Sentences with phrase «on upper middle class»

This book that I summarized, like many others, do focus on upper middle class and upper class trends.

The Labourers who built the tombs of Pharoahs were on upper middle class, as it were, paid in grain which they traded in the markets.

Not exact matches

We focus on income differences, since that is how lower -, middle - and upper - income classes are defined for tax purposes.

But then, that same justification doesn't apply to the upper - middle - class household paying under the table to have a deck built on the back of their suburban house.

He said yes, when built on a larger scale: «We truly believe that this is not only a middle, upper - class type thing.

I recently saw a «for sale» in an upper - middle class neighborhood in Denver which advertised, «no money down, lender on site.»

Likewise, Clinton would limit itemized deductions, raise the estate tax and increase taxes on capital gains (profits from the sale of stocks and other assets held at least a year); these are concentrated among the wealthy and upper middle class.

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.

The working class was «liberal» only on the first, while intellectuals and the middle - to - upper classes favored all four.

Rieff relies heavily on upper - middle - class, politically liberal sources.

The Democrats are dominated by a power - hungry and vengeful upper - middle - class liberalism that is more intent on injuring (or even just seeking to injure) their cultural rivals than on winning elections.

Young people who, as adults, merely retain the same level of upper - middle - class success that their parents have can regard themselves as standing still or coasting on the momentum acquired by their forebears.

The paralyzing effect of affluence takes its toll on middle - and upper - class people.

One of the things I have respected most in Aida Rosa, principal of the elementary school P.S. 30, and the teachers that I talk with on her staff is that they look at children here as children, not as «distorted children,» not as «morally disabled children,» not as «quasi-children» who require a peculiar arsenal of reconstructive strategies and stick - and - carrot ideologies that wouldn't be accepted for one hour by the parents or the teachers of the upper middle class.

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.

However, the apparent nearness to the upper classes and partial identification with this group have some effect on the drinking habits in the Upper - Middle class.

I am upper - middle class now, but I survived on Ramen Noodle soup and tuna for a long time.

By now it has been diffused widely through upper - middle - class culture in this country, most strongly on the west coast but elsewhere as well.

If you haven't seen the show, Betty is a more realistic portrayal of what a 1960's upper - middle - class housewife would look like; picture perfect on the outside but trapped and lonely on the inside.

I know I can't speak for all women in all situations / socio - economic backgrounds, but the pressure on educated middle - and upper - class women to breastfeed is intense.

I personally will never forget Denny Barrett, a middle or upper middle class father who is so food - ignorant that he feels he has no choice but to rely on fast food to feed his kids.

From 1983 to 1992, I collected data on the pregnancy and childbirth experiences of 100 middle and upper - middle class mainstream pregnant women and mothers, and on the health professionals (physicians, nurses, midwives, childbirth educators) who care for them, through observation and interviews in hospitals, offices, and homes.

2) the movements in Africa were mainly run by upper middle classes, this is also true for india untill they slashed the cost of joining the INC indian congress to become affordable m allowing to poor to have a say in the running of the party.Africa on the other hand had a more tribal approuch in that there were opinions and they were voiced, but the popularity of the «chief» was not often challenged

That is a neat claim, but our argument focuses on the threat of expropriation faced by the upper middle classes in autocracies.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D - N.Y.) said the Senate plan, like the House bill, would harm middle and upper middle - class taxpayers on Long Island and in suburbs across the country — and warned House Republicans voting for their bills they could face defeat next year.

While many Democrats are just coming to the realization that they need to hammer the economy in this mid-term election season, the veteran Brooklyn lawmaker, who took a pass in 2006 on running for governor and instead rose to become third - highest ranked senator in the upper house, has been talking about the need for his party to talk about endangered middle class for some time now.

Cuomo said preventing upper - middle - class and wealthier taxpayers from using the deduction will help drive them out of the state and put more of a tax burden on lower - income earners.

The Erie County Industrial Development Agency gave preliminary approval to a new county - wide policy that would place additional restrictions on tax breaks for senior housing projects, especially those that would build market - rate apartments aimed at middle - and upper - class seniors.

Freud's observation about the narcissism of small differences could have been made about Britain's political class and its media, whose collective fixation on detail is notable and baffling: does anyone beyond London's upper - middle class really care about the difference between David Cameron's # 2 million house in north Kensington and Ed Miliband's # 2 million house in Dartmouth Park?

