Sentences with phrase «part of the middle class»

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.

We have now considered several methodologies for arriving at a standard of what we must share of our own with the rest of the world if we are to remain a part of the middle class of an affluent society and still be faithful.

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..

Contrary to popular belief, in India, curry powders have become an integral part of middle class family life.

Even in India, curry powders have become an integral part of middle class family life.

For all the changes the area has gone through, it's held on to a large part of its middle class core: white and blue collar civil servants, private sector professionals, union workers and small entrepreneurs.

To be fair, Cuomo never said it would — he instead billed Excelsior as «tuition - free for the middle class,» part of his Middle Class Recovery Act that he framed as his direct response to the anxiety shown in the 2016 presidential election.

I am old enough to remember when hard working Americans could raise a family and put kids through college still living as part of the middle class.

«Ironically, the very funding that New York and many others fought for in Congress as part of the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act is not available to New York,» they wrote.

Although how much you earn has a direct impact on where you see yourself in the economic spectrum, one thing most economists agree on is that if you own a home, you've become part of the middle class, or higher.

William Rothenstein, who was born in 1872 and whose German - Jewish father migrated to Bradford to work in textiles, wanted to be part of the middle class of English art.

If you're part of the middle class and currently advancing your career, you've probably been offered a life annuity plan by a financial company.

Not exact matches

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

«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.

Meanwhile, Hong Kong's Cheng Yu - tung has spent $ 570 million on five luxe properties — part of what some industry experts hypothesize will become a trend among wealthy Asians in expectation of the continent's middle class embracing global travel.

By 1919, the self - taught pioneer with an eighth - grade education was producing more than half the cars in the U.S.. By lowering the cost of the automobile — eventually to $ 350 — he made cars part of the fabric of middle class America.

«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.

This strikes me as an odd attack, not least because of the reason politicians focus on the middle class: most people consider themselves to be part of it.

Good data on the exact size of the middle class are hard to come by, but it remains small across most parts of the continent.

The passage of Bill C - 377, part of the Harper government's broader attack on labour rights, speaks to the Conservatives» fundamental lack of understanding of the role of organized labour in ensuring shared prosperity and a thriving middle class.

«This W.T.O. action is part of our broader litigation to defend the hundreds of thousands of good, middle - class forestry jobs across our country,» she said.

But even in Davos, which is favored by champions of globalization, there is vocal opposition to trade from critics who say it has benefited the elites at the expense of the middle class in many parts of the world.

They have lost the capacity to develop a middle - class narrative against the Democrats» cultural libertarianism as part of an agenda of pro-family public policy.

However it is true, the location of many church plants are in wealthy areas and therefore Christians for a large part coming form polite middle class families.

Most polygamists are part of middle (and even middle - upper) class America.

We should also be able to agree that policies designed to reduce services to the poor and to put a larger part of the tax burden on the shoulders of the lower middle class is not Christian.

Cultural attacks on middle class people were always part of the postwar scene.

That said, part of «the church [being] only too happy to let» the government get involved was that churches only wanted to serve the deserving poor: people with the right social graces, people who were properly grateful and avoided forms of immorality rejected by the middle class, and frankly, people who were the right color.

The middle classes, for their part, «are realizing that their dreams of upward mobility for themselves and their children will not be realized, and they find few if any political options which challenge them.

But another reading seems equally plausible — that many sought to shore up their status as part of the «responsible middle - class» by underscoring the discrepancy between their own «fit» families and those of the underclass.

He's addressing the real issue of the economic and cultural degradation of the lives of the bluecollar part of the middle - class.

The pastoral psychology movement was developed by sincere and far - sighted churchmen who were, for the most part, members of the mainline, middle - class denominations in the United States.

That same secular world with its nagging empirical criteria of meaning and validity remains in power in academia and among the middle and especially the professional classes — and we who try to do theology are still ourselves very much a part of that same world.

The latter group might include clergy who surrender a lifestyle they once expected, and clergy who never expected to be part of the professional middle class.

When Shane was speaking of Psalm 139 and the «not so nice» part in the middle, I thought of my friend, M, who last week shared that one thing she doesn't like about church is that she has to go home on Sunday and correct the things her children have been mistaught in Sunday School class.

Today Manmohan and Rao have surrendered the state to the ideology of the free - market with the backing of the greedy middle class (which includes also a good part of the organized working class) who have coopted Indian Nationalism to serve their vested interests.

Robert D. Yaro of the Regional Plan Association in New York City observes that inner cities are in trouble in part because of the country's success in creating an African - American and Latino middle class.

I remember taking comparative religion classes in school... albeit I did go to a catholic school and part of it was to show the differences, and I had the first such class whe I was in «middle school» 7th grade.

It appealed more to the charity and sense of justice of the Christian middle class than to organized efforts on the part of labor and the poor.

The current critique charges the Church and the churches with being part of the Establishment, white, middle - class, tax - free, economically secure, insensitive to the needs of minorities, smug in wealth, sot in structures, bureaucratic in organization.

In a country with an educated white population of over four million, with a middle class mixed race group of about two million, and the largest black middle class in Africa (admittedly a small part of the total black populace), the largest single print run is under half a million, for the weekly Sunday Times.

Crack was a cheap ghetto alternative, and its spread to the middle and upper classes has in part been a function of its low price.

If, instead, my first identity is part of the global Body of Christ, then white middle - class Americans are a tiny sliver indeed.

I know of many groups who are very exclusive, meaning they exclude anyone who does not meet their standards, such as you need to be at least upper middle class, white and live in a good neighborhood to be part of the group.

The changes experienced in American culture since 1960 can be interpreted, in part, as a decline in the power of the vision of «a Christian America» to provide meaning and motivation for middle - class life.

Education, social skills, «contacts» and experience in the dominant culture are all part of what it means to be «nonpoor,» and since none of these can simply be shed, even someone who has embraced voluntary poverty or some kind of simpler life style remains middle class in the most important respects.

As Limoneira expands further into Asia, its ability to cater to the tastes of the ever - expanding middle class in this part of the world will help it grow.

Syrian chef and author, Jennifer Abadi is teaching a 2 part vegetarian class focusing on the flavor packed regions of the Near and Middle East.

You can count Ridgewood, Saddle River, Alpine and possible parts of Englewood and Tenafly as towns that require a considerable amount of wealth just to pay the real estate taxes but the rest of Bergen is upper middle to lower middle class.