Sentences with phrase «same economic class»

Studies show that more than 80 percent of wealthy people keep company with those who are in the same economic class.

Not exact matches

Obama cited statistics released the same day in the White House's new report from his Council of Economic Advisers which show that conflicts likely lead, on average, to 1 percentage point lower annual returns on retirement savings as well as $ 17 billion of losses every year for working and middle - class families.

MCCI Class A and Class B exchangeable shares offer substantially the same economic and voting rights as the respective classes of common shares of MCBC, as described in MCBC's annual proxy statement and Form 10 - K filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

While the Chinese crackdown is more economic than political, it's resulting in a shakeup of the country's growing class of billionaires in much the same way the Saudi detainments are.

A sociologist like William Julius Wilson can underline the importance of economic factors, pointing to the precipitous decline in manufacturing, and at the same time write frankly about the destructive influence of ghetto culture which lacks a viable middle class that once served as a «social buffer.

Here in Houston we've already implemented the same program district - wide, and for those unfamiliar with it, «in - class breakfast» means just that: children receive a free breakfast (regardless of economic need) and bring it into their classrooms to eat at their desks as the school day begins.

It's basically a theory that white people in western countries have more societal privileges than people of other ethnicities who come from the same political, social and economic class.

In the North Country it is the same thing, the North Country was long ignored by Albany but there is a new economic live that Trudeau Institute is an emerging world class biotech hub, there is going to be a new hotel on Saranac Lake.

The weighting regimes are very different — I think Ashcroft weights by age, gender, social class and recalled vote; ComRes weight by the same plus housing tenure; Survation appear to weight only by age and gender, with no political or socio - economic weights.

At the same time, the remote region contains potential world - class deposits of minerals that offer economic opportunities.

The approach applies these same lifelines, but simplifies resilience into three classes: social, economic and infrastructure.

For this group of individuals, finding love and establishing meaningful relationships with a partner from the same social and economic class is...

Ironically, he won on pledging the same economic change - to rebuild a middle class that we as trade unionists have championed.

At the same time, Malloy's plan demands that the Democrats in the Connecticut General Assembly continue to undermine the state's middle class and the economic well - being of their own constituents in order to «protect» Connecticut's wealthiest residents.

Writing in The Wall Street Journal, he quotes from Steven Brill's Class Warfare, which compares the teachers» contracts at Harlem Success Academy, a high - performing charter school in New York City, and a traditional public school that shares the same building and teaches kids from the same socio - economic background.

However, in some difficult economic periods, such as the recession that began in 2007, all asset classes can lose value at the same time.

Mr. Cotter controls Reading through the very small illiquid Class B voting shares, but also has a much larger shareholding and economic stake in the more liquid RDI nonvoting shares, which are the same share class we now hold in Class B voting shares, but also has a much larger shareholding and economic stake in the more liquid RDI nonvoting shares, which are the same share class we now hold in class we now hold in size.

I don't think ascribing a greater ownership interest to class B shares would be legal, as both A and C shares currently have the same economic interest in the Liberty assets as the B shares.

Each asset class has its own traits and may respond differently to the same economic or world events.

In the same way I work with gender in my work, being working class means having an understanding of what it means to experience an unjust socio - economic system.

Marshall's works simultaneously gestures towards opposite ends of the economic spectrum, thus evoking the same issues of class mobility and its inherent connections to race and representation as in earlier paintings like Great America.

With both performance and value in mind, the new Bravus 8A features an 8 ″ high - excursion custom aluminum driver, (the same award - winning driver as the Bravus «D» series), a 100 watt class A / B amplifier, and a 40 - 160Hz customizable crossover, resulting in a full, robust sound which exceeds the demanding requirements of serious music and movie fans at a price that fits the current economic climate.