Sentences with phrase «much of the middle class»

Santorum has alienated: Moderate Republicans Democrats Independants Woman Gays Blacks Hispanics Protestants Athiests The Poor Much of the middle class and Romney Supporters.

What's more, much of the middle class gains as well.

Not exact matches

The Prime Minister and his finance minister spend much of their time reminding the country's biggest vote bank — the middle class — that it is not doing as well as it should be.

So far, those concerns have had much less impact on sales in emerging markets, where entrance to the middle class includes consumption of higher - calorie, higher - fat food products that are only available with more disposable income.

«Canada's middle class is actually doing much better relative to past decades based on a host of indicators,» Charles Lammam and Hugh MacIntyre, two from Fraser's stable of experts, wrote in an op - ed published in the Ottawa Citizen on March 17.

His body of work on the effect of immigration, education, technology and the role of labour unions on employment and wages makes him a timely pick for the 2013 award, when so much of the popular discussion is on the decline of middle - class labour.

A large majority, 82 %, believe themselves to be part of the middle class, suggesting that the problem isn't so much the pay as the perception.

And critics are also quick to point out that the promised benefits to Main Street of Trump - style tax cuts — faster job growth, higher wages and a boost to the middle class — are very much in question.

But multiple analyses of the proposals Trump has put out thus far have found that they would result in much larger tax cuts for the wealthiest households than for the middle class.

Growing up middle - class, well - educated at this point in history is pretty much the golden card of all golden cards in the history of human life on this planet.

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

Those regions are home to a soaring number of middle - class shoppers, who represent much of Unilever's growth potential.

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.

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 cost of some key middle - class expenses has risen much faster than inflation.

They also warned the PQ proposal to boost daycare fees would heap too much of a burden on middle - class families.

Hey guys, I'm retired now after selling my biz, and I had no problems paying myself as much as possible, but what we are seeing today is the continual lowering of the middle class that came about because of Henry Ford ($ 5.00 per day).

Social Security, in my opinion is the scourge of the middle class — imagine how much more wealth the middle class would have if all of those withholdings had gone into tax - free 401ks invested in mutual funds.

Some of those observations also apply to much of the working and middle - classes, and especially families with minor children.

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....

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.

Much of what Ramsey teaches is sound, helpful advice, particularly for middle - class Americans struggling with mounting credit card bills.

While both of these are dangerous in their one - sided approach to the material world, the former will hardly strike the disinterested observer as much of a threat to the American middle class.

God expects more from the affluent middle class: «To whom much has been given, of him will much be required?»

Determined to enjoy (but not too much) the fruits of their labors, the growing middle class of Dutch burghers, merchants, traders and manufacturers filled their tidy town - houses with art that celebrated their personal dignity and accomplishments, the humid sweep of their lowland countryside, and the miraculous bounty of Indonesian spices, Chinese porcelains, tropical fruits, Persian carpets, Venetian glass and other luxuries made available through the expertise of their merchant fleets.

Simón's indictment could apply to much of middle - class Canada and other such bland secular havens (if with artisanal bread, filtered water, and organic fair - trade bean paste, of course).

As a result, «ideas of purity and impurity» which were so pervasive in the lives of Hindus have become much weaker, and in the life - style of the middle class they are «becoming confined to rites of passage, pilgrimages and a few festivals».

That same secular world with its nagging empirical criteria of meaning and validity remains in power in academia and among the middle and especially the professional classes — and we who try to do theology are still ourselves very much a part of that same world.

Thus, the rural and urban poor are much less likely to marry and stay married than their middle - and upper - class peers, therefore losing out on the social, economic, and moral benefits of marriage.

Recent studies have discovered that the poor are much more vulnerable to the severe forms of mental illness, than are middle class groups.

Unless, that is, our essentially middle - class life style is challenged by the poverty and oppression which is the lot of most of humankind, and we confront the hard truth that the issue is not reform of the welfare system, no matter how much that is needed, but the end of a capitalist economic order which increasingly divides the world into those who have and those who have not.

It may be as much of a sociological law of history as we can presently establish that it is the middle classes who determine the destiny of modern civilizations.

Much to the dismay of the middle class members of the committee, she refused!

To be sure, the ULCA at that time was very much an American institution, and as such it partook of American normality (which, much later, as a sociologist, I would call the «OK world» of middle - class America).

Much of the new middle class is actually in the business of culture, is in control of many of the institutions that produce and disseminate cultural symbols, notably in the educational system and the communication media.

At the Library of Law and Liberty, Greg Weiner reconsiders Daniel Patrick Moynihan's criticisms of the War on Poverty, and suggests conservatives who frequently cite his work on the subject miss Moynihan's broader point: It was not that too much money was being misspent on the poor, but rather that those resources which were directed at the poor were all too often funneled through the middle class professional classes:

Perhaps a much simpler, material life, simpler, that is, compared to present middle - class American standards, would result, but it would not be accompanied by an abandonment of free inquiry or free speech.

There Is not much left of the middle class... The Rich need to Pay their Fair Share Pay Up... Charles Bowen Solomon Stone

Now this is not what most Arsenal fans see: what I also want to see is Kolasanic tried in DM (Keene - Viera mold, but without the glaring facial expressions, and with a more than a touch of class, so much so that other sides will not figure out what is happening to their running lanes through middle).

One may not play as much of a key role for Barcelona anymore, but Xavi and Andres Iniesta remain absolutely world class on their day with their telepathic understanding in the middle of the park.

The respondents were almost uniformly white children from middle - class families, so the results don't tell us much about the longevity of other groups.

(or a class of «behavior challenged» Middle Schoolers who could care less about taking a test) Sad that this is what education has come to in an effort to make sure that no child is «left behind»... This is the underlying issue right here ~ too much emphasis on penciling in the correct letter circle and not enough student driven cirriculum.

Listening to music — as I still get pangs of middle class mum guilt from too much screen time, we listen to a lot of music which bridges the gap.

I agree it is Wholefoods disciples pushing for excessively expensive school foods be served to all students (much of which they only toss in the garbage) to be paid for with increasing tax dollars from middle and lower class taxpayers.

The Hogarthian degradation of the 18th century's «gin craze» - which prompted a series of «Gin Acts» and a middle - class fear of the dissipation of the working class's energy and morals - led to the banning of absinthe in much of Europe.

Here, well - off public sector types oozing middle class in picturesque villages spend much of their time wavering between orange and red.

The 99 % slogan drew in not just the newly frustrated white middle - classes of Britain, but the members of «the 99 %» that had been suffering this disenfranchisement much longer.

For middle class voters to be backing the Labour manifesto isn't a total shock - it protected 95 % of people from tax rises whilst spending big on schools and the NHS - but for them to vote for Corbyn is a much bigger deal.

He lamented that the country's economy was ruined so much that States could no longer pay workers» salaries, stating that millions of jobs were lost, prices of essential commodities skyrocketed to the extent that Nigerians could no longer afford common tomato to cook and the middle class wiped away completely.

«There has absolutely been no bigger champion for New York's infrastructure than Gov. Andrew Cuomo,» LaBarbera said, adding that a myriad of development projects have created much - needed middle - class jobs.