Sentences with phrase «saying lower income people»

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Crabill says they fall into three categories: disgruntled 35 - 45 year olds (like me) who see cable as a fundamental rip - off and now refuse to pay for it; low - income or penny pinching folks who decide they can't afford $ 100 cable bills; millennials who like TV, but don't understand why people would sign up for a cable contract in the first place.

«There's a certain percentage of people who care so much about food for themselves,» says Stop program director Kathryn Scharf, «and who can extend that empathy to lower - income people who are excluded from the pleasures of food.

Although they're «one of the more expensive areas» in biopharmaceuticals, since «you are literally saving people's lives, the payers have a harder time pushing back and lowering the price,» said Michael Rich, who provides health - care coverage for Eagle Asset Management's Equity Income team.

Some Canadians also still rely on analog television, and Teneycke says these people tend to be older and have lower incomes, which puts them squarely in the Sun News demographic.

LeapFrog says its portfolio companies reach 24.8 million people, more than 19.5 million of whom are low - income, emerging consumers in Africa and Asia.

«Low - income elderly people are the most vulnerable group in Hong Kong, given the lack of retirement protection,» he said.

In addition, Evans says, the types of people applying for microloans — typically many low income and immigrants apply — expanded to include entrepreneurs who were highly educated and recently became unemployed.

As secretary, Price criticized the Medicaid health program for low - income people, saying it doesn't deliver results commensurate with the hundreds of billions of dollars taxpayers spend on it.

The Democratic - aligned economist Austan Goolsbee says there's a wrinkle in the new tax package that might make those numbers even worse: the individual tax cuts are set to expire after several years, and along with other tax changes, could mean higher taxes down the road for many lower - and middle - income people.

But it allowed workers to enroll in any accredited college or university based on what made the most sense for them, including in - person classes that experts say are especially critical for low - income workers to succeed in their education.

As one might expect, low - and middle - income people were most likely to say the U.S. economic system favors the wealthy, but even 52 % of high - income people agreed that it does.

Do you mean to say that the Liberals have irreversibly alieanated «the little people» (by which I assume you mean lower income and marginalised groups)?

The EITC already gives money to low - income people, but whether you're eligible and how much you get can vary wildly depending on your age, location, marital status and many other factors, Hughes said.

A Department for Work and Pensions spokesman said: «We continue to spend around # 90 billion a year supporting people, including those who are out of work or on a low income.

In a statement to Premier, a spokesman said: «UK income equality is now lower than when this government came into office and the recovery is being felt across the country, with latest data showing the North West seeing the fastest growth per person, and that the North East is seeing the fastest growth in employment.

Living in low - income housing, teaching free literacy classes to refugees, setting up basketball camps for bored inner - city kids: all of it had a few costs for me personally, sure, but the holy buzz of pats on the back from friends and church people, and the feeling that I was the only person really getting what Jesus was saying — this more than made up for doing without.

It was frustrating to see an idea that was so obviously pro-life and pro-family get lampooned by the very people who say they want millions of low - income women to have millions more babies.

«Important choices must be made: we must weigh the benefits of tax credits for low - income people and tax breaks for high income people; of nutrition assistance to low - income families and subsidies to agricultural businesses,» the letter says.

2) For said bread - making space, Rodriguez hires low - income, immigrant and minority people, often women.

while i can definitely get behind curbing consumption every day, (which, like you said is the point), i read something recently that made me rethink buy nothing day: http://www.sojo.net/blog/godspolitics/?p=4014 it argues that buy nothing day is a day for priviledged white people to assuage their guilt about their own over-consumption while simultaneously looking down on lower - income people who may not be able to afford to pass up those black friday doorbusters.

See, low or middle income people can not do this, so there might be more cases... Like I said before, my third birth was nice and calm.

That's why the pro-marriage people have it all wrong when they say marriage will get low - income women out of poverty.

Gates who said he does not enjoy «speaking bluntly» to Nigeria when the people had been «so gracious enough «to invite him, however hinted that Statistical data show the country «still looks like a low - income country»

«It has not been fair to our people, to our citizens, to our workers,» Trump said of the current immigration system, specifically citing low - income and minority workers.

