Sentences with phrase «middle class while»

We are against the selfish greedy people using scare tactics to steal money from the poor and middle class while making their lives that much harder.

Trump has promised to help out the middle and working class, but some tax analysts have concluded that Trump's tax policies would actually raise taxes on the middle class while providing substantial tax breaks for the wealthy.

Last December, he mitigated much of the projected state deficit by restructuring New York's tax code, lowering taxes for the middle class while creating a new high - tax bracket for the state's top earners.

No. 5: Say's he's going to fight for working people and the middle class while he freezes wages and doesn't raise the minimum wage.

Without mentioning President - elect Trump by name, Cuomo emphasized throughout his speech that progressive values and equitable economic growth are not mutually exclusive and that New York would continue to promote the state's middle class while upholding its secular progressivism.

She promptly wrote a piece in the Independent reminding politicians that they are unlikely to forget the middle class while it still dominates the media and political establishment.

Critics say it would raise taxes on the middle class while giving tax cuts to the wealthiest Americans.

Today was Hillary Clinton's turn, where she argued that her plan would boost the middle class while Trump's plan «would give trillions in tax cuts to big corporations, millionaires, and Wall Street money managers.»

Then why did they pass the one house bill that provided bigger cuts for working / middle class while giving smaller cuts to the donor class?

As a result, in the past 30 years many clergy have been living within the professional middle class while keeping their distance from the professional label.

We have allowed government and university laboratories to become a welfare program for the middle class while the technical products of our discoveries take away jobs from the poor.

The usual form of that criticism emanating from both sides of the debate is that free trade deals between the U.S. and poorer countries hurt the American middle class while contributing to worker exploitation abroad.

He mocked them individually and as a group for portraying themselves as champions of the middle class while opposing labor unions.

We keep talking about income inequality and improving the lives of the middle class while at the same time the gap between the haves and have - nots keeps growing.

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.

But while the middle class is being hollowed out, GDP continues to grow (if anemically) and those at the top of the business world are doing well.

Tyler Law, a spokesman, said in a statement that Ryan «sees what is coming in November and is calling it quits rather than standing behind a House Republican agenda to increase healthcare costs for middle - class families while slashing Social Security and Medicare to pay for his handouts to the richest and largest corporations.»

Translated to a national stage, such policies could create a disconnect between Bush's stated long - term goals of helping the middle class and poorer workers while supporting business, political analysts say.

While some elementary and middle schools have started implementing coding classes, Fisher Price introduced a $ 50 toy this year to targeted towards a much younger demographic: preschoolers.

While Bush's business - themed policy proposals will likely offer a mixture of traditionally Republican tax cuts and so - called trickle down economics, he's likely to define his views on how to support the middle class, lift up the lowest wage workers, and close the income gap, which would continue on the themes he started talking about earlier this year.

While Cuba's middle class is reportedly growing with increased entrepreneurship and economic freedom, citizens are nowhere near China in terms of personal spending power.

While entrepreneurship rose, manufacturing — a strong source of middle class jobs for decades — has slowed, the draft plan found.

How much wealthy Americans contribute to their wonky economy, deeply shaken by the 2008 - 2009 financial crisis has become a salient topic in recent years, as failing banks, home foreclosures, and a shrinking middle class have dominated headlines while the super-rich get super richer.

While he graduated in the middle of his class, Abdullah's extracurricular activities meant his CV could put any honour's student's to shame.

While there are probably a few things Millennials themselves can do to beat back perfectionism (for the love of all that is holy, spend less time on social media, for instance), the underlying causes of this shift suggested by the study, including an increasingly terrifying scramble for a shrinking number of slots in the middle class, are something we're all going to have to address together.

While the F1 initially played an important role in boosting the tourism industry, Singapore has diversified its offering, now focusing on the emerging middle classes from China, India and Indonesia.

In short, the middle class is having a hard time staying in place, while the companies they work for, and their executives, enjoy outsize yearly gains.

The House bill slashes tax rates for large corporations, small businesses, and wealthy Americans, while sharply reducing or eliminating tax breaks that benefit many middle - class Americans such as deductions for state and local taxes, college tuition and home mortgage interest.

