Sentences with phrase «of wealthy households»

Clinton charged that the bill would squander the federal government's budget surplus, mainly for the benefit of wealthy households.

But don't forget that this figure is lifted upward by a small number of wealthy households.

That's what the folks at FindTheBest, an online - research engine, found when they used recent census data to rank the 34 American cities with populations of 500,000 or more based on their percentages of wealthy households (defined as those with an annual income of $ 150,000 or above).

In terms of its effect on current household resources, such a tax cut increases the after - tax income of the poor household by only 0.005 percent while increasing after - tax income of the wealthy household by 5 percent.

Some of the wealthiest households are among those customers who make larger purchases of pet products.

Not exact matches

However, according to NYU economist Edward Wolff, the wealthiest 1 % of households own 38 % of all shares of stock.

The very wealthiest Americans earned more than 19 percent of the country's household income last year — their biggest share since 1928, the year before the stock market crash.

But multiple analyses of the proposals Trump has put out thus far have found that they would result in much larger tax cuts for the wealthiest households than for the middle class.

Four out of the top five cities are Pacific Ocean adjacent — San Francisco, San Jose, Seattle and San Diego — and in each of these metropolises, more than 14 percent of households are categorized as «wealthy.»

In both cities, which are clearly benefiting from Silicon Valley's tech explosion, more than 20 percent of households qualify as wealthy.

The report is the latest research underlining the idea that the wealthiest households in the world are increasingly capturing a larger share of global wealth.

To see how you stack up against the wealthiest of the wealthy, The New York Times created an interactive tool that allows you to enter your household income and compare your earnings across 344 zones throughout the US.

Although Bill Gates, the richest man in the U.S., resides in Washington state, California has more than its fair share of wealthy and millionaire households.

And with 80 percent of America's wealthiest households already paying for the service, according to Recode, Amazon has started offering discounts for those on government assistance.

At first, ordinary and poor households are worse off and wealthy households are better off, in other words, but as the benefits of higher investment are realized, wealth trickles down to ordinary and poor households so all are better off.

While more than half of U.S. households with internet have Prime, the program is particularly popular with wealthier consumers.

If these apartments were actually occupied, in other words, Chinese households would feel wealthier by between $ 1.5 to $ 3 trillion dollars, or roughly 12 - 25 % of GDP.

This group of super spenders is expected to see its population double over the next five years to 100 million households, and as an economic force they are poised to eclipse the impact of rising but less - wealthy consumers: Their consumption is currently growing at 17 percent a year, compared to just 5 percent among emerging - middle - class and middle - class consumers.

With the wealthiest Americans better positioned to take advantage of the gains, the wealth of upper - income households in 2013 rose to 6.5 times greater than that of middle - income households, up from 4.5 times in 2007, according to the Pew Research Center.

Most households didn't participate, as the vast majority of stock is held by the wealthy.

It has proven very difficult to bring the savings rate down because this can only happen by diverting resources away from wealthy and powerful groups and families in favor of ordinary households.

«The wealthiest one - half percent of U.S. households,» Fleming said, «now own 42 percent of all municipal bonds, as compared to ownership of 24 percent in 1989.»

The Census Bureau reports that the area's wealthiest ZIP code, 78730, has an average household income of $ 134,080.

* The 2012 Bank of America Study of High Net Worth Philanthropy: Issues driving charitable activities among wealthy households, Bank of America and The Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University, November 2012.

In fact, 83 % of U.S. teens from wealthy households are now active on the platform.

The backlash against the private sector is hardly surprising: when financial institutions broke down following the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2007, the costs fell not on wealthy financiers but society as a whole in an era when middle income households were suffering an unprecedented squeeze.

Figures from WAS data for 2008 - 10 show that the distribution of household wealth is highly skewed towards the wealthiest 10 percent of households, who owned 44 percent of all household wealth in 2008 - 10, equivalent to # 4.5 trillion.

His claim that he's just a normal «middle - class guy» from Queens was blasted by Citizen Action New York, which said the governor's idea of what a middle class person is «would explain why he's consistently given tax cuts to the wealthiest households in New York — like his own — while neglecting the true middle and working class families of our state.»

