Sentences with phrase «of urban middle class»

One of the study's author's, Dabo Guan, professor of climate change economics at the University of East Anglia's School of International Development, UK, says the growth in the carbon footprint of the urban middle class and the rich in China is a big problem that has to be tackled.

Twenty percent of lower income White students in city schools read proficiently in eighth grade, as do more than half of urban middle class White students.

Her behavior and conversations are so typical of the urban middle class artist of this generation, even if somewhat inflated.

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Trudeau and his ministers know the urban middle - and upper - middle - class Canadians that form the core of their political constituency are sensitive about housing.

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

Half the country is now urban and half of them are middle - class, a stark change from even 37 years ago, when 82 % was rural.

McKinsey has predicted that more than half of China's urban households will be in the upper middle class by 2020, compared to 14 % in 2012.

Analysts point to the growth of an urban «middle class,» composed of favoured members of the Workers» Party and military, official, entrepreneurial, and technical elites.

Similarly, the urban population is projected to grow about 1.6 % per year over this period, and this can be used as a proxy for growth of the middle class to a lower bound of 3 billion.

For instance, says Kaus, Loury wants blacks to accept responsibility for their lives as individuals and not as members of a racial tribe, while he at the same time calls on middle - class blacks to act as though they are responsible for the tribe, especially those members of the tribe who are in the urban underclass.

Perceiving a stark and growing contrast between respectable middle - class families and the «teeming broods» of new immigrants in the urban centers, progressive leaders turned to eugenic science to control what seemed the otherwise uncontrollable plight of the poor.

In Aleppo, one of Syria's most war - torn cities, his job as a truck driver once provided a four - room house and a middle - class, urban life.

Thus, the rural and urban poor are much less likely to marry and stay married than their middle - and upper - class peers, therefore losing out on the social, economic, and moral benefits of marriage.

In countries in the South, faced with the alliance between international capital, the comprador bourgeoisie and part of the middle class, the alternative consisted in using joint programmes and actions to bring together the different grass - roots groups such as workers, peasants, the informal sector, movements of the urban poor, co-operatives, minority ethnic groups, and also the vulnerable middle classes, students, etc..

The liberalization of the economy under Congress's leadership in 1991through such measures as eliminating tariffs and restrictions on private business - created a new constituency for the traditionally pro-business BJP: the rising middle class in urban centers.

But it is accepted by almost everyone of influence, as well as by the urban middle class and most young people.

To be more specific, I am thinking of a group of Christians — mostly white, middle class, urban, highly educated, mainline Protestants — who belong to what I earlier referred to as the restless to radical post-affluent class now surfacing at strategic points within the socio - economic order.

On the other side were Parliament, the growing urban middle classes, many of the lesser gentry, the Puritans, and the extreme Protestants.

The article takes the focus off the prosperous women whose child - care situations raised anxious questions when they were being considered by President Clinton for appointment as U.S. attorney general and instead examines a group it sees as the largest group of mothers frustrated in seeking good day care: middle - class working mothers in urban areas where nearly all the available caregivers are undocmented foreign workers.

This seems surprising when one looks at the statistics — after all, the developing middle class, an indicator of a more urban and modernizing society, is still a minority (perhaps 300 million of China's 1.3 billion population), albeit a fast - growing one, and China remains a very poor country in terms of per capita GDP, as well as substantially rural.

Studies of environmental consciousness tend to focus on urban middle classes, giving the false impression that rural populations are either unaffected, do not know or do not care.

[7] The theses have variously included postulations of selfishness (both through arguments of relative unwillingness to self - sacrifice for a political cause as well as selfishness along rural / urban and class divides, most notably the disinterest of middle class Africans to engage in political demonstration), nationalism (manifested through the fear of being called an imperialist), illiteracy and lack of access to technology, and forgetfulness of «Black Africa.»

«This has been a critically important issue for working and middle - class families and a priority of the governor's since his days with the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development,» she said.

The vibrant middle class that once defined urban life moved to the suburbs or exurbs long ago and, with the notable exception of New York City, an influx of well - educated young professionals has not made up for that exodus.

Most research on children's understanding of the natural world has come from middle - class, European American children living in urban or suburban communities, typically located close to universities.

I grew up in urban India in a middle class family, the daughter of two hard - working professional parents, both physicians.

Although some reports suggest that nutrition trends in the northeast have been improving, 23 and others are documenting the rise in obesity in the middle class, 24 chronic malnutrition remains endemic and has advanced from the northeast's poorest rural areas to the urban peripheries.25 The standard food intake pattern in Brazil is based on rice or manioc, beans, coffee, bread, beef and, increasingly, sugar in the form of soft drinks and fruit juices, 26 none of which (except for beef liver) are noteworthy for their vitamin A content.

