As a consequence, the kinds of mixed-income neighborhoods many of us remember from growing up have grown rarer, while exclusively affluent and exclusively poor neighborhoods have grown much more common.
Just as the incomes of the affluent have grown much more rapidly than those of the middle class over the last few decades, so, too, have most of the gains in educational success accrued to the children of the rich.
But it doesn't feel like a luxury to my kids, who have grown up in an affluent community among competitive kids.
In contrast, for women under the age of 50 years, breast cancer cases were somewhat less likely than controls to have grown up in more affluent families.
Despite homogeneity in current socioeconomic status, our study suggests that among women aged 50 years and older, breast cancer cases might have been more likely than controls to have grown up in more affluent families, although the results are largely due to the small proportion of subjects reporting their family's socioeconomic status as 'upper' before age 21 years.
The problem with that simile is it excludes younger listeners who have grown up in a more affluent era, certainly for floor coverings.
Woods has the advantage of playing an individual country-club sport that affluent baby boomers have grown into, not out of, but by Sunday evening he was no doubt crossing generational and socioeconomic lines, transfixing many who didn't know a birdie from a bogey.
Meanwhile, other hotspots for affluent Chinese to park their money have grown to include real estate in countries such as Australia and Canada.
Since 1994 business services in a range of emerging markets including India and Brazil have grown by 250-700%; in Europe and America they have roughly doubled.The newly affluent in emerging markets echo the tastes of the English middle class 150 years ago.
The county's Latino and Asian populations have grown enormously — some in low-income neighborhoods, particularly in Santa Ana, but many in newly diverse, affluent communities.