«The amount gambled is controlled in all households, including the wealthier ones, and this situation especially affects the lower - middle classes and immigrants,» comments one of the authors of the study, José Antonio Gómez Yañez, a professor in UC3M's Political Science and Sociology Department.

The district also includes students from both low - income and wealthy households and also is one of the nation's most desegregated systems, a product of a 1970s court - order merging of city and suburban districts to further desegregation.

The wealthiest 1 percent of U.S. households now take home more than 20 percent of all household income, more than double their roughly 10 percent share around 1980.

Women with annual household income of less than $ 40,000 were only about 40 percent as likely as women from wealthier households to follow through with a doctor's recommendation to start hormonal therapy.

The study by King's, UCL and Universiti Teknologi MARA (Malaysia) found that wealthier, urban and larger households and more economically developed countries had higher odds of facing CDHE.

The number of people in Bangladesh dying from chronic diseases such as cancer, diabetes and hypertension — long considered diseases of the wealthy because the poor didn't tend to live long enough to develop them — increased dramatically among the nation's poorest households over a 24 - year period, suggests new research from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Picture Tree is also screening «Playmaker,» the Timon Modersohn drama about a former soccer player lured into the world of sports - betting and match - fixing, starring Frederick Lau («Victoria») and Antje Traue («Man of Steel»); and «Outmastered,» Oskar Roehler's dark comedy about a wealthy couple who welcome a slave into their household only to see chaos soon ensue.

The city has a median family income of $ 102,611 as of 2000, which places it among the top 100 wealthiest places in the United States with at least 1,000 households.

Meanwhile 47 percent of eighth - graders from middle class and wealthier households read at the highest levels in 2015.

Calvert County, a growing exurb south of Washington, D.C., has a median household income of $ 87,449, placing it amongst the top 20 wealthiest U.S. counties.

In the case of Pine Lake, the money comes from wealthier households or private foundations, which begs questions about whether the model can work in every community and whether it can ever be independent from the exclusive desires of the rich.

According to analysis from the Wisconsin Budget Project, the top 1 percent of state residents receive a larger share of the cuts than the bottom 60 percent of households combined.19 These tax cuts certainly helped the rich — the wealthiest 1 percent of Wisconsinites received an average tax cut of $ 10,015.20 Gov. Walker has boasted that the state's tax cuts will soon total more than $ 8 billion and that as a result, Wisconsin «continue [s] to see dramatic economic growth.»

Many vouchers also are going to wealthier families, those earning up to $ 90,000 for a household of four.

Mazda 6 buyers are more likely to be men (69 % vs. 61 % for the midsize car segment), younger in terms of median age (48 years old vs. 54 years old), and wealthier in terms of median household income ($ 97,361 vs. $ 86,876).

The Chicago Tribune reports that the American Affluence Research Center took a poll among the wealthiest 10 percent of Americans and found that among the 11 million households representing about half of all consumer income in this country, plans to reduce spending will mean a softness in the sale of new motor vehicles in the next 12 months.

In 1911, 14 - year - old Joan is taken into the household of a wealthy Jewish family as a hired girl.

Representing herself as 18, she is taken into the household of a wealthy Jewish family as a hired girl.

Eighteen - year - old Petronella «Nella» Oortman is the shy new bride of an enigmatic and wealthy merchant, Johannes Brandt, but too often she finds herself alone in her new, unfriendly household.

In 1911, 14 - year - old Joan clashes with her father and flees to Baltimore, where she becomes a hired girl in the household of a wealthy Jewish family.

According to Oxfam, «Brazil is one of the most unequal nations in the world, although it is one of the wealthiest... The country's high income concentration is revealed in figures: the richest one per cent of the population - less than 2 million people — have 13 % of all household income.

(N.B. the median is different than the average household income of $ 63,784, which is pulled higher by the country's wealthy outliers).

The wealthiest 20 % of households account for about 43 % of all income earned, while the poorest 20 % take in a measly 4 %.