While the Montana Democrat's legislation follows Zandi recommendation to extend unemployment insurance, it also shrinks the rebate for the middle class and then extends this smaller rebate to more Americans.

According to the Census Bureau, incomes for the middle class have largely remained flat while the wealthy have gained.

While Starbucks coffee can be an everyday indulgence for urbanites in the West, with a price tag of 30 yuan (US$ 4.43) for a medium latte in Shanghai, it is still a brand with plenty of snob appeal — a status symbol for the emerging Chinese middle class and a «liquid luxury» for an average worker.

From these statistics, and from talking to retirees and their advisers, it's fair to estimate that a typical middle - class retirement costs roughly $ 40,000 to $ 60,000 per couple per year, while an «upper middle - class» retirement costs in the range of $ 60,000 to $ 70,000 per couple per year.

«Under this bill the working class, middle class and upper middle class get skewered while the rich and wealthy corporations make out like bandits.

While we spoke — unbeknownst to the three of us on the phone — a tragedy was ravaging the quiet, middle - class town of Newtown, Connecticut.

During a time of rising income inequality, the American left is increasingly invoking Scandinavian countries as models for how to maintain the economic growth that capitalist competition allows, while achieving more security and stability for the middle and lower classes.

While the economy has more than doubled in size in the past 30 years, middle - class incomes have gone up just 13 per cent.

These critics say tariffs will raise prices and invite foreign countries» retaliation while doing little or nothing to bring back the glory days of bountiful middle - class manufacturing jobs.

The basic idea is that while most economists believe corporate taxes are primarily paid by owners of capital (that is, people who own stock in corporations) in the form of lower profits, a sizable minority, including White House chief economist Kevin Hassett, think that a lower tax rate would spark so much additional investment in the United States that it would bid up wages and leave the middle class better off through its indirect effects.

The acceleration of spending among this richer middle class, while that of the other middle - class constituents decelerates, has created what BCG calls a «two - speed consumer economy» in China.

Imposing higher taxes on the wealthy is the best way for countries such as Canada to reinvest in their social safety nets, education, and infrastructure while protecting the middle class.

Kenneth Bentsen Jr., president and CEO of the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, said that «while we can not comment on a proposal we have not yet seen, we have ongoing concerns that the DOL regulation could adversely affect retirement savers, particularly middle - class workers.»

Even so, every administration and Congress continued to support Internal Revenue Code 162 (m)'s super-deductions for top executive forms of stock ownership and profit sharing while each of these administrations cut or did not expand support for broad - based profit sharing and employee share ownership plans that could benefit the middle class.

While politicians blame speculators and Americans whine about gas prices, emerging economies are growing their middle class like gangbusters.

While President Trump was campaigning on the wall, Helen Thorpe spent a year inside a «newcomer class» for teenage refugees from Africa, Southeast Asia, the Middle East and Central America.

Pollster Frank Graves says that while the middle class itself may be comfortable with the direction of the current Liberal government, the growing ranks of working class and poor aren't.

While a change on Monday restored a $ 3.2 billion middle - class provision allowing those enrolled in employer - sponsored dependent - care savings plans to deduct up to $ 5,000 from their taxes, a revision on Friday rolled back individual tax cuts by nearly $ 82 billion by indexing individual tax parameters to a different measure of inflation that tends to grow more slowly.

The Tax Policy Center estimates that while only 19 percent of middle - class Americans have pass - through income, 88 percent of the top 0.1 percent do, and 77.2 percent of the top 1 percent do.

Poorer people typically earn less than $ 30,000 per year while lower middle class individuals have incomes estimated at ranging from $ 30,000 - 60,000.

In a classic rhetorical formulation, a New York Times editorial in February said, «Republicans designed the law to principally benefit wealthy families while offering crumbs to low - income and middle class families.»

Trump talks taxes Amid a swirl of controversy, US president Donald Trump, in an interview with the Wall Street Journal this week, reiterated his desire to slash the US corporate tax rate to 15 % from 35 % while lowering the tax burden on the middle class.