Sentences with phrase «upper middle of»

This essential resource has consistently hovered near the upper middle of the top 20 and doesn't seem likely to go anywhere soon.

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If a tiny portion of India's population reaches college educated, upper - middle class status, say 5 per cent — that's like 65 million people.

Trudeau and his ministers know the urban middle - and upper - middle - class Canadians that form the core of their political constituency are sensitive about housing.

As Aaron Wherry noted over at Maclean's, 64.9 % of Canadians consider themselves either «upper middle class» or «lower middle class.»

English Moustache: Thin moustache with the hair on a line in the middle of the upper lip sideways, with the hair at the corner of the mouth slightly shaped upwards.

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.

Lunapads was already producing a line of reusable, sustainable menstrual pads made of soft, quick - drying fleece, targeted to middle - and upper - income women seeking to keep mountains of pads and tampons out of landfills.

Take that funding away and the market settles back into something more closely aligned with the underlying reality — the one of high unemployment / underemployment, high oil prices, stagnant middle - and lower - class incomes, unprecedented wealth concentration in the upper class, demolished savers, under - investment in capital, and an ongoing transition to a low - wage service economy hard - pressed to service debt.

But for most middle - and even upper - middle - income earners, the prospect of making one's savings stretch into what seems like an endless retirement is a daunting one, increasing the uncertainty around how to invest, how to pay for medical care, and whether you can leave a legacy behind for the kids or your community.

But as these middle and upper classes have a lot of expendable, disposable income, they are turning to golf just as a friendly pursuit,» Dreyer said.

Millennials — born 1977 to 1995 — are moving more and more into the middle and upper ranks of corporate life as boomers leave conventional full - time jobs.

Amazon's moves should help Whole Foods, long derided as «Whole Paycheck» for its high prices, to woo customers beyond its upper middle class clientele, as well as counter the discount chains such as Walmart and even Aldi as they vie for more of the organic and natural foods markets.

Recent studies indicate that while spending patterns shift in retirement, the overall trend in real dollars is down, and for the majority of retirees in the middle and upper income quintiles, they may find themselves with income that exceeds their spending.

The islands» only inhabitants live in the small town of Sanikiluaq, near the upper end of the middle island.

But then, that same justification doesn't apply to the upper - middle - class household paying under the table to have a deck built on the back of their suburban house.

Stereotyped for appealing to a niche of upper middle class men, golf is a sport that engages a diversity of backgrounds.

Respondents to the Palo Alto Weekly's survey cited the area's chronic housing crisis and high cost of living as reasons for identifying as middle - class instead of upper - class.

Doing this puts the annual cost of a middle - class single retirement at about $ 28,000 to $ 42,000, and the cost of an upper middle - class single retirement at $ 42,000 to $ 49,000.

From these statistics, and from talking to retirees and their advisers, it's fair to estimate that a typical middle - class retirement costs roughly $ 40,000 to $ 60,000 per couple per year, while an «upper middle - class» retirement costs in the range of $ 60,000 to $ 70,000 per couple per year.

After calculating their regular income tax, many middle - and upper - income taxpayers must add a number of AMT «preference items» to their taxable income, subtract an AMT exemption amount, and recalculate their tax using the AMT tax rate structure.

The assumptions of cutthroat libertarianism were so embedded in the worldview of these lucky newcomers that they spoke as though the victims of tech - fueled displacement and gentrification had chosen to live in poverty and squalor, just as they themselves chose to learn to code, chose a management - track job at a major corporation, and chose to set themselves up for a comfortable upper - middle - class suburban life.

McKinsey has predicted that more than half of China's urban households will be in the upper middle class by 2020, compared to 14 % in 2012.

In a 2006 survey, 64.9 % of Canadians identified themselves as either «upper middle class» or «lower middle class.»

But 4.8 percent of Americans would see taxes go up, with hikes concentrated in the upper middle class and among the very rich.

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.

All told, though, the plan is, like its House counterpart, a proposal to dramatically slash corporate tax rates, open up a big new loophole for wealthy individuals, and pay for the cuts by dramatically expanding the national debt and ending a number of tax deductions that could leave a substantial share of middle - and upper - middle - class people paying more.