Lower, middle and upper - class will receive tax reductions, multi-millionaires will receive tax hike similar to current «millionaire's tax» On Tuesday Governor Andrew M. Cuomo, Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver announced they have reached a proposed three - way agreement on legislative and executive proposals to create jobs and cut taxes for middle class New -LSB-..On Tuesday Governor Andrew M. Cuomo, Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver announced they have reached a proposed three - way agreement on legislative and executive proposals to create jobs and cut taxes for middle class New -LSB-..on legislative and executive proposals to create jobs and cut taxes for middle class New -LSB-...]

«Everybody I know that is a small owner of real estate that isn't within the billionaire class — average middle - class, upper - middle - class Miamians who have real estate on the beach — is in the process of selling their properties and moving to the mainland,» Keenan said.

Once there, instead of building up their social capital, they continue to «concentrate very intensely on their work,... whereas often their upper or middle - class peers are involved in societies; they're networking; they're doing a whole range of things that actually support their career,» Reay says.

Middle - and upper - middle class people, as a result, express high expectations for their marriages, centering on self - fulfillment, deeply engaged parenting by both parents, and psycho - emotional awarMiddle - and upper - middle class people, as a result, express high expectations for their marriages, centering on self - fulfillment, deeply engaged parenting by both parents, and psycho - emotional awarmiddle class people, as a result, express high expectations for their marriages, centering on self - fulfillment, deeply engaged parenting by both parents, and psycho - emotional awareness.

Studies at Rice and Columbia Universities reported eye - opening findings about how many more words children who grow up in middle and upper - class homes hear on a daily basis as compared to lower - income children.

I have taught at schools on both ends of the spectrum, from at - risk to schools who serve mostly upper - middle class.

I'm not on a sd website to find a guy who's more broke than I am or the average upper middle class joe.

A drama of upper - middle - class menace that can't quite bring itself to be a full - on slasher movie, this has a few too many clichés but offers some creepiness and decent performances.

Bridget Cardigan is shocked to learn that she is on the verge of losing her home and comfortable upper middle class lifestyle when her husband Don is downsized from his job.

The subject — a disastrous honeymoon on the Dorset coast in 1962 — can only be explained by digging into the backgrounds of Florence (Saoirse Ronan), a bright, rebellious violinist from upper - middle - class parents (Samuel West, Emily Watson), and Edward (Billy Howle), an earnest history graduate snootily regarded by his in - laws as a country bumpkin.

Reed Between the Lines is instead a totemic analogy, bemoaning in sitcom form the lack of well - adjusted black families living in upper - middle - class splendor on network TV.

She is one of the poorest kids in a student body drawn mostly from the upper - middle class but finds friendship with an overweight girl even lower than her on the economic ladder.

«Elles,» the provocative film by Malgoska Szumowska, borders on the pornographic as it explores the life of Anne (Juliette Binoche), an upper middle class journalist for «Elle» magazine, and the two student prostitutes who are the focus of her article.

They come from different socioeconomic backgrounds, however, with Florence's family representing the upper middle class that looks down on people of Edward's more humble status.

Hardly the hearty tale of maritime adventure that the title suggests, The Squid and the Whale is a coming - of - age drama that focuses on how the four members of an upper - middle - class New York family and how they react to the imminent divorce of the parents.

That nuttiness - albeit safely couched in middle - age and upper - middle class comforts - is on display in Lawrence Kasdan's Darling Companion, a shambling and not exactly deep ensemble piece centered on a long - married couple (Diane Keaton, Kevin Kline) and the dog that comes into, and then out of, their lives.

The scenario takes shape in straightforward terms: Gearing up to take his teen son Troy (Austin Abrams) on a tour of East Coast colleges, Brad wrestles with whether his upper - middle - class Sacramento life with wife Melanie (Jenna Fischer) has reached its potential.

Allen has never been the most acute observer of the class system in America, perhaps because almost all of his movies have centered on the neurotic contortions of white upper - middle - class New Yorkers.

Added to that, Firewall is yet another example of what I call a Business Class Thriller, tailor made to engross upper - middle - class dads who spend lots of time on airplClass Thriller, tailor made to engross upper - middle - class dads who spend lots of time on airplclass dads who spend lots of time on airplanes.

In the film based on Amy Koppelman's 2008 novel, the Emmy - winning actress plays an upper - middle - class mother and wife who is destroying herself and her family in a losing battle with mental illness and addiction.

The woman most likely to emerge from this Tudors-esque affair with a crown is costume designer Lisy Christl, whose only true claim to fame thus far is her work on the upper - middle - class threads in Michael Haneke's Caché.