Sentences with phrase «than a middle class family»

A poor college student in Maryland may live in a neighborhood with a higher crime rate than a middle class family with small children.

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Tyler Law, a spokesman, said in a statement that Ryan «sees what is coming in November and is calling it quits rather than standing behind a House Republican agenda to increase healthcare costs for middle - class families while slashing Social Security and Medicare to pay for his handouts to the richest and largest corporations.»

There was no better way to become a popular kid in school or to accomplish middle - class family peace and happiness than an afternoon at McDonald's.

Stagnant wage growth isn't just a problem for those at the bottom of the salary scales: middle - class family incomes are slightly lower now than they were in the 1970s.

Clinton says the tax is to make sure the richest people pay higher tax rates than «middle - class families.»

But it is a different story if we use the low income measure, which looks at the gap between poor children and the middle class, calculating the number of children who live in a family which has less than one half of the income of a comparable middle income family.

-- When changes in the composition of families are taken into account — including fewer adults per household as family sizes decrease — the real after - tax income of middle - class families increased 30 per cent from 1976 to 2010 — on par with other income groups, but still lower than the top earners

«All families in my upper middle - class neighborhood regularly enjoy a living standard better than that achieved by John D. Rockefeller Sr. at the time of my birth.

It's a small programme sofar, with only three thousand families enrolled in a city that has more than two million people living below the official poverty line — a line above what was called middle - class sixty years ago.

I'm firmly ensconced in the middle class and will pay less for a good round of golf than I will to take my family to a football game, and about the same as to take them to a movie anymore.

A survey of more than 200 TV and newspaper mentions showed that bottle feeding was associated with «ordinary» families, while breast - feeding was associated with middle class or celebrity women.

Her findings reveal that middle - class families have different parental styles than poor working - class families, regardless of race.

The average middle - class family spends more than $ 225,000 in the first 18 years of a child's life.

Children of middle - class and two - parent families were more likely to be affected negatively than those from working - class or single - parent families, according to the research.

Now more than ever, middle - class families in Queens need consensus - builders to deliver on the issues that matter most to them.»

While middle - class families earning adjusted gross incomes more than $ 65,000 who now qualify for little in state tuition assistance would benefit, the state's private colleges and universities may be at a disadvantage, said Research Director E.J. McMahon.

There is also sustained support for expanding the middle - class child care tax credit and providing free tuition to SUNY and CUNY institutions to families that earn less than $ 125,000.

«We will make Marc's taxes for inspection in the coming days and they will demonstrate his family is decidedly more in touch with the middle class than Governor Cuomo,» said Katherine Delgado, a spokeswoman for Dutchess County Executive Marc Molinaro.

Stuyvesant Town - Peter Cooper Village, the largest apartment complex in Manhattan, is expected to be sold for more than $ 5.3 billion, an agreement that will preserve nearly half the 11,232 - unit complex for middle - class families, according to officials involved in the negotiations.

«The Republican Tax Scam is nothing more than huge tax cuts for the rich and big corporations, paid for by tax increases on millions of middle - class families,» said DCCC spokesman Evan Lukaske.

Rep. Joseph Crowley, the House Democratic Caucus chairman, said that the GOP tax plan unveiled Thursday «is little more than a political scam» that he described as a «corporate giveaway that would decimate the middle - class and working families.»

«This comprehensive plan will reduce the tax rate for middle class families to their lowest levels in more than fifty years, create thousands of new private sector jobs, and begin to turn our economy around.

Airbnb officials says a recent poll it commissioned showed that 65 % believe lawmakers «should not penalize middle class families renting out their homes for less than 30 days the same way they penalize people operating illegal hotels and removing housing from the market.»

The marquee point in what Cuomo calls the «Middle Class Recovery Act» is an expansion of college tuition subsidies that the governor says will make it «free» for students from families making less than $ 125,000 a year.

There's nothing more important for middle - class families, our country and our economy than seeing lawmakers come together to pass meaningful tax reforms that will fuel growth for all.»

