Sentences with phrase «of middle class living»

Trying to hold on to the memories of middle class living.

A riveting story filled with many shocking twists and turns, THE DINNER is a chilling parable about the savage reality hidden beneath the surface of middle class lives.

For artists like Maurice Brianchon and Marguerite Louppe this dichotomy is rendered subtly through the recording of domestic interiors, the tranquility of the surrounding landscape, the pleasures of middle class life.

Raised in suburbia, Fischl paints provocative vignettes and portraits of middle class lives.

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Those concerned about poverty, inequality, or living standards of the middle class (every politician's favourite group) should oppose Canada's milk tax.

A typical middle - class couple with their home paid off needs only about 50 % to 60 % of the income they earned earlier in life to live an equivalent lifestyle.

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.

On the other hand, members of the middle class take jobs they don't enjoy «because they need the money, and they've been trained in school and conditioned by society to live in a linear thinking world that equates earning money with physical or mental effort.»

'' [The middle class] sees money as a never - ending necessary evil that must be endured as part of life.

A middle - class policy agenda that over-focuses on income may miss opportunities to improve the quality of life for middle - class Canadians.

Unions are about establishing balance, about winning for the middle class, about winning opportunity and winning a reasonable standard of living with a reasonable work life.»

It would certainly hurt the daily life of American middle - class people, and the American companies, and the financial markets.»

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.

Given how the state had spent time building up a new middle class,» [a] ny deviation from the mainstream, or irony, is seen as a threat to the credibility and legitimacy of the [Chinese Communist] Party in bringing [an] idealized way of life to reality,» Arsene told CNBC in an email.

This population will increasingly live in urban areas and have a rising middle class, both of which mean more meat consumption.

Respondents to the Palo Alto Weekly's survey cited the area's chronic housing crisis and high cost of living as reasons for identifying as middle - class instead of upper - class.

«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.

I got divorced about 5.5 years ago with a negative net worth, and through a combination of reasonable spending (middle class standard of living), investment returns (thank you great bull market!)

The assumptions of cutthroat libertarianism were so embedded in the worldview of these lucky newcomers that they spoke as though the victims of tech - fueled displacement and gentrification had chosen to live in poverty and squalor, just as they themselves chose to learn to code, chose a management - track job at a major corporation, and chose to set themselves up for a comfortable upper - middle - class suburban life.

We keep talking about income inequality and improving the lives of the middle class while at the same time the gap between the haves and have - nots keeps growing.

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.

Their work didn't get a whole lot of publicity, at least not until recently, when it was mentioned in an Atlantic magazine cover article, «The Secret Shame of Middle - Class Americans,» about relatively affluent families living paycheck to paycheck.

Even in Canada, we do have to make an effort to have that middle class life and retirement life and plenty of people who had two professional incomes did not save nearly enough and / or make the right financial moves, and struggle in retirement even with pensions.

The ensuing boom endowed the middle class in the United States and other countries, but was debt financed, first for home ownership and commercial real estate, then by consumer credit to purchase of automobiles and appliances, and finally by credit - card debt just to meet living expenses.

But it is a different story if we use the low income measure, which looks at the gap between poor children and the middle class, calculating the number of children who live in a family which has less than one half of the income of a comparable middle income family.

According to the Brookings Institute, 88 per cent of the next billion entrants into the global middle class will live in Asia.

The bursting of the housing bubble — which entailed a collapse in home values and a flood of foreclosures — and spiking unemployment led millions of Americans to realize that their «middle - class» lives were just a paycheck or two from evaporating.

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.

«All families in my upper middle - class neighborhood regularly enjoy a living standard better than that achieved by John D. Rockefeller Sr. at the time of my birth.

Higher standards of living in emerging markets, urbanization and the rapid expansion of the world's middle class are driving big increases in demand for a wide variety of agri - food products, including dairy.

Grace is a middle aged woman who writes about the challenges of saving for retirement and minimizing debt late in life, with a middle class income.

«We have also experienced success in several new markets, including celebrating our first shipment of live lobster to the up - and - coming Brazilian market; expanding our value - added product reach to Australia; rolling - out a line of retail products targeting the emerging middle - class in China; and introducing Propeller Clams, a new clam species, to the sushi - hungry Asian market.»

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.»

The ground is rumbling beneath you and the Postal Service that propelled thousands to middle class life is on the cusp of major changes.

Company believes high standard of living should be accessible to everybody and specialize in stylish yet affordable spaces catered to young professionals and middle - class families in search of vibrant neighborhoods.

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?»

Often it is people who live in middle - class or affluent neighborhoods that are relatively free of violent crime who insist on holding a «root - cause» seminar while people are dying in the streets.

This profound alienation of the ghetto poor from mainstream American life has continued to grow worse in the years since the triumphs of the civil rights movement, even as the success of that movement has provided the basis for an impressive expansion of economic and political power for the black middle class.

The old alliance between sensible LIBERTARIANISM and SOCIAL CONSERVATISM can't hold in the face of the vanishing middle class, the birth dearth combined with increasing longevity, the depoliticizing challenges of the 21st competitive marketplace, the irresponsibility of our techno - meritocracy, our inability to keep Locke in the Locke box on issues having to do with families and our erotic lives, and the connection between increasing individualism and growing dependency on the state summed up in the phrase «single mom.»

President Obama the is hearing your family Prayer and May the Continue to bless you and the White House S taff to make the right decesion for to help the poor and middle class people.please increase the food stamps five dollar increase isnt enough because the cost of live have increase includeing food, gas and light bills, etc have increase.

«The idea (promoted by politicians of both the left and the right) that Baby Boomers and Generation Xers are falling from the middle class in great bunches, even trailing behind the living standard of their parents, is, in aggregate, complete rubbish.

Making translated Bibles available in Europe lead to increased literacy, to the rise of the middle class and standards of living, and to the return of Christianity to its sacred mission.

The poor in the US live better than the middle class do in about 99 % of the countries in the world.

Röpke locates wealth creation «not in «capital,» machine models, technical or organizational recipes or natural wealth, but in a spirit of order, foresight, combination, calculation, enterprise, human leadership and the freedom to shape life and things, also in citizenship, responsibility, loyalty to work, reliability, thrift and the urge to create, and in a civil middle class, providing the humus for all this» things, in short, which can neither be conjured up from the soil, nor imported.»

Evelyn Waugh: A Life Revisitedby philip eadehenry holt, 432 pages, $ 32 Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh was born in 1903 to upper - middle - class Anglicans who lived in a suburb of London.

On Downton Abbey, we see that the way of life of the relational place is being improved by middle - class, American, Irish, socialist, and even proto - feminist contributions, but usually not at the expense of «class» in the sense of knowing who you are and what you're supposed to do.

Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh was born in 1903 to upper - middle - class Anglicans who lived in a suburb of London.

Those of us who are privileged (e.g, are white, male, middle - class or higher, educated, able - bodied, heterosexual, and / or physically attractive, etc.) benefit from living in a society that accommodates rather than alienates us.

Our vision of maturing in the Christian life implies that upward mobility as middle - class achievers ought to take second place to the project of becoming upwardly mobile in terms of maturing in faith.

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?