"No one's standard of living would change," Biden assured them.
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Young Arabs are most worried about their standard of living.
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What standard of living will you allow yourself to enjoy?
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Your standard of living can make you wealthy — or not.
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"Your standard of living can make you wealthy — or not."
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These institutions are the pillars of our standard of living.
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But mild deflation improves standard of living and business competitiveness.
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Simply raising their salaries will improve their standard of living.
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So trade is just a way that we increase our opportunities and it enhances our standard of living and gets us to a much higher level of prosperity and a higher standard of living.
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No one's standard of living will change, nothing would fundamentally change.
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"A minimum wage - that's a minimum standard of living," Harris said.
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But it would produce a higher over-all standard of living.
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The standard of living and wages have improved dramatically in China.
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What is the standard of living you want to live at?
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IT'S THE ONLY WAY WE CAN SUSTAIN OUR STANDARD OF LIVING.
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And finally ... 13 major European countries ranked by standard of living.
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Economic growth and dynamism lead to a higher standard of living.
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Moreover, income does not fully capture a household's standard of living.
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But China isn't remotely close to achieving America's standard of living.
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Does privacy raise the standard of living for the average person?
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But the dysfunctional housing market weighs heavily on their standard of living.
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What would happen if your spouse's standard of living became more expensive?
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It totally brought up the standard of living in the middle class.
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We must create a new standard of living for the 21st century.
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Second, nominal wages by themselves can't buy a higher standard of living.
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Yes, technology spinoffs from Apollo enriched our economy and standard of living.
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Ultimately, you need rising productivity to create a rising standard of living.
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How much income would you need to maintain your current standard of living?
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Never give yourself an increase in standard of living — instead, increase your savings.
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People are yearning for a better economy and a rising standard of living.
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The problem is those standards are pretty much the standard of living here.
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Roughly one quarter of the country has a rich world standard of living.
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And will new occupations pay enough for a middle class standard of living?
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The ultimate outcome would be a steep decline in their standard of living.
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It will inevitably cause future generations to have a lower standard of living.
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The standard of living is high, and the skies are sunny and blue.
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For the first time in decades, their relative standard of living might improve.
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Curiously, our elected representatives seem remarkably unconcerned about protecting America's standard of living.
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For most people this would require substantial changes to their current standard of living.
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Instead, workers will still want to get a higher standard of living by working.
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Yet, despite all the intervention, in 2016 the standard of living has little improved.
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As the output of the average worker increases, so does the standard of living.
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That would affect the standard of living for every American for years to come.
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China sees new technology as a key enabler of a better standard of living.
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That potentially includes delaying retirement, increasing investment contributions or lowering your standard of living.
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Then it elevates the standard of living and adds to the comforts of life.
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That raises productivity, which is the main driver of a better standard of living.
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It also saw an increase in the standard of living for millions of Americans.
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And with the highest standard of living, and the highest standard of environmental protection.
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They are now suffering massive reductions in the standard of living of their people.
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This productivity slowdown matters enormously because Americans' standard of living depends on productivity growth.
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Indonesia's Ciputra Group, meanwhile, is hailed for establishing a higher standard of living in Jakarta.
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Unable to trade and deprived of oil revenues, Russians face a declining standard of living.
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Having a wage but no wealth increasingly means settling for a lower standard of living.
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In the past century, the standard of living for most humans has improved a lot.
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Here's a glimpse of life for those who enjoy North Korea's higher standard of living.
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Indonesia's Widodo has maintained his popularity by tackling corruption and improving people's standard of living.
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This will lead to a significant drop in the standard of living of all Americans.
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Many people think more about increasing their standard of living once an inheritance is received.
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Keep your standard of living low so you can invest more as you earn more.
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People often compare their standard of living with the standard they experienced while growing up.
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Here's a head-scratcher: Getting a raise could hurt your standard of living in retirement.
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The final word underscores the goal of a higher standard of living and economic growth.
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We need the inexpensive products from outside the country to raise our standard of living.
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It will lower our standard of living and raise costs of fuel & food for everyone.
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Many retirees had to either alter their standard of living or seek some sort of employment.
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The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The US Standard of Living since the Civil War.
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The U.S. should therefore consider income supplement programs, to establish a bottom-line standard of living.
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Productivity growth contributes to a very substantial part of our growth in the standard of living.
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Scientific advancement has given our society a standard of living that was unimaginable for many generations.
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For John D. Rockefeller Sr., $131 million was not enough to maintain his standard of living.
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THE RISE AND FALL OF AMERICAN GROWTH: The U.S. Standard of Living Since the Civil War.
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Do they know that their kids, everything being equal, can have a better standard of living?
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Cohn said that tax break would up the standard of living for Americans and generate growth.
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These other sources are ordinary economic changes that, like trade, fuel our high standard of living.
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Its standard of living is vastly inferior to that of its American counterpart across the water.
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They will also, over time, reduce the standard of living for large segments of the population.
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Information technology has radically transformed major parts of our economy and improved our standard of living.
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Young people need to be very careful about dramatically raising their standard of living, Brewer says.
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Americans did not have to go to college to enjoy a middle-class standard of living.
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The definition of being rich is having assets generating income that exceed your standard of living.
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If we are going to maintain our standard of living, we must have vigorous economic growth.
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Fraud prosecutions leave consumers with more money, generating sales, jobs and a higher standard of living.
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"Since the standard of living has improved, more people are concerned about spiritual satisfaction," he said.
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Its standard of living remains competitive with those of the United States and other developed countries.
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Everybody in this country should in fact have at least a minimum and dignified standard of living.
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Hammond said the British people wanted a Brexit that protected their jobs and their standard of living.
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But to do that, any new trade regime must raise the standard of living for Mexican workers.
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We do need a mechanism of having it so that people have a minimum standard of living.
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Capitalism is clearly the system that delivers a rising standard of living for people across the globe.
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Cities, Vardi said, need to offer a comfortable standard of living to attract or retain talented individuals.
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For neighbors facing similar terror threats, such as the Philippines, improving people's standard of living is key.
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More importantly, many farmers can now generate decent revenue, which leads to a better standard of living.
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More people are working, but many of them are still struggling to maintain their standard of living.
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The purpose of alimony payments is to maintain an ex-spouse's standard of living following a split.
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Gross domestic product, or G.D.P., measures the nation's total output, which largely determines its standard of living.
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Half of Americans are at risk of being unable to maintain their standard of living in retirement.
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To study them is to understand that society's structure, its standard of living, and its political priorities.
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The potential benefits are undeniable—higher productivity, an increased standard of living, and a cleaner, healthier world.
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It can be a sign that women have more career opportunities and a rising standard of living.
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I think that was the start of the decline of the standard of living within our industry.
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It has seen a massive reduction in the standard of living after years of socialist, democratic government.
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Beyond giving refugees protection from possible abuse, the permits could improve their standard of living, Jourdi said.
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This meant workers could expect their standard of living to double every 30 years to 35 years.
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But the sudden improvement in his standard of living was a telltale sign that something was amiss.
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Are you tired of working nearly every single day to maintain a barely tolerable standard of living?
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Despite its high standard of living, the city is little known overseas and little loved even within Australia.
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While its inhabitants enjoy a better standard of living than their lunar counterparts, resentment bubbles under the surface.
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Everything Is the Same Bill has a great standard of living, economic stability and a sassy robot butler.
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These nations want cheap power —usually coal — to provide a better standard of living for their growing populations.
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A net result will be a sustainably higher standard of living for those who possess the desired skills.
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A digital skeptic, Gordon argues that byte-based developments aren't likely to dramatically improve our standard of living.
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Tripoli witnessed the third largest fall in the standard of living — 6.2 points — of all the cities surveyed.
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Though our average standard of living has never been better, modern life entails an unprecedented set of ailments.
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It doesn't matter if he is successful in creating jobs and raising the standard of living for Americans.
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However, this is partly mitigated by the region's high standard of living and robust manufacturing and agricultural sectors.
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It's not uncommon for people to become accustomed to a certain standard of living or way of life.
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Just as they are now, wages may still not be sufficient for a middle-class standard of living.
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The ultra protectionist policies out of Beijing have denied their one billion citizens a higher standard of living.
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More importantly, real American GDP per capita, a measure of our standard of living, increased by 26 percent.
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Obsessing over downside risk costs investors a great deal of money, reducing their standard of living in retirement.
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Many workers in these areas enjoy a higher-than-average standard of living despite the astronomical housing costs.
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The country entices Americans with its mild summers and winters, good education system, and high standard of living.
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What allowed this relocation to places with good-paying jobs that lifted the standard of living for families?
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Still, using Nafta to protect American jobs by mandating Mexico's standard of living remains a fairly loopy idea.
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Managed hunting can earn revenues for landowners and perhaps even raise the standard of living of poor communities.
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Lifestyle creep occurs when one increases their standard of living to match a rise in their discretionary income.
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Lifestyle creep is when one increases their standard of living to match a rise in their discretionary income.
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Lifestyle creep happens when someone increases their standard of living to match a rise in their discretionary income.
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This has given American consumers a much higher standard of living in a time of limited wage growth.
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Our economy – and the standard of living of our people – has been transformed over the last three decades.
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Life insurance could help them maintain their standard of living, and help cover expenses like a mortgage. 4.
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Americans have been able to improve their standard of living only by both working more and borrowing more.
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It has become difficult for a family with one breadwinner to afford a middle-class standard of living.
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With productivity growth of 2% a year, the average standard of living will double roughly every 35 years.
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I do think robotics can help to create more equality, in terms of the standard of living people have.
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Retiring at 0003 instead of 62 increases a person's standard of living by a third, according to the study.
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The tech industry has done much to improve the standard of living, health and prospects of the Bay Area.
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Meanwhile, improvement to the North Korean economy and promises to raise the standard of living have yet to materialize.
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Always overestimate how much you'll need to save to maintain the standard of living you want, just in case.
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One-third said it negatively affected their standard of living, and 1 in 5 said it harmed their health.
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Many Hispanics may look back to the lower standard of living their parents experienced in their countries of origin.
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Every year, their disposable income increases, they are demanding better quality goods and want a better standard of living.
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The next time pay was negotiated, however, workers would demand a 6.53% raise to restore their standard of living.
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The purpose is reducing the financial pressure faced by consumers in Africa and also improving their standard of living.
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Our economic vulnerabilities decrease our standard of living and increase our chances of having negative interactions with the police.
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So as you engage the global economy, you're going to see this dramatic improvement in the standard of living.
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Voters' dissatisfaction is difficult to understand in a country where the standard of living is among the world's highest.
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And without more economic growth, her agenda won't result in more jobs or a higher national standard of living.
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And, depending on the local standard of living, a paycheck in one spot can stretch much further than another.
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Most financial advisors say you need around 80 percent of your preretirement income to maintain your standard of living.
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But this also unnerved Communist Party loyalists who saw their power eroding as their relative standard of living declined.
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There will be inflation costs, so my budget will still grow some to maintain the same standard of living.
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Capitalism lifts standards of living — but regulated capitalism keeps us well enough to enjoy a higher standard of living.
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They don't measure up to the problem: an economy that no longer delivers a consistently rising standard of living.
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We aren't New York City, and that's what they're setting people up for—this overpriced, shitty standard of living.
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Germany not only grew more unequal, but the standard of living for the lower strata stagnated or even fell.
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In West Virginia, by contrast, it was years before teachers rose up to protest their eroding standard of living.
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It's like a watermark for the neighborhood: It tells everyone, new and old, 'This is our standard of living.
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State media extolled the resort as a gift from the people-loving leader to raise the standard of living.
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Macron voters were more interested in bread-and-butter issues — standard of living (pouvoir d'echat) or unemployment (le chômage).
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This in turn led to increased productivity, increased household incomes and an improvement in the general standard of living.
