Sentences with phrase «upper income households»

Second, more than one - third of U.K. consumers, including a majority living in upper income households, use iPhones today.

The Super Bowl is primarily watched by older, middle to upper income households.

Here is the statement from Senator Wyden (D - Oregon) regarding his opposition to the amendment: Mr. President, Senator Cruz's amendment expands tax subsidies for upper income households to aid private or parochial schools by allowing 529 account balances to spend up to $ 10,000 a year on private or parochial school tuition and supplies.

Mr. President, Senator Cruz's amendment expands tax subsidies for upper income households to aid private or parochial schools by allowing 529 account balances to spend up to $ 10,000 a year on private or parochial school tuition and supplies.

The long term trend actually shows the loss in middle income households has been offset by an increase in upper income households.

«Strikingly, however, stressed and non-stressed upper income households reported higher average default likelihood than lower income peers,» UBS said.

On the flip side, upper income households» confidence was more or less unchanged from the prior month.

Not exact matches

In an analysis of the changing shape of the American middle class, Pew Research Center divided the population into three groups: Lower - income Americans made less than 2/3 of the median household income, middle - income households had incomes between 2/3 and 200 % of the median, and upper - income households had income more than twice the median income.

With only the two upper quintiles of American households seeing any kind of meaningful income growth, and the bottom three quintiles still feeling the lingering effects of the recession, the holiday spending landscape has likely become bifurcated.

First among these drivers is the growing number of upper middle class and affluent households, or those with more than $ 24,000 and $ 46,000 in annual disposable income, respectively.

German's excessive debt burden after the Great War, for example, was «forgiven», unwillingly, mainly by middle - and upper - middle - class households and civil servants, whose fixed income portfolios withered to nothing in the hyperinflation that began in mid 1921 and ended in early 1924.

With the wealthiest Americans better positioned to take advantage of the gains, the wealth of upper - income households in 2013 rose to 6.5 times greater than that of middle - income households, up from 4.5 times in 2007, according to the Pew Research Center.

Likewise, upper - income households are divided into upper - middle income households (with more than twice the overall median income and up to three times the median) and highest - income households (with more than three times the overall median income).

But the increase in the share in upper - middle income households was modest, rising from 10 % to 12 %.

In 2014, an upper - middle income household with three people lived on about $ 126,000 to $ 188,000, and a highest - income household lived on more than $ 188,000.

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.

The researchers set out to look at the relationship between homework load and student well - being in the upper middle class advantaged communities (where median household income is more than $ 90,000, and 93 percent of students go to college) because it is there that homework is largely accepted as having value.

«Looking over the period of the consolidation as a whole, poorer households have done worse than those in the middle and upper middle parts of the income distribution, though it remains the case that the some of the biggest losers have been those right at the very top of the income distribution.»

«The poorest children are already eligible for free school meals — the main beneficiaries of this new universal benefit will be middle and upper - income households, who really don't need a public subsidy.»

«Those who lose the least are households of working age without children in the upper half of the income distribution.

The IFS says it shows, once all of the benefit cuts are considered, the tax and benefit changes announced in the emergency budget are «clearly regressive», as on average, they hit the poorest households more than those in the upper - middle of income distribution in cash.

For the first study, the «local», the team recruited 857 people in the United States and asked them to self - report their perceived social status (from working to upper class on a numerical scale), as well as an objective indicator in the form of annual household income.

Those in opposition to free community college argue that beneficiaries end up coming from upper - middle class backgrounds rather than low - income households.

Because upper - income households fared much better during those four decades, their share of total household income increased by 17 percentage points — to 46 % from 29 % — while the middle - income share fell by 17 points, to 45 % from 62 %.

Up from 19 % last year, 38 % of those in upper - income households now have e-readers.

For instance, the southern part of East Harlem reported much higher home values than the upper half, despite household incomes remaining fairly similar.

A carbon tax will therefore hurt low - income families and seniors more than it will hurt middle - and upper - class households.

Expert analysis published several years ago by Resources for the Future (which we summarize and link to on our Tax Shifting page) suggested that using carbon tax revenue to reduce corporate income tax rates would benefit middle - and upper - income households but not lower - income families, relatively few of whom own stocks whose share values would rise as corporate tax rates were reduced.

It discovered that no matter how much they paid in tuition, successful applicants came predominantly from middle - class and upper - middle - class neighbourhoods, with only a smattering of household incomes trailing off into the $ 250,000 range.

In 2013, the national median inflation - adjusted family net worth — the difference between families» gross assets and their liabilities — increased only in the upper — middle income tiers of households (the top 40 percentile of income) compared to 2010.

«Since upper - income households are the best restaurant customers,» says the report, «growth in the number of these households is particularly good news for restaurateurs - and the numbers are rising.»

Households in the middle and upper income groups are more likely than lower - income households to own their homes, and the decline in ownership has been more modest among theHouseholds in the middle and upper income groups are more likely than lower - income households to own their homes, and the decline in ownership has been more modest among thehouseholds to own their homes, and the decline in ownership has been more modest among these groups.

Households in the upper income tier (above about $ 132,000) have also seen a 7 % drop in homeownership rates during this period.