Sentences with phrase «of the middle class into»

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

by We wholeheartedly endorse peaceful revolution, but unfortunately, history tells us that when tyrannies force the majority of the middle class into poverty in any country, violent revolution will result.

Not exact matches

In an analysis of the changing shape of the American middle class, Pew Research Center divided the population into three groups: Lower - income Americans made less than 2/3 of the median household income, middle - income households had incomes between 2/3 and 200 % of the median, and upper - income households had income more than twice the median income.

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.

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

They bought into the American Dream of studying for a degree, becoming a professional of some sort, and hoping for a decent middle class existence.

Take that funding away and the market settles back into something more closely aligned with the underlying reality — the one of high unemployment / underemployment, high oil prices, stagnant middle - and lower - class incomes, unprecedented wealth concentration in the upper class, demolished savers, under - investment in capital, and an ongoing transition to a low - wage service economy hard - pressed to service debt.

«We can't afford to have women sitting on the sidelines of the opportunity to lift themselves out of poverty and into the middle class,» says Spitz.

«The automation of factories has already decimated jobs in traditional manufacturing, and the rise of artificial intelligence is likely to extend this job destruction deep into the middle classes, with only the most caring, creative or supervisory roles remaining,» he wrote in The Guardian.

A hotbed of new and emerging companies in China — complimented by a growing middle class eager to get their hands on what's «new» and what's «next» — has propelled the country into the front seat of global innovation.

When researchers look into household finances, they typically focus on income and the plight of the shrinking, beleaguered middle class.

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

Craig, I concluded in 2003 that the elitists would hold up the system with printed money and credit creation until they had swept every last crumb of middle class wealth off the table and into their own pockets.

Speaking at Tmall's Super Kitchen event, an offline expo of home goods held by Alibaba Group's business - to - consumer site, Stewart said she saw an opportunity to expand her brand into the world's second largest economy as rising incomes in the middle class there were increasingly being spent on lifestyle and experiential purchases rather than staple goods.

As its middle class and middle class neighborhoods erode, Toronto is morphing into a new kind of patchwork metropolis.

A draft presidential memorandum at the end of the document that could be used to order the review of NAFTA orders the report to pay «extra consideration to the effects such a policy change may have on the middle class, manufacturing and service sector workers, and foreign direct investment into the United States.»

Each paper dives into one aspect of middle class prosperity — such as inequality, education, retirement, achievement, or the safety net.

-- When changes in the composition of families are taken into account — including fewer adults per household as family sizes decrease — the real after - tax income of middle - class families increased 30 per cent from 1976 to 2010 — on par with other income groups, but still lower than the top earners

It's been my view since circa 2003 that «they» would hold up the system with printed money and credit creation until every last crumb of middle class wealth was swept off the table and into the pockets of those in position to do the sweeping: Corporate America, the very wealthy («wealthy» = enough disposable cash to buy a few politicians and Federal judges) and the political elite — the latter of which are compensated pawns for the first two cohorts.

-- bullish on housing — We see US consumer confidence at an eight - year high based on the University of Michigan, Consumer Sentiment Index supporting the strength of the middle class and US economy going into 2016.

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 proceeds of the new top income tax rate will be recycled entirely into a proposed so - called middle class tax cut which in fact heavily favours the top 10 % and weill not even cover the cost of the middle class tax cut.

Social Security, in my opinion is the scourge of the middle class — imagine how much more wealth the middle class would have if all of those withholdings had gone into tax - free 401ks invested in mutual funds.

Ramathreya Krishnamurthi, Business Head of TimesJobs, says, «Our RecruiteX report reflects the growth of the Indian middle class and their rising purchasing power which has converted the dream of owning a home into tangible demand for affordable housing.

Basically, the lack of a Republican agenda that takes into account the struggles of much of the lower - middle - class makes it easier for Democrats....

I point to the callous way in which upper - middle - class deconstructions of traditional morality have made marriage into a luxury good.

It gives technologically savvy young people in countries like India livelihoods that move them into the ranks of the middle class.

