Sentences with phrase «middle class took»

On the other hand, members of the middle class take jobs they don't enjoy «because they need the money, and they've been trained in school and conditioned by society to live in a linear thinking world that equates earning money with physical or mental effort.»

All goes to show that if Romney becomes President, we'll be a country lead by the rich, for the rich, with lots of advice from Salt Lake City, with the shrinking middle class taking in the shorts and paying all the bills.

Until the party and its leadership can admit to the mistakes made in government, or to the lack of courage shown in not tackling the clear problems that prevent ordinary people from enjoying the sort of life that the middle classes take for granted, then I fear a whole swathe of Labour supporters will simply choose not to vote Labour, whatever promises are made at the next election (this is essentially ditching the last vestiges of New Labour I suppose).

10.45 am Neil O'Brien on CentreRight: «The right to move is a freedom that the middle class take for granted, but which has been denied to those unable to afford their own housing for generations.

People in my constituency have benefited from foreign travel which, 40 years ago, the middle classes took for granted.»

It does a heck of a lot less than if that moeny was just given to all the poor people (who have to spend it all because they are poor and can't afford all the thinks the middle classes take for granted).

We know the middle class takes advantage of the mortgage - interest deduction because 53 % of those claiming it in 2014 earned less than $ 100,000 and 86 % earned less than $ 200,000.

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.

The North American tradition of presenting diamond engagement rings has now spread to China's massive middle class too, and, after taking a hit during the recession, the American luxury economy is rebounding.

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.

Amazon Description: «From Woody Allen, «Crisis in Six Scenes» is a is a comedy that takes place in the 1960's during turbulent times in the United States and a middle class suburban family is visited by a guest who turns their household completely upside down.»

The White House, with its big promise to help create jobs and raise incomes for the middle class, might have taken note.

This means that if I want to take my daughter to a music class in the middle of the day, I do that.

The lion's share of this expansion is expected to take place in emerging and developing countries such as India and China, where middle class growth is booming.

In a letter to U.S. Comptroller General Gene Dodaro, Democratic Senator Ron Wyden and Representative Richard Neal said they were concerned that the U.S. Treasury could be pressured to adopt tax withholding tables that take too little federal tax out of employee paychecks to make good on White House predictions of a middle - class windfall.

Much of the middle - class and scores of businesses also have fled the city, taking their tax dollars with them.

Treasury could be pressured to adopt tax withholding tables that take too little federal tax out of employee paychecks to make good on White House predictions of a middle - class windfall.

Leave out white middle - class, subtract wealth, a privileged education and hovering parents, take away the luxury of worrying about performance instead of subsistence, and today's 20 - something suddenly doesn't much resemble the poster child for her brand anymore.

Today President Obama took a big step forward in his goal to strengthen the economy and strengthen the middle class with the nomination of Richard Cordray as Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

Taken as a whole, the tax bill would not only increase taxes for millions of middle - class families but would also have disastrous effects on people's health care.

Team members took turns to stop by and support each other — bringing snacks and coming to the middle - of - the - night classes to cheer on the teammates that drew the «short straw.»

Ride - sharing apps have taken off among Vietnam's rapidly expanding middle class as they provide four - wheeled comfort in a country better known for chaotic swarms of scooters and Southeast Asia's most expensive taxi fares.

One key strategy for achieving this objective is to ensure that SMEs are able to take advantage of the growing market opportunities in Asia — a region that is projected to generate nearly 45 per cent of the world's GDP and represent 42 per cent of the world's total middle class consumption by 2020.

They spent months trying to take away health insurance from millions of middle - class and poor families.

Richard Florida outlines the steps that must be taken to if Toronto and other superstar cities are to make cities more livable and equitable for the middle and lower classes.

With a new iPhone expected in September 2016, Apple stands to benefit as iPhone continues to take premium market share (switchers from competitors), as the middle class continues to grow in emerging markets, and as the modest level of upgrades (only 20 % to date) indicates pulling demand forward from FY 2016 to FY 2015 may not be as severe as some have highlighted.

