Sentences with phrase «upper middle class»

But resistance to such a discussion may be considerable in upper middle class congregations.

A young upper middle class family is expecting the arrival of their third child, who is sadly born dead due to complications.

It's a mostly residential, upper middle class neighborhood.

I manage stock and bond portfolios for upper middle class people, and for small institutions.

My SO comes from upper middle class, went to private school,.

Any real estate agent who wants to work with upper middle class or high net worth Chinese buyers should study her life story.

I started my business for a small amount of money, and offer asset management services at low cost to upper middle class people.

Kids well socialized by upper middle class parents are sensitive to these risks, and for the most part they keep their distance.

He loses his place in American upper middle class corporate hierarchy - you know the nice car, the nice house — and a sense of himself as somebody important.

We call this the mass affluent class, or upper middle class if you're so inclined.

No longer do research psychologists need to rely on traditional experimental designs, «running one upper middle class college student at a time,» he says.

If you want much bigger government, you have to pay for it with broadly based taxes, even if the rich and upper middle class bear the biggest burdens.

The successful upper middle class now lives at a distance from everyone else.

It's implicit in the price tag that these dolls are for middle to upper middle class girls only.

The couple raise him in a white privileged upper middle class environment, and he grows up with no access to his former family or culture, barely remembering his native tongue.

Making the jump from lower middle class to upper middle class means increasing your annual income by roughly $ 16,000 per year, or $ 1,300 per month.

They're a typical upper middle class couple working in the civil service — and their combined pensions are worth a staggering $ 3 million.

Interestingly, in the 28 years I live in rather upper middle class neighbourhood, nobody ever came to my house.

Private schooling and upper middle class families do tend to lead to better educated students.

There are a lot of upper middle class women who will ask indignantly, «Isn't this just for wealthy women?»

Given the same teachers, principal, building and school supplies, filling a school with upper middle class kids with involved parents will create a «good» school, while filling that same school with low income and minority kids with uneducated parents will probably create a «bad» school with low test scores, safety issues, and discipline problems.

Many of these degrees (e.g., sociology, humanities, gender studies) are effectively worthless without pursuing a P.h.D. Even with a doctorate one would barely make it into upper middle class even as a professor.

Meanwhile, those holding out for a more upper middle class lifestyle will want about $ 74,000 of annual income and will need to save up a million or more by age 65.

Teachers KNOW that a child from a middle and upper middle class home has an extreme advantage over a child from a poor home.

Ulrich Thomsen and Trine Dyrholm costar as upper middle class intellectuals who inherit a big old house and decide to share it with their free - spirited friends.

Boycotts of testing have sprung up in many upper middle class enclaves.

Powell grew up in Stratford, Connecticut, a mostly - white, upper middle class suburb of New York, where she was one of few African Americans in her high school.

For that matter, marital discord and separation are topics unlikely for average upper middle class Americans to wrestle with in thoughtful and serious manner.

Next up are other schools in California and New York, and then on to other states and communities, where you can expect them to show in upper middle class suburban neighborhoods.

Kerobokan is a very sought after and posh area popular amongst Westerners and expats, full of stylish upper middle class into their organic cafes and yoga courses.

This book that I summarized, like many others, do focus on upper middle class and upper class trends.

Renwick's analysis of more than 300,000 vowel sounds finds, for example, that Southern upper middle class women are often at the extreme end of variation in pronunciation.

Ive been pitched as more upper middle class just because of this flighty life I used to live.

They are not upper middle class or even middle class but students from the most accidental of families, many of them minority students, kids who grow up in environments where people typically make bad choices.

Especially among upper middle class and affluent parents, there's a strong belief that going to a top - tier college — especially one in the Ivy League — will provide unimaginable advantages in the professional world.

Cuomo says the proposal to eliminate the deduction of state and local income taxes from federal tax forms is a «diabolical dimension» that will raise taxes overall for many middle and upper middle class New Yorkers.

I came from a very comfortable upper middle class family in Orange county, California.

With its 740 and 760 models, Volvo advanced into the so - called upper middle class of cars.

The community of Mount Prospect is described as an «upper middle class village» in the Cook County area of the Chicagoland suburbs.

Miller adds» [Freilicher] would stubbornly pursue her own quiet «tentativeness» (as the poet and art critic John Ashbery once put it)... and pursue a more conventional upper middle class lifestyle.

One related piece that is on the top of my mind having just looked for a school for my kindergartener is this — amongst middle and upper middle class parents looking for public schools, test scores are hugely important drivers.

The notion of trying to discover what one is good at or for, and shaping a career to realize these potentialities, would appear very upper middle class to many Americans, even today, when most aspire to college.

SYNOPSIS: Sandra's upper middle class world falls apart when she discovers her husband has been having an affair with her best friend.

The blindness and stupidity of the identity politics - obsessed upper middle class knows no bounds.

«There are districts with every risk factor in the world that are seeing results much more exciting than schools taking upper middle class kids and not screwing them up,» Carr told Education World.

One enrolls upper middle class students who emerge — with or without having learned much — and join successful firms or start successful new enterprises of their own.