Sentences with phrase «than the middle class»

We would rather be kings over an impoverished realm rather than middle class in a wealthy country.

Students from disadvantaged groups experience two to three times the average gains from smaller classes than middle class white students.

So, soon after applying I found out that with a mix of good grades and coming from a low income family rather than middle class was really beneficial.

She is now a «stay at home mum» - but in what sense is that more working class than middle class?

FiveThirtyEight pointed out that the number of people who thought tax cuts enacted under Presidents Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush would help the rich more than the middle class increased after those plans passed.

I think the rich people need to pay more taxes than the middle class,» added Batista, who works at a children's program at P.S. 115.

It's a lot of hardworking, blue - collar - type people and they were just sick, it seems like, anything that was done to help was never to the middle class or the slightly lower than middle class.

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

The poor in the US live better than the middle class do in about 99 % of the countries in the world.

As a result, when electoral politics enlarged the political community of India by bringing the groups other than the middle class into it, it produced popular leaders more inclined to the unrenewed traditions.

Thanks to the Bush Tax cuts, you're in a lower tax bracket than a middle class working American.

Raise their taxes to 95 %, if they earn 1 % of the average richer class, the rich has to pay more than 0.95 % of tax, and their power is still bigger than middle class» vote power.

Working class (DE) voters in the South are more likely to vote Conservative than middle class (AB) voters in the North (page 5) but there is an important public / private sector split to this.

«Elise Stefanik refuses to support a common sense measure that would ensure millionaires and billionaires don't play a lower effective tax rate than the people that work for them, than their middle class employees.»

For example, those with a social justice perspective might use the findings here to argue that low - income families should not have to expend more on daycare as a percentage of their total income than middle class families.

But was it actually good for anything?Other than middle class consumers, of course — that's the one group the program seemed to undoubtedly benefit.

But that excludes those lawyers who have clients wealthier than the middle class, which means lawyers with highly specialized professional clients, and those in the big law firms.

Trudeau defended the changes by stating that the current rules «favour the wealthy, rather than the middle class».

According to research by economist David Macdonald of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, they also benefit well - off people far more than the middle class or low - income people.

«We are changing the rules for three per cent of private corporations, because the wealthiest Canadians should not be able to use private corporations to pay less tax than the middle class,» Morneau said.

For a long time (and even now here and there), American Catholic education, even for working class kids in South Philly or South Boston, was a lot more than middle class.

Text: Wilson wants to keep a tax loophole that allows Wall Street executives to pay lower tax rates than the middle class.

WASHINGTON — Central New York voters oppose the Republican tax plan making its way through Congress, and believe the plan benefits the wealthiest Americans more than the middle class, according to a new poll.