Sentences with phrase «to squeeze the middle»

Second, wages adjusted for inflation have been little changed for three decades; this has squeezed the middle class, especially when it comes to discretionary spending.

Each of these things are felt very strongly by squeezed middle voters.

To them it is as if squeezed middle families have no serious problems worth worrying about.

While many Labour voices reject virtually any changes to the welfare state, squeezed middle voters care deeply about welfare reform.

The strategy is designed to drive out higher - cost producers of heavy oil and shale, whose rapid development is squeezing Middle East crude out of the huge U.S. market and threatens to eat into its share of other lucrative growth markets.

Squeezed middle C1 / C2 voters are often overlooked but they are decisive in elections.

The fuel cell cars will take care of the high milage high energy sector where batteries face realy hard issues and together they should squeeze the middle fairly well to hopefully drop our need for oil quickly enough.

The Conservative plan is to squeeze the middle class hard, cutting child tax credits for families on total household incomes over # 31,000, and scraping child trust funds for all but the poorest families.

Fundamentally, squeezed middle voters do not think that Labour is on their side.

Our recent online focus group of people from the so - called «squeezed middle» revealed that they are not feeling the benefits...

This season, as things stand, we've got something of a squeezed middle: the teams in positions 1 - 8 comprise the Good; those from 13 down the Bad; and Swansea, Stoke, Newcastle and Everton the Mid-Table.

New polling by Penn, Schoen Berland and economic analysis by Frontier Economics shows that the «squeezed middle» is a misnomer.

«The speed with which «squeezed middle» has taken root, and the likelihood of its endurance while anxieties deepen, made it a good candidate for word of the year,» Oxford University Press spokeswoman Susie Dent said.

Ed Miliband's «squeezed middle» phrase has been chosen as «word of the year» by Oxford University Press in the UK and US.

Ed Miliband has taken a more robust stance, but there are few radical moves to compliment the rhetoric of a «squeezed middle».

That is where the squeezed middle comes from.

Upon Ed Miliband's election as leader of the Labour Party, The Guardian reported that after looking at Policy Network's Southern Discomfort Again pamphlet, he is expected to set up a commission into the so - called «squeezed middle», modelled on the inquiry set up by Joe Biden into the US middle class.

The party must show that it understands the concerns of the «squeezed middle» on tax, law and order, public spending and welfare, conveying a coherent sense of how Labour would govern Britain.

A property tax would be much easier to enforce and an effective way to discourage misallocation of land but we couldn't do that because «Oh noes, the «Squeezed Middle» would complain».

I am a classic example of the squeezed middle.

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In rebuilding the Labour Party, the next leader needs to focus on the squeezed middle as it once looked like Ed Miliband was going to do.

Whether we're talking about the «squeezed middle», the «cost - of - living crisis» or cutting the «biggest budget deficit in our peacetime history», it's fair to say that many Brits will be feeling pretty taxed already by the time the chancellor stands up to deliver his budget speech on Wednesday.

«So far, Ed Miliband's talk of the «squeezed middle» has resonated, but he has not done enough to explain what is causing the squeeze on living standards, or what might be done about it.

What Ed Miliband calls the «squeezed middle» are not thought to be substantially affected by any of the changes, despite Mr Osborne having at least an extra # 5 billion to play with.

Even those welcome first steps to change, the squeezed middle, predatory capitalism, seem to have disappeared without trace.

Austerity may end for the «squeezed middle», but still continue for them.

People laughed when he talked about the squeezed middle, but actually I think that's where the next election's going to be.

«We have heard about the squeezed middle and «one nation» Labour, but it isn't clear what that means.

Leading from the front — on phone - hacking, banking reform, putting the crisis of the «squeezed middle» on the political agenda before anyone else.

The Tories are, as with most of their proposed cuts, using the opportunity to portray the recipients of housing benefit as the undeserving poor, to be contrasted with and despised by the squeezed middle.

Then maybe you're thinking of the «squeezed middle», the phrase that Ed Miliband used over and over again in the run - up to the last general election.

Sticking up for SDNVs is not an alternative to courting aspirational voters in the «squeezed middle» — wisely the theme of Ed Miliband's first speech as leader.

He was pressed on whether he would consider joining student protests and his definition of the «squeezed middle».

And the 15 % who don't are precisely the Daily Mail's «hard - working, squeezed middle classes» — the people the Tories and the right - wing press are constantly trying to whip up into a frenzy about how they're paying through the nose to fund a bunch of scroungers.

That's why you can expect Ed Balls to make a big deal out of the «squeezed middle» in his response in the Commons this afternoon.

His «squeezed middle» won OED's 2011 Word of the Year.

There is also expected to be a 3p rise in fuel duty, a freeze on higher income tax credits, # 250 million support for energy - intensive companies and a restriction on train fare rises to six per cent - little bit of «squeezed middle» policymaking at the end there.

The problems faced by the more vulnerable yesterday are increasingly confronting the «squeezed middle» today.

Shouldn't we be focusing on living standards and the squeezed middle more?

Politicians are often reluctant to spell out what they mean when they use rhetorical devices such as «just about managing», «ordinary working families» and the «squeezed middle» as they do not want to be seen as excluding certain groups.

The result is a one - moral - size - fits - all approach which will resonate well with his target audience, the «squeezed middle».

The public sphere was a quintessentially bourgeois formation with the middle classes holding real wealth and exerting considerable political influence; these days, the squeezed middle has been materially «disenfranchised» and politically «silenced».

Politicians have always sought to appeal to modest grafters, but the new focus on JAMs marks a clear rhetorical departure from David Cameron and George Osborne's «hard - working families» and Ed Miliband's «squeezed middle».

This government has found a vivid and compelling rhetoric to justify its choice to slash services and squeeze the middle.