Sentences with phrase «middle class suburbs»

White families are aligned with wealthy, middle class suburbs and black families are examined as they exist in working class urban backgrounds.

And so, black middle class families are driven to black middle class suburbs and white middle class families are not (Lacy, 2007).

White middle class suburbs offer a number of social, cultural, and economic benefits to the Black families living there.

For many, Lady Bird signified something meaningful and universal for those who grew up in white middle class suburbs and longed for culture anywhere, or to find some sort of foothold as an adult — it reminded me much more of The Graduate than it did The 400 Blows.

I am a teacher in a very poor school district, but I am a mom living in a middle class suburb.

This may sound like an overreach, but consider that Agenda 21 defines what we Americans know as the «single family residence» - which is to say, the middle class suburb with tract homes, soccer moms driving mini-vans, and consumption of energy restricted only by the wallets of the homeowners themselves - as most definitely «unsustainable.»

Not exact matches

The exodus was driven primarily by the collapse of the auto industry and the mass migration of middle - class African Americans to the suburbs.

Detroit's property values fell, tax revenue dropped, police couldn't control a growing murder rate, and many middle - class blacks fled the city for safer suburbs with better schools.

Large Apartments — These buildings are the larger, nicer complexes you see all around the country, often times in upper - middle class neighborhoods in the suburbs.

But it's hard to imagine students from the largely white, solidly middle - class Florida suburb being painted as «thugs» or «extremists» for their actions.

Evelyn Waugh: A Life Revisitedby philip eadehenry holt, 432 pages, $ 32 Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh was born in 1903 to upper - middle - class Anglicans who lived in a suburb of London.

According to Rah, «fifty years ago, if you were asked to describe a typical Christian in the world, you could confidently assert that person to be an upper middle - class, white male, living in an affluent and comfortable Midwest suburb.

Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh was born in 1903 to upper - middle - class Anglicans who lived in a suburb of London.

You said, «A clear reference to the term «recovering alcoholic,» it is on a par with calling middle class blacks who live in the suburbs and eschew «ebonics,» «recovering african americans.»»

The «self - sufficient» family today is associated with the economic independence of «respectable» middle - class families in towns and suburbs.

It has not brought the poor to the suburbs, but it is the reason why many middle class people are suddenly poor and in need of assistance.

Their members are largely middle - class people who live primarily in the suburbs.

99 Ranch Market looks for middle - and upper - class suburbs that have a sizeable Asian population, he says.

According to Mondelez spokesperson Hélène Boyer, two qualitative groups were observed in July 2017, mixing men and women from the «middle» and «lower middle» classes from Paris and surrounding suburbs.

During Splash's youth, Wauwatosa had been a small bedroom suburb on the western outskirts of Milwaukee, a quiet, tidy enclave whose middle - class affluence was as sturdy as its stone houses, as neatly clipped as its putting - green lawns, a town where men often took the streetcar to work, or else walked whistling under the elms.

A long, skinny, redheaded kid growing up in a strong Catholic middle - class home in the San Diego suburb of La Mesa.

I had been raised in an upper middle class family in the Chicago suburbs and, for the most part, had a great childhood.

«People may think that suburbs such as Evergreen Park, Oak Lawn and Orland Park are fairly stable middle - class places where everyone is doing okay, «said Irene (not her real name), who has been receiving help from the Village Pantry Coalition in Evergreen Park for several years.

We are a middle class family, living in middle America, right in the middle of the suburbs.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D - N.Y.) said the Senate plan, like the House bill, would harm middle and upper middle - class taxpayers on Long Island and in suburbs across the country — and warned House Republicans voting for their bills they could face defeat next year.

He's raised taxes and spending in Rochester, mismanaged every development project proposed for that dying city, and continued the process of pushing the middle class and businesses out to the suburbs.

Then there are all of the growing middle - class families who don't want to go to the suburbs.

The migration of middle - class whites to the suburbs left the very poor in the city, and they «found themselves surrounded by more poor people,» Semuels writes.

