Sentences with phrase «with upper middle class»

Given the same teachers, principal, building and school supplies, filling a school with upper middle class kids with involved parents will create a «good» school, while filling that same school with low income and minority kids with uneducated parents will probably create a «bad» school with low test scores, safety issues, and discipline problems.

Lyne appears obsessed with the upper middle class and their relationship to fucking.

Any real estate agent who wants to work with upper middle class or high net worth Chinese buyers should study her life story.

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Shabby chic decorating was especially popular with modern Bohemians and artisans that made up a sidelined counter-culture movement during the 1980s when expensive, high quality room decor became very fashionable with the upper middle classes.

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

So after real estate imploded and bottomed out, I bought a nice house in an upper middle class neighborhood with great schools.

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.

If you want much bigger government, you have to pay for it with broadly based taxes, even if the rich and upper middle class bear the biggest burdens.

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.

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.

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

«Liberals,» he wrote, «are generally identified with the working classes and the intellectuals, and conservatives with the upper and middle classes.»

Those who choose this approach must beware lest they end up as self - centered and self - righteous communities of upper middle class people playing at being poor, preoccupied with their own problems and contributing little or nothing to helping others or to resolving the world's problems.

Only gradually was it recognized that the talking therapies were really more consistent with the introspective and verbal styles of the middle - class and upper middle - class people they were originally developed to help.

Sadly, the noble legacy of Christian progressivism and the Social Gospel movement has devolved to a narrow set of priorities that has everything to do with upper - middle - class preoccupations and very little to do with the needs of the poor.

My own experience in teaching religion and theology to middle - and upper - middle - class undergraduates and graduate students in America for the past decade or so certainly suggests that this way of thinking about religion fits neatly with a strong tendency toward the kind of knee - jerk relativism that is also widespread among those in the same social strata.

One of the things I have respected most in Aida Rosa, principal of the elementary school P.S. 30, and the teachers that I talk with on her staff is that they look at children here as children, not as «distorted children,» not as «morally disabled children,» not as «quasi-children» who require a peculiar arsenal of reconstructive strategies and stick - and - carrot ideologies that wouldn't be accepted for one hour by the parents or the teachers of the upper middle class.

With church - going disproportionately a middle - to - upper - class phenomenon, congregations increasingly tend to wear the same clothes, drive the same cars, and experience the same levels of well - being and social status.

No matter what that preacher said that day, no matter how many purity balls are thrown with sparkling upper - middle - class extravagance, no matter the purity rings and the purity pledges, no matter the judgemental Gospel - negating rhetoric used with the best of intentions, no matter the «how close is too close?»

However, the apparent nearness to the upper classes and partial identification with this group have some effect on the drinking habits in the Upper - Middle class.

Think of the gulf that separates the fundamental attitudes toward drinking of a certain upper - class Episcopal church with its occasional «sherry parties» after services from the attitudes of a middle - class Baptist church with its annual «temperance speaker.»

Such awareness will include a prophetic criticism of American feminism when it is too narrow in scope, when it demands that the power of determining and directing social goals and structures be shared with middle - and upper - class American women while other women and groups are still excluded from that realization.

In most instances he was identified with the middle or upper classes in American society.

They say that «meritocracy brings with it what we will call the national upper - middle class style: cosmopolitan, moderate, universalistic, somewhat legalistic, concerned with equity and fair play, aspiring to neutrality between regions, religions, and ethnic groups» (p. 12).

And while the Science authors found instruction to be basic and repetitive even in American schools with a mostly middle - class or upper - middle - class student population, they found that the situation was considerably worse in schools that enrolled a lot of low - income children.

The point wasn't to learn about nutrition, but rather about language — how to fill an everyday shopping trip with the kind of nonstop chatter that has become second nature to most upper - middle - class parents, full of questions about numbers and colors and letters and names.

So, the term «extended breastfeeding» assumes that the specific cultural and material conditions that middle - and upper - class contemporary Westerners experience — widespread misunderstanding and stigma surrounding women's breasts and children's biology; widespread availability of commercial formula; clean water to prepare it with; the time and space to wash, sterilize, and store bottles, and so forth — are «normal,» while literally everything that has ever existed outside of this limited cultural experience and relatively short, unique period in time is somehow abnormal.

Afropolitanism is a contemporary response to «Afro - pessimism» — a response led primarily by young people with a Western education, upper - middle class upbringing, accent - free English, and easy access to high - speed Internet.

The two main parties have done a fair job of splitting up the remaining classes, with one side having the appearance of caring for lower more, and the other for upper, but in reality, that only really matters if they aren't getting the larger share of «the middle class».

More middle and upper - middle class earners leave this state than any other, with 2014 seeing a record 126,000 tax filers emigrating.

That could cost some typical middle - class families and upper middle - class families with high property taxes a lot of money.

UPPER WEST SIDE — With three of his potential rivals seated in the front row, Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer positioned himself as the candidate who will «reclaim» the city for the middle class during his annual State of the Borough address Thursday night.

of course that's what's wrong with NYS, we have too large of a middle class that's mucking things up for Wall Street and the upper 1 percent..

Davis would give a punchy, no - nonsense line of crime and order issues, and also plays well with swing voters and upper working / lower middle class voters.

In contrast, supporters of his brother say David Miliband would attract voters away from the coalition with a platform less alienating for the middle and upper class.

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In 2006 Pierre agreed to participate in a small world experiment with Watts and ABC News that addressed two of the criticisms of small world research: that no studies had ever been played out in real time, and that the people who had participated in the chains tended be educated, white, and middle or upper class.

Otherwise, O'Neill does a solid job in going over all aspects of a (middle to upper class) woman's personal life in the 19th century in England / America, with lots of fascinating tidbits thrown in.

Englishwoman of the upper middle class will not often go dating with a man of the middle class,.

The general public follows in the midth century, the need to advertise for a husband or wife was still considered a «failure» and associated with deviant behavior for many judgmental straight, white, middle - to - upper class people.

After her father's project reached completion, Nicole and her family returned to Australia.Raised in the upper - middle - class Sydney suburb of Longueville for the remainder of the 1970s and well into the eighties, Kidman grew up infused with a love of the arts, particularly dance and theatre.

Grace, whom Timothy characterizes as «a society lady who spends her time rescuing wretched niggers,» seems a stand - in for upper middle - class whites who have «good intentions» with regard to racial justice.

Blanchett is at her best with the characters who are erudite, middle or upper class: a CEO, a TV news reader, a primary - school teacher.

Enough Said is a romantic comedy - drama from Nicole Holofcener, the writer - director of other critically acclaimed films exploring the daily travails of mostly upper middle - class affluent women (and men) in such as Lovely & Amazing and Friends with Money — something that invites comparisons to the works of Woody Allen often.

Telling the tale of a real - life botched heist by a band of upper - middle class white college guys, director Bart Layton (in his feature debut) injects his film with interviews of the film's real - life protagonists, to an overwhelming degree.

The chatter of this strange assortment of upper - middle class Brits might work better in the theater, since the action takes place in real time set wholly in an extensively furnished London home (actually filmed in a West London studio), with the women doing most of the talk and much of the witty liftings.

She is one of the poorest kids in a student body drawn mostly from the upper - middle class but finds friendship with an overweight girl even lower than her on the economic ladder.