Sentences with phrase «of family income goes»

You are not employed full time and a significant percentage of your family income goes to student loan repayment.

Conversely, spending as a percentage of family income goes down with rising socioeconomic status (e.g., 7 % for families making $ 100 - $ 150k vs. 12 % for those making from $ 50 - 60k).

This has affected many family's budgets in a very negative way, with more of the family income going towards purchasing gasoline and less going towards basic luxuries like trips to the movies or new shoes.

Not exact matches

Jennifer Greenfield, a professor of social work at the University of Denver, explains: «Families normally pay modest copays that gradually increase as their incomes go up, but then all of a sudden there's this huge jump where the subsidy falls away completely, and they just can't absorb it.»

«But it's a bigger deal for lower - income families, because a bigger share of their budgets goes to things like gasoline.»

Nest thermostats will also go to families using Fannie Mae's low - to moderate - income mortgage program and to income - qualified customers of utility companies.

The U.S. average has about 3.5 % of total income going toward energy bills, though one in five families can actually spend up to 20 to 50 % of their income on utilities.

Significantly, two - thirds of the benefits from income - splitting will go to two - income families, with the biggest gains delivered to the $ 60,000 to $ 80,000 family - income bracket.

«Families normally pay modest copays that gradually increase as their incomes go up, but then all of a sudden there's this huge jump where the subsidy falls away completely,» she says.

If the ranks of middle income families has declined, where did all those people go?

Both our families came to the US with nothing, so my wife and I went from low income (assisted living) to high middle class in 40 years of our lives.

First, the resource economy is going through a painful and complex adjustment to low prices — an adjustment that will mean lower levels of income, investment and employment, as well as the migration of families within Canada.

Explained Fogo de Chao CEO Larry Johnson in an interview at the ICR Conference Monday, «We serve a higher - income customer in Brazil — it's not that they are fully insulated from the economic downturn, but in the grand scheme of things they are still going to go out to business and family events — yes, we'll have some dip in results but we can deal with that.»

It seems to me that if I'm dealing with friends and family, and am not going to do a 2nd round of financing, it'd be nice to stay with the LLC structure and therefore still have liability protection, while avoiding corporate income tax.

Every day, hundreds of millions of low - income people go to work in hard jobs in foreign countries to make money to send back to their families in their home countries — over $ 400 billion in total annually, according to the World Bank.

This goes for relational things, family items, income, support and raising of children in fatherless homes, as well as STI's the lifelong consequences of which are also considerably worse for women.

The share of total income going to the bottom 60 per cent of American families has declined, and the share going to the next 20 per cent has increased negligibly, while the share going to the top 20 per cent has increased by 2.5 per cent.

Women are pressured to go abroad, due to the inadequacy of a man's income for the family needs.

With stunning consistency, virtually every indicator of civic engagement currently available shows the same pattern of increase followed by stagnation and decline — newspaper reading; TV news watching; attending political meetings; petition signing; running for public office; attending public meetings; serving as an officer or committee member in any local clubs or organizations; writing letters to the editor; participating in local meetings of national organizations; attending religious services; socializing informally with friends, relatives or neighbors; attending club meetings; joining unions; entertaining friends at home; participating in picnics; eating the evening meal with the whole family; going out to bars, nightclubs, discos or taverns; playing cards; sending greeting cards; attending parties; playing sports; donating money as a percentage of income; working on community projects; giving blood.

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The kind of broke when businesses and economies slump, dragging incomes down with them, when babies are born without insurance and ginormous hospital bills go unpaid for far too long and interest heaps on, when businesses die and new jobs can't be found, when mortgages can only be covered by the good grace of family members, and when food is bought on credit or gift cards from kind friends.

Assuming that about 25 percent of household income goes to rent, a family must earn about $ 48,000 to afford such an apartment.

If you take everything you spend on eating out, going to movies, taking trips, and «enjoying life» and it comes to more than 10 % of your annual income, you might actually want to cut back on the amount of money you are «tithing» to your family, and spend more on loving and serving others, helping the poor, taking care of orphans and widows, and showing others the love of Jesus.

It is truly part of our culture, and when we have disposable income, going out to eat with friends, family, and even by ourselves is one of our favorite things to do.

More mothers are going back to paid work, many more homes are dual - income households, and the increase in lone - parent families, rising divorce rates, the introduction of flexible working hours and greater awareness of fathers» rights brought about by the high - profile stunts of groups such as Fathers4Justice have contributed to a tectonic shift in attitudes towards family responsibilities.

Granted, none of those jobs made me a lot of money, but it helped keep our family afloat — and was essential income when my former husband's union went on strike — and, more important, it kept me up - to - date in the career I loved and enabled me to maintain relationships with editors.

