Sentences with phrase «upper income families»

Recruits are coming mostly from middle and upper income families and represent the races equitably.

Back yard breeders are not necessarily bad people, they often come from middle to upper income families, and their dogs can be well loved and kept.

In 2012, lower income families accounted for 11.8 % of dropouts while just 1.9 % came from upper income families.

In the past, only middle or upper income families had options — which they exercised when they bought their home.

Free preschool for children from upper income families may also have political costs, as some voters may resent such subsidies.

On the other hand, free preschool for children from upper income families may have lower economic development benefits, as many of these children are already in high - quality preschool programs paid for by their parents.

This will reduce the net taxpayer cost of the universal pre-k program, and will reduce subsidies to upper income families that may be politically damaging.

One compromise solution is to expand pre-k as a universal program, but to charge some fees to parents from upper income families.

Unfortunately this has not proven to be the case, but that argument did make vouchers more acceptable so that now they are expanding beyond inner - city, low - income students to children of middle class and upper income families.

Forty - five percent of those students came from middle and upper income families, according to Out of Pocket: The High Cost of Inadequate High Schools and High School Student Achievement on College Affordability, a new research report from Education Reform Now and Education Post.

Dr. Copeland said that contrary to her team's hypotheses, children from low - income families did not consume fewer fruits and vegetables than children from upper income families; children consumed insufficient fruits and vegetables across the board.

Middle class families becoming upper income families....

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The losses were so large that only upper - income families realized notable gains in wealth over the span of 30 years from 1983 to 2013 (the period for which data on wealth are available).11

As CNN has it, «The median upper - income family (those who make more than $ 127,600) now holds 75 times the wealth of the median low - income family (those who make less than $ 42,500), according to an analysis of the data by the Pew Research Center.»

Those families with incomes of $ 15,000 or more are in the upper half of the population of this country as far as money is concerned.

Roughly, the upper 5 % of the families have 20 % of the income, while the poorest 20 % get 5 %.

My gay child has a strong father, a two parent household, a upper middle class income, both college graduates, went to church, had a supportive family life, engaged in sports, school activities and I think someone needs to teach you about what the real Jesus would have done.

«Long gone are the days when the majority of middle - and upper - income women stayed home to raise families full time,» the authors wrote.

The Hollis motion said the upper house would decline to approve the tax credit cuts until the government delivered a «scheme for full transitional protection for a minimum of three years for all low - income families and individuals currently receiving tax credits before April 6 2016».

Matthew Chingos, a senior fellow at the Urban Institute, said Cuomo's plan «doesn't have anything new for lower - income families and piles all the new money into middle and upper - middle income families.»

As Chingos said, the concessions to middle - class (and upper - class) families «raise the concern that the drift is in helping politically vocal middle - and - upper - middle - class families as opposed to doing more for lower - income families.»

The families of the children studied were middle - to upper - middle income, with an average income in the $ 75,000 - $ 90,000 range.

The majority of minorities entering science and engineering are from the middle - and upper - income families, but considerable debt and modest earnings (compared to business, law, and medicine) may deter even some high - achieving minority students from choosing these fields.1 Up to 25 % of academically qualified low - income students either do not apply to college2 or drop out, unable to keep pace with escalating prices.3

Funds are distributed to providers and families through mechanisms such as federally funded Head Start programs, public pre-kindergarten programs that are funded primarily by states or local jurisdictions, and state Child Care Assistance Programs, which tend to target resources to low - income families, as well as tax preferences that benefit middle - and upper - income families.

a marriage bureau that caters to upper middle income families in Karachi.

Perhaps surprisingly, SeekingArrangement said many of its student members do not, in fact, hail from low income families: 56 percent come from middle and upper - middle class families, while 20 percent are from high income families.

The film's prologue touts the British village home to average middle class families, but it's quite clear the Miniver family are part of the modern upper class; with a substantial disposable income, a housemaid, and a cook, they also maintain British reserve to sometimes irrational, and rather precious degrees.

Kamras was inspired to become a teacher in part by the disparities he saw between educational opportunities for children from low - income and those from upper - income families.

Much prior research has focused on children from middle - to upper - class families, who in general tend to outpace those from low - income families in the rate at which their vocabulary size expands.

Indeed, a 2016 analysis by Matt Chingos shows that the benefits of free college in the U.S. would skew toward middle and upper - income families.

The cultural differences between the newcomers and the old - timers in gentrifying neighborhoods can be easily, though inadequately, summarized: white, upper - middle - class families prefer a progressive and discursive style of interaction with their children, both at home and in school, and lower - income, nonwhite families prefer a traditional or authoritarian style of interaction with their children in these same venues.

[30] It is students from upper - middle and high - income families who typically pay full tuition.

One in 10 lower - income children (that is, children from families earning less than $ 30,000) has a video iPod or similar device in the home, according to Common Sense Media, compared to one in 3 of upper - income children (those from families earning more than $ 75,000).

Price rises substantially at the upper end of the distribution of family income.

Tax credits and deductions primarily go to middle - and upper - income families, whose decision on whether to send their kids to college is unlikely to be affected by a tax benefit that is relatively small in relation to their income or the costs of college attendance.

However, Welner then continues, «This [that low - income families benefit] is particularly true in states like Florida that means - test the recipients... It appears to be much less true in states like Arizona and Georgia... In those states, the programs also provide a great deal of assistance to upper - income families.»

That is why it is especially odd for him to claim that a «great deal» of upper - income families benefit in Arizona and Georgia.

It either will remain one equalized system, or it will splinter into two segregated systems — one for middle - and low - income families and the other for upper - income families.

A report by the national advocacy group People for the American Way found that over a three - year period, the Arizona scheme has cost the state more than $ 55 million in funds that have gone largely to subsidize private and religious education for middle - and upper - income families.

Mr. Card and Ms. Giuliano found evidence suggesting that private testing gives an advantage to upper - income families, who tend to be white.

FITS provides students and their families with unique and engaging learning experiences to reduce and reverse summer learning loss and narrow the achievement gap between lower - income students and their middle / upper - income peers.

Lifting income caps on private - school vouchers so taxpayers foot the bill to send middle - and upper - income families» kids to private school.

For many middle - and upper - income families, summer break often entails family vacations, camps and local enrichment programs.

The challenges faced by these students are incomparable to children from most upper - income families.

Response While many schools that adopt Comprehensive School Reform (CSR) models are low - performing and do serve significant numbers of children from low - income families, there are also many mid-to-high performing schools using CSR models that serve children from middle and upper class families.

Below, we translate the measured impacts of the Chicago CPC program into estimates of how public investment in a universal, high - quality, prekindergarten program would affect future government finances, the economy, earnings, and crime and health, using the attenuations described above for children from middle - and upper - income families, and for children who in its absence would have attended some other preschool.

In those states, the programs also provide a great deal of assistance to upper - income families.

New York city district administrators, therefore, now face the challenge of drawing and redrawing school zones as they try to find a balance between this intense segregation in these schools, the influx of white middle and upper - class families as gentrifiers, and the low - income minority families already in the neighborhood.

In these suburbs, black families are most likely in upper income brackets of the middle class, and thus more likely homeowners, which distinguishes them from lower - middle class blacks families who live in working class environments (Lacy, 2007).

While parents of disadvantaged students do attempt to enroll their children in higher - scoring schools (when knowledgeable about the data)(Hastings, Justine, and Weinstein), middle and upper - class parents are often more successful because they are not confined by local governmental laws that block low - income students and their families from living near or attending these schools.