With Fair Share Tax Reform, which would raise taxes on only the wealthiest New Yorkers making more than $ 250,000 a year, we can ensure all New Yorkers share in the sacrifice while preventing the need to make the most severe cuts that would disproportionately hurt working and middle - class families.»

I believe that middle and working class families form the backbone of our community, and that we have been carrying more than our fair share of economic burdens in recent years.

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«You itemize your state and local taxes as well as your interest, and even if you do that, it doesn't amount for the vast majority of people in this district, especially the middle class, it doesn't amount to more than $ 24,000 for a family of four,» Katko said Monday.

Most parents in the 500 Family Study are highly educated, employed in professional occupations, and work, on average, longer hours and report higher earnings than do middle - class families in other, nationally representative samples.

New Ph.D. researchers with «stronger academic ability,» as indicated by having received university support in the form of a fellowship or assistantship or by having at least one parent with a college degree (which, especially in poor or middle - income countries, places the family among an educated class that is much smaller than in a rich country) are likelier to stay than those who lack these presumed correlates of academic strength.

However, those families who do have the material resources associated with middle - class status tend to invest in their children's education at similar or higher levels than their white counterparts,» says Merolla.

Unfortunately, he decided to cram most of those narrative threads together in Wish I Was Here, a muddled comedy that feels more like a vanity project than a profound examination of upper - middle class family dynamics.

Few have crafted stronger drama out of family conflict than A Separation director Asghar Farhadi, who apparently developed his gift for plumbing the crevices of middle - class Iranian life as early as 2006.

By contrast, the middle - class family in The Maid likes to pretend there is no gulf — that Raquel, their live - in maid of more than 20 years, is one of them.

Her performance as Lady Bird in Greta Gerwig's loosely biographical (she denies it, but...) coming of age movie about a teen growing up in Sacramento in a middle class family who yearns for something more than the humdrum life in the suburbs.

U.S. Private Schools Increasingly Serve Affluent Families (Vox CEPR's Policy Portal) Richard Murnane discusses how fewer middle - class children are now enrolled in private schools and that an increase in residential segregation by income in the US means that urban public and urban private schools have less socioeconomic diversity than they had decades ago.

But many paternalistic programs remain controversial because they seek to change the lifestyles of the poor, immigrants, and minorities, rather than the lifestyles of middle - class and upper - class families.

Middle - class parents are more adept than low - income families at navigating the social networks that link their children to school opportunities.

Other countries may be able to impose meaningful systems of test - based accountability, but the decentralized nature of American education and politics gives far more power to organized groups of upper - middle - class families and educators than to the technocratic elite.

I learned to navigate different social spaces from people with different backgrounds, especially while code switching for my middle to upper middle classmates in my AP classes who were «nerds,» to my friends who were jocks, and to my extended family members who came from a complete different background and life experience than even I knew.

With more resources at their disposal than their parents or grandparents had, blue - collar, middle - class families — often Catholic — were able to leave the cities for homes in America's growing suburbs.

A student from a poor family is much more likely to succeed academically in a school filled mostly with middle - class students than in one filled mostly with lower - income students.

More than likely, these residents — many of whom are first - generation middle class residents, entrepreneurs, and blue - collar workers — would use a Patent Trigger law to remove control of P.S. 45 from the New York City Department of Education, and lead an overhaul so that all families and their kids have a wider array of choices.

Cascio's research did not examine the effect of universal preschool on middle - class children, other than to observe that where it was offered, middle - class families availed themselves of the opportunity to send their children to free public preschool.

American families are now taking on more debt than ever before, and our nation's middle class has become fragile and faces mounting uncertainty.

This is also in keeping with the government's efforts to present the policy in terms of improving chances for the poorest families, rather than funding an escape route for middle class families from the local school system.

Not only are black and Hispanic children more likely to grow up in poor families, but middle - class black and Hispanic children are also much more likely than poor white children to live in neighborhoods and attend schools with high concentrations of poor students.

A recent study of Boston's universal pre-K program provides additional evidence that pre-K programs have benefits greater than costs for children from middle - class families.

Children from low - income families typically have fewer opportunities to develop language skills than middle - class children, which creates learning gaps evident on the first day of kindergarten.