Sentence examples for between the working poor from inspiring English sources
Miliband's position seems that bit clearer: his people want to draw attention to the fact that real-terms benefit cuts will affect thousands in work; but also make a point of refusing to be drawn into Osborne's game of distinguishing between the working poor and those who are supposedly feckless and unemployed out of choice.
Editors' Note: November 21, 2000, Tuesday An article on Nov. 5 discussed growing cultural and economic conflicts in the Mission District of San Francisco between the working poor who inhabit the neighborhood by day and the Silicon Valley rich who return to its bistros and loft apartments by night.
Henry Tamarin, the president of Local 100 of the restaurant workers' union, said yesterday about last night's opera benefit: "Nowhere else in New York will the disparity between the working poor and the upper crust be so clear as tonight when 3,800 members of the power elite in black tie and elegant gowns pay up to $2,250 to attend.
They foresee growing wage gaps between the affluent and the working poor, as living standards for millions are sacrificed to market forces run amok.
This explosion of low-wage jobs is widening the already-large gap between the rich and the working poor, making it harder for Americans to move up the economic ladder.
And middle-class entitlement programs are going the way of the middle class itself--squeezed between the super-rich and the working poor.
If there was ever a time for the Democratic Party to champion working Americans and reverse these troubling trends, it is now -- forging an alliance between the frustrated middle and the working poor.
Howley has described street newspapers as a means of mobilizing the networks of "formal and informal relationships that exist between the homeless, the unemployed, and the working poor, and shelter managers, healthcare workers, community organizers, and others who work on their behalf".
The commission recommended directing the city's resources to three groups that were especially at risk: the working poor, young adults between the of ages 16 and 24, and families with children below age 6. Nine months later, Mr. Bloomberg announced the introduction of citywide antipoverty programs that incorporated virtually all of the commission's recommendations.
The working poor have payroll taxes.
