Sentences with phrase «middle class struggles»
Nothing extraordinary, just the average stuff one hears about in the middle class struggles of aging in America.
http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/ Not exact matches
While former secretary of state Hillary Clinton and U.S. Senator from Vermont Bernie Sanders are expected to duke it out in an intensifying battle for the party nomination, themes of the weak economy and the struggles of the middle class are likely to take center stage.
Years ago, he met a middle school student on a class tour through DC who was struggling with his stutter, and wrote him a letter: «You can beat it just like I did.
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.
First, substantial direct or indirect wealth transfers from the state sector to Chinese households will unleash a surge in household consumption as household income rises (and because the interest on bank deposits is an important source of income for most middle and lower middle class households, if the authorities reduce interest rates, as struggling borrowers are demanding, China actually moves in the wrong direction).
«Liberals believe that government must not only create the right conditions for economic growth, but also ensure that growth is sustainable and will finally help struggling middle class families.»
«With stagnant job growth numbers this past year and a significant decrease in family - supporting jobs, giving up on her jobs plan is a sign the premier has given up on middle class families who are struggling to make ends meet.»
Basically, the lack of a Republican agenda that takes into account the struggles of much of the lower - middle - class makes it easier for Democrats....
«Cosmic struggle» sounds like a video game that middle - class children play.
Much of what Ramsey teaches is sound, helpful advice, particularly for middle - class Americans struggling with mounting credit card bills.
The person on income support who is struggling to make ends meet can please and honour God with their giving just as much as the financially comfortable middle - class family.
He came out against middle - class tax increases, said he now supported the mid-1990s welfare reform, and he made an effort to seem like an abortion moderate who struggled with the moral complexity of the issue.
His candidacy would combine upfront social conservatism with an economic message targeted at the middle - class and struggling wage - earners rather than at the party's lobbyist and donor elites.
The struggling working class and disintegrating middle class yearn for a stable place to stand, not greater economic freedom.
We could be on the cusp of conservative reforms that would rival all of the domestic policy achievements of the 1980s and 1990s if some conservatives would stop trying to relive the Kemp - Roth tax cuts or else engaging in hopeless struggles to get the public to support flat taxes or national sales taxes that would either raise taxes on the middle - class or collapse revenues or both.
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.
Where these movements of eco-justice stand in isolation from the struggle against «capitalist infringements of communal rights to natural resources», that is, from the struggle for social justice, they are likely to be of a purely middle class character and tend to get coopted by the ideology of market economy.
In fact the local struggles of the organized movements of dalits, tribals, fisherfolk and women, for living and for survival (some of which have been partly or temporarily successful), against specific expressions of market - directed pattern of development, have been a potent force to educate the middle class regarding the inhuman reality of the present development paradigm; such education is necessary to achieve even our short - term objective.
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.
If a businessman can convince voters that he will direct his talents toward advancing the interests of the middle - class and the struggling, he will find it easier to win the public's trust.
Wenger is clearly struggling to find a top class striker within his price - range and the boss hinted over the weekend that he's ready to use Alexis Sanchez through the middle this season.
I recently watched a group of 5 year olds in a middle class neighbourhood school struggle with play.
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.
A student struggling with algebra in high school or middle school needs some gentle guidance in the right direction to avoid failing the class, bring up their grade, and maybe even actually enjoy math.
«Increasing middle class taxes to subsidize corporate tax cuts is an affront to struggling Americans.
He may have masterfully exploited the despair of the precariat to his own advantage, yet it is the precariat, the working class struggling with chronic and manifold precarity, that is using him as a weapon against the invisible oppressive hand of neoliberalism that has ravaged the middle class since the late 1970s.
The economic argument is debatable and opinions differ, but do you think the large numbers of struggling upstaters enjoy the high taxes, ever increasing fees (example: the cost to have your vehicle inspected DOUBLED from 2010 to 2011 and is now one of the highest in the nation) and endless financial burdens they as lower and middle class people endure while the rich bankers and CEOs downstate laugh at them?
