic leaders must adapt to the new reality of the religious field in Latin America: a market situation in which institutional loyalties are precarious, middle - class denominationalism is in decline and the Protestant community is overwhelmingly Pentecostal.

The classic situation is for a city to havethree clubs: top - status for the elite, middle - class for the strivers and justplain folks, and the minority club for the Jews.

And while the Science authors found instruction to be basic and repetitive even in American schools with a mostly middle - class or upper - middle - class student population, they found that the situation was considerably worse in schools that enrolled a lot of low - income children.

I think it is important to point out that this isn't just an issue for middle class families who care deeply about their child's diet and are able to provide abundant healthy food choices but school menus have great impact on many, many poor children who, through no fault of their own and often with no agency to change the situation, end up being pawns in the lunch tray wars.

I know I can't speak for all women in all situations / socio - economic backgrounds, but the pressure on educated middle - and upper - class women to breastfeed is intense.

The article takes the focus off the prosperous women whose child - care situations raised anxious questions when they were being considered by President Clinton for appointment as U.S. attorney general and instead examines a group it sees as the largest group of mothers frustrated in seeking good day care: middle - class working mothers in urban areas where nearly all the available caregivers are undocmented foreign workers.

The principle authors argue that this basic settlement survived both the revisionism of Tony Crosland and the changes wrought by New Labour in the 1990s, contributing to the defeat of 2010, and the situation where Labour has alienated large swathes, not just of the middle class electorate, but of its traditional core working class vote as well.

We've worked to create a situation where the middle class is suddenly within reach of gaming workers... not a bunch of minimum - wage jobs where people have to live on the dole to survive.»»

«The Syrian situation poses two conflicting goals: to allow the use of chemical weapons by the Syrian government to go unanswered would encourage the Assad regime, and other rogue governments, to use them again, but the last thing America needs or wants is a protracted conflict in the Middle East when our primary focus must be on jobs, the economy and the middle Middle East when our primary focus must be on jobs, the economy and the middle middle class.

«This overall situation once again underscores the need to work even harder at the state level to provide new and ongoing tax relief to middle class families, starting with balancing our budget without any tax increases, lowering onerous energy taxes for seniors and other homeowners, and making the successful two percent property tax cap permanent,» Flanagan said.

Critics of recent cross-party plans to introduce free higher education have dismissed it as a «middle class subsidy» and ignored what the policy would mean for people in my situation.

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.

«The amount gambled is controlled in all households, including the wealthier ones, and this situation especially affects the lower - middle classes and immigrants,» comments one of the authors of the study, José Antonio Gómez Yañez, a professor in UC3M's Political Science and Sociology Department.

You know the kind, where ordinary, upper middle class - ish suburbanites get thrown into some wacky underworld or genre situation.

Though he pointed out that some Negroes were managing to move into the middle class, he focused on documenting what he argued was the deteriorating situation of impoverished black families in the inner cities: «The family structure of lower class Negroes is highly unstable, and in many urban centers is approaching complete breakdown.»

Imagine a situation in which a student (let's call her Vanessa) says some ugly things in the middle of class, and you finesse the situation so that the student falls silent and returns to work.

The situation stabilized in the 1980s, but then urban poverty deepened and the middle class continued to flee.

On the contrary, I worked many years with students with learning disabilities in a middle and high school resource situation, and one of the objectives was always to help students master regular class content.

Making the situation even more unfair, Malloy has provided no meaningful additional support for public schools in Connecticut's middle - income communities meaning that the burden of local property taxes has become even more unfair for middle - class families.

Socioeconomic integration is a win - win situation: Low - income students» performance rises; all students receive the cognitive benefits of a diverse learning environment (Antonio et al., 2004; Phillips, Rodosky, Muñoz, & Larsen, 2009); and middle - class students» performance seems to be unaffected up to a certain level of integration.

Many black middle class families in this situation have adults who hold positions such as postal workers or sales clerks (Lacy, 2007).

Owning homes in upper - middle class black neighborhoods puts families in a unique situation where they can begin to accumulate wealth, but where the racial composition of the neighborhood puts them at a disadvantage compared to black families in majority white neighborhoods.

All of the main drivers of what could improve matters for the middle class are outside the power of any individual government, so plan your own situation accordingly and adjust your economic expectations down.

My situation: I'm 25, (filing single on taxes until 30 +), live in CA, and pay a stupidly obscene amount of tax for a middle class 25 year old.

In this, the situation powerfully reflects a longstanding pattern as countries urbanize and the middle class expands.

These market - stimulating sales, coupled with the changing economic and political situation in Asia, including the growth of China's middle class, led us to the crisis that we face today.

Underneath that, we see judges who get blamed by middle class Kenyans for seatbelt situations.

The situation is better in other states with so - called low bono programs to help middle class litigants, Minow said.

Those in the middle class might be less able to absorb a personal property loss, but those with Hyde Park Tower Apartments renters insurance have more to lose and more to replace in that situation.

Much research shows that the authoritative and flexible parenting style is optimal for the white, middle - class child from a nuclear family, but the same may not be true for other children growing up in other circumstances and situations.

«You'd have to live closer together, maybe have similar incomes so you can offer the child similar housing... It's a situation really that would work better for middle to upper middle class families,» she says.

We highly recommend any parent who finds themselves in such a situation attend a parent education class such as those offered by Children in the Middle, but sometimes general information is only a starting point.