Sentence examples for higher than middle class from inspiring English sources

"Whatever my father earned, they took away, so we couldn't go higher than middle class," said Elina Elnatanova, 26.

In the past, voter turnouts in slum areas have been much higher than middle class neighbourhoods.

In simple terms, a poor family trying to escape poverty pays an effective marginal tax rate that is considerably higher than a middle class family and higher than or roughly equal to the marginal tax rate of a family in the top one percent.

One is that upper-income Americans vote at higher rates than middle-class Americans.

Famed billionaire investor Warren Buffet proposed a change to the tax system in August that would make millionaires pay taxes at the same or higher rate than middle-class earners.

High-poverty schools are 22 times less likely to be high-performing than middle-class schools, and low-income students given a chance to attend more affluent schools are two years ahead of low-income students stuck in high-poverty schools on the fourth-grade National Assessment for Educational Progress in Mathematics.

His central character, a young editor named Zachary, doctors up his pedigree to pass for high WASP rather than middle-class Mineola; he yearns for fame and an English bride with a hyphenated last name.

There is evidence that the non-working poor — the population most implicated in crime, as victims and perpetrators — may be returning in higher percentages, for now, than middle-class residents washed out by the storm.

The authors write that the type of ad could influence the value of the discount, with "lower class advertising... such as teeth whitener advertisements" offering a cheaper price than "high" or "middle class" adverts, for things like pizza.

In studies of charitable giving, it is often the lower-income households that donate higher proportions of their income than middle-class and many upper-income folk.

"Many home environments are perfectly fine, but on average, youngsters in our study are in homes with more stress, instability, less reading going on and a higher incidence of maternal depression than middle-class homes," Dr. Fuller said.