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But productivity growth of 1% a year means the average standard of living will double only every 70 years.
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"The standard of living of the children while the low-income parent … doesn't have to be identical, but it's structured in a way that the child support orders enable the children to enjoy the benefit of the standard of living both parents can provide while they're with both parents," Kaplan tells PEOPLE.
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THE RISE AND FALL OF AMERICAN GROWTH: The U.S. Standard of Living Since the Civil War, by Robert J. Gordon.
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We need a party to speak for the vast majority of the people whose standard of living is in decline.
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That means, for employees to maintain the same standard of living in Queens, they'd have to earn significantly more: $2228,593.
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These include a weakened economy, higher unemployment, and, most importantly, a lower American standard of living and reduced national security.
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We will not stand by and allow threats to our members' jobs and their families' standard of living go unanswered.
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With GDP per person at $35,700 a year in 2015, Israel's standard of living is much the same as France's.
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Others say that Russians have gotten used to a higher standard of living and that they will protest losing it.
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The First and Second Industrial Revolutions truly changed the standard of living in a period spanning more than 1603 years.
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Every financial innovation needs an acronym, and these are called SeLFIES (Standard of Living Indexed, Forward-starting Income-only Securities).
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It also creates an environment conducive to business and a comfortable standard of living to deter migration from the city.
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It is more important for free trade to be re-established so Cubans can enjoy a better standard of living.
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A major question to grapple with is how to assuage (usually reasonable) fears while improving efficiency and standard of living.
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Sources: "The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The US Standard of Living Since the Civil War", Robert Gordon, 2016.
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With more people participating in the economy, the production of goods and services increases and everyone's standard of living improves.
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That is not a personal judgment of your standard of living, your income, your savings or your ability in math.
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"This is an attempt to bring the standard of living Americans have come to enjoy to a halt," he said.
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"The key to being wealthy, therefore, is standard-of-living costs that are less than your passive income," he said.
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They know a generation ago families maintained a middle class standard of living on the wages of one bread winner.
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One way to measure standard of living is through a country's gross domestic product per capita at purchasing power parity.
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I do think robotics can help to create more equality in terms of the standard of living that people have.
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Even a sparkling growth rate isn't enough to lift the standard of living in India close to that of China.
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Second, single-parent households have a lower standard of living, which is associated with lower school grades and test scores.
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"You're going home for the holidays and you compare your standard of living to your parents," Grusky, a sociologist, says.
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That translates into huge losses in terms of potential retirement wealth, or, put differently, lowers their future standard of living.
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"It's going to last you 30 years, and you still need to worry about inflation and your standard of living."
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One-third said it negatively affected their standard of living, and 1 in 5 said it negatively impacted their health.
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All of these nations have suffered at the hands of socialist leadership that has fundamentally undermined their standard of living.
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They said Mr. Pruitt told them that he expected a certain standard of living akin to wealthier Trump cabinet members.
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On Friday Facebook's cafeteria contractors voted to unionize "in the hopes of achieving a better standard of living," the Guardian writes.
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For retirees counting on fixed-income securities like government bonds, low interest rates can also mean a lower standard of living.
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I wanted my employees to feel valued, to feel they are compensated fairly, to have the standard of living they deserve.
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THE RISE AND FALL OF AMERICAN GROWTH The U.S. Standard of Living Since the Civil War By Robert J. Gordon Illustrated.
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America will become the best destination for global capital, and this investment will restore productivity to raise our standard of living.
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And so lifestyle creep causes you to grow accustomed to a standard of living that is harder and harder to replace.
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Cheap imports from China can actually raise the standard of living in the United States, allowing consumers to buy more goods.
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Or take the decline in the standard of living of huge swathes of people in England or the US' Rust Belt.
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Economically, the result was federal budget surpluses and a rising standard of living for every income quintile in the United States.
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The five-year agreement—known as the "Treaty of Detroit"—boosted the standard of living for GM employees by 20 percent.
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Don't rule out cutting back your standard of living in order to dedicate even more of your finances to retirement readiness.
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The vast majority of today's American households will not have enough retirement income to maintain their pre-retirement standard of living.
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Half say American children and older Americans will have a lower standard of living in the future than they do today.
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It would supplement the income of everyone below the poverty line and bring them up to a minimal standard of living.
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In the years since President Obama first took office, more Americans are thriving, exercising and enjoying a high standard of living.
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At the current pace, our standard of living will double once every 70 years, instead of doubling once every 833 years.
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Wages at every wage level are growing faster than inflation, yielding a real increase in the standard of living for workers.
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The new campaign describes Jerusalem's Palestinian residents as imperiling the security, demographic balance, standard of living and economy of the city.
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Instead of picking a side, though, they simply endeavor to preserve as much of their old standard of living as possible.
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With our current technology, of course, we don't know how to provide 11 billion people a good standard of living sustainably.
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Pollution in India, which is at least a decade behind China in raising its citizens' standard of living, continues to increase.
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The family's standard of living is improved when the social media business is going well, and all members benefit, they said.
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Plus, New Zealand's cities rated less expensive that most major American cities, even though the standard of living was the same.
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"What we reject is that it is not the standard of living and the (fiscal) performance that would matter," Gulyas said.
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It leads to a lower standard of living for all, justified in the name of attacking the few who have succeeded.
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However, it benefits from a high standard of living and a strong industrial sector, which contribute to job opportunities in the region.
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If the measure passes, it will allow part-time workers and individuals seeking job retraining to maintain a basic standard of living.
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All of this effort is working to sustain a growing and diverse economy and raise the standard of living for all Iowans.
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Zhang blamed the parents of prospective brides who want to elevate their standard of living by demanding a high price from suitors.
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A lot of people might be happier if the stockmarket was less buoyant and the average standard of living was more so.
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When employees leave their corporate jobs and become self-employed, he said, they might see a decline in their standard of living.
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But estimates suggest that they'll need up to 20 times that amount to maintain their standard of living after they stop working.
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The family has four children and sees "not much of a prospect" for a change in their standard of living, said Racz.
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For perhaps the first time in modern history, our younger generation will probably have a lower standard of living than their parents.
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" He added that the idea of democratic socialism means that all people in the U.S. should have a "decent standard of living.
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To the contrary, this increase in productivity could allow us to work a little less while enjoying a good standard of living.
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In the same line of thinking, imports result in trade deficits; trade deficits destroy jobs and, consequently, lower citizens' standard of living.
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Party officials believe that urbanization will raise the country's standard of living, thus boosting domestic consumption and rebalancing China's export-reliant economy.
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But there's a strong case for more government — not less — as the most promising way to improve the nation's standard of living.
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You have to look closely at your situation, your income, your goals, and your desired standard of living now and later on.
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They are attempting to live on a shrinking one - their standard of living is declining as their Social Security benefits purchase less.
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Its tax base is also dwindling as many residents leave to find better job opportunities and a higher standard of living elsewhere.
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The Palestinian residents of East Jerusalem generally have a higher standard of living than those in the West Bank or Gaza Strip.
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"I was dead set on maintaining my standard of living even though it was turning into an enormous financial burden," he admits.
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We're experiencing such severe shortages of food and medicine that we are being denied the right to a healthy standard of living.
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Cash and gold flowed to the United States, American business flourished, and the average American saw the standard of living improve dramatically.
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It also boosts Mexico's economy, raising the standard of living for Mexican consumers, who more easily can afford to purchase U.S. imports.
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A healthy rural America can be the rising tide that lifts the nation's economy and the standard of living in countless communities.
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They also want to provide modern farming tools to help the women sustain their farms and create a decent standard of living.
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Some strategists expect that the disruptions could kill millions and send much of the country to a pre-industrial standard of living.
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"Wealth taxes" would destroy the management/entrepreneurial class and collapse productivity and the economy along with national security and standard of living.
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"I sympathize with the problems of the protesters who want a better standard of living, jobs and less economic hardship," she said.
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"We strongly affirm the legal right of B&H warehouse workers to unionize and improve their standard of living," the letter reads.
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People are living with strangers to save money and maintain a higher standard of living than they might enjoy on their own.
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The bottom line is that our standard of living cannot be improving when productivity has been negative for three quarters in a row.
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At the same time, however, report author Stephen Rose has commented that the standard of living has gone up for nearly all Americans.
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That is making sure that people who get up every day, work hard, play by the rules, have a decent standard of living.
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If they don't believe it, why should the rest of be penalized in our standard of living for something that can't be validated?
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One of the defining features of the "American dream" is the ideal that children have a higher standard of living than their parents.
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Only Bulgarians on balance take a gloomy view, with just 32% of them thinking that their standard of living has improved since 1989.
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"The challenge is how to raise the standard of living in Bangladesh to match our own without the carbon wastefulness," says Mr Clegg.
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For example, your goal might be to retire in 20 years at your current standard of living for the rest of your life.
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In other words, while governments enact austerity budgets, which lower the standard of living of working people, the super-rich avoid their taxes.
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In part, that's because women still tend to be more negatively affected by divorce, experiencing more significant decreases in their standard of living.
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Ultimately she'd need $2.5 million invested before leaving work to maintain the same standard of living in early retirement ($100,000 x 25 years).
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In fact, Bankrate estimates that half of the American population won't be able to maintain their standard of living once they stop working.
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In the 20th century, America saved freedom, transformed science, and redefined the middle class standard of living for the entire world to see.
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Second, it is creating a lot of debt, which then cramps the standard of living of the college graduate for many future years.
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Kim also reportedly highlighted the isolated state's economic achievements during the speech, and nodded towards trying to improve the country's standard of living.
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Retaining the high ground in research and engineering is necessary to deter future conflicts, win future wars and maintain our standard of living.
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In addition, consumption taxes are arguably fairer: They tax the standard of living people enjoy rather than the value of what they produce.
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In contrast, you would need around $13.63,900 in San Diego to maintain the same standard of living you get with $8,100 in San Francisco.
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It yields a standard of living that would cost $1,403 a year in America, making North Korea one of the world's ten poorest countries.
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But governments could issue an innovative, "safe" ultra-long bond instrument, which we call "SeLFIES" (Standard of Living indexed, Forward-starting, Income-only Securities).
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That means, for employees to maintain the same standard of living in Arlington, they'd have to earn significantly more: a whopping $232,637 a year.
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China improved the standard of living of its citizens with a tenfold increase in per capita gross domestic product over the past 2105 years.
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"The cities I visited in Peru offer the highest standard of living for the lowest price that I've seen, especially for singles," he said.
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There is also the feeling that the Ontario pilot does not go far enough in divorcing waged labor from a decent standard of living.
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Meanwhile, both sides' focus on incomes will detract from a better focus: how far those incomes go in delivering a decent standard of living.
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About 220% of people who moved to Switzerland for work also said they enjoyed an improved standard of living compared to their home country.
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By the first seven months of this year, the share of Americans who felt their standard of living was improving rose to 62 percent.
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"About half of today's working-age households are at risk of not being able to maintain their standard of living in retirement," Munnell noted.
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"Ninety-five percent of the poor in my study did not save and most accumulated debt to subsidize their standard of living," Corley wrote.
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The goal in these areas is to lower costs and to expand quality of service — therefore increasing the standard of living for all Americans.
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Standard planning, for example, holds that retirees need to replace 70 to 80 percent of pre-retirement income to maintain their standard of living.
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For someone used to a rural standard of living, it would seem fairly normal; for someone from Westchester County, N.Y., a big step down.
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Many of the men told them that the economy doesn't allow them to provide the same standard of living that their fathers could provide.
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Rising energy consumption is crucial to raising the standard of living for more people, but "We will run out of energy," Mr. Bezos said.
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The basic income would provide a sizable government payment, meant to support a minimum standard of living, to every American regardless of economic status.