Another was a $ 6 billion, three - year property tax relief plan that would focus new aid on middle - class homeowners, granting an average of $ 920 in relief for such families in the New York suburbs and an average of $ 512 upstate.

«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.

In upstate areas, average homes seldom cost more than half a million dollars, but in New York City, and its suburbs, it's not uncommon for middle class homes to be valued in that range.

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.

McMahon also ran the numbers for a typical upstate middle class family, choosing the Albany suburb of Latham, where the median income is around $ 83,000.

I walked across town into Carlton (in the constituency) yesterday as a matter of fact, and it is certainly looking like the more tired, faded edge - of - conurbation territory which once would've been lower middle - class / aspirational working - class Tory heartland but is now very much more like an inner suburb of Nottingham in character (and psephology).

Certainly everybody that I saw in my short time was extremely interested in purchasing a car and if they happen to be from the more upwardly mobile kind of middle class, they were very interested in buying not a fuel - efficient car but a hummer even, you know, pretty much following the exact same model as the American aspiration or, you know, the «American dream» model and certainly the suburbs seem to be a growing trend and if you noticed that, Philip, you know, I visited a suburb called Orange County outside of Beijing and it really looked like Orange County and they even had like the palm trees and everything and I saw these in all the cities I visited Chongqing, Chengdu, various other cities that I visited, they were ringed by suburbs and the folks who live there, you know, the privileged few were using cars to commute into the cities for work.

And the Chinese middle class has adopted another American habit: living in the suburbs and relying on a car to commute, whether it be in «Orange County» outside Beijing or similar suburbs on the outskirts of every other major city.

As Collier points out, in many cities the brighter and better - motivated black people have moved into white, middle - class suburbs so that there are far fewer role models in the black community.

Rather than safely becoming middle - class melting pots, however, the once majority - white suburbs in Kye's study appeared especially sensitive to the growth and emergence of non-white populations.

Jessica Michelle Chastain was born in Sacramento, California, and was raised in a middle - class household in a northern California suburb.

After her father's project reached completion, Nicole and her family returned to Australia.Raised in the upper - middle - class Sydney suburb of Longueville for the remainder of the 1970s and well into the eighties, Kidman grew up infused with a love of the arts, particularly dance and theatre.

Born July 13, 1942, in Chicago and raised in a middle - class suburb, he had an average childhood.

Here he's working in a middle - class suburb of New York, where Marlo and her husband, Drew (Ron Livingston, playing a very Ron Livingston character), are slightly overwhelmed by everything: they have two kids, one with emerging special needs, and a baby on the way, and their lives have devolved to rote routine.

Annihilation opens in an unnamed small town in the Baltimore suburbs — just your typical suburban middle class home.

Her performance as Lady Bird in Greta Gerwig's loosely biographical (she denies it, but...) coming of age movie about a teen growing up in Sacramento in a middle class family who yearns for something more than the humdrum life in the suburbs.

Annie (Liana Liberato), from a middle - class Chicago suburb, is a shy 14 - year - old who strikes up an increasingly intimate online friendship with «Charlie» (Chris Henry Coffey), who claims he is 16, later on admitting to being in his mid-20s.

The flight from inner cities to the suburbs by working - and middle - class Americans affected Catholic schools as much as, if not more than, it did public schools.

After all, achievement - test scores and graduation rates in the middle - class suburb were already surpassing state averages.

Many of these new schools are focused on solving one of our society's most intractable problems: how to close the achievement gap between low - income minority students in our nation's inner cities and their white middle - and upper - class contemporaries in the suburbs.

A 1993 front - page New York Times story reported: «Gang membership grows in middle - class suburbs,» showing up in everything from larceny and vandalism in schools to «razors, bats, and bottles, and now to guns.»

Over the previous two decades, the middle class had fled Baltimore for the suburbs, and school enrollment had fallen by one - quarter, to about 80,000 from 109,000 in 1997 (Figure 1a).