-- When changes in the composition of families are taken into account — including fewer adults per household as family sizes decrease — the real after - tax income of middle - class families increased 30 per cent from 1976 to 2010 — on par with other income groups, but still lower than the top earners

They're the middle class that he's talking about and you would hit them pretty hard if you took the dividend tax credit away or you reduced it,» he said.

«This is an issue Canada takes very seriously and is working hard to address in collaboration with the G20 and other countries around the world, so that we can bring tax fairness to our middle class.»

But is you don't have the kind of cash lying around that it takes to bribe high level politicians (i.e millions), you are middle class.

The GOP's plan will increase the deficit by an estimated $ 1.5 trillion, or $ 1 trillion after taking into account economic growth, and largely stick middle - class Americans with the bill.

As a middle class taxpayer who contributes far more to the pot then I take out I object to corporate welfare.

Alibaba and Fitbit, which opened a flagship store on Tmall two years ago, have taken notice of a rising awareness of wellness issues among China's middle class.

It would take away one of the few tax advantages working - and middle - class employees can enjoy.

Home equity has long been recognized as an important wealth - building tool for the middle class, though this process usually took place over decades (aside from the pre-2007 housing bubble).

The truth from the ground, based on the extensive footwork due diligence I conduct plus emails from readers around the country reporting similar observations, is that the inventory of home listings of soaring (the published inventory reports by design have 2 - 3 month lag), prices are dropping quickly, the time it takes to sell a home is increasing significantly and, most important, the potential pool of middle class home buyers no longer have an income level that will support the size of mortgage it takes to «buy» a home.

They failed to take credit or make the case for the economic upturn, and how their policies have much to do with lower unemployment (5.8 %), significant debt reduction, healthy corporate balance sheets, greater financial stability (Dodds - Frank), record stock market numbers, as well as reducing the gap between high earners and the middle class through Obamacare and reducing the Bush tax cuts.

Obama says that he will «lay out a series of bipartisan proposals that the Congress can take immediately to continue to rebuild the American economy by strengthening small businesses, helping Americans get back to work, and putting more money in the paychecks of the Middle Class and working Americans, while still reducing our deficit and getting our fiscal house in order.»

In contrast, in the U.S. it takes $ 26,000 or more to have middle - class spending power, and 80 % of Americans qualify.

Of course, the working / middle class, has taken it in the teeth.

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....

In pressing Obama to take cuts to those programs off the table, one Roman Catholic bishop told the president that «the text that we are obliged to obey does not say «as you have done to the middle class you have done to me.

The extra money I earn that takes me out of the «poor» category and bumps me up to «middle class» makes a huge difference to how much I put back into the economy.

According to this view, the New Deal had a more profound impact on American society than even its most ardent admirers have suggested: it imposed norms of relative equality in pay that persisted for more than 30 years, creating the broadly middle - class society we came to take for granted.

In Poland, however, to take the largest Jewish population center, although there was a Jewish middle class, the per capita income of Jews in the 1930s was less than $ 100 per year, and a quarter of Poland's Jews were kept from starvation only by charity from America.

Never once taking into consideration that many of the upper - middle class white collar crowd sitting in your pews are some of the most despicable hypocrites you ever want to meet.

Our vision of maturing in the Christian life implies that upward mobility as middle - class achievers ought to take second place to the project of becoming upwardly mobile in terms of maturing in faith.

How do we live comfortably — by which I mean no more than enjoying a lifestyle typical of the American middle class, which compared to most of the world is very comfortable indeed — and also take seriously the needs of our neighbors?

He establishes this point through ipse dixit («The middle - class nuclear family will not be restored to its former place, nor do most people want it to be»), the persuasive force of clichés about the sexual revolution (Had you heard that the 1960s gave us a pill that allowed women to take control of their bodies?)

Months after he took office the economy was in a recession, and by time he left office taxes on the middle class were WAY UP including mine, and the deficit TRIPLED.