Sentences with phrase «wealthier population of»

High lending standards that make it hard for millions of younger, single home buyers to get a mortgage are creating an older, more married and wealthier population of homeowners.

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«The financial industry's response to the growing population of wealthy individuals should be to increase the availability of quality services, not force clients to choose between quality and affordability.»

The Washington, D.C., region is home to five of the wealthiest counties in the U.S., yet almost one - fifth of the District's population is living in poverty.

In particular, «agricultural commodities are supported by the dynamics of water shortages in Asia and the Western United States, the declining payback from the green revolution in terms of improving crop yields and the increasing demand from Asia for a diet based more on grains and meat as the population becomes wealthier,» the group responded by e-mail.

BC's second - wealthiest neighbourhood maintains its lofty position despite a (presumably comparatively impoverished) population of basement - dwelling students drawn by the proximity to the University of British Columbia.

In the U.S., which has a longer history and larger population of multi-generational wealthy families, the industry is much bigger, established and more diverse.

That's what the folks at FindTheBest, an online - research engine, found when they used recent census data to rank the 34 American cities with populations of 500,000 or more based on their percentages of wealthy households (defined as those with an annual income of $ 150,000 or above).

Not only is the vast majority of the world's population breathing unsafe air, but also the gap between wealthy countries and poor countries are increasing.

The Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis has just published statistics showing that the wealthiest 1 % of America's population doubled its share of wealth over the decade ending in 2007 as the bubble reached its peak.

Only the wealthiest 10 percent or so of the population save more and more — mainly in the form of loans to the «bottom 90 percent.»

This group of super spenders is expected to see its population double over the next five years to 100 million households, and as an economic force they are poised to eclipse the impact of rising but less - wealthy consumers: Their consumption is currently growing at 17 percent a year, compared to just 5 percent among emerging - middle - class and middle - class consumers.

The US can't afford to bail them out and still plan the giveaways to the wealthiest 10 percent of the population who are the net creditors to the bottom 90 percent.

But what's truly stunning is that Bezos and the next two wealthiest Americans, Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, together now own more wealth than the entire bottom half of the American population combined.

Thus, if the State is to reduce the indebtedness of certain groups in the population (while maintaining its own fiscal solvency), it can do so only by redistributing wealth from the wealthy and powerful.

In other words, QE benefited the wealthiest portion of the population, which dominates stock - ownership, while the bottom - 90 % of the population increasingly has been forced to dig into their savings to help meet non-discretionary expenses, such as food, energy and housing.

Despite claims from politicians and economists that trade deals yield universal benefits, the protesters argued that such agreements serve only to make corporate masters wealthier at the expense of the rest of the population.

«Up until recently, the majority of fundraising opportunities in North America were limited to the wealthiest 3 percent of the population — this includes both startup owners looking to grow their business as well as investors interested in pursuing progressive new financial opportunities.»

In 1960 the wealthiest 20 per cent of the world's population had a per capita income 30 tunes that of the poorest 20 per cent.

Francis words are just a different way saying that it is just immoral for the 3 % or so of the world population to hold most of the world's wealth, leaving the 97 % living off the crumbs the wealthy discard.

Meanwhile, another segment of the population, able to control the new agribusiness and industry, grows much wealthier.

There is the unjust distribution of goods and services whereby a relative minority of wealthy groups and ruling classes use their power and influence to perpetuate macroeconomic and political structures which exploit the labor and lives of the vast majority of the planet's populations.

UNFPA's latest update to its report on member - state contributions shows that eight wealthy European countries, along with Canada and Japan, pay 86 percent of the $ 389 million bill to fund that agency, which aggressively promotes population control.

List the number of truly Capitalist countries where the general population is wealthy.

Shane McIntyre, national director of rural and agribusiness at Colliers International, said there were numerous factors that would «ensure the future of beef in the medium term» including an insatiable global appetite for protein, population growth and a wealthier world.

So at the level of public space the polity as an «imaginary institution» (to misuse Castoriadis) more or less disappeared, leaving «society» as a sort of pre-biotic soup in which all that really mattered was the number of wealthy good Samaritans per head of population, or something of that sort.

