Sentences with phrase «more than the middle class»

FiveThirtyEight pointed out that the number of people who thought tax cuts enacted under Presidents Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush would help the rich more than the middle class increased after those plans passed.

According to research by economist David Macdonald of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, they also benefit well - off people far more than the middle class or low - income people.

For a long time (and even now here and there), American Catholic education, even for working class kids in South Philly or South Boston, was a lot more than middle class.

WASHINGTON — Central New York voters oppose the Republican tax plan making its way through Congress, and believe the plan benefits the wealthiest Americans more than the middle class, according to a new poll.

Not exact matches

In other words, more than 300 million middle - class consumers with rising disposable incomes are propelling the consumption of China.

In an analysis of the changing shape of the American middle class, Pew Research Center divided the population into three groups: Lower - income Americans made less than 2/3 of the median household income, middle - income households had incomes between 2/3 and 200 % of the median, and upper - income households had income more than twice the median income.

One independent analysis, though, estimated the GOP framework could actually increase taxes on more than a quarter of middle - class Americans over time.

Other than «middle class economics» there was no economic concept that this summer received more press than the «skills gap.»

Mexico's middle class now boasts more than 40 million people, surpassing the total population of Canada.

Looking ahead to 2030, China is expected to have a mind - boggling 1 billion people — more than three times the current U.S. population — enjoying a middle class lifestyle filled with middle class things, from cars to designer clothes to electronics and appliances.

And the seemingly logical move into developing markets — where the rising middle class meant billions in new consumer spending — proved more volatile than anticipated.

But when the Great Recession hit, Penney's core customer — the middle - class mom — suffered more than most.

By 1919, the self - taught pioneer with an eighth - grade education was producing more than half the cars in the U.S.. By lowering the cost of the automobile — eventually to $ 350 — he made cars part of the fabric of middle class America.

An HSBC report released last year predicted more than 500 million Chinese will join the middle class by 2030.

And in a country of more than 150 million people, even a proportionally small middle class like Bangladesh's can be quite large in terms of absolute numbers and buying power.

Nowhere in the world will this revolution be more profoundly felt than in China — with its new and burgeoning middle class, accelerating urbanization, and expanding digital technologies.

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

McKinsey has predicted that more than half of China's urban households will be in the upper middle class by 2020, compared to 14 % in 2012.

First among these drivers is the growing number of upper middle class and affluent households, or those with more than $ 24,000 and $ 46,000 in annual disposable income, respectively.

The continent's consumer and business spending is estimated to be worth $ 4 trillion between now and 2025, and more than 50 million new middle and upper class households will emerge in the next decade,» said Tim Sutton, chairman, EMEA and Asia Pacific, Weber Shandwick.

The Guardian's US millennials feel more working class than any other generation covers data from the General Social Survey showing that the number of millennials (born 1980 to 2000) who consider themselves middle class has fallen from 45.6 % in 2002 to 34.8 % in 2014.

If so, what will happen if growth drops more sharply than Xi and Premier Li Keqiang plan and if the aspirations of the second generation of the middle class reach beyond money?

More than 60 countries have now successfully negotiated what is known as Approved Destination Status (ADS) from Beijing, putting them on the list of group travel destinations for the increasingly affluent Chinese middle class.

There was a one week period in mid-july, coinciding perfectly with the peak of the Shanghai Composite, that middle class Chinese people opened up more than half a million brokerage accounts.

In the three decades after World War II, when the incomes of the rich grew more slowly than those of the middle class, the top marginal rate ranged from 70 to 91 percent.

The Fed already has let them borrow against collateral at way, way more than it is worth — in sharp contrast to how it treats middle - class debtors.

«China will have a nation of more than 200 million middle - class people in next 10 to 20 years,» Ma said.

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Having lived with a servant of the Word for more than fifty years in three Lutheran churches, I have this question: Why is it that the «white, middle - class, traditional, orthodox theologians» being told that their understanding of the church is no longer relevant, are told this by «white, middle - class theologians?»

The disorder also seems to afflict white middle and upper - middle class boys more than other ethnic groups, such as Asian - Americans.

You must be someone like one of those CEO's that run the oil companies complaining that my taxes are going up because I make considerably more than a poor or middle class person, right?

Recent polls consistently show that African - Americans, especially poorer, inner - city people and those with school - age children favor vouchers more than do middle - class whites.

People don't understand that $ 1 in the hands of a middle class American is FAR more stimulative than $ 1 in the hands of the already - wealthy.

It's a small programme sofar, with only three thousand families enrolled in a city that has more than two million people living below the official poverty line — a line above what was called middle - class sixty years ago.

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.

It seems that churches today are becoming little more than a glorified social club — a country club for the middle class, if you will.

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?

Whatever doubts may exist about the sources of this democracy, there can be none about the chief source of the morality that gives it life and substance... [From the Hebrew tradition, via the Puritans, come] the contract and all its corollaries; the higher law as something more than a «brooding omnipresence in the sky»; the concept of the competent and responsible individual; certain key ingredients of economic individualism; the insistence on a citizenry educated to understand its rights and duties; and the middle - class virtues, that high plateau of moral stability on which, so Americans believe, successful democracy must always build [Seedtime of the Republic (Harcourt, Brace, 1953, p. 55)-RSB-.

But the essentially middle - class character of the movement suggests that the story may be more complex than that.

If the Republicans want to make gains among the working and middle - classes of all colors and ethnicities, they need to focus on a program that offers more than just the supposed indirect benefits of cutting taxes on «job creators.»

The Democrats are dominated by a power - hungry and vengeful upper - middle - class liberalism that is more intent on injuring (or even just seeking to injure) their cultural rivals than on winning elections.

If, on the other hand, being Christian continues to mean little more than being predictable middle - class liberals with a tinge of something called spirituality, then the few exceptional things that congregations occasionally manage to perform ethically will lack any foundation in repentance and faith.

Ask yourself, what middle - class parent in America today supposes that her authority over the crucial details of her child's life is nothing more than a revocable delegation from New Mexico or the feds?

Many of the poor are more likely to use and be responsive to punitive and physical expressions of authority than is true with the more permissive middle class.

It is no accident that in Gerbner «s TV - violence profile, lower class and nonwhite characters are especially prone to victimization, are more violent than their middle class counterparts, and pay a high price for engaging in violence (jail, death).12.

As a result, when electoral politics enlarged the political community of India by bringing the groups other than the middle class into it, it produced popular leaders more inclined to the unrenewed traditions.

Historically, however, the idea of the ministry as a middle - class, white - collar profession is more the exception than the rule for most American denominations, and in many traditions today it is still a relatively unfamiliar concept.

Meta - analyses also indicate that young people of low socioeconomic status benefit more from attending these schools than do students from the middle and upper classes.

There is far less day - to - day casual violence in middle - class society than when I was a teenager — and there are far more incidents of cold, senseless mass murder.

Some men in minority cultures are finding, as they move into the middle - class world through job or profession, that friendship between women and men is possible and that a companionship marriage can be more satisfying than the one they have grown up with and married into.