«Long gone are the days when the majority of middle - and upper - income women stayed home to raise families full time,» the authors wrote.

Wish I would have thought of doing the research or had come across this blog, had you written it in 2013 when a family court judge saw no value to my being a stay at home mom full time for 9 years and awarded ne no spousal support and a pitiful amount for child support despite my having zero income and no career to go back to once my ex left, suddenly.This is a fantastic template to argue in court for stay at home moms seeking support everywhere that sacrificed their education, career and opportunities and stayed home with the kids.May pop some people's perspective back where it should be!

But a friend of mine said to me the other day that it isn't anything to do with luck - that she and her family have chosen to cut their income by more than half, going without financially, in order for her to be a «stay at home» Mom.

Parents find themselves torn, with one parent always at the NICU and the other running around trying to maintain an income and keep the rest of the family going, all the time worrying about what is going on with their child and their spouse.

With just a few hours to go before President - elect Donald Trump take office, New York's Working Families Party is using what it anticipates will be «wholesale attacks on working people» by the incoming administration and its allies to highlight the plight of several hundred striking workers at Momentive Performance Materials, a chemical plant in Waterford.

«Congressman Ellison recognizes that progressive politics matter at the most local of levels: to families seeking a job that pays the bills, to kids from low - income families hoping to go to college, and to parents worried about whether their kids of color will be treated fairly by the criminal justice system.

«We can't simply say to the public you were wrong... We're not going to do blanket opposition because we've heard all around the country that whilst people have got concerns, particularly about the standard of living for low income families in work, they don't want just... blanket opposition to what the government are proposing on welfare.»

«I believe that if we ban outside income from active employment for elected officials and pay them a livable wage to raise their families, it will go a long way to cure the temptation of a few to engage in this type of bad behavior,» said Bonacic, a veteran in the Senate's Republican majority.

It said that while the amount the average family paid in income tax had risen by # 47, their NI contributions had gone up from # 2,725 to # 3,239 - an increase of # 514.

«It would be foolish for me to suggest it's going to be our way or the highway,» said Flanagan, saying that the governor's addition of a tax credit for low income families can only make the measure «more appealing».

Tuition assistance, which goes into effect this fall, would apply students in families with household incomes of no more than $ 100,000 a year.

She wants nothing more than to attend the school where the children of higher incomed families go.

The academy's students, many from low - income families and drug - impacted neighborhoods, produce exceptional art for their age — and 97 percent of them go on to college.

I hold certain identities near and dear to my heart — as a 1.75 - generation immigrant from Peru; the oldest of six children; a child of a low - income, single - parent family; a first - generation college student — the list goes on.

«Thirty - four percent of the Louisiana corps identifies as a person of color — 20 percent African American — 35 percent come from a low - income background, and 22 percent were the first in their family to go to college,» Orange Jones says.

She said: «I can't say definitely based on my research but we do know that teacher expectation and assessments can have a longterm effect on pupil progress, because it can affect their interaction, in terms of the groups they are put in... If you are an average - scoring boy from a lower income family, or an average - scoring girl in maths, and you are placed in a lower set then that is going to potentially depress your longterm trajectory.»

They are the most targeted form of assistance, focused on students with family incomes of less than about $ 60,000, with the bulk of the dollars going to people with family incomes of around $ 30,000.

Indeed, as documented in several recent studies, a well - qualified student from a low - income family has a lower chance of going to college than a poorly qualified student from a high - income family.

I already have a couple of ideas: I am going to take the staff with me before school begins and visit the homes of incoming kindergarteners welcoming them and their families to Kennedy School.

Tax credits and deductions primarily go to middle - and upper - income families, whose decision on whether to send their kids to college is unlikely to be affected by a tax benefit that is relatively small in relation to their income or the costs of college attendance.

They tell teachers to allow pupils longer to replace scruffy items of uniform and to go easier on those from low income families who fail to follow school clothing rules.

It seems that many parents don't like the idea of government support going to just low - income families; if vouchers are to be made available, they should be for everyone.

[6] The columns in the table address: a) the vehicle by which funding is delivered (e.g., tax expenditure vs. social program); b) the particulars of that funding vehicle (e.g., payments to individuals vs. program providers or states); c) the dollar value of the benefit to a family; d) whether the tax benefits are refundable (provide refunds to low income families in excess of their tax liability); e) whether the benefits are progressive (inverse to family income); f) the total annual program expenditure that is conditional on children (e.g., spending on housing vouchers that goes to families without children is excluded); and g) the estimated portion of the total expenditure that goes to children under five years of age.

Only 1.5 percent of the dependent exemption goes to families from the lowest income quintile whereas 58 percent of the benefits flow to families in the top two quintiles of income.