Sentences with phrase «very wealthiest groups»

It's important to note that the very wealthiest groups in society are much less likely to take part in surveys and so their wealth is under - reported and alternative sources of data need to be analysed, such as HMRC personal wealth statistics.

Not exact matches

Kumar Birla, chairman of the Indian conglomerate Aditya Birla Group and, according to Forbes, the country's eighth - wealthiest person, told Trudeau he finds both the federal and provincial governments in Canada to be very friendly for business.

It has proven very difficult to bring the savings rate down because this can only happen by diverting resources away from wealthy and powerful groups and families in favor of ordinary households.

If there is one area in which the children as a group do seem to differ somewhat, in emotional reactions, from the children that I meet in wealthier communities — and even here I would be very cautious not to overstate this — it is in their sensitivity to other children's moments of anxiety and their acute awareness of emotional fragility and of the tipping point between exhilaration and depression.

In any event, this brings me neatly to a subject that has long confused me, which is the continued presence in this country of a large group of people who pay very little tax despite being, in many cases, staggeringly wealthy.

«If this is what it means to be a New Democrat, and if this is what it means to be progressive then something is very wrong.We can not be silent on this matter — not when the Tea Party, the Conservative Party, Republicans and a group of wealthy Wall Street executives are cheering the Governor's policies.»

One group, however, has not been asked (forced) to sacrifice for the greater good: the very wealthy.

Progressive groups and labor unions have argued against lowering the top rate on the estate tax, saying it's a give away to the very wealthy.

«I'm worried this domino effect and that it could, actually as the very wealthy who live on the coast displace those inland and they displace those a little more inland, we will have a whole group of people who have no place to go, and that's going to be a major issue of social unrest.

Our mission is to provide a wide group of investors with access to an investment service which was previously reserved for the very wealthy.

In fact there are very likely to be groups and individuals exceeding their fair share of safe global emission in developing countries because wealth differences in many developing countries are great and there are wealthy and middle classes in most countries even in countries where the vast majority of the people are very poor.

The poorest of the poor qualify for legal aid, and the very wealthy can pay for a lawyer on their own, but the vast group in between is typically left out.

The City of Los Angeles must have a good liability practice group; either that or a very wealthy - or very ignorant - insurer.

«Because estate taxes are only applicable to a small percentage of (very wealthy) people that die each year, those policies are very large,» says Elaine Tumicki, corporate vice president of product research for LIMRA, an insurance and financial services trade group based in Windsor, Conn..