«Anyone who opposes this measure and truly believes we should go back to the old way of doing business is out of touch with reality and the struggles of working and middle class suburban families.»
«The IDC is going to make a positive change for New York's working - and middle - class families who struggle to send their children to college through our College Affordability for All plan, make sure our teenagers are treated as such by Raising the Age of criminal responsibility and create good - paying jobs through our Made by New Yorkers vision.»
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.
It's another form of a commuter tax and will place an unfair burden on middle - class Long Islanders who are already struggling to make ends meet.
Kinderhook, N.Y. November 1, 2016... With open enrollment for Obamacare beginning today, voters should know that its rates are skyrocketing for New York's struggling middle class: They'll go up another 16.6 percent on average in New York and upwards of 25 percent elsewhere, yet liberal New York City professor and NY - 19 congressional candidate Zephyr Teachout wants to expand the failing program even more, the campaign of fiscally responsible congressional candidate John Faso today noted.
In a statement, Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan said that middle - class taxpayers are «struggling under the crushing weight» of various taxes, as well as the «skyrocketing» costs of higher education.
It is about the millions of middle - class families who never dreamt that life would be such a struggle».
«I struggle with how the particular facts cited on eg working hours or racism can be «ahistorical», but look forward to finding out...» Perhaps you are labouring under the middle class leftwing relativism that believes that history is all just opinion, and that all facts are thereby historical.
Unshackle Upstate's Brian Sampson says in a TU OpEd that state taxpayer dollars slated for a public campaign finance system would be better spent on repairing aging infrastructure, expediting ongoing storm recovery efforts, restoring the Gap Elimination Adjustment, or providing tax relief for struggling middle - class families.
His experience, ability to work well with others and thoughtful insight on many issues make him a fighter for the middle class and those struggling to make it.
«Labor Day is a day we celebrate the great American work ethic and those hardworking men and women who struggled to provide us with workers» rights and deliver us today's landmarks of middle class security, including the 40 - hour work week, child labor laws, pensions, a minimum wage, Social Security and Medicare.
«It appears our legislative leaders couldn't agree to provide tax relief to struggling homeowners and renters through a middle class property tax circuit breaker but managed to find the political will to provide sales tax exemptions for people buying luxury yachts.
Washington (CNN)- Vice President Joe Biden appeared at a closed - door fundraiser in South Carolina Friday and delivered what one attendee called «an Elizabeth Warren - type speech» about the struggles of America's middle class, remarks that were well - received by a room full of influential primary state Democrats.
Though far drier than the governor's State of the State addresses last week, the budget plan made clear that Mr. Cuomo, a Democrat, remained intent on casting his 2017 agenda as an answer to the concerns of the middle class and the economic struggles of upstate New York, a formula that some observers have taken as the prelude to a possible presidential run in 2020.
Furthermore, it does not attempt to pay for health care on the backs of middle class working families by increasing taxes on the health care that families are already struggling to pay for», stated Hughes.
«They said they would help their districts; they said they would help the struggling middle class,» Mr. Cuomo said.
«So adding so - called free tuition is just another tax that would make matters actually worse on our already struggling middle class.»
«It goes back to hypocrite Kathy Hochul, who is running a divisive class warfare campaign, complaining about her term, millionaires billionaires and she's pretending to be this middle class individual, that struggles like most Americans, and she's not,» said Collins.
WASHINGTON — With total disregard for the struggling New York small business owners and middle - class families, Dan Maffei straddled them with more and more debt to appease his reckless spending addiction.
Mark Murphy will fight back in Congress and be a strong voice for middle class families and others in need who are struggling.»
«My priority and I think really the position of our members is let's make sure we're taking care of the hard - working members of the struggling middle class.»
RIP Jerry Birbach, a Queens firebrand whose struggle to block a proposed low - income housing project in his Forest Hills neighborhood in 1972 augured a white middle - class backlash to the liberal urban agenda and helped propel the late former Gov. Mario Cuomo's political career.
«I am endorsing Eric Schneiderman for attorney general because he has been a lifelong champion for middle - class families and those struggling to make it into the middle - class,» said Rep. Weiner.