Sentences with phrase «middle income basic»

The majority of the nearly # 4 billion of this tax cut goes to middle income basic rate taxpayers, not the lowest earners.

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«The flawed fiduciary rule will make it harder for low - and middle - income workers to save for the future, limit the ability of individuals to receive basic financial advice, and jeopardize the creation of small business retirement plans.»

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.

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«Those on low and middle incomes will benefit from a cut in the basic national rate, and from the scrapping of council tax.

Everything from cuts in housing benefit and childcare support for those on low and middle incomes, to the abolition of the educational maintenance allowance and the slashing of basic council services will move from the realm of political debate to real life in the new year.

Mr Fraser accused the SNP a pledge promising not to increase the basic rate of income tax for those on low or middle incomes, and called on the Finance Secretary to apologise, adding «no one will believe a word they say ever again».

The findings, published April 9 in The Lancet, suggest it is possible to save many lives by broadly expanding basic services in the 74 low - and middle - income countries where more than 95 percent of the world's maternal and child deaths occur annually.

Controlling for student demographics, 8th - grade test scores, English language skills, special education program participation, free or reduced - price lunch status (a measure of family income), and mobility during middle school does not alter the basic patterns of graduation and college attendance seen in the descriptive comparisons.

The austerity packages came in waves while basic needs such as food, housing, health care and heating became luxurious necessities for middle and low income citizens who saw their households» incomes steadily shrink.

According to a new study that was just released by Freddie Mac, one - third of low and middle - income consumers are currently using their credit cards to pay basic living expenses.

Study author Frederick Vettese writes that CPP contributions should not be subject to any contribution reductions since the public plan is designed to cover basic needs like food and shelter for middle - income workers after they retire.

One of the most pressing access to justice challenges facing low and middle - income countries is being able to offer basic legal services in a financially viable manner.

For example, few differences have been found when examining the views of African Americans and Whites, rural and urban adults, and low - and middle - income people as to what constitutes minimally adequate care for children.4, 5 Similarly, the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child offers remarkable testimony to what diverse countries and societies consider to be the basic needs or rights of children.

The Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS) estimates the 2014 - 15 and 2015 - 16 budgets strip approximately $ 1.5 billion over four years from basic services and supports for low and middle income households, with total projected cuts of $ 80 billion from health and schools funding to the states over the next decade [2].

Using the cultural and human ecology models as a guide, we assessed the associations between fathers» age, family income, length of time married, educational level, dimensions of fathers» functional style within the family, social support, and fathers» involvement in basic caregiving of their preschool - age child in intact middle to lower middle income African - American families.

During the past 3 decades, a broad national consensus has emerged identifying poverty - related disparities in child development and school readiness as a critical public health problem.1, 2 Children growing up in poverty fall behind their middle - class peers in development from the time they say their first words, usually shortly after their first birthday.3 In a 2009 population - based analysis, 4 40 % of low - income eighth graders performed below the basic level for their age group in reading.

Thanks to the second income contributed by a working spouse, households are buying larger, more expensive homes, putting themselves in a precarious financial position should one of the earners become unemployed, according to «The Two - Income Trap: Why Middle Class Fathers and Mothers are Going Broke» (Basic Books), by Harvard Law School Professor Elizabeth Wincome contributed by a working spouse, households are buying larger, more expensive homes, putting themselves in a precarious financial position should one of the earners become unemployed, according to «The Two - Income Trap: Why Middle Class Fathers and Mothers are Going Broke» (Basic Books), by Harvard Law School Professor Elizabeth WIncome Trap: Why Middle Class Fathers and Mothers are Going Broke» (Basic Books), by Harvard Law School Professor Elizabeth Warren.

I am originally from Chile and I do know about poverty although I was priviledged to be raised in a middle income family and even though when times were difficult we never went without the basics.