Sentences with phrase «wealthiest residents at»

Green Party candidate Howie Hawkins declared Gov. Andrew Cuomo's deal with the Working Families Party a «quid pro Cuomo» that will help the state's wealthiest residents at the expense of the middle class and poor.

He has refused to budge on this, despite widespread public support — even among Republicans — for taxing the state's wealthiest residents at a higher rate.

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Unsurprisingly, they found a strong correlation between education and wealth: Wealthy cities tended to have at least one well - respected research university, along with a higher percentage of residents with bachelor's and graduate degrees.

«You can bet if this was a town that was in Westchester near New York City — a town with a lot of wealthy people donating to politicians» campaigns — this would have been addressed a lot sooner,» Nixon said at a meeting with Hoosick Falls residents.

The governor has repeatedly insisted the movement was NOT in fact responsible for moving him off his opposition to raising taxes on the state's wealthiest residents (actually, Cuomo and both legislative leaders refuse to see this as a tax hike at all, casting it as a cut for 4.4 million New Yorkers).

NYSUT projected some 2,000 people would attend today's noon rally at which attendees are calling for the governor to heed the Assembly Democrats» call to extend the temporary personal income tax increase on the state's wealthiest residents, bumping the threshold up to $ 1 million.

In an update to an earlier complaint cited by DNAinfo, 74 - year - old tenant association president Jean Dorsey said 66 percent of rent - regulated residents at Stonehenge Village are 65 or older, while just 5 percent of wealthier tenants fall in that demographic.

Actor Mark Ruffalo is one of 100 wealthy New Yorkers who have signed an open letter to Gov. Andrew Cuomo in a last - ditch attempt to get him to change his mind about continuing to tax wealthy state residents at a higher rate to generate revenue to restore some budget cuts.

Cuomo has repeatedly insisted he is not interested in raising taxes on New York's wealthiest residents, insisting that to do so at the state level would make New York less competitive with its neighbors, although a federal increase is a fine idea in his book.

The ad, entitled «Opportunity,» is pretty straight forward, hewing to the «rich vs. everyone else» argument employed to date by supporters of the Assembly Democrats» plan to continue taxing the state's wealthiest residents (in this case, actual millionaires and not simply those who earn $ 200,000 or more) at a higher rate for at least the next year.

Mayor Bill de Blasio asserted today that Albany will back his proposed tax on wealthy residents to fund subway repairs and reduced fares for low - income New Yorkers because of «a lot of pressure» at the grassroots level that recognizes the state's responsibility over the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.

The governor has signaled he'd like to cut taxes, at the same time that he's facing pressure from New York City Mayor - elect Bill de Blasio, who wants Albany to raise taxes on the the city's wealthiest residents to fund universal pre-kindergarten.

E.J. McMahon, president of the fiscally conservative Empire Center for Public Policy, said that the number of million - dollar earners may be up but that more and more wealthy New Yorkers are declaring themselves to be only part - year residents of the Empire State — members of the «183 club» that spends at least that many days (half a year) living elsewhere.

Eastern China, home to the major cities, is wealthier, and its residents have higher per - capita incomes than those in the west, Valerie Karplus, an economics and management professor at MIT, explained in an interview.

The urn most likely graced a luxuriant garden or opulent villa owned by one of Petra's wealthy residents and later served as a ritual cleansing basin at a Byzantine church destroyed by fire in the sixth century A.D.

While writing his dissertation at Oxford in the mid-1980s, he saw residents of some low - income countries — China, Costa Rica, Sri Lanka and the state of Kerala in India — repeatedly trumpeted as healthier than others and, in terms of mortality rate improvement, doing even better than those in many wealthy Western nations.

Sea - level rise will affect poor and wealthy residents in California and around the world, said Katharine Mach, senior research scientist at Stanford University.

At the same time, more than 36,000 people died of gunshot wounds in the U.S. in 2015, and Americans are 25 times more likely to die by gun homicide than residents of other wealthy countries.

Rami Malek — who, in an amazing bit of timing, signed on to the film just before the debut of Mr. Robot — stars in a dual role as Jonah, a modest family man who works overnights at a hotel and dreams of buying a plot of land in the mountains, and as Buster, an anarchist vagrant who survives by breaking in to the empty vacation homes of wealthy part - time Montana residents.

Waves of guilt begin crashing at the baby's christening, when Tom learns about Hannah (Rachel Weisz), a wealthy town resident who still grieves for the husband and child who were lost at sea.

Earlier this month, New York became the first U.S. state to offer all but its wealthiest residents free tuition not only at its public community colleges, but also at public four - year institutions in the state.

At the same time, Malloy's plan demands that the Democrats in the Connecticut General Assembly continue to undermine the state's middle class and the economic well - being of their own constituents in order to «protect» Connecticut's wealthiest residents.

Second, some question that such a development would be effective at integrating low - income residents into a wealthier community (44).

As one of the few remaining residents in a near - future, post-bomb New York City, Spademan finds himself at a crossroads when he decides not to follow through with the assassination of a wealthy evangelist's young daughter.