Fifteen year later, municipal electricity is still unreliable, even in affluent neighborhoods.
But, Ms. Arntson said, pockets of struggling families exist even in affluent areas.
Nevertheless, even in affluent western societies only a third of psychiatric patients receive appropriate treatment.
Even for affluent countries the bill is huge.
Eastleigh really is affluent, even if its centre doesn't look it.
Setting the price low also generates goodwill among the less affluent; even if they don't secure a unit now, it may go on the shopping list come birthday time, when the systems will be more plentiful.
And if children from our society's lower rungs do manage to make it into a good college, the lack of financial support makes them far more likely to drop out than the children of the affluent, even if they have as much or more native ability.
To protect those national rankings that measure the grade point average and standardized test scores of an entering class, public and private institutions may also offer attractive financial aid packages to a few stellar students, even if they come from affluent families.
So if the US population were still at the 1900 level, then even if Americans were as affluent, technological and wasteful as we currently are, we'd still be only consuming and polluting one quarter of what we consume and pollute today.
Though Polyvore users today have an average annual household income of $77,000, courting home decor-minded people could push its usage among older and even more affluent people if it really takes off.
Even if those increases affect only affluent taxpayers, Democratic leaders will have more trouble uniting their party behind them.