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The risk now is actually that we let a temporary growth shock permanently lower GDP, or in other words, our collective standard of living.
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More housing in a region like Silicon Valley or Boston would raise the income and standard of living of American workers across the nation.
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Unions continue to be important for raising the standard of living for working Americans, whether or not they happen to be in a union.
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In 21625, the Federal Poverty Level for a family of four in the mainland United States was $2900,220006 — an abysmally low standard of living.
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Among other issues, at very young or very old ages, individuals may borrow or rely on lifetime savings to maintain their standard of living.
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He claims to have perfected his nuclear arsenal enough to deter U.S. aggression and devote his resources to raising his nation's standard of living.
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ROCKERS ARE NO different from the rest of us: they, too, need to work for longer to maintain a decent standard of living in retirement.
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Experts use the HDI to measure "human well-being," a function of long healthy lives, being well educated and having a decent standard of living.
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"South Korea has caught up with Japan as its standard of living has increased," said Sarah Harper, professor of gerontology at the University of Oxford.
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If you flip things around, to maintain the same standard of living as someone earning $150,000 in Nashville, you'd have to earn $228,049 in Arlington.
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A basic standard of living for every human being with as equal a chance to succeed as is humanly possible will always be the goal.
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"She stated that she wished to enjoy the collection and sell individual pieces only as necessary to support her standard of living," Justice Drager wrote.
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It basically says that we feel rich when we make lots of money relative to our peers, not compared to some historical standard of living.
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What the men want is simple, explains Bongani Godfrey Ndaba, a 37-year-old with a thick mat of hair: a better standard of living.
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People ask why they can't have a better standard of living, but they also have this thing in their heads asking what it's all about.
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I'll leave you with a few words I share with many of my comrades: 'When God blesses you financially, don't raise your standard of living.
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To maintain the same standard of living in retirement that you enjoy today, you want to save at least 603% to 15% of your income.
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Rich oil and natural-gas reserves have contributed to the country's booming economy and ensured a high standard of living for its 400,000-plus population.
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The demise of traditional pensions means that many people have to keep earning in their 60s and 70s to maintain a decent standard of living.
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Most importantly, they taught me to resist the temptation to raise my standard of living every time I received a pay increase or financial windfall.
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However, it benefits from a high standard of living and a strong industrial sector, which contribute to potential new job creation opportunities in the region.
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These data alone suggest the Earth can support at most one-fifth of the present population, 1.5 billion people, at an American standard of living.
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The Jewish minority in the West Bank enjoys a Western standard of living by nearly every measure — income, education, health care, life expectancy, infrastructure, etc.
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There's probably no way to maintain our current standard of living while cutting the cost of these services back to the levels of the 1950s.
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Considering the dire job market, subsequent poor standard of living, and burnout, being a millennial might, for many of us, inevitably mean being a loser.
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Western lenders are demanding painful measures to balance the budget and liberalize the economy even though Jordan's standard of living has been declining for years.
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More important than how much they earn is their sense of how they are doing compared with the standard of living of their parents' generation.
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That's largely because of "lifestyle creep," or the tendency to raise your standard of living and spend more once you earn more, the report says.
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The dollar amount that you should aim to save depends on countless factors: how much you make, your standard of living, your age and more.
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Set a comprehensive U.S. cybersecurity strategy to secure against cyberattacks that might lower U.S. citizens' standard of living or result in the loss of life.
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Corporations need to remain innovative, Blodget wrote, but if they are going to maintain long-term success, they must raise their workers' standard of living.
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"For foreign buyers, the Czech Republic and Prague represent a safe and stable political and economic environment with a high standard of living," she said.
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Historically, we would expect a country in our position to be faced with hyperinflation, a marked decrease in the standard of living, and mass emigration.
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America's future greatness and standard of living will lie in its leadership role in the world economy, not in hiding from it behind tariff walls.
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Growth is slowing, but the International Monetary Fund expects real GDP to increase by 6% this year, enough to boost almost everyone's standard of living.
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Social Security plus $15,000 presents a scary prospect for those who hope for a decent standard of living throughout the average 20-year American retirement.
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The pact was sold to the Mexican public as a deal that would bring the country's standard of living closer to that of the United States.
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The unemployed have the right to "personalized, continuous and consistent support", while workers have the right to "fair" wages that provide a "decent standard of living".
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"I could take about $400 [billion] away, and it wouldn't change your standard of living one tiny little bit — not even an iota," Biden told donors.
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It's a big increase, but I generally don't change my standard of living when it comes to raises, which is one reason I've saved so much.
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Sadly, the result of most Americans having no private retirement savings is that these folks will face a lower standard of living in their golden years.
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The last eight years of restrictive, punitive, and overlapping regulations have undermined our system's ability to drive a growing economy and a rising standard of living.
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Despite the example of Switzerland, countries with high costs of living in their major cities do not necessarily offer the highest standard of living, Glassdoor said.
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The possibility of having those rates reduced is a scary one for retirees: It may nudge them into chasing returns to sustain their standard of living.
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Sanders also argued that this economic growth more often than not ran parallel with a relative decline in the standard of living enjoyed by most Americans.
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Growing wage inequality has meant that today's workers must work harder to attain the same middle class standard of living their parents had a generation ago.
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The product of this social-engineering — a class averse to political change with a vested interest in maintaining its standard of living and access to wealth.
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Your retirement savings should never diminish your standard of living to the point where you become unhappy or unable to experience any of life's finer moments.
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"We believe cocoa farmers should earn sufficient income to maintain a decent standard of living," John Ament, Global Vice President of Cocoa for Mars, told Reuters.
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Republican respondents were more than twice as likely as Democratic ones to say women enjoy a higher standard of living — 22019 percent to 4 percent, respectively.
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There, the girls would get a glimpse of how the other half lived and they yearned for it to become their standard of living, as well.
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" A seller named Steve, responding to a buyer's concern about mistreated miners, wrote that buying crystals "can provide a better standard of living for their people.
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Reduced productivity has been a disappointment this past recovery, and encouraging higher productivity in the future will be the key to a higher standard of living.
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And this era—from the 1870s to the 1920s—was not just one of rising undocumented immigration, but of a skyrocketing standard of living, as well.
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"When you strip away their benefits and people see their standard of living shrinking, well, there's anger there," Mr. Schultz, the former state senator, told me.
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In addition, when white working-class individuals do talk about their standard of living, it's not necessarily those with the lowest incomes who speak the loudest.
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Fed officials have been flummoxed at the economy's inability to generate rising incomes that give consumers more purchasing power and raises the collective standard of living.
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A majority of Republicans support government action to ensure access to quality health care and provide a decent standard of living for people unable to work.
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In the face of this bleak situation, American policymakers concluded that the key to restoring the prewar European standard of living was restarting the German economy.
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As rent prices increase in the city, I regularly worry about finding a place that will fit both my budget and my current standard of living.
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Type 1 rich means you have zero debt and the passive income generated by your wealth is enough to meet or exceed your standard of living.
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It's almost impossible for digital nomads to find suitable accommodations at fair prices within major U.S. metropolitan areas that foster the standard of living they're seeking.
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It is about understanding that if we do not transform our economy, our younger generation will likely have a lower standard of living then their parents.
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Since modern advanced economies include many people who don't work, reducing their standard of living is the main means through which trade deficits can be closed.
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They actually have a higher standard of living than the 13 million American children today, currently living below the poverty line, which is about $24,000 per household.
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The 2018 National Retirement Risk Index shows that most people would need an increase in income of about 30% to maintain their standard of living after separation.
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Studies indicate that young people in both developed and developing countries can no longer assume that they will have a higher standard of living than their parents.
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Nearly half of working-age households can't continue their current standard of living in retirement, according to data from the U.S. Federal Reserve's Survey of Consumer Finances.
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It can range from a minimum payment to prevent destitution to a higher level which on its own gives individuals an adequate but basic standard of living.
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That love for the Kims has translated nicely for Ri into a life with a better standard of living than most North Koreans in the impoverished nation.
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The possibility of having those rates reduced is a scary one for retirees, and it may nudge them into chasing returns to sustain their standard of living.
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But it meant that their day-to-day standard of living didn't improve as much as it did among the Village Enterprise recipients, whose consumption went up.
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"They may need to consider working longer, reduce their standard of living, and make smart choices regarding Social Security and deploying their savings in retirement," Streeter said.
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Why it matters : Social Security pays on average just $1,369 per month, making self-directed savings necessary for seniors to enjoy a middle class standard of living.
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Using that figure as your guide, plan on having double the amount of money you have today to maintain the same standard of living in 20 years.
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The American public's constantly harangued that so-called "Dreamers", that insufferably inane term, simply want an American standard of living and a piece of the American pie.
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" He told the BBC, "Europe can't protect itself and preserve its standard of living and social infrastructure if it has to absorb millions of migrants from Africa.
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And our water and wastewater systems raised the standard of living and helped water-reliant businesses and industries make the U.S. the strongest economy in the world.
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In many European countries, however, many people work less than 40 hours a week and enjoy a standard of living similar to that in the United States.
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That year, just 42 percent of those interviewed by Gallup felt that their standard of living was improving, compared to 40 percent who felt it was deteriorating.
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Kneissl said Austria would seek a change on a European level so that children benefits reflect the standard of living, welfare, and purchasing power in each country.
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Ms. Du married Mr. Yang just before his father died, and since then she has experienced the slow erosion of their standard of living and personal freedoms.
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"His Majesty was a tireless champion of his country's development and demonstrated unflagging devotion to improving the standard of living of the Thai people," Mr. Obama said.
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But economists said it's still encouraging, as the pay increase remains well above the inflation rate, meaning that workers' pay is actually raising their standard of living.
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Our technology engines, our innovation dynamic, the ambition and skill of our people are going to propel our economy and raise the standard of living of Americans.
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In places such as Ohio, presidential candidates would be well advised to focus on how to produce American jobs and a better standard of living for workers.
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When an adult comes back home, his standard of living is often much higher compared to what it would be if he was living on his own.
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In other words, what matters is not the size of your paycheck but whether it allows for the standard of living you think you are entitled to.
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In the long run, it will be impossible to maintain current social benefit systems, much less the overall standard of living, without making each worker more productive.
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"When the standard of living was compared to the West, it can be considered modest, but there was an egalitarian spirit," she said in a 2008 interview.
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"Compared with other countries in Africa, Egypt has quite a high standard of living, even though it's a dysfunctional economy," a foreign businessman in Cairo told me.
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"Otherwise, just to keep today's standard of living, with an income at 63% of the European Union's average, will require ever increasing amounts of debt," it said.
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And trade, by raising wages and the standard of living in Mexico, is a big reason that illegal immigration from Mexico has dropped steadily over the years.
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For most of us, pensions are a thing of the past and Social Security is far from enough to maintain the same standard of living in retirement.
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And as the Times notes, because the money often belonged to banks and bond investors who lent him money, Trump's standard of living didn't take a hit.
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And that's a shame, because the most important factor in America's economic future -- raising everyone's standard of living -- is not land, or money, or computers; it's human talent.
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And the people living in the state's energy-rich areas have enjoyed some of the largest gains in standard of living anywhere in the country over that period.
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Fried told Business Insider that he views employees' standard of living as one of his top priorities, not just because it improves productivity but for its own sake.
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We explored links between aerobic fitness and broad socioeconomic and demographic factors in each country including wealth inequality, standard of living, childhood obesity, physical activity levels and climate.
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Foreigners with expired visas have long been a problem for Thailand, a country whose renowned hospitality, cuisine and cheap standard of living makes it a haven for backpackers.
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"It thus seems feasible to improve the standard of living of app drivers while also allowing the industry to continue to meet passenger demand," Parrott and Reich wrote.
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In his new role, he told me, he hopes to gradually improve contractors' standard of living while also working to ensure they become more effective at their jobs.
