Sentences with phrase «of economic class»

In many ways Lady Bird hasn't appreciated, Marion has been there, fretting over her daughter's clothes, making do and mending, reminding her constantly and annoyingly of their economic class.

She portrayed Cuomo as tied to corruption, influenced by big money donors, clandestinely supportive of legislative Republicans and «inhumane budgets,» and more aligned with the top 1 percent of the economic class than regular Democrats.

We want equalization, or the abolition of the economic class system of exploitation.

Those are the typical qualities of a populist leader, regardless of their economic class.

The translation of economic class struggle into terms of religious conflict is a familiar phenomenon in history.

Title III of the JOBS Act (The CROWDFUND Act) on the other hand, which creates a democratized private capital marketplace by allowing investors of all economic classes to participate, isn't looking so good.

White students of all economic classes continued to benefit from the policies that African Americans had fought for.)

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Some of those schools, however, have been accused of creating as much economic harm as help: students have reported falling deep into debt to pay for classes that they said had failed to deliver what they had promised.

At the outset of the Republican push to overhaul the US tax code, GOP leaders said reform would boost economic growth, help the middle class, and — importantly for the fiscal future of the US — pay for itself.

Improving economic conditions for Canadian middle class families was the first and last item on the agenda of Trudeau's leadership campaign.

Joe Seiner, a professor at the University of South Carolina School of Law, recently told me he believes certifying Uber drivers as a class ignores the different «economic realities» that affect drivers who approach Uber as a full - time job or career and those who use it for occasional income supplementation.

A staggering amount of wholesale change is happening — from unprecedented and widespread aging to rampant urbanization and growth in a global middle class to an eastward shift in economic power and a growing number of disruptive technologies.»

Classical portfolio theory holds that different sectors and asset classes outperform at different stages of the economic cycle.

«Consequently, it will spur economic growth in Canada by attracting talent and investment, supporting scale - up firms and enabling established firms to be best - in - class adopters of artificial intelligence.»

That formula works in the huge U.S. market, but doesn't translate as well to Canada, which has a tenth of the population and less stratification in its economic classes.

In July, Jason Fekete reported that the Department of Finance prepared a presentation to the Minister titled The Economic and Financial Situation of the Canadian Middle Class.

From Barack Obama to Justin Trudeau, many politicians are promoting a middle class economic vision, where a larger portion of economic growth is captured by those of average income.

He says the actions of central banks «attempting to spark economic growth» are «severely punishing the world's savers and creating incentives to reach for yield, pushing investors into less liquid asset classes and increased levels of risk, with potentially dangerous financial and economic consequences.»

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.

Pay transparency will be the focus of tonight's PBS debate show, Point Taken, featuring a panel of guests who will clash over whether it could help narrow gaps in pay between genders, racial groups, and socio - economic classes.

As a result of government investment and solid economic growth, 40 million of those people entered the middle class over the past decade.

The Economic Policy Institute's «Class of 2016 ″ report apparently offers grads even more grounds for optimism.

The report uses internal government data to provide an overview of economic and social outcomes of immigrants from all sources, including economic - class, family - class and refugee streams.

«We welcome any opportunity to work with lawmakers and regulators who want to learn more about how home sharing helps the middle class address the issue of economic inequality.»

«The vast majority of our hosts in Massachusetts, California, Hawaii and across the county are middle class people who depend on home sharing as a way to address economic inequality,» Chris Lehane, head of global policy and communications at Airbnb, said in a statement.

He gave the example of Russian President Vladimir Putin, who he would argue has less power today than five years ago because of economic turmoil caused by sanctions and a middle class of an unprecedented size and aspirations.

The scenarios used by the Bank of England are pretty apocalyptic, setting out major collapses in a whole heap of asset classes and a massive worsening of economic conditions.

The growing role of automation in the workplace is a source of anxiety to a middle class that has already lost jobs due to outsourcing and economic shifts.

Profit sharing is not going to solve all the economic problems of the working middle class.

These shifts help explain why homeownership, long a source of middle class identity and economic opportunity, has started to decline.

Starbucks plans to add over 10,000 new jobs a year in China over the next five years as part of the U.S. coffee giant's big bet on the nation of tea drinkers, where coffee culture is flourishing amid a booming middle class despite an economic slowdown.

More broadly, Vance observes economic defeatism from working - class whites who blame foreign companies for moving good jobs overseas and politicians for prioritizing the needs of other groups.

«Donald Trump said he was going to be an economic game - changer for middle - class Americans, but every step of the way his administration has failed to live up to his promises,» said Andrew Bates, spokesman for the left - leaning group American Bridge.

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.

Completed Access to Information Request - Finance - Briefing notes, Background Material on the Economic and Financial Situation of the Canadian Middle Class, Budget 2013 Boot Camp

The Congressional Budget Office defines asset bubbles as: «An economic development in which the price of a class of physical or financial assets (such as houses or securities) rises to a level that appears to be unsustainable and well above the assets» value as determined by economic fundamentals.

The late MIT economist Rudiger Dornbusch made an extensive study of the results of populist economic programmes around the world, finding that while they sometimes had immediate positive results, over the medium - and long - term they were catastrophic for the working class in whose name they were launched.

If you've been on the site for awhile, you have a head start because we've already discussed the importance of a discipline known as asset allocation, which involves selecting among different asset classes to build a well - balanced portfolio that can weather different economic environments, tax regimes, global conditions, inflation or deflation, and a host of other variables that history has shown will fluctuate over time.

Mr. Lehane and Mr. Plouffe have both tried to frame their companies as middle - class saviors in a moment of economic anxiety and income inequality — themes that are playing out in the presidential election as well.

The discipline of investing in this asset class requires some knowledge of specialization; e.g., rental houses have different economic characteristics and rents than industrial warehouses, storage units, office buildings, or lease - back transactions.

They can offer the growth potential of stocks, a possible plus at a time when the economic environment and earnings are generally supportive of equities, as we've seen with the steady rise in indexes across most asset classes.

The economic booms of the late 1990s and mid-2000s failed to move the needle for middle class men.

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This boom includes Richard Florida's people: the young, digitized, multilingual creative class workers who populate the condos sprouting on Lake Ontario's edge, drawn from other parts of the city and the rest of the province and country to where economic and educational opportunity beckons.3

Today, Asia is the core engine of global economic growth, thanks primarily to urbanization and the expansion of its middle class.

This group of super spenders is expected to see its population double over the next five years to 100 million households, and as an economic force they are poised to eclipse the impact of rising but less - wealthy consumers: Their consumption is currently growing at 17 percent a year, compared to just 5 percent among emerging - middle - class and middle - class consumers.

And where others see little regard for Main Street, Obama sees a focus on how the government can do more to bolster the economic prospects of poor - and middle - class Americans, and someone who would carry those concerns to the Fed, which has vast powers over interest rates and the financial system.

And is it too much to say that we are seeing the end of economic democracy and the emergence of a financial oligarchy — a self - serving class whose actions threaten to...

One method is tactical asset allocation and the key to success here is to identify the asset classes which relatively outperform during the different periods of an economic cycle.

Obama cited statistics released the same day in the White House's new report from his Council of Economic Advisers which show that conflicts likely lead, on average, to 1 percentage point lower annual returns on retirement savings as well as $ 17 billion of losses every year for working and middle - class families.