The elephant in the room is out of control capitalism that is killing the working and middle classes and shoving more and more money into the pockets of the top 1 %... I predict a revolution in the next 25 - 30 years if the trend continues... and rightly so.

The extra money I earn that takes me out of the «poor» category and bumps me up to «middle class» makes a huge difference to how much I put back into the economy.

Never once taking into consideration that many of the upper - middle class white collar crowd sitting in your pews are some of the most despicable hypocrites you ever want to meet.

Second, it is trying to more thoroughly explain, and in the light of my Tocquevillian / Liberal Education sociology of middle class music / identity, why the transition from rock n» roll to Rock occurred in the first place, and why it set a certain pattern of middle - class mixtery - music that was doomed from the beginning to fall into its now - obvious mode of Perpetual Repetition.

If you choose to go this way, there are only two possibilities: either you deceive yourself about yourself, forgetting that you are a sinful man, confusing the demands of God with the standards of middle - class integrity and thus satisfying yourself; or you really take God's will seriously and fall into despair when you see that you can never be just before that will.

Herbert Gans has developed a typology of the poor and draws distinctions between (1) so - called maladjusted, (2) the routine seekers, (3) those who are striving to get into the working class or into the middle class, and (4) those who are action seekers striving to maximize excitement and gratification within their present status.

As a result, when electoral politics enlarged the political community of India by bringing the groups other than the middle class into it, it produced popular leaders more inclined to the unrenewed traditions.

He sees that substantial numbers of Hindus have moved into the middle class who have been most affected by the process of secularization.

An Untouchable had no chance of becoming a Brahmin, and a member of the lower feudal orders had few opportunities to make it into the aristocracy, but the poor in a class society have at least a reasonable chance of making it into the middle class and some middle - class individuals do make it into the ranks of the rich.

But what was outrageous about this governor's stance on the economy is that when he came into the State House, he said everyone has to make sacrifices yet, he gave the wealthy large tax breaks while leaving the middle class and the poor with the task of carrying the load.

Of the several slums I have visited periodically since 1973, one is gone, replaced by two - decker row houses, and another is being transformed into a lower - middle - class manufacturing neighborhood.

Reynolds and others have toyed with a number of theories to explain this phenomenon, and of course, I have my own — I have spoken, after all, of «Rock... [setting] a certain pattern of middle - class mixtery - music that was doomed from the beginning to fall into its now - obvious mode of Perpetual Repetition.»

The implicit old - line mark of a work of God is birth into a white middle - class Protestant family.

Ron Haskins of the Economic Mobility Project puts it this way: «If young people do three things — graduate from high school, get a job, and get married and wait until they're 21 before having a baby — they have an almost 75 percent chance of making it into the middle class.»

Unless, that is, our essentially middle - class life style is challenged by the poverty and oppression which is the lot of most of humankind, and we confront the hard truth that the issue is not reform of the welfare system, no matter how much that is needed, but the end of a capitalist economic order which increasingly divides the world into those who have and those who have not.

However tenuously, they have moved upward into the middle class, and the new aggregate demand for goods and services they exert is everywhere visible in the quantity of economic activity in the world today, as opposed to twenty - five years ago.

They almost always featured the collections of classics that middle class Americans bought to bring culture into their newly purchased suburban homes.

Some of them were moving into the middle class.

Yet he remains discontent with the prospect of upward mobility into middle - class mediocrity.

When agribusiness turned its attention to producing food in Third World countries for the inhabitants, their products went into the mouths of the middle and rich classes, not those of the poor.

The essay begins by challenging a standard historical narrative according to which industrialization forced middle - class women into the role of full - time housewives, a prison from which they were freed only by the glorious revolution of the 1960s.

I associated Ice Cube with a horrifyingly ridiculous speech I heard in a classroom by some handsome full - of - himself black 12th - grader, about how Ice Cube was his hero because he had inspired him to avoid crack and gangs, as if it were some heroic thing for this guy who apparently had pretty middle - class parents to avoid falling into those, and as if Ice Cube had not in fact glamorized the gang life, overt misogyny, etc..

The middle class was on the march, drawing into itself members from both above and below, and if that meant everybody gave up some of his or her ethnic, class, and religious particularities, so be it.