Sentences with phrase «plight of the middle class»

The plight of the middle class was a major theme of his launch speech and the subject of his first position statement, published as a column in the Toronto Star entitled: «Canadian middle class left out of the growth equation.»

This has happened «even as concern was rising about the plight of the middle class and the growing economic inequality in America.»

Dunham also discussed the plight of the middle class in New York, noting that some New Yorkers might be squeezed out of the city and even forced to move to Florida.

If the plight of the middle class isn't the result of runaway spending, or of a refusal to go out and work, what is behind it?

Not exact matches

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

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.

The plight of the central cities and the reasons for the flight of Jews and others, whites and middle - class blacks alike, can not be found in the machinations of bankers and politicians.

Both kinds of critics argue that in comparison with the scandal of world hunger, with human rights violations and the plight of political prisoners, with oppressive regimes of the right or left, the real or imagined oppression of white, middle - class American women seems a secondary, even trivial, concern.

It is true that middle - class living standards are not keeping pace with the extremely rich, but that is not justification to marginalise the plight of those that are (and always have been) even further behind.

You might think that the plight of today's middle class would have attracted a lot of attention.

The list goes on with Andrew Cornell Robinson (described by Stout as «a challenger of authority and systems such as corporations, government and is very much obsessed with exposing the plight of lower middle classes»), Eric Gottshall, Vincent Tiley, Phoenix Lindsey - Hall (last seen raking in $ 10,000 for the creation shown in the video up top), and more.

All of these things will make the economic plight of young, middle - class Canadians more difficult.