Sentences with phrase «wealthy minority»

A tiny wealthy minority in a sea of ecological and social disaster, thanking God for our good fortune while waiting to be overrun by the poor on all sides?

A study out of New York University showed wealthier minorities are more likely to receive subprime loans.

Faber also found higher incomes led to a higher acceptance rate for loans, but even wealthier minorities had more trouble getting fair terms.

This dark vision implies the increasing insulation of the world's wealthy minority from the rest of humanity — buying protection for their fortressed communities from the Halliburtons, Bechtels and Blackwaters of the world while the majority of the poor are left to scramble for survival among the ruins.

The general impulse of these protests has been the same everywhere: a demand for policies that would be more favourable to the interests of the dominated majority rather than to a wealthy minority.

This is the kind of thinking that Thatcher aimed to promote with policies like Right to Buy, which was intended to encourage working - class voters who benefited to identify their interests as aligned with those of a wealthy minority.

Founded to represent the material interests of the majority at a time when politics was entirely dominated by a wealthy minority, it's still the party best placed to deliver the future most voters desire.

With living standards stagnating as a wealthy minority grow ever richer, the claim that «a rising tide lifts all boats» is perhaps less convincing than it once was.

McDonnell said Osborne was the «bankers» chancellor» and had been shown again to be «looking after a wealthy minority».

I read a number of articles on the controversy following the airing of the clip, and it supported the implications from the Daily Show clip: Ted Kennedy was looking out for his self - interest, and that of a small but wealthy minority.

In short, by looking after the interests of the wealthy minority, whose cases end up fighting through the courts, we have ended up with a system that serves the majority less well, making cases harder to settle and increasing the number of cases at court in the first place.