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One reason is that many people are leaving the full-time work force with less money than they need to support themselves at a comfortable standard of living.
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Biden said our "goal should be a world where everyone's standard of living is rising," and that continuing education is going to be required to help people advance.
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The report based its pensions saving gap projections on the amount of money required in order to allow people to retire with a relatively unaffected standard of living.
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It is politically stable and geopolitically independent; its citizens enjoy a high standard of living and all the trappings—but not much more than the trappings—of democracy.
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In the speech, Obama echoed the theme of "change" used in his first campaign, saying the U.S. needs to "fix" its politics to improve its standard of living.
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It also argues that a single, childless adult will need to earn $15 an hour by 2024 in order to "achieve a modest but adequate standard of living."
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The generations of Americans who enjoyed a high standard of living in an economy whose very design has destabilized the climate have a responsibility to right the ship.
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It's a theory that has held true since the industrial revolution, and seen the standard of living in developed countries go from mud hut to iPhones for all.
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President Donald Trump has announced that he will work to roll back environmental laws and regulations with the hope of improving the U.S. economy and standard of living.
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Biblio: For how long will Trump get the benefit of the doubt from the white working class if they don't see a change in their standard of living?
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"I think voting 'strategically,' like my white liberal friends are suggesting I do, is really capitulation to an ever-slipping standard of living in this country," he said.
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Building a superior transportation and power infrastructure set the U.S. up for the decades of industrial prosperity that resulted in our current standard of living and lifestyle expectations.
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The United States is more prosperous and the standard of living has increased dramatically over the last five decades, yet government handouts for food has skyrocketed—what gives?
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In fact, if we don't turn things around, our younger generation will, for the first time in living memory, have a lower standard of living than their parents.
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However, researchers believe focusing on "success materialism" — the idea that wealth signifies success — enhances people's "economic motivation," or their drive to work and improve their standard of living.
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But the red ink did not cost him his standard of living, because most of the money was borrowed, and because he was buffered by his father's wealth.
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In fact, the way in which the world has improved its standard of living has sometimes brought us into contact with diseases we might never have faced otherwise.
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The company should continue this strategy, making it a top priority to bring the pay of its low-paid employees closer to a middle-class standard of living.
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But Meghalaya still ranks among the lowest in India in terms of its Gross State Domestic Product (GSDP) and life expectancy, education levels and overall standard of living.
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For two generations after World War II, working-class whites in the United States enjoyed a middle-class standard of living, only to lose it in recent decades.
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The cultural effects of this decision, the idea that every worker should have a decent standard of living, have been at least as great as the legal ramifications.
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ROME (Reuters) - An Italian court has said divorce settlements should no longer guarantee spouses their previous standard of living but rather simply make sure they were financially independent.
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Young people need to be very careful about dramatically raising their standard of living, says Bart Brewer, a certified financial planner with California-based Global Financial Advisory Services.
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This monumental shift of citizens and resources has raised the overall standard of living but brought with it corresponding losses, scattering families and disrupting old ways of life.
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"Shoppers, vendors, people with whom we talked across the country said that Lidl literally transformed everybody's standard of living, whether they shopped at Lidl or not," he said.
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At the end of the day, what we decide to do as a country regarding carbon emissions will have profound effects on our economy and standard of living.
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The LA Times also reports that divorced women over 50 experienced a 45% drop in their standard of living, compared to a 21% drop for men over 50.
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Throughout her testimony, Chao stressed time and again the crucial role innovation, creativity, and technology play in building America's economy, creating opportunity, and raising our standard of living.
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Vast increases in debt will ultimately compromise Washington's ability to maintain its current array of spending programs, let alone add new ones, and threaten our standard of living.
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The Vermont senator hinted at the announcement in a speech over the weekend, saying it was a necessary measure to help younger generations achieve a higher standard of living.
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This will help you arrive at your Family Index Number, the long-term rate of return that your portfolio needs in order to pursue your desired standard of living.
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In fact, a 2018 study by the Center for Retirement Research shows that households with a past divorce face more difficulty in maintaining their standard of living in retirement.
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"TD believes conventional energy sources will sustain our economy, create jobs and support a standard of living that our customers and communities want for the foreseeable future," he said.
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This is straining a 60-year-old covenant, under which the regime provides security, free public services and a tolerable standard of living in return for its people's quiescence.
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The future we want — opportunity and security for our families; a rising standard of living and a sustainable, peaceful planet for our kids — all that is within our reach.
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Transforming Tilos into a self-sufficient energy hub will ensure residents "have a very good standard of living", and can live and work permanently on the island, Kamma said.
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The ramifications of financial illiteracy are numerous, as it impacts not only an individual's personal standard of living but also our nation's ability to compete on a global scale.
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If your standard of living is low and your monthly net is less than, say, $3,500, you could be considered wealthy if you had $1.2 million in invested assets.
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Our developing sister states need to know we can provide them with the resources to help them raise their standard of living and greet a new dawn of prosperity.
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"For the majority of the population living in poverty, nothing will change in the near-term to improve their standard of living," said Alisha Patel, Africa analyst at AKE.
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We reject the pessimism that says our standard of living can no longer rise, and that all that's left to do is divide up and redistribute our shrinking resources.
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Rather, the interviews show that people's satisfaction with their standard of living, and their subsequent political choices, depends on more than how many dollars they bring home each week.
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"It's being willing to pull many levers a little bit rather than trying to do some heroic move and cut your standard of living to 40 percent," Wendel said.
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College graduates who live in a major metro area — those who tend to read a national newspaper, to put it another way — do enjoy a rising standard of living.
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Those who have used visible policies are more likely to feel that government has helped them in times of need or provided opportunities to improve their standard of living.
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The new generation, and this happens in every developing economy where manufacturing drives standard of living, that the next generation doesn't want to go to the factory every day.
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"Lowering the cost of prescription drugs and expanding health care coverage is one important way to help lower costs and build a higher standard of living for all Illinoisans."
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Sure, I would love to live in California or New York, but my standard of living would not be suitable because of the difference in the cost of living.
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The fundamental determinant of our standard of living as a society is productivity growth, and the main long-run driver of productivity growth is the creation of new knowledge.
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We will treat their labor with the dignity and respect it deserves, and we will allow them to provide a better standard of living for themselves and their families.
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The middle class right now is in a position where more than half of them don't think the children will ever have the same standard of living they have.
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Now, we must step boldly and bravely into the next chapter of this great American adventure, and we must create a new standard of living for the 21st century.
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Also, what many Westerners may not realize is that we all expected our standard of living to rise to the level of at least that of Spain or Italy.
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After all, if you are happy with your current standard of living, lower taxes would mean that you could maintain it while putting in fewer hours at the office.
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Kolko found that in 2016, 31 percent of white Republicans said they did not expect their standard of living to improve; in 2018, only 8 percent were that pessimistic.
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The future we want—opportunity and security for our families; a rising standard of living and a sustainable, peaceful planet for our kids—all that is within our reach.
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Now, we must step boldly and bravely into the next chapter of this Great American Adventure, and we must create a new standard of living for the 21st century.
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The future we want — opportunity and security for our families; a rising standard of living and a sustainable, peaceful planet for our kids — all that is within our reach.
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So in basic cheapskate terms, the right play simply is avoid Europe and Japan and travel instead to a country with a low standard of living, like India or Vietnam.
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"A lot of my friends when they travel to other countries they are seeing the standard of living and they want that back in our country as well," he said.
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And many have pointed out that the Green New Deal is unaffordable, would destroy our standard of living, make food more scarce and expensive, and put us in the dark.
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It highlighted Norway and the U.K., which scored indifferently in the standard of living index but whose capitals were respectively the third- and fourth-most expensive major cities in Europe.
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He blames Bill Clinton for Kosovo's independence, and for the shock-doctrine privatization of Soviet state industry that some Russians believe destroyed their standard of living after the USSR fell.
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It is based on focus groups made up of members of the British public and estimates the lowest socially acceptable standard of living in Britain for various types of family.
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The US wants to promote internet access in Cuba, for example, as a way to raise the standard of living, the flow of information, and public pressure for democratic change.
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Mercer's annual Quality of Living Survey has ranked 230 cities against 39 factors including political, economic, environmental and public service factors to identify those with the highest standard of living.
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In an influential study published in 1979 Peter Townsend, a sociologist, argued that pensioners were systematically ignored by politicians and the public, with "barbarous effects" on their standard of living.
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This chart shows that until 1990 or so, both skilled and unskilled workers could improve their standard of living, even considering housing costs, by moving to a high-income state.
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UBI, a concept that dates back centuries, is the idea that every person should receive some amount of money so that no one dips beneath a basic standard of living.
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The immediate impact for British citizens is a cut in their standard of living; it costs more to buy goods from abroad, whether it be imported commodities or foreign holidays.
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Forty-four percent say the average family's standard of living will be worse in 2050 than it is today, twice the number -- 20 percent -- who say it will be better.
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Historically, their innovation has been key to job growth, rising wages and a better standard of living, and our patent system has always ensured that their investments would pay off.
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In both cases, the president questioned the legitimacy of the authoritarian regimes because of their moral depravity and their failure to deliver a decent standard of living for the population.
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Slower innovation Robert Gordon, author of "The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living Since the Civil War," believes the pace of innovative activity has declined.
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But in order to live below your means, you must create a standard of living in which your living costs are 80% or less than your net, take- home pay.
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" Until the 1990s, "women's standard-of-living after controlling for education was higher than men's," he told me via email, "but that is no longer the case in 2009-2011.
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Taken together, these changes have led to "a faster improvement of the family standard of living for men than for equally educated women themselves," according to the study's press release.
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Russian GDP will grow at 1.5% a year in the medium term, according to the IMF, and the standard of living in the country shrank by 17% from 2014-2017.
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Whether they bring in their own paycheck or not, having a life insurance policy in place assures they can maintain a similar standard of living if you die prematurely.3.
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Giant enterprises like Facebook or Apple pay minimal taxes, while blue-collar workers have to labor harder — even taking a second or third job — to maintain their standard of living.
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And, so long as American productivity and workers' wages were rising, it seemed that Uncle Sam could ensure a decent standard of living at home and security around the world.
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This new study found the distress over health care costs hurts the standard of living for the entire family, when rent is not paid and credit card bills pile up.
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A dramatic reduction in benefits for people who aren&apost looking for work, Germany&aposs supreme court said, "seriously encroaches upon the minimum standard of living guaranteed by fundamental rights."
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This progress has been facilitated by a U.S. investment of approximately $17 billion since 2002, dedicated to improving Afghans' access to healthcare, a better standard of living and gender equality.
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In other words, people may be better off than their incomes would suggest because their standard of living is propped up and smoothed over time by their assets and savings.
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"The biggest problem with retiring early is not necessarily that people don't save enough — it's that over time, as they earn more, they expand their standard of living," Cates says.
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And that means China and India have to make massive changes to their energy systems, especially since both countries are growing in population and experiencing a rising standard of living.
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As I look at the year ahead, I know that a union would raise the standard of living for all child care workers, as well as the families we serve.
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So in basic cheapskate terms, the right play simply is avoiding Europe and Japan and traveling instead to a country with a low standard of living, like India or Vietnam.
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The head of Germany's Ifo economic institute believes Italians will eventually want to quit the euro currency area if their standard of living does not improve, he told German daily Tagesspiegel.
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MACCALLUM: It&aposs been a pretty successful system in this country that has afforded a lot of people a standard of living that doesn&apost exist in most of the world.
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Even now that the Fat White's have "made it," so to speak—playing festival stages, guesting on the radio, releasing records—maintaining a healthy standard of living seems beyond their reach.
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"We're on strike to maintain good jobs and maintain our standard of living," said Keith Purce, president of CWA Local 1101 which represents about 3,500 workers in Manhattan and the Bronx.