In a major policy shift that could affect millions of low - income people, the Trump administration said it is offering a path for states that want to impose work requirements on Medicaid recipients.

«This rate proposal has a low - income provision, but it's those people that are working above the threshold but not rich... lower income workers, those are the people that are going to get hit the hardest and face the choice between heat and groceries,» Hawkins said.

Many nonprofits serving low - income New Yorkers agree with Cuomo and say more people will seek badly needed assistance if fingerprinting ends.

It also says that lower - income people would get less in tax credits in most cases than they would under Obamacare.

«With claims about his military record now exposed as false, Mr. Paladino must explain what inspired him to tell the NY Times that his military experience showed him that people from low income backgrounds needed to be taught how to «clean themselves daily and brush their teeth twice a day,» Cuomo Campaign Spokesman Josh Vlasto said.

Instead of following the traditional trickle down economics, Hawkins said he wants a «bottom - up» approach where the city helps low - income, working class people.

The party, which plans to raise the money by closing loopholes available to the wealthy and polluters, says the policy would take 3.6 million low earners out of income tax altogether and save most people # 700.

Clinton said other necessary reforms include proper treatment for the mentally ill and drug addicted who make up an increasingly larger percentage of the prison population, sentencing reform so people with low level offenses do not face long prison terms, and tackling income inequality, which is often at the root of the problem for many people caught in the criminal justice system.

And he said BBC economics editor Robert Peston had «made people think something might have been going to happen on [taxes for those on] lower and middle incomes».

He said it would require strict oversight by the state banking superintendent, who would set the top loan rate, and would give lower - income people access to credit on better terms than many credit cards or rent - to - own stores offer.

Large numbers of people on low incomes will still lose out, and even those the Chancellor says will be compensated are simply being given their own money back.

«In the end, people who will still have insurance will fall into two groups under this plan: older Americans and lower - income people who will pay more for coverage or lose it altogether, and higher - income people who will pay less,» he said.

The legislation would also kill $ 400 million in tax credits based on a person's income that helped lower the insurance cost for low - income New Yorkers, he said.

«Many states would be forced to kick low - income and disabled people off their health care coverage once federal funding for the Medicaid program is cut, as this Senate bill would do,» said Chris Shelton, president of the Communications Workers of America.

And he got money restored for Neighborhood Legal Services — $ 250,000 — that provides various legal services to low - income people, his office said.

He said that previous Comcast offer for a programming package for low - income people was not that cheap, not advertised and difficult to obtain.

Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz represents portions of the Bronx, which he said includes a large number of low - income people who will be unfairly burdened by the deal.

«In the end, people who will still have insurance will fall into two groups under this plan: older Americans and lower - income people who will pay more for coverage or lose it altogether, and higher - income people who will pay less,» Cuomo said.

The # 17 billion tax switch is said by the party to put an average of # 700 into the pockets of millions of people on low and middle incomes by raising the personal allowance to # 10,000.

«Clearly 421a needs to be reformed and we need to ensure that this program creates more affordable housing, reaches more people with lower incomes than ever before and increases the percentage requirement as Mayor de Blasio suggested,» she said.

«We can't simply say to the public you were wrong... We're not going to do blanket opposition because we've heard all around the country that whilst people have got concerns, particularly about the standard of living for low income families in work, they don't want just... blanket opposition to what the government are proposing on welfare.»

Trump's plan to replace the Affordable Care Act will propose giving each state a fixed amount of federal money in the form of a block grant to provide health care to low - income people on Medicaid, Conway said.

David Sinclair, senior policy of manager at Help the Aged welcomed today's report, saying that people on low incomes were facing a «bewildering future when it comes to accessing financial products».

«They've got huge dividends, huge profits and it can make a real difference to people on low incomes in London», he said.

Bearing signs saying «Don't balance the budget on the backs of the poor» and shouting «Hey hey, ho ho, the funding cuts have got to go,» the roughly 150 demonstrators, largely from New York City, represented progressive activist groups pushing for rent reductions for people with HIV, homeless services, low - income housing, health care and other issues.

«It's crucial to lower the expenses of hard - working people, but to be fair — nothing does more to address income equality than actually raising people's incomes,» Mr. de Blasio said today in his State of the City Address, which focused largely on making New York City a more affordable place to live.