Sentences with phrase «of the middle class as»

I suck the money out of the middle class as badly as the wealthy do.

But that mirror should register the faults of the middle class as well as its virtues.

NYSUT would be covering that my reaching deep into the pockets of the middle class as they have for years.

While hard - pressed localities will see no relief in the short term from Tier 6, they will be affected by loss of state services, downsizing and consolidation of vital facilities, along with other aid reductions and a further erosion of their middle class as workers get squeezed or have their jobs eliminated.

Worse still suicide amongst Nigerian professionals (including bankers, lawyers and doctors) and members of the middle class as a consequence of the harsh and intoleralble economic conditions that they are facing has reached alarming and epidemic proportions.

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.

The plight of the middle class was a major theme of his launch speech and the subject of his first position statement, published as a column in the Toronto Star entitled: «Canadian middle class left out of the growth equation.»

So even as Tesla woos middle - class buyers in the U.S. (the Model 3, due to arrive this fall, will start at about $ 35,000) buyers in China have mostly resembled Vanessa Zhu: wealthy drivers who view Teslas as luxury vehicles, or at least as the coolest new piece of tech since the iPhone.

As Aaron Wherry noted over at Maclean's, 64.9 % of Canadians consider themselves either «upper middle class» or «lower middle class.»

Finally, portraying the debate as a conflict between wealthy tax dodgers and the hard working middle class was divisive and appeared hypocritical when it was later suggested that both the Prime Minister and Minister of Finance had themselves benefited from tax planning measures.

As an example, a cap of $ 500,000 in tax - free capital gains on any principal residence means that a home sold for $ 1 million that was purchased for $ 100,000 in 1985 say, would have $ 400,000 taxed at the owner's tax rate at the time of the sale (about 35 % for the average middle class Canadian).

As the holiday acquired nation - wide popularity, Alibaba became the first major company in 2009 to monetize the holiday by launching a special online sale and effectively transforming the day into the world's biggest 24 - hour online shopping event, one that reflects the growing wealth of China's middle - class.

Labeling the world class as snobs is another way the middle class finds to feel better about themselves and their chosen path of mediocrity.»

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

The number of middle - class thieves grew this year, too, as those hit hard by the recession tried to keep up with the Joneses.

«Some Canadian cities have as diverse a middle - class population as any city on the planet, and part of what you have to do is play to that diversity and know that having Thai peanut sauce makes sense in one city but it doesn't make sense somewhere else,» says Underhill.

Affordable long - term care coverage could fairly be characterized as a solidly middle - class concern: Poorer seniors can generally qualify for Medicaid, and the more affluent can generally afford to pay for nursing - care expenses out of their savings.

There's also the fact that the moderate - price realm of the U.S. retail market is in serious trouble as the middle class continues to shrink.

The addition of more «upscale» merchandise demonstrates the changes that the discount retailer has been forced to grapple with as the number of potential middle - class customers plummets.

The financial industry frequently touts 70 % as the percentage of your working income that you'll need to replace, but most middle - class Canadians replace only about 50 % to 60 % of their working income in their golden years, and they say that's just fine.

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.

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

But as these middle and upper classes have a lot of expendable, disposable income, they are turning to golf just as a friendly pursuit,» Dreyer said.

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

The lion's share of this expansion is expected to take place in emerging and developing countries such as India and China, where middle class growth is booming.

Amazon's moves should help Whole Foods, long derided as «Whole Paycheck» for its high prices, to woo customers beyond its upper middle class clientele, as well as counter the discount chains such as Walmart and even Aldi as they vie for more of the organic and natural foods markets.

Similarly, she'll need to prove that she's attuned to the needs of the middle class — a feat sure to be difficult, as critics point to her ties to Wall Street and other big business interests.

A bad internet connection in the middle of the feeding frenzy that is course selection can leave you in a 300 - level physics class as a history major.

Some forecasts predict that growth of new solar installations globally will decline to the single digits, due to market saturation in the U.S. and China, but will surge ahead again by 2019 as more markets (such as the middle and lower class) open up as technology becomes more affordable.

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.

And Congressional Republicans are touting their new finalized tax bill as a wage - boosting, job - creating boon to the middle class, as well as a means of simplifying the tax system.

«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.

As emerging middle classes in places like China and India adopt Western - style diets, global consumption of animal protein skyrockets.

Republican leaders have portrayed the drive for tax reform as a benefit for middle - class families, often at the expense of special interests.

The United Nations Population Division and Goldman Sachs recently reported that by 2030 China would have about 1.4 billion members of what the World Bank defines as the middle class, compared to 365 million in the U.S. and 414 million in western Europe.

Charles Sizemore, the Dallas - based author of the Sizemore Investment Letter, says that as Asian populations acquire middle - class, North American tastes, they're starting to buy more expensive cigarette and alcohol brands.

There is also no question that profit sharing has a long and distinguished political pedigree in American history as the bipartisan idea to lift incomes of the working middle class.

The addition of more «upscale» merchandise demonstrates the changes that the discount retailer has been forced to make as the number of potential middle - class customers plummets.

«There's a vast emerging consumer group below the existing middle class that is going to constitute a high proportion of the world's purchasing power, but as yet is massively untapped,» Kuper says.

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.

«In almost any other part of the country we would be wealthy,» said one respondent who identified as middle - class.

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.

As if to prove this claim, federal Liberal leader Justin Trudeau announced that one plank of his election platform will be to realign the tax system to shift wealth away from those nasty one - percenters and down to the middle class.

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.

Today President Obama took a big step forward in his goal to strengthen the economy and strengthen the middle class with the nomination of Richard Cordray as Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

As the gap between wealthy and poor Americans widens, the middle class is becoming less of an appealing target for nationwide retailers.

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.

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.

Whatever is the current cause of the rise of prices in the housing market, when computed as the mortgage cost in labour time in terms of the average weekly salary, residential properties, with the exception of the 1988 - 1991 period, are now clearly less affordable for middle - class Canadians than they were for the last five decades.