Few Iranian films have tried to realistically depict both the urban middle and lower classes, and fewer still with the complexity of story telling and depth of characterization in Asghar Farhadi's impressive third feature, Fireworks Wednesday.

In this fast - moving, densely plotted black dramedy, a faux scandal raised by an ambitious web TV editor comes close to destroying a number of lives, offering a masterful panorama on urban, middle class China.

The first of these components is Walter Mosley's original novel which transplants traditional noir archetypes from a strictly urban environment to the African American middle - class.

Claustrophobically sexual, the tale involves a young, upper - middle - class woman named Helen (Virginia Madsen, in a career - best turn) who, in the course of studying the customs of the tenement - dwellers of Chicago's Cabrini - Green housing development, finds herself the inamorata of the Candyman (Tony Todd): the manifestation of an Urban urban legend, a black man lynched in another time for having the temerity to fall in love with a white wUrban urban legend, a black man lynched in another time for having the temerity to fall in love with a white wurban legend, a black man lynched in another time for having the temerity to fall in love with a white woman.

Though he pointed out that some Negroes were managing to move into the middle class, he focused on documenting what he argued was the deteriorating situation of impoverished black families in the inner cities: «The family structure of lower class Negroes is highly unstable, and in many urban centers is approaching complete breakdown.»

In the middle of the last decade, in urban communities across America, middle - class and upper - middle - class parents started sending their children to public schools again — schools that for decades had overwhelmingly served poor and (and overwhelmingly minority) populations.

The district consists of high - poverty to middle - class schools, rural, suburban, and demographically diverse urban schools — including one where over 60 languages are spoken.

Once home to a prosperous middle - class population, the area is now the scene of classic urban blight.

With these new shopping malls, young people in Hasköy, who, thanks to the media, could envision how the middle class regarded them, that is those living in the «slums,» suddenly had to battle the ostracizing, discriminatory, degrading gaze of the middle class [14] not just in middle class urban spaces, but also in their own neighborhood.

The middle class and urban journalists have been forced to encounter people completely unlike themselves — or at least perceived as such — in this part of the city they have never had to go to, that they have always heard about from a distance.

Hasköy youth, who are not considered a part of normal Turkey, who are excluded both from the labor market and the imaginary urban culture, return to the middle class spaces they are cast out from like boomerangs to scare off the middle class.

Andrew Weiss was walking in the halls of his Miami middle school among hundreds of preteens rushing to class when Harvard Graduate School of Education dean Kathleen McCartney called to let him know he was an Urban Scholar Fellow.

LACES» results stand out even more because the school has many of the challenges that often sink urban schools into the lower - performing category and anchor them there: a predominately urban, minority population; large classes (the average is 29 students in middle - school classes, 34 in high school); few computers, no computer lab, and a building that was new when Franklin D. Roosevelt served as president.

The growing black middle class soon joined the exodus, leaving urban schools with the difficult task of educating the majority of the nation's poor and minority students.

The return of many white, upper - middle - class, educated parents — and their young children — to city centers has caused some urban districts, like those in Philadelphia, Chicago, and Boston, to actively encourage these families to send their children to local district schools.

Should an urban district pander to white, middle - class families — at the expense of poor, minority families — in order to boost the achievement of all schools?

Afforded the influence of bourgeois peers, they transcend the limits of the urban classroom — and they do so without systematic injury to their middle - class schoolmates; the poor win, and the rich don't lose.

In Arizona, a state that has always had charter schools that draw middle - class students, there is evidence that, on average at least, charters are not doing any better at raising student achievement than district schools; outside of urban areas, they appear to do a bit worse.

The idea of middle - class parents tapping into urban charters is unsettling.

This finding has led some to dream about economically integrating every urban public school with «a strong core of middle - class students,» as Kahlenberg puts it.

According to a 2002 study of children in Dane County, Wisconsin, by urban - policy consultant David Rusk, low - income children at schools with a middle - class majority scored 20 - 32 percent higher on standardized tests compared with what their scores would be at schools with a lower percentage of middle - class students.

In urban areas especially, the supply of good schools hasn't nearly kept pace with the demand, and the old standbys for middle - class parents (moving or paying private school tuition) have become less viable options in a «down» economy going through a housing crisis.

A scholarship tax credit appeals to a diverse coalition of supporters: economically disadvantaged, working - class, and middle - class voters; African American and Hispanic clergy and parents; urban Catholics, Orthodox Jews, and evangelical voters; and a large swath of the labor - union movement (a scholarship tax credit proposal in New York is supported by 30 labor unions).