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"The future we want - opportunity and security for our families; a rising standard of living and a sustainable, peaceful planet for our kids - all that is within our reach," will say.
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"If you think of a basic income as providing a kind of floor to the standard of living for most people, then it will far exceed current benefit expenditure," Ghosal said.
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The court found Martin was entitled to some dough to accommodate the standard of living he was used to while married to Mary, but also decided his dream number was unreasonable.
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There is a tacit understanding that for Israel to have a Western-level standard of living, parts of the economy have to be allowed to continue working seven days a week.
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The thought of extending the Western standard of living to a global population of over eight billion individuals is a dead end and would push the world to the ecological brink.
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And if we can do that for the 10, 15 years, and you can make a very substantial change in the quality of life and standard of living of the population.
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The monthly survey of households also found expectations for their standard of living over the next 12 months declined for the fourth month running, reaching the lowest point since January 2015.
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"His Majesty was a tireless champion of his country's development and demonstrated unflagging devotion to improving the standard of living of the Thai people," Obama said in a White House statement.
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Others hesitate because of concerns over the bureaucratic regime, the lower standard of living in traffic-clogged Tehran and restrictions enforced by the "morality police" on Islamic dress and behavior codes.
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I'm a certified accountant and financial planner, and I say wealthy means your invested assets generate enough income to fund your standard of living and pay the taxes on that income.
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The typical American family's standard of living has oscillated in the years since 2001, with recessions and recoveries having a big impact on how the economy is felt by normal people.
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But those numbers are jumpy, and the 2.6 percent rise in hourly earnings over the last year does imply a rising standard of living in this time of very low inflation.
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Even by spinning off $503 billion in assets, GE apparently can't move fast enough to preserve the dividends that millions of retired Americans depend upon to maintain their standard of living.
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The Machinists Union continues to lead the fight for creating and saving American jobs that improve the standard of living for all Americans as well as workers from around the world.
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"My plan represents a new approach to trade -- one that uses America's leverage to boost American workers and raise the standard of living across the globe," she concluded in the post.
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"The future we want - opportunity and security for our families; a rising standard of living and a sustainable, peaceful planet for our kids - all that is within our reach," he says.
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Ms. Aliabadi grew up in a vibrant household surrounded by artists and intellectuals, Mr. Moshiri said, and the family enjoyed a high standard of living until the Iranian revolution in 1979.
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"The future we want - opportunity and security for our families; a rising standard of living and a sustainable, peaceful planet for our kids - all that is within our reach," he said.
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The American tax code could still do more to reduce inequality, to make work pay, and to provide a basic standard of living to poor families, including ones who cannot work.
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"The future we want — opportunity and security for our families; a rising standard of living and a sustainable, peaceful planet for our kids — all that is within our reach," he said.
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"Withdrawing too much money early in your retirement can have a devastating effect on your standard of living," said Arielle O'Shea, a retirement and investing expert at personal finance website Nerdwallet.
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"When we look at ... carbon emissions globally, they're on the increase -- as developing nations improve their standard of living they're burning coal even though we know about climate change," says Schubert.
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Once the island was mired in darkness that endured for months, Puerto Ricans, who are used to an American standard of living, suffered a major regression in their quality of life.
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During the divorce, one of Jones&apos lawyers said his client was unable to find a job that came remotely close to providing the standard of living he enjoyed during his marriage.
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The future we want, all of us want — opportunity and security for our families, a rising standard of living, a sustainable, peaceful planet for our kids — all that is within our reach.
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Yes, in my view, the government of a democratic society has a moral responsibility to play a vital role in making sure all of our people have a decent standard of living.
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Donald Trump rode to victory on an electorate looking for a better economy and a better standard of living, but the financial market reaction caused a huge spike in mortgage interest rates.
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Simon Baptist, chief economist at the EIU, told CNBC by phone that these cities were able to provide the necessary amenities needed for a higher standard of living, without suffering from congestion.
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"Comprehensive and persistent policy in these areas will contribute to increasing the standard of living for all population segments and to reducing inequality in the economy," it said in its 2018 review.
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Increased debt levers and expenses coupled with less savings will make it hard for baby boomers to leave work at 65 and maintain their pre-retirement standard of living, the researchers note.
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A devaluation is a cut in a nation's standard of living; it costs more to buy other people's goods (or to go on holiday overseas, as many Britons are about to do).
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"The vast majority of people are not on a path to save enough money so that they can retire full time at age 65 under their current standard of living," says Vernon.
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Latinos in particular have a lot to gain from trade as consumers, workers, and entrepreneurs here in the U.S. We all deserve the increased standard of living that free trade makes possible.
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Beijing believes it can't satisfy U.S. demands unless it surrenders its right to national greatness and fails in its obligation to raise the Chinese people's standard of living and increase their security.
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There are now 44 million working-age adults without college degrees who are not earning a living wage and do not have enough income to maintain a middle-class standard of living.
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A generally accepted measure for a country's standard of living is the GDP per capita -- the output of goods and services produced in a year divided by everyone within the country's borders.
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I implore legislators eager to eliminate Dodd-Frank and possibly wreak havoc on the American economy to remember that improving the standard of living of all its residents is their real job.
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However, if you spend time with people who are trying to increase their standard of living, and grow personally and professionally, your average will go up, and you will become more successful.
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In our search for a higher and more sustainable standard of living, accessible education, and a healthier, more forward-thinking economy, it is essential that career and technical education becomes a priority.
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Unless the federal government and the states eliminates these policies, we will find ourselves suffering through energy poverty—a sharply reduced standard of living caused by high energy costs—in the future.
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One cornerstone of [the American dream] is the idea that through their hard work, any kids should be able to go on to have a higher standard of living than their parents.
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If those smaller countries can work out the kinks of economic governance in an M.M.T. world, and achieve a higher standard of living, maybe then scale it up to a midsize country?
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"The world is in crisis, the country is in crisis, and people are worried about international relations, about the standard of living, which is lower than it used to be," Dvorkin said.
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In 2018, HIV/AIDS rates reached as high as 20 percent among adults in poor areas, and citizens blame corruption and a society run by elites for a declining standard of living.
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"The idea that the availability of jobs is the way to solve race relations is misguided," Ms. Jones said, in that a job alone doesn't assure a stable, prosperous standard of living.
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One, Chinese exports to the United States improve the American standard of living by selling less expensive goods to United States that we benefit from — and we don't make those goods anymore.
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In yet other cases, like Greece, Portugal and France, socialist democratic governments have simply undermined the general standard of living of the entire society in the name of building a fairer society.
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High expenses, LaPean notes, make it harder to save and drive up the amount of money you need to save, because you'll likely want to maintain that standard of living in retirement.
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"In recent years Xinjiang has grown very quickly and the standard of living has consistently risen, but even so ethnic separatism and terrorist violence have still been on the rise," he noted.
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Unfortunately, this administration has forgotten or simply does not care that science has improved the standard of living for millions of Americans and allowed us to confront technical and public health crises.
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Households' view on their standard of living also returned to pre-crisis levels, suggesting that they may be beginning to buy into Hollande's much-mocked recent claim that "things are going better".
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Mr. Putin took up his usual foreign policy cudgel at the end, using most of the 90-minute speech to Russian lawmakers to focus on improving the standard of living in Russia.
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Mr. Kristof is right, of course: The past few decades have seen remarkable improvements in the standard of living across the world, and we should end 2019 with a feeling of thankfulness.
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The Netherlands is relatively close behind, and when you consider inequality and quality of public services, the typical Dutch person may well enjoy a higher standard of living than the typical American.
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As our nation's standard of living skyrockets and people acclimate to a shallower level of suffering, it's possible that our narcissism will increase along with, consequently, our stress and its side effects.
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Maybe this proves the central point of Sanders's campaign rhetoric: that the American people writ large, not just progressive Democrats, really want the government to guarantee them a certain standard of living.
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The idea is appealingly simple: In such a system, a government would guarantee each of its citizens a yearly stipend of enough money to cover a basic standard of living, no strings attached.
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They'll need a substantial nest egg to maintain their standard of living in retirement — everything from being able to afford their beloved avocado toast to making rent that meets the rates of inflation.
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"Unlike competitive, confrontational Western politics, the CPC and non-Communist parties cooperate with each other, working together for the advancement of socialism and striving to improve the people's standard of living," it said.
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"The implementation of courageous structural reforms will contribute to Colombia converging toward the standard of living of other countries in the OECD, materializing its potential and achieving a more inclusive economy," he said.
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The General Social Survey conducted by the research organization NORC at the University of Chicago has asked Americans in its biennial surveys to compare their standard of living to that of their parents.
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The latter he defines to include future consumption plans (such as whether the homeowner wants to stay in his house, or whether the retired person seeks to maintain a steady standard of living).
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There are scholarships and endowments for athletes that guarantee a basic minimum standard of living, but this system is fraught with bureaucratic red tape, political interference, conflicts of interest and corruption, he noted.
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"My focus now, and going into the budget, is on boosting productivity so that we can deliver higher-wage jobs and a better standard of living for people across the country," he added.
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Unlike Treasury-Inflation Protected Securities that are solely focused on inflation, SeLFIES are indexed to aggregate consumption per person, covering both the risk of inflation and the risk of standard-of-living improvements.
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If you choose just one, you have to get pretty extreme, like slashing your standard of living to 40 percent of your pre-retirement salary, for instance, rather than the standard 80 percent.
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This agenda addresses five main goals: While economic growth alone won't reduce income inequality, it does mean an elevated standard of living and a fertile environment for progressive economic policies to take root.
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That lack of opportunity, combined with the funding shortfalls that inhibited even the most basic standard of living, has contributed to the massive flow of desperate refugees to Europe over the past year.
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He knows that the system does not work and that the steps he has taken, especially the opening to the United States, have unleashed expectations of change and a better standard of living.
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It varies around the country, but in most areas, more than 90 percent of non-preschool child care workers don't even make enough for one person to maintain a decent standard of living.
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Patent-supported technology and science-intensive companies don't just support good jobs, they also contribute to a higher standard of living by generating life-saving drugs, new consumer products, and faster, better services.
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"If you broaden it, though, and look at things like declining uninsured rates, declining food insecurity, improving life evaluation, improving perspective on standard of living, those things are all trending up," he added.
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The share of Americans who said they were satisfied with their current standard of living — all the things they can buy and do — rose from 73 percent to 80 percent over those years.
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In China's case, the problems created by such an outcome would be much more painful, since it would enter that slow-growth period with its people at a much lower standard of living.
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A nation's economic worth, and its standard of living, is now largely dependent on technological proficiency, services expertise and innovation, which is exactly where the proposal could offer its best long-term value.
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"While the gains from a liberalized trade regime are not guaranteed, the alternative of trying to achieve a high standard of living by following a policy of economic isolationism will fail," he said.
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"The UN has long recognized that an adequate standard of living is a human right," he says, noting that a billion people around the globe are not believed to have access to electricity.
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And if your income is high, you'll need a higher level of life insurance coverage to replace your paycheck and allow your family to enjoy the same standard of living once you're gone.
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Russia's declining standard of living is a trend that will only continue over time and, eventually, the stark contrast between a prosperous EU and a Russia in economic decline could spur internal instability.
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The dramatic transformation of the United States economy envisioned in the Green New Deal alone would benefit a handful of entrenched special interests while driving the standard of living for ordinary Americans down.
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The designation of serious losers has resulted in a lack of confidence in the capitalistic system that has so miraculously served our society by lifting the global standard of living to spectacular levels.
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A just transition would mean that every job pays at least $15 an hour, protects its workers, and provides a good standard of living, pathways out of poverty, and a right to organize.
