Sentences with phrase «relatively affluent»

Becker: Our day - to - day info comes from our experience with 87 assets in highly urban areas with relatively affluent customers — a small microcosm.

Second, the region continues to attract relatively affluent and well - educated consumers from other parts of the United States.

These renters are relatively affluent, upwardly mobile, and in fact mobile in general.

The study reported in these papers was conducted in a relatively affluent population and it is not clear whether the results are generalisable across the country, especially in severely deprived areas where the problems of parenting and child mental health are most prevalent.

For example, in the most deprived 10 % of neighbourhoods nationally, the LAC rate in relatively affluent Herefordshire is 4.75 times greater than the LAC rate in much more disadvantaged Sandwell.

Do we mean it for people other than the relatively affluent few?

Good points all; she compares Mississipi to Colorado, the skinniest state, and notes that it is relatively affluent, has a temperate climate and a recreational infrastructure.

Against nostalgic accounts like Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States, most social - change movements are started and directed by the relatively affluent and well - educated, from the preacher - led civil rights movement to modern feminism to gay rights.

So if you are a privileged relatively affluent person who does not like taxes (dreams of bureaucrats) and on the other hand loves «freedom» reigning in society as well as in nature, the worst thing now would be a surge of justified guilt feelings and then solidarity resulting from recognition of AGW.

Yes, a relatively affluent city like Newton is blessed to have the resources to invite visiting scientists and other guests into the schools, and even pay us a small stipend for our visits (after we are first vetted by our school department's Creative Arts and Sciences Council).

But I raise this point because when it comes to climate survivalism, the little brown folks are nowhere to be seen, and apparently it's every relatively affluent white guy (and his nuclear family, of course) for himself.

The person that made them, he decided, was an African - American woman who was born in Conyers, Ga., the second of three children in a relatively affluent family.

Federal Realty Trust is a REIT focused on retail properties — generally strip malls in relatively affluent areas.

For many relatively affluent taxpayers, however, this big - tent approach comes a bit close for comfort, signifying that they are — from the perspective of cash - strapped governments at least — richer than they think.

«Often they are spread thinly, as an «invisible minority» across areas that are relatively affluent.

On the PARCC test, for example, School Without Walls — a selective DCPS school with a relatively affluent student body — saw 97 % of its students reach the «college and career ready» bar in English and 76 % in math.

We welcome articles on serving immigrant students, ELLs, and homeless youth; solutions for resource shortages in rural areas; and supports for low - income students who attend relatively affluent suburban schools.

Relatively affluent whites funded separate school districts, while poorer urbanites were left to fund the impoverished schools left behind.

Out sample did not include children from special needs schools and all were from a relatively affluent area, so the real figures may actually be higher.

In Amherst, New Hampshire, for example, the large, progressive, and relatively affluent Souhegan High School has created a tradition called the «Viking funeral.»

That feedback persuaded the chancellor to remove five schools from her original closure list, including Garrison Elementary and Francis - Stevens Education Campus, two Northwest Washington schools in relatively affluent neighborhoods.

Leaders in the school said the primary was receiving less funding than others because it was in a relatively affluent area.

In these various consultations, there is a group of parents and community members — white and relatively affluent — deemed very influential by district staff members.

Atlas parents who serve on the Community Curriculum Council, join PTOs, or serve on site councils tend to be relatively affluent and white.

District - level data from New York suggest that relatively affluent districts tend to have higher opt - out rates, and that districts with lower test scores have higher opt - out rates after taking socioeconomic status into account

«I thought, «If this is happening in a relatively affluent town, what is happening in other communities throughout the country that don't have the same tax base?»»

Most of these families, I suspect, will be relatively affluent and well - educated — either capable of paying the difference between private school tuition and the value of the ESA or able to afford for one parent to stay home with the kids and play teacher.

Do opt - outs tend to be concentrated among relatively affluent districts, or are they most common in schools that have historically performed poorly on state tests?

They are present for both relatively affluent and relatively disadvantaged students (with somewhat higher estimated effects for students not eligible for free or reduced - price lunches).

First, relatively affluent districts tend to have higher opt - out rates, with opt - out less common in the disadvantaged districts that are often the target of reform efforts.

And while Little Accidents is no great shakes formally — its sole visual flourish is Colangelo's penchant for shooting emotionally charged scenes from a distance, which is likely motivated by a desire to avoid histrionics — it does create a clear picture of a community in which even the relatively affluent, like Bill and Diane, are essentially just middle - class.

Similarly, college graduates and the relatively affluent are especially likely to say that they know someone who has met a spouse or long - term partner via online dating — and once again, nearly every major demographic group is more likely to know someone who has done this compared with eight years ago.

College graduates and the relatively affluent are most likely to fall into into those two categories.

There are some commonalities that bring our members together: for instance, the majority of our members are educated, relatively affluent, and between the ages of 30 and 55.

There are some commonalities that connect our members; for instance, the majority of our members are educated, relatively affluent, and between the ages of 30 and 55.

While the Paleo diet may not be a viable option for the entire human population in our current agricultural system, and is indeed most popular among relatively affluent Westerners, this is not so much a fault of the diet itself but of our current economic paradigm.

People using the internet for research are likely to be relatively affluent and relatively well educated.

The profile of most Americans who use popular mobile phone apps that track sleep habits is that they are relatively affluent, claim to eat well, and say they are in good health, even if some of them tend to smoke.

ALBANY — State officials face a major challenge in deciding whether to allow casinos in economically struggling parts of the Catskills or in relatively affluent Orange County, closer to New York City, Gaming Facilities Location Board member Kevin Law said.

Mr. Weprin, who hails from a relatively affluent section of northeast Queens, recalled Mr. Barron asking.

The old New Labour triangulation strategy was that the so - called «core vote» had nowhere else to go, but relatively affluent swing voters were key to electoral success.

And because his relatively affluent electorate leans moderate on social issues, the vote was not likely to fire up a huge reaction.

Local democracy relies on the voluntary efforts of a handful of individuals, even in relatively affluent areas.

Only 16 state secondary schools in these two relatively affluent counties did better than those two inner city schools.

That top five list reflects two characteristics of New York counties with older age profiles: most, such as Delaware and Essex, are both sparsely populated and poor, but some, like Columbia and Warren, have also become retirement havens for relatively affluent senior citizens.

I have gone into my own kids» public school lunch room, in a relatively affluent neighborhood in central Houston, btw, and have seen (and photographed) poorly prepared food — items that are still frozen, items like green vegetables that are grossly overcooked, to the point of almost being brown, etc..

According to Census 2000 data, Arlington Heights is a relatively affluent community.

I am a mother raising children in a relatively affluent part of the country (while being non-affluent), and this post resonated with me.

That said, I can attest to the fact that in my own children's school (which draws from a relatively affluent community), breakfast in the classroom has turned out, despite strong initial parental opposition, to be a non-event.

The vast majority of students at private schools (especially nonparochial ones) come from relatively affluent, educated families.