The third option comes with a ton of issues, the most obvious ones being it only covers some of the population, drives wealthy taxpayers with poorer relatives out of the country, and plenty of relatives will want to or have to cut corners to refuse decent living conditions.

Even with such a low % of the population affected, taxes like this are hard to enforce and not so hard to legally avoid or reduce - for example, wealthy French people keeping wealth in neighbouring Belgium is common, as well as buying exempted assets, giving «temporary gifts» and other such techniques.

«I don't think that this population, given the explosion in the number of millionaires since the tax has been in place and the level of income that these folks have, that this would be a good time to provide a $ 3.7 billion tax cut to the wealthiest,» Deutsch testified at a budget hearing on Tuesday.

In a population - based Canadian study of children with epilepsy, each of whom had access to universal health care, those from poor families had the same medical course and remission rate as their wealthier counterparts, but they had a less favorable social outcome as adults.

Even though Botswana is a relatively wealthy country by African standards, some 38 percent of the population is classified as poor.

Political economists, indeed, will not give it this rank; but whether we regard it as joke or earnest, it is not the less true, that, of two countries, with an equal amount of population, we may declare with positive certainty, that the wealthiest and most highly civilized is that which consumes the greatest weight of soap.

A recent report from Oxfam shows that the top 85 wealthiest individuals in the world have fortunes that equal the collective wealth of the poorer half of the world's entire population of 7 billion individuals.

In any wealthy population, some mature residents (typically — but not always — men) will undoubtedly seek attractive, energetic young women for all manner of companionship.

Australia has emerged as a hub for wealthy men, with cities like Melbourne and Sydney having the largest populations of sugar daddies and sugar babies.

Set in the year 2159, where the very wealthy lives on a man - made space station while the rest of population reside on a ruined Earth, a man takes on a mission that could bring equality to the polarized worlds.

A portrait of social entrapment in the 20th century, the movie chronicles the development of wealthy neighborhoods in Baltimore and the ghettoization of its black population to the point where the community has remained in perennial disrepair.

And this echoes the film's larger themes about the wealthy residents in this area who are trying to ignore the surging population of desperate immigrants amongst them.

In the year 2154 the very wealthy live on a man - made space station while the rest of the population resides on a ruined Earth.

WHAT: The year is 2154 and ex-con Max De Costa (Matt Damon) lives on a ruined Earth with most of the population while the wealthy reside on a space station where any disease can be cured in seconds.

This project studies the impact of an increased Asian American population alongside increased competition at high schools in wealthy suburban communities.

Concerned about the absence of black and Latino students in the field of computer science, Margolis launched a three - year study of students» computing experiences at three high schools in Los Angeles — one with a predominately African - American student population, one with a largely Latino student body, and a third with a significant percentage of white students from wealthy families.

Local school district officials closely monitor the Utah legislative session each year because legislators representing less - affluent school districts inevitably look to the wealthier ones - like Park City - to help fund schools in parts of the state where population is growing.

The almost entirely white population of girls at the school with the widest gap between wealthy and poor students was the group most at risk of relational aggression.

This was the wealthier side of Redwood City, where most of the population was white.

Furthermore, because many of these schools serve wealthier populations, their success is actually less impressive.

As early as colonial America, we saw education in a variety of ways conducted by the wealthy or offered to the general population by the wealthy or by religious groups.

And a convoluted tale it is, involving the country's wealth of natural resources (coal, iron, copper and water for powering machines and transporting goods), the comparatively high literacy rate that enabled common folk to educate themselves in science and technology, a patent system that protected the rights of inventors and gave them economic incentive to both create and refine devices, and a population large and wealthy enough to form a profitable market for products the new industries turned out.

According to Oxfam, «Brazil is one of the most unequal nations in the world, although it is one of the wealthiest... The country's high income concentration is revealed in figures: the richest one per cent of the population - less than 2 million people — have 13 % of all household income.

Thomas J. Stanley was the researcher, advisor, and author of several highly regarded, award winning books on America's wealthy population including The Millionaire Next Door and The Millionaire Mind.

However, these changes only effected a small minority of the population - primarily the wealthy and powerful.