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.

The rising share of adults in the lower - and upper - income tiers is at the farthest points of the income distribution, distant from the vicinity of the middle.

«All families in my upper middle - class neighborhood regularly enjoy a living standard better than that achieved by John D. Rockefeller Sr. at the time of my birth.

In addition, many upper - middle - income taxpayers who face the Alternative Minimum Tax — a higher tax than their regular income tax — will not be able to claim deductions that may be allowed on a regular tax return, according to tax analyst Mark Luscombe of CCH, part of Wolters Kluwer.

Likewise, Clinton would limit itemized deductions, raise the estate tax and increase taxes on capital gains (profits from the sale of stocks and other assets held at least a year); these are concentrated among the wealthy and upper middle class.

With the cancellation of the health care levy (which it should be pointed out was graduated and not a flat amount like the old premium), and the NDP tax increases kicking in at 130K and not 100K like the Prentice budget, the NDP has made sure the upper middle class (and some of the upper class) are paying less taxes than under Prentice's budget.

Social Security represents a substantial share of income for the bottom quintile but is less important for higher - earners — reflecting the progressive nature of the benefit formula and the fact that higher - earners have many other sources of income — whereas private retirement income is less important at the low end but is more important for middle and upper - income groups (those at the very top mostly rely on investment or business income).

Yesterday, for example, the PowerShares Nasdaq 100 ETF ($ QQQ), a popular ETF proxy for the Nasdaq 100 Index, rallied into resistance of the upper trend line of its ascending trend channel, then sold off to close in the middle of its intraday range.

But things are going to get more painful for the upper middle class in 2018 with the proposed elimination of state income taxes, capping mortgage interest deduction, and limiting property tax deduction to $ 10,000.

Osberg grew up near Philadelphia in an upper - middle - class family of Italian immigrants.

(In middle and upper class households, of course, the man managed the money.)

In the 5th century BCE, a Greek physician named Ctsesias described the Unicorn: «the body is white, the head is dark red, the eyes dark blue; the base of the horn is white, the upper part crimson, the middle section black.

Now any attempt to abstract a person is going to be of limited utility, but I let's try this point of view: maybe Obama is, on domestic policy, a mostly unreconstructed 1970s upper middle - class left - liberal who.

His argument is that the ostensible mass celebrations of free speech — that core liberal, republican value — really exhibited «a pathological need of the middle and upper strata to hate something or someone.»

I admit to espousing a definite idea of Western, upper - middle - class sophistication and elegance, which I associate with material success.

I point to the callous way in which upper - middle - class deconstructions of traditional morality have made marriage into a luxury good.

The face of addiction a generation ago was that of the working - class or upper - middle - class man, probably long and intimately known to his neighbors, who stood up at an AA meeting in a church basement and bluntly said, «Hi, I'm X, and I'm an alcoholic.»

Most polygamists are part of middle (and even middle - upper) class America.

I was thinking about enclaves of upper middle class & professional blacks established in Atlanta and similar areas in the country.

Evelyn Waugh: A Life Revisitedby philip eadehenry holt, 432 pages, $ 32 Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh was born in 1903 to upper - middle - class Anglicans who lived in a suburb of London.

In his writings, which are strongly autobiographical (and thus oriented to the white, upper - middle - class male), Keen first asks how we overcome the «dis - ease» of humankind.

There is this tendency within certain sectors of Christianity to assume that if our theology «works» for relatively privileged (often for white, upper - middle - class American men), then it should work well enough for everyone else, and everyone else should conform to it.

For example, in his days as an undergraduate at Oxford Waugh's fellow student Harold Acton used a megaphone to shout out lines from T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land from an open window of his upper - storey college suite and was later thrown into a fountain by some drunken students in the middle of the night; while another student, Brian Howard, spoke with a stutter and gossiped his head off: all of which got fused in the character of Anthony Blanche in Brideshead Revisited.

Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh was born in 1903 to upper - middle - class Anglicans who lived in a suburb of London.