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Much of the rhetoric we hear today revolves around how important it is to give innovators and entrepreneurs a predictable environment for them to grow our economy and improve the standard of living.
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While lower prices may do little to soften the blow to households who have experienced job loss from offshoring, international trade has raised our standard of living by lowering prices of consumption goods.
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China has seen a significant upswing in terms of standard of living over the past two decades -- though the country still significantly lags the US and extreme poverty remains a reality for many.
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Maybe this proved the central point of Sanders' campaign rhetoric: that the American people writ large, not just progressive Democrats, really do want the government to guarantee them a certain standard of living.
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Russia: The state statistics service has stopped its monthly reports on the population's real income, or income adjusted for inflation, after years of declining numbers suggested a fall in Russians' standard of living.
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Around the Continent, a crisis over the standard of living has fueled protests like the Yellow Vest movement in France, which forced President Emmanuel Macron to bump up the minimum wage with subsidies.
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By some industry estimates, 20 percent of baby boomers, or about 15 million people, have saved enough to afford private continuing care, with many expected to demand a very high standard of living.
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Increased productivity is a key driver of a country's standard of living; Americans could indeed be working 15-hour workweeks if they wanted to revert to the way Americans lived a century ago.
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Other results of the pandemic, known later as the Black Death, was the beginning of the decline of serfdom as so many people had died that the survivors' standard of living actually increased.
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He acknowledged that protectionist forces had placed open economies under tremendous pressure, and he stressed that trade deals must work for ordinary people and help to improve the average person's standard of living.
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Another 67 percent of Americans say their confidence that they can maintain or improve their standard of living is affected "a great deal" or "a fair amount" by the person serving as president.
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"Their valued, long-term employees will choose to leave their companies for other employment opportunities in countries that allow these workers and their families to raise their standard of living," the council warned.
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The stagnant standard of living in Russia continues to be a drag on the ability of Putin to run the country under his system, just as the country tires of the system itself.
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While many Singaporeans, including millennials, aren't particularly loyal to the PAP itself, they worry that no other party is capable of steering the economy and continuing the island's world-class standard of living.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - The head of Germany's Ifo economic institute believes Italians will eventually want to quit the euro currency area if their standard of living does not improve, he told German daily Tagesspiegel.
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He always took sand legally, he said — he was quite insistent on this point — and now he could help provide a comfortable standard of living for an extended family with over 40 members.
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The accumulation of these innovations over time is the mechanism that drives compounding economic growth, which accounts for a vast improvement over the past 100 years in the typical American standard of living.
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Florida and Arizona are inextricably linked in Americans' minds as the lands of baseball spring training and old retirees who hate welfare but depend on big government programs for their standard of living.
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Hell, it may even increase their incentive to work, both because they'll achieve a higher standard of living and because employers will have to offer better pay and better conditions to attract workers.
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"Entitlements are drowning out the funding of ultimately what is required to engender productivity growth, and as you know productivity growth is basic for all economic activity and especially standard of living," Greenspan said.
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Without easy access to payments and credit, those living in low- and middle-income countries will struggle to build the businesses and human capital required to match the standard of living of wealthy countries.
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With our minimum wage and high national standard of living, producing goods in places like China, Bangladesh or Indonesia, where protections for workers and the environment are limited, made sense from an economic perspective.
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I also think if you're talking about younger people with no kids and no mortgage, I sort of think men might be okay with a lower standard of living [that their savings affords them].
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One rule of thumb says that to maintain your standard of living, your savings at retirement should be high enough to replace at least 80 percent of your annual income each year, said Keating.
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If Trump listened to scientists and the facts, rather than industry special interests, he would understand that these latest executive orders will shorten the lives of many Americans and lower our standard of living.
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You know, as an entrepreneur you put your reputation on the line, you put your standard of living on the line, you put your family on the line, you put it on the line.
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Putin's Grand Russian Empire is a Potemkin village: the Russian standard of living has fallen precipitously, and there have been no great achievements in art, literature, science, technology or sports in the Putin years.
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One of the most significant issues they confront is whether, for their own personal benefit, they will pass onto their children and grandchildren a less prosperous nation, potentially with a lower standard of living.
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The Milan case follows a landmark ruling by Italy's top appeals court in May that said divorce settlements need not guarantee spouses their previous standard of living but rather ensure they were financially independent.
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"Ask retirees about their standard of living, and most say it's fine," said Andrew Biggs, resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and one of the chief proponents of the higher replacement rate theory.
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"The increase in perceived standard of living over the past seven-plus years reflects in large part the low starting point when Obama took office during the aftermath of a crippling recession," Gallup notes.
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Innovation provides a cornucopia of new consumer devices and improves our standard of living in countless ways, but as machines get smarter and smarter, more people worry whether robots are coming for their jobs.
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Elected officials should support initiatives that honor veterans' rights and services, and develop new ones to provide a decent standard of living for all veterans, and live up to the spirit of Washington's words.
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If the current economic malaise continues, developed countries will be constrained in what they can do to help the energy poor and it will be harder for them to improve their standard of living.
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Bolsonaro has vowed to assimilate indigenous people into Brazilian society and raise their standard of living by allowing mining and commercial agriculture on their reservations, which most tribal leaders say will kill their cultures.
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It was this model that absorbed penniless Jewish refugees from around Europe and Asia and made them, within the span of a generation, into free sovereign people with a North Atlantic standard of living.
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MOSCOW — The Russian state statistics service has halted its monthly reports on the population's real income, or income adjusted for inflation, after years of declining numbers suggested a fall in Russian's standard of living.
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International sanctions would be lifted, foreign investment would flow and the standard of living, crippled by years of ostracism by the United States and its partners, would rise, allowing Iran to once again flourish.
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And it keeps billions of people trapped in energy poverty: Almost 40 percent of humanity, or three billion people, have access to only rudimentary forms of energy and a very low standard of living.
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Her "plans," if they are looked at outside the prism of the European socialist movement, should be seen as a recipe for dumbing down our entrepreneurial culture and radically reducing our standard of living.
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Why it matters: Detroit typically follows "pattern" bargaining — the economic terms struck at one company are generally matched by other UAW-represented automakers, setting a uniform standard of living for all unionized auto workers.
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To improve the standard of living for working folks, we have to raise the minimum wage and empower workers to fight for their interests in an economic and political system that's stacked against them.
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Plus, I'm embarrassed to say that my standard of living definitely hasn't flourished (I chose a career in the dying industry that is print journalism and it's too late to choose a new one).
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" He argued that this would enable us to meet and maintain a high standard of living by working no more than 15 hours work a week, thus ushering in a "golden era of leisure.
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She could not do that today because the economic system for low-skilled workers produces a wage that does not allow for a worker to provide a decent standard of living for their family.
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Bolsonaro has vowed to assimilate indigenous people into Brazilian society and raise their standard of living by allowing mining and commercial agriculture on their reservations, which most tribal leaders say will kill their cultures.
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While the Trump administration has called an end to the "war on poverty" and the social programs that sustain it, the truth is we need much bigger investments to raise everyone's standard of living.
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His book The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The US Standard of Living Since the Civil War will be out on January 12 and is largely dedicated to putting that claim into historical context.
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Thus while non-London Brits may struggle to see "a resemblance to themselves," in the capital, their standard of living - especially if they receive income from the state - depends significantly on the City's financial health.
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I'm thrilled that New York City is taking concrete steps toward ensuring that shift workers get the stable, predictable schedules they need for a decent standard of living, and the dignity that all workers deserve.
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Catalonia enjoys a standard of living higher than the average in both Spain and the European Union and more self-government than almost any other region in Europe, including powers to protect the Catalan language.
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Along with trillions of dollars of wealth the financial crisis destroyed the idea that it was worth putting up with a bit of turbulence because the turbulence would eventually deliver a higher standard of living.
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Blanchett found that for anyone planning to retire after age 61, the chances of meeting your income and standard-of-living goals can fall sharply if you do not work at least to that age.
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The poll also found signs of broad discontent about the fairness of the U.S. economy, as Americans by nearly a two-to-one margin believe that hard work will not improve their standard of living.
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Even if the most optimistic projections for alternate, non-hydrocarbon fuels are met, which is very unlikely, there will be decades of need for new hydrocarbon sources to maintain and improve our standard of living.
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India's towns and cities are projected to swell by an additional 404 million people by 2050, as villagers migrate to urban areas in search of opportunities and better standard of living, says the United Nations.
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Some kids were like Switzerland, their vast cash reserves and high standard of living allowing them to play both sides, while others were so far removed from the conflict that they could avoid it entirely.
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The fancy bar we were in gave my question some bite—we were in one of the most expensive hotels in the capital of the country with the highest standard of living in the world.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Nearly nine in 10 people say they are ready to make changes to their standard of living if it would prevent future climate catastrophe, a survey on global threats found Wednesday.
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The new budget is aimed at "...raising the efficiency of government performance, improving the standard of living of citizens, and improving the services provided to them", in line with Egypt's "vision 2030", the ministry said.
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Below, we compared what people earning an annual after-tax income of $50,000, $100,000, and $150,000 in the biggest metro areas would need to earn in San Francisco to maintain their same standard of living.
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Those laws splintered union solidarity in former Democratic strongholds and revealed the deep disillusionment among working-class voters who had, between the early 1950s and mid-1970s, comfortably maintained a middle-class standard of living.
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"The world has this image of Singapore as a perfect, modern country with a high standard of living and forward-thinking policies," said Glen Goei, a film and theater director who helped start the petition.
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If Mr. Joko wins as expected, he will continue to face daunting challenges, including the threat of Islamic terrorism, frequent natural disasters, and raising the standard of living for the sprawling country's huge impoverished population.
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I'm reminded of the implicit promise that a Fordist economy made to the US worker in the early years of the 20th century: an ever increasing standard of living buoyed by increasingly sophisticated consumer goods.
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It is not impossible, after all, to imagine a small elite of extremely wealthy people's presiding over an economy that provides a rising standard of living for everyone else, especially for people at the bottom.
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Well, as with many other "top-line" measures of economic performance, GDP has come to be a barometer that is severely lacking in relevance to the standard of living of most people in the US.
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Since the election of 28500, every presidential candidate, left or right, promised that Chileans would reach the standard of living of a European country, with its attendant welfare state, within a perennially moving next decade.
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Appalachia, known nationwide for its low standard of living and economic challenges, could become "the largest supplier of new natural gas in the U.S." It is home to 700 trillion cubic feet of natural gas.
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The neat thing is I think it's the best thing that's happened to India since Gandhi, and if India can increase their standard of living ... There's some social issues there that are problematic, but go ahead.
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If you find you can pay more on your loans without sacrificing your standard of living or your savings goals, it's worth looking into a different plan that could help you get out of debt faster.
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Very few people would have predicted that the world could support 212 billion people at a higher standard of living in every region of the world than was the case with 212 billion people in 212.
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Obrader, who is considered a charismatic firebrand and progressive thinker, promises to increase the minimum wage and raise the standard of living for the 40 percent of Mexicans who live on less than $5 a day.
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"The tariffs, really what they're doing are accelerating a move that has already been under way as the Chinese standard of living and pay has increased," Mike Zuccaro, a senior analyst with Moody's, told BuzzFeed News.
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Among them: When you put those factors together, the conservatives' contention is things aren't all that bad — the standard of living of middle-class families has grown quite a bit from the 1970s to the present.
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In a really strong economic boom — the kind we enjoyed in the 1990s, for example — we should be seeing workers' wages growing much faster than the inflation rate, producing real increases in people's standard of living.
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But experts at the Stanford Center on Longevity have found that to retire at age 65 and maintain your standard of living, you'll need to save 10 to 17% of your income, starting at age 25.
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Despite being well-educated, entering in to the job market during one of the worst recessions since the Great Depression has resulted in lower starting wages, which could lead to an overall stunted standard of living.
