Sentences with phrase «of middle class people»

«No matter what his motive is, he's sticking it to a lot of middle class people.»

The answer, of course, has been that poor people must be raised from poverty and that the expectations of middle class people for the good things of life must be met.

Not exact matches

If a tiny portion of India's population reaches college educated, upper - middle class status, say 5 per cent — that's like 65 million people.

Doing so would please the people Castaldo and McIntyre wrote about, and surely would be welcomed by those seeking the trappings of the middle class.

Either way, the policy change will adversely affect the middle class, Trudeau contends: «They're raising costs on everyday items for an awful lot of people.»

(The Atlantic) Hundreds of millions of people in Asia, Latin America, and Africa have lifted themselves from destitution into something like the middle class.

Along the upward journey to middle - class status, a growing number of people around the world are working up quite a voracious appetite.

It's a lot of hardworking, blue - collar - type people and they were just sick, it seems like, anything that was done to help was never to the middle class or the slightly lower than middle class.

Obviously this isn't the majority - the median wealth of people in the 55 - 64 cohort is something like $ 200,000 - but a non-trivial percentage of middle class workers ultimately reach this milestone.

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

«And so again I think that Americans, when they have all this information put in front of them, are going to understand just how far the president and Republicans have gone to disadvantage the middle class — the very people who they promised to be champions for,» she said.

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

Mexico's middle class now boasts more than 40 million people, surpassing the total population of Canada.

Respectability consisted of one's prestige as a correctly behaving, middle - class person, in contrast to supposedly disreputable people such as prostitutes.

FiveThirtyEight pointed out that the number of people who thought tax cuts enacted under Presidents Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush would help the rich more than the middle class increased after those plans passed.

«At the same time as they have these massive tax cuts for the richest people in the country they actually increase taxes for a lot of working and middle class people, and so I think they see the child tax credit as a way to try to address that,» Marr said.

«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.

The rich habits study is really a five - year study of 233 millionaires, 128 poor people, and what I found out was that wealth, success, being in the middle class, being poor, is all about your habits.

It's a question faced by many western brands that over the past 15 years have flocked east, eager for the potential profits presented by a nation of 1.5 billion people with a ballooning middle class.

And in a country of more than 150 million people, even a proportionally small middle class like Bangladesh's can be quite large in terms of absolute numbers and buying power.

According to the Pew Research Center, people whose household income falls between 66 % and 200 % of the national median household income can call themselves middle - class.

The rich are getting richer because the middle class can't buy property, they can't buy property because the cost of normal things are exponentially higher today than 10 year ago, rents keep going up because people can't buy property making it harder to get away from renting.

At a time when more and more people are slipping out of the middle class into poverty, more people are becoming rich.

Taken as a whole, the tax bill would not only increase taxes for millions of middle - class families but would also have disastrous effects on people's health care.

He addressed this problem a bit by lowering the bottom rate to 10 percent from 12 percent in the campaign plan, but it's still likely that a Trump proposal that includes these elements will result in a tax increase for millions of middle - class people, and the lower standard deduction doesn't help:

«I have been amazed at how resistant people are to actually fixing an obvious problem that is an obvious source of a grotesque unfairness and basically a transfer of wealth from the middle class to the rich,» he said.

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.

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.

We have major investments in Mexico and, with a middle class of 44 million people, Mexico is a market that will only increase.

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.

But the argument that Trump's plan is actually a cut for middle - class people does have some research behind it — even if the idea is still far outside the mainstream of economics.

The analysis does not include an additional cost of the legislation: its repeal of the individual mandate, which the Congressional Budget Office estimates could cause as many as 13 million fewer people to have health insurance, reducing federal spending for poor and middle - class Americans» health insurance by $ 338 billion over 10 years.

Of the 2.4 billion people around the world who will become middle class consumers by 2030, two billion will come from Asia.

All told, though, the plan is, like its House counterpart, a proposal to dramatically slash corporate tax rates, open up a big new loophole for wealthy individuals, and pay for the cuts by dramatically expanding the national debt and ending a number of tax deductions that could leave a substantial share of middle - and upper - middle - class people paying more.

Moreover, many people are inclined to believe that they are members of the middle class, even when they're not.

«At the time, people looked at our plan for more generous and means - tested child benefits, tax increases for the rich and tax cuts for the middle class as a bit of a curiosity,» he said, according to a copy of his remarks.

Thanks for the input, I feel people are griping about the compensation packages because they can directly see the effects of the shrinking middle class, good bye American dream.

There was a one week period in mid-july, coinciding perfectly with the peak of the Shanghai Composite, that middle class Chinese people opened up more than half a million brokerage accounts.

Long term, I think the biggest theme of the next twenty years is going to be roughly a billion people in India and China entering the middle class.

«Our United States population and the volume of people that we're having entering the United States while we have impoverished veterans and veterans that aren't being served and middle - class Americans who have had stagnated wages is a very serious both national security issue and an economic issue and its one that we can not afford to ignore when we have $ 23 trillion in debt,» Hagan told Breitbart News.

«China will have a nation of more than 200 million middle - class people in next 10 to 20 years,» Ma said.

According to research by economist David Macdonald of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, they also benefit well - off people far more than the middle class or low - income people.

Some middle class people will be wiped out as an example to others, especially those who are not fully leveraged and / or paid off a portion of their mortgage are at a real risk from «changing terms and conditions».

Now any attempt to abstract a person is going to be of limited utility, but I let's try this point of view: maybe Obama is, on domestic policy, a mostly unreconstructed 1970s upper middle - class left - liberal who.

For all Dworkin's intellectual elegance and flashes of humanity, he ultimately offers the «autonomous» members of the middle class a comforting rationale for serving our own interests while continuing to feel that we are good people.

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.

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.

Still, people like this author clamor for more bureaucracy as a defense of the rest of society, the middle class and the poor.

Every cut is at the expense of the middle class and poorer people.

Religious people are so concerned about the so - called «culture war» that they're out there voting for the greatest enemies of the well - being and opportunity of the working - and middle - classes.