Sentences with phrase «most of the middle class»

Instead of stocks, «owning a house is now the investment of choice for most of the middle class.»

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Most developing countries are growing faster than developed ones, and there's plenty of opportunities for investors to capitalize on these countries» growing middle class.

They may confront some difficult choices because their emphasis on the middle class — the focus of virtually every piece of propaganda released by the Trudeau government — may not be the most effective way to «grow» the economy.

Most of us were brought up poor or in the middle class — and then continue the rest of our lives plagued by the thoughts, ideas and actions of the poor and the middle class.

The financial industry frequently touts 70 % as the percentage of your working income that you'll need to replace, but most middle - class Canadians replace only about 50 % to 60 % of their working income in their golden years, and they say that's just fine.

What should excite investors the most is the growing size of the middle class in China and India.

«The automation of factories has already decimated jobs in traditional manufacturing, and the rise of artificial intelligence is likely to extend this job destruction deep into the middle classes, with only the most caring, creative or supervisory roles remaining,» he wrote in The Guardian.

Lee said, «In addition to not repealing all of the Obamacare taxes, it doesn't go far enough in lowering premiums for middle class families; nor does it create enough free space from the most costly Obamacare regulations.»

This strikes me as an odd attack, not least because of the reason politicians focus on the middle class: most people consider themselves to be part of it.

Good data on the exact size of the middle class are hard to come by, but it remains small across most parts of the continent.

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.

First, substantial direct or indirect wealth transfers from the state sector to Chinese households will unleash a surge in household consumption as household income rises (and because the interest on bank deposits is an important source of income for most middle and lower middle class households, if the authorities reduce interest rates, as struggling borrowers are demanding, China actually moves in the wrong direction).

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.

The year culminated in a wide - ranging exploration of the trials and tribulations of Generation Rent, a series that provided space for renters, from the most vulnerable to the middle class, to tell their own stories.

Results of the Monmouth University Poll also indicate there are potential hurdles for selling this proposal to the American public since most feel the middle class has not been seeing any benefits from Pres. Donald Trump's policies so far.

Though salarymen worked extremely long hours and were expected to provide the utmost loyalty and sacrifice to their corporation, they were rewarded with thoroughly middle class lifestyles and promises of lifetime employment — a significant step - up from the very humble lives that most Japanese lived before World War Two.

12k / year could easily be 10 extra years of saving for most middle - class folks.

As in most budgets, it was an attempt to remind everyone of what the government has done for «the middle class» for the last two years.

«The most important things for the middle class are not on the piece of paper,» Mr. Holtz - Eakin said, referring to the details of the individual income tax plan.

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.

Homeownership has been the most effective step on the ladder into the middle class and to create wealth for most Americans since the 1950s, and continues to fill that role It also fulfills the promise of the Housing Act of 1949 of a «decent home and a suitable living environment for every American family.»

Progressives will be expecting the government to deliver on its ambitious social agenda, and will note that this could be easily funded on the revenue side by implementing a modest corporate tax increase, by scaling back the so - called middle class tax cut, and by setting more ambitious targets for the promised Liberal review of tax loopholes for the most affluent.

«Middle - class Americans were most likely to report that the recession still affects them, with 57 percent of those earning between $ 50,000 and $ 100,000 a year reporting some impact, the report found,» The Hill's Niv Elis writes.

I read these posts and can't help but think that most of you are very optimistic about the future of America and middle - class Americans.

MOST of the working middle class is republican.

If you were to somehow abolish the health insurance of most middle - class American families, the response of those families would probably be a slow and quiet panic even if the health of the families stayed the same month in and month out.

In Australia, the state governments control most planning and have discouraged suburban growth» to the benefit, Kotkin notes, of developers (and presumably of the politicians whose campaigns they support) and the detriment of middle - class people, who now face some of the world's highest housing prices.

Most polygamists are part of middle (and even middle - upper) class America.

These middle - class, idealistic church people entered a tangled world of hate and oppression most of them knew little or nothing about.

Process theologians are overwhelmingly white North Atlantic middle class academicians, most of them, indeed, North Americans.

My point is only that if one is white, North American, and middle class, as are most process theologians, then one would be hesitant to suppose that one can really think in a sustained way from the perspective of the oppressed.

That most theologians, even those whose social location in the white North American middle class, verbally support efforts to achieve the changes needed in our society to make some minimum of justice possible elsewhere, such as in Latin America, is already a testimony to the power of the gospel.

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.

There is little doubt that the concern for cultures and religions expresses the middle class social location of most process theologians, whereas the focus on political and economic issues and the concomitant demand for justice express the identification with the poor that is the glory of liberation theology.

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.

That is not true of most middle class Americans, even in these relatively challenging times.

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?

Originating in a popular program in aid of a «submerged middle class,» Boston's projects had become untenable warehouses for those public neighbors toward which proper Bostonians were most ambivalent.

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?)

The «comfortable» include most of our workers, the large middle class — those who have sufficient resources to afford decent housing, a new (or recent vintage) automobile every so often, occasional vacation trips, and numerous little amenities around the home.

Studies have also shown that most of the common intelligence tests have a social class bias; the vocabulary and thought patterns used in them generally follow a middle class pattern, thus putting the socially and economically more privileged in a preferential position.

Nevertheless, Buchanan is right in citing the globalization of the economy as the single most important factor in the destruction of the laboring middle class.

The pastoral psychology movement was developed by sincere and far - sighted churchmen who were, for the most part, members of the mainline, middle - class denominations in the United States.

Because most of us are also, in some continuing way, «of» that white, middle - class, Protestant milieu, we know (from the inside) its questions, its anxieties, its frustrations, as well as its answers, consolations, and dreams.

He sees that substantial numbers of Hindus have moved into the middle class who have been most affected by the process of secularization.

Here is a list of ten things for which most of us can be thankful here in the United States: First, you are fat, but we live in a time when this a possible middle class problem.

Most middle class Americans are familiar with circumstantial poverty — one bad investment or the loss of a job leads to a period of financial difficulty.

In Aleppo, one of Syria's most war - torn cities, his job as a truck driver once provided a four - room house and a middle - class, urban life.

One of the things I have respected most in Aida Rosa, principal of the elementary school P.S. 30, and the teachers that I talk with on her staff is that they look at children here as children, not as «distorted children,» not as «morally disabled children,» not as «quasi-children» who require a peculiar arsenal of reconstructive strategies and stick - and - carrot ideologies that wouldn't be accepted for one hour by the parents or the teachers of the upper middle class.

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.