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"Americans currently face a retirement income crisis, with too many people in danger of not having enough in retirement to maintain their standard of living and avoid sliding into poverty," committee Chairman Richard Neal, D-Mass.
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If you claim early and die early, you got more money out of the system, he said — but if you live longer than anticipated, you may be at greater risk of a reduced standard of living.
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It's easy to inflate your standard of living when you bring home more money, whether it's traveling more, moving into a nicer neighborhood, or bumping up your self-imposed weekly Postmates quota (we've all been there).
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Eduardo Porter: I read your very interesting column about the universal basic income, the quasi-magical tool to ensure some basic standard of living for everybody when there are no more jobs for people to do.
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Sahar Nasr, Egypt's minister of investment and international cooperation, said in a statement that the second tranche will help spur private sector investment and development projects and services, which should help improve people's standard of living.
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At an unrelated news conference at the Police Headquarters to discuss crime statistics, Mr. de Blasio was asked whether people who live in public housing deserve the same standard of living as people in private housing.
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This is an area of considerable dispute among researchers, but the most optimistic assessments suggest that 28 percent of new retirees don't have enough wealth to maintain their standard of living, a percentage that's steadily growing.
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For other examples of socialism failures we can look at starving Venezuela — where the oil revenue should provide a Scandinavian standard of living — or study the failure and collapse of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
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" People often spiral into unplanned spending habits largely due to lifestyle creep — the tendency to raise your standard of living and spend more once you earn more, he says, adding that this lifestyle can be "crippling.
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In most markets, producers decide how much to offer for sale as they try to maximize profit, and consumers decide how much to buy as they try to achieve the best standard of living they can.
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The difference between Finland and America is that Finland has a much more harmonious marriage between democracy (a political system) and capitalism (an economic system), because the government has established a minimum humane standard of living.
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In a worst-case scenario where you're no longer around, a life insurance payout can keep your family in the same home with the same standard of living as when you were around earning a paycheck.
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In New York, for example, a working-class family would have to earn an extra $91,000 a year — above and beyond the parents' salaries — to enjoy a reasonable standard of living and without going into debt.
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The standard of living in Puerto Rico is significantly lower than on the US mainland, and so until the 1970s Congress allowed the island to set its own, lower minimum wage on an industry-by-industry basis.
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"I have a better house, a better standard of living," Alcazar said, but he worries that if Trump carried out his threat to kill NAFTA, prices of goods would rise and businesses, including his own, would suffer.
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But animal rights groups and organic food advocates — who celebrated the arrival of the new rules and bemoaned that they didn't go far enough — say that the "organic" label implies a certain standard of living for animals.
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The National Employment Law Project predicts that by 2024, a single adult will need to earn at least $15 an hour, a gross income of roughly $31,2000 per year, to achieve an adequate standard of living nationwide.
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"People [in Russia] are starting to be aware more that their standard of living has gone backwards relative to 2014," Daragh McDowell, the principal analyst for Europe and Central Asia at Verisk Maplecroft, told CNBC on Wednesday.
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"Clashes of that sort have forever been with us – and will forever continue," he said, adding that earlier generations were unable to foretell how society would evolve and adapt—and raise the standard of living for everyone.
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The BC CRR found that workers who start saving at age 25 need to save 10 percent of their income to retire at age 65 at their current standard of living, while Aon suggested saving 17 percent.
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The government is concerned that protests over issues like unpaid wages could spill over into broader dissatisfaction at its rule, as it has derived much legitimacy over the past decades from delivering a higher standard of living.
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While it's sweet that people care about the standard of living for their fellow Americans, many don't realize that a $22019 minimum wage could put the very employees they are trying to help out of work altogether.
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The fact is that it's simply harder to save in the economy today because most workers haven't seen significant increases in their pay to increase their standard of living, giving them any sort of cushion to save.
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The rate of innovation, which we measure after the fact as "productivity growth," determines the rate of per capita economic expansion, which is the key factor for personal incomes, government budgets and our overall standard of living.
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As it stands today, proving undue hardship is notoriously difficult, if not downright impossible; the borrower in question must prove that they cannot meet a minimal standard of living if they continue on with student loan repayment.
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While Europe's high levels of productivity should continue to support a comfortable standard of living and a strong social safety net for much of its population, fewer people working means fewer goods being produced and services rendered.
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Some practice "lean FIRE" (extreme frugality), others "fat FIRE" (maintaining a more typical standard of living while saving and investing), and still others "barista FIRE" (working part-time at Starbucks after retiring, for the company's health insurance).
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In a separate report, NELP predicts that by 2024, a single adult will need to earn at least $15 an hour, a gross income of roughly $31,200 per year, to achieve an adequate standard of living nationwide.
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Or will they take Sawhill's advice and focus on more easily achievable progressive economic policy aimed at building financial security and an improved standard of living for those in the bottom four fifths of the income distribution?
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In one camp are those who feel that Nissan has provided a standard of living that would have been unattainable had the company not opened its nearly mile-long plant in Canton more than 14 years ago.
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Today in America, as a result of unemployment, low wages, a lowered standard of living and the despair that follows, millions of people are experiencing a decline in life expectancy because of suicide, drugs and alcohol abuse.
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"I think giving IoT devices as gifts is not necessarily a bad idea, because some of these devices can help improve people's standard of living," says Jatin Kataria, principle scientist at the IoT security firm Red Balloon.
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The cost of living in Camboda is among the lowest in the world, but according to International Living, "the standard of living is high, leading to more retirees and expats choosing to make this country their home."
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"I do think that my generation had the best of all this technological change," said Munger, 96, noting medicine has improved dramatically during his lifetime while inventions such as air conditioning have increased the standard of living.
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The second excerpt released by the White House: The future we want – opportunity and security for our families; a rising standard of living and a sustainable, peaceful planet for our kids – all that is within our reach.
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"The future we want, all of us want — opportunity and security for our families, a rising standard of living, a sustainable, peaceful planet for our kids — all that is within our reach," Mr. Obama said in his remarks.
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It has been a shocking decline for a country that last decade dazzled the world with commodities-driven growth and seemed on a path to achieve a standard of living similar to countries such as Portugal or Croatia.
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"We need a new tax code with a permanently low rate, incentives to plow those earnings into the U.S. economy, and investment incentives to raise wages, productivity, and the standard of living," Holtz-Eakin says in the ad.
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"There are a large number of households entering retirement that are not going to have sufficient resources to maintain a standard of living and pay medical bills," said Steven Sass, program director at the Center for Retirement Research.
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To discourage arrivals, the EU has turned increasingly restrictive in granting asylum and is trying to step up deportations of those judged to have arrived only to improve their standard of living, not to escape persecution or war.
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Across 12 supermarket supply chains - including avocados from Peru, tea from India and green beans from Kenya - Oxfam research found that none of the workers or farmers earned enough on average to maintain a decent standard of living.
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"Of course, all this has drawn a predictable reaction, a rather sharp discussion in public," Putin said, adding that any changes in the pension age must provide a decent standard of living for Russia's 147 million-strong population.
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The wealthiest country in the European Union with a high standard of living and a strong score for human rights, Luxembourg only scored a 6.9 for gender equality, a 6.5 for progression, and a 4.8 for income equality.
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Wiping away student debt and sending colleges more cash to do more of the same will not give our young people rewarding lives or our economy competitive workers to sustain technological leadership and a high standard of living.
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The researchers at Boston College looked at how divorce impacts the National Retirement Risk Index, a measure of the likelihood an individual will be able to sustain their current standard of living once they leave their working life.
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The 443 General Social Survey, conducted by the research organization NORC at the University of Chicago, asked a national sample of adults whether their standard of living was better, the same or worse than that of their parents.
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With little productive, professional and entrepreneurial skills, they will overburden U.S. educational, socioeconomic and medical infrastructures, reducing the standard of living for taxpaying Americans whose taxes will increase to finance the socioeconomic, educational and health needs of migrants.
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Their economic discontent — born of the mismatch between expectations based on an earlier America, where plenty of blue-collar jobs offered a decent standard of living, and the more cutthroat reality they face today — can seem intractable, too.
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Parma is a genteel, tranquil sort of a place — it regularly ranks in the top 10 in Italy's standard-of-living index — and, in the blistering August heat, at the height of vacation season, it is especially somnolent.
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So he's proposing a universal basic income plan called the "Freedom Dividend," which would give every American adult $1,000 a month to guarantee them a minimum standard of living while they retrain themselves for new kinds of work.
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Of course it didn't have a technological takeoff; but peace, interregional trade, and a sophisticated business and financial system made it surprisingly productive, with an overall standard of living probably not equaled until the 17th century Dutch Republic.
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The foundation's program for symphony orchestras, established through an eighty-million-dollar gift, raised the standard of living for members of American ensembles, bestowed orchestras with permanent endowments, and forced them to develop robust new fund-raising mechanisms.
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Only 28503 percent of respondents said they think that black children born in the U.S. today have "a good opportunity to achieve a comfortable standard of living," while 22020 percent said they think white children have that opportunity.
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It may be freezing outside but a dose of spring-like optimism will emanate from newsstands this week as business magnate Warren Buffett assures readers that American children will have a better standard of living than their parents.
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Billions of dollars from such payments have disappeared over the past several decades, at times siphoned by government officials for their personal use, instead of being used to improve the standard of living in these often impoverished nations.
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As pursued by its purists — Vladimir Lenin, Josef Stalin and Mao Zedong — socialism produced mass death for those who opposed its autocracy and a dramatic collapse in the standard of living of those who had to suffer it.
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Yes, so we get this huge sharing of global knowledge that makes the world a better place and also makes America a better place in ways that really increase the prosperity and level of our standard of living here.
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If a pro-business agenda provides Americans with a rising standard of living and if the availability of jobs gets people off welfare and into the workplace, how will Democrats continue to push the nation towards more Big Government?
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"As the revered leader and only monarch that most Thais have ever known, His Majesty was a tireless champion of his country's development and demonstrated unflagging devotion to improving the standard of living of the Thai people," Obama said.
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EPI's report also breaks down the data on how much child care workers make, and how much they would need to make in order to maintain a "modest yet adequate standard of living" according to EPI's family budget calculator.
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Despite their documented advantages, data from the General Social Survey at the University of Chicago show that over the past few decades whites have grown increasingly less optimistic than blacks about their ability to improve their standard of living.
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"As populations become more wealthy and as the standard of living goes up, particularly in the rural areas, they start eating more rice, which nutritionally is not a very good thing," said Groot, founder of Dutch East-West Seed.
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Researchers at the Stanford Center on Longevity project that, if you want to retire at age 65 and maintain your standard of living, you need to put 10 to 17 percent of your current income into a retirement account.
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Singapore's high standard of living comes at a price: It has the longest working hours of any country in the world, and for a third consecutive year was ranked recently as the world's most expensive city to live in.
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For example, only about a quarter of respondents said the government should guarantee health care and a comfortable standard of living, while the rest said people should be able to achieve those goals if they are willing to work.
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They guarantee that rather than passing on to our children some semblance of a nation on a strong financial footing, they will get a nation with entitlement programs that cannot be sustained without dramatically reducing their standard of living.
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Americans today are less prepared for retirement than previous generations, with half of all U.S. households at risk of a lower standard of living after they leave the workforce, according to a report by the Joint Economic Committee Democrats.
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No one warns you that immigrating to a more-developed country can feel like time travel—even though, insofar as we moved partly in the hope of a better standard of living, modernity was exactly what we were after.
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After all, Chinese workers "have seen a tremendous improvement in their standard of living over the last 20 years but American workers, many have seen none and we have seen a lot of the jobs go overseas," he said.
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Since October, year-over-year wage growth had been shooting up at a much faster monthly rate compared with the characteristic plodding increases that have whittled down the standard of living for millions of low- and middle-income Americans.
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"In other words, by this measure, if you have $50,000 in after-tax income in Mississippi, you would need after-tax earnings of $67,500 in New York just to afford the same overall standard of living," the report says.
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Over the 16 years that Vladimir V. Putin has served as either president or prime minister of Russia, the standard of living had inched upward in the neighborhood, even as it soared in cities like Moscow and St. Petersburg.
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The calculator shows the income a family needs in order to attain a modest yet adequate standard of living across the U.S. In other words, it measures "what families need to get by," says EPI Senior Economist Elise Gould.
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"In recent years, Xinjiang has grown very quickly and the standard of living has consistently risen, but even so ethnic separatism and terrorist violence have still been on the rise," Mr. Xi said in a speech to party officials.
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MARKET OVERVIEW Munich has grown increasingly international and has a very high standard of living, along with the highest home prices of any large city in Germany, said Constantin Graf von Preysing, a managing director at Engel & Völkers München.
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Without it, employers would face an increased risk that their valued, long-term employees will choose to leave their companies for employment opportunities in other countries that allow these workers and their families to raise their standard of living.
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Responding to long-standing public frustration over socioeconomic matters, such as elevated home prices, income inequality, pension systems and a high standard of living, will be another obstacle for candidates as they connect with the masses to gain China's favor.
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When Gallup asked people how they felt about their standard of living compared to others, they cited the importance of liking what they do every day, having a role that fits them well, using their strengths and being treated with respect.
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Or there will be fewer services, so that the standard of living for middle-income Americans—whether it's lower healthcare or less federal support for their public schools, worse healthcare for themselves or their parents as they retire—goes down.
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In aggregate the selfish actions of individual people have been a remarkable force for good, by guiding markets to produce what they want, rewarding innovators who can do so in more efficient ways and thus raising the standard of living.
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The financial goals we have today are nearly identical to those a half century ago: a well-paying job, safe and successful investments, college for our kids, a comfortable standard of living and enough resources to see us through retirement.
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Apartment rentals in major areas are becoming nearly as costly as frothy home prices, a new report suggests, and require salaries well in to the six figures to maintain a certain standard of living while renting a two bedroom apartment.
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Mr. Arevena's Santiago-based firm, Elemental, has spearheaded a participatory design-build process it calls "half of a good house," which allows residents to complete the work themselves later and play an active role in raising their own standard of living.
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"People were flocking there because it has a very high standard of living, it's very beautiful, and now you could get it for one-third of the price," Michael Raucheisen, Icelandair's US-based communications manager for North America, tells me.
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The bigger picture is that, as internet penetration continues to rise in the country by way of smartphones, and people's standard of living and disposable income continue to improve, India has become a very hot and fast-growing e-commerce market.
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Economy: Yang calls his economic philosophy "human-centered capitalism," advocating for a system that emphasizes metrics that measure "human well-being and fulfillment," such as standard of living, health-adjusted life expectancy, childhood success rate and social and economic mobility.
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By making vendors like Cognizant accountable for the mental health of their workers for the first time, and offering psychological support to moderators after they leave the company, Facebook can improve the standard of living for contractors across the industry.
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At a high-level fundraising event in New York Tuesday night, 2020 Democratic frontrunner Joe Biden said he wouldn't want to "demonize" the wealthy and that "no one's standard of living will change" if he's elected, according to a pool report.
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We will only continue to have secure and sustainable access to these crops if the farmers cultivating them see farming as an attractive career that will allow them to earn a sufficient income and have a decent standard of living.
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A 25 year old earning $50,000 a year who wants to retire at age 50 with the same standard of living, would need to save $1,500 a month, invested all in stocks, to have even a fair shot at that goal.
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" Then Biden repeated his earlier remarks that he didn't want to "demonize" the wealthy and added that, though "income inequality" is a problem that must be addressed, under his presidency, "no one's standard of living will change, nothing will fundamentally change.
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In contrast to the postwar period up to 2202, when the standard of living doubled on average in one working career — 2628 years — the pace stumbled to the point that it takes 28500 years for someone to see the same improvement.
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The following year he offered a fair day's work for a fair day's pay, doubling wages to $5 per day to enable his workers to enjoy an adequate standard of living and be able to purchase the cars they produced.
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Under the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for their health and well-being, including medical care, and the right to security in the case of sickness, disability and old age.
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" The United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948 states, "Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including medical care and necessary social services.
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The conservative movement is based in the idea of a limited government promoting free enterprise with a strong national defense embracing policies that will lead to the United States being the strongest economically with a very high standard of living.
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While GDP has grown strongly over the past 35 years, enough to (in theory) provide every American with a two-thirds increase in their standard of living, gains in GDP have not shown up as similar gains in household incomes.
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The emphasis on making elite rungs accessible needs to be better balanced with efforts to bolster safety nets; to improve the standard of living for all; and, perhaps most importantly of all, to narrow the gap between rich and poor.
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It's all well and good for environmental organizations to demand an immediate end to fossil fuels, but if every coal plant were shut down tomorrow, that would have immediate and devastating consequences on the economy and our standard of living.
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While they all want a better standard of living, some are furious at Mr. Macron for what they see as unjust tax policies that help the rich but do nothing for the poor, and they want him out of office.
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I've long seen a strain of thinking that residents of rural areas, with their failing infrastructure, closing health centers and diminishing jobs, should simply leave, pick up and move to cities for more opportunities and a higher standard of living.
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Democrats are still struggling — and they are working diligently and earnestly on this — to encapsulate and communicate what they offer people in America who perhaps have jobs but do not have the security and standard of living they want and deserve.
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According the National Institute on Retirement Security, 62 percent of working households age 55-64 have retirement savings less than one times their annual income, which is far below what they will need to maintain their standard of living in retirement.
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The judges said in a written verdict that getting married was "an act of freedom and personal responsibility", that it should not be seen as "a definitive settlement" and that alimony should not be based on any previous "standard of living".
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Supporters of the shift say this tiny South American nation, which has low crime, a high standard of living and political stability, is now an ideal laboratory for what the future of drug policy in the region could look like.
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" Arthur Miller, Saul Bellow and Norman Mailer illuminated in their works the contradiction that, as James Baldwin put it, Americans were "afflicted by the world's highest standard of living and what is probably the world's most bewilderingly empty way of life.
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A little more than half of working-age households are at risk of being unable to maintain their current standard of living in retirement, according to the National Retirement Risk Index measurement from the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College.
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Clinton's calls for equal pay, child care, paid family leave and health insurance that covered birth control and mammograms, paled before the appeal of someone who promised to bring back better-paying manufacturing jobs and restore a lost standard of living.
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There have been millions of new jobs created during the recovery and it's still hard to get any above-average gains in pay and thus the standard of living: That's going to be an issue that vexes economists for years.
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But in the long run, relocated agencies' employees would enjoy cheaper houses, shorter commutes, and a higher standard of living, while Midwestern communities would see their population and tax base stabilized and gain new opportunities for complementary industries to grow.
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One crucial tension at the heart of the COP21 Paris Agreement's future success may not much feature in these proceedings: how the developing world improves the standard of living for its people totally in contrast to how western nations did through rapid industrialization.
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If you choose to live in New York City's priciest borough, Manhattan, where the cost of living is 259 percent higher than in Nashville, you'd have to earn $261,2372 to maintain the same standard of living you could get for $150,000 in Tennessee.
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In New York on Wednesday, Exxon Mobil Chief Executive Officer Darren Woods echoed Perry's words at the company's investor day, noting developing nations need solultions to generate more electricity as their standard of living increases along with the need for carbon reduction.
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Sharon Giraud says she might have pushed to move to Penang earlier had she known about the good food, rich social life and high standard of living, not to mention how much they have in common with other expats in the area.
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Unfortunately, judging from his record of six years in power, people are right to be concerned that the prime minister is less likely to raise India's standard of living than to offer them instead the "yellow flower" of feel-good Hindu majoritarianism.
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"For the typical American family, Mr. Trump's policies will mean that their standard of living will effectively go nowhere, at least during his term in office," the report said, adding, " It will be a difficult four years for the typical American family."
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The banking and financial system has created a world of "the more money you have, the more I give you" while depriving the majority of the world's population of wealth and an adequate standard of living, Yunus told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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"Employers would also face an increased risk that their valued, long-term employees will choose to leave their companies for other employment opportunities in countries that allow these workers and their families to raise their standard of living," the business groups continued.
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The federal government cites these benefits to employers and workers in support of their effectiveness: Helping underserved communities find new career pathways raises the standard of living for these communities and increases the pipeline of skilled workers for businesses having trouble filling jobs.
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Poroshenko and his team also showed a stubborn tone deafness throughout both campaigns, failing to speak to the bread and butter issues that most Ukrainians care about, including tackling rampant corruption, stemming a brain drain, raising the standard of living and pensions.
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"When we say 'standard of living,' we mean real income, which means GDP-per-capita," said Branko Milanovic, a professor at the City University of New York who studies global income inequality and who also reviewed the new report at CNN Business' request.
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At the same time, we created millions of jobs, and many of these were the kinds of jobs that allowed the average American worker, who didn't (and still doesn't) have a college degree, to enjoy a high and rising standard of living.
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And to create the economic regulatory and tax structures that make America the most and tax structures that make most the most prosperous and productive country on Earth, and with the highest standard of living and the highest standard of environmental protection.
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As economists scratch their heads this Labor Day about why the longest economic expansion on record is not translating to increases in most Americans' standard of living, let's take a good, hard look at precisely how the power of unions has been curbed.
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Americans should be entitled to live in a society that invests in the jobs, education and infrastructure they need to attain a comfortable standard of living now and to be confident their children and grandchildren will have equal or greater opportunities to succeed.
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The fact is, Democratic voters believe trade creates opportunities for economic growth and improves the standard of living for American workers – and we're committed to free and fair trade explicitly because the TPP holds true to the core values of our party.
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The bi-annual cost of living survey is conducted by ECA to measure how much is required for companies to set overseas living allowances for employers to ensure that employees are able to maintain a similar standard of living while working abroad.
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Known often as accelerated depreciation, policies like the Modified Accelerated Cost Recovery System (MACRS) have enshrined in the tax law the recognition that investment in new machinery and equipment is a key driver of future economic growth and the country's standard of living.
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If Trump can materially improve the standard of living for the forgotten men and women, he will enjoy the support of a very broad segment of the political spectrum, much broader than any prior leader percolating up from the system of two parties.
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Yet household credit grew by 11% in the period from January to March compared with the same period last year, one of the fastest rates in the region, according to HSBC, suggesting South Koreans are borrowing to maintain their standard of living.
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Doctors are realizing that moving to a value-based/shared-risk type of practice model is becoming a necessity to allow them to continue their professional growth, keep or increase their standard of living and to ensure the best care for their patients.
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Alternately, if you have no invested assets, but are one of the lucky few who have a pension, you would be considered wealthy if your pension generates enough income to fund your standard of living and pay the taxes on that income.Fine.
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A little more than half of working-age households are at risk of being unable to maintain their current standard of living in retirement, according to the latest National Retirement Risk Index measurement from the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College.
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They also projected their anxieties onto their children: 44 percent of the downwardly mobile thought that, when their children were their age, their children's standard of living would be lower than theirs is now, as opposed to 20 percent of the upwardly mobile.
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Brokers are trained to start by explaining how a teacher's state pension works, how the tax-advantaged 0003(b) operates and what sort of gap might have to be filled with savings to help maintain the teacher's standard of living in retirement.
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"Whereas plain vanilla FIRE and leanFIRE may require certain choices — I would never call them sacrifices — fatFIRE allows those who have undergone some lifestyle inflation and have spent some time on life's hedonic treadmill to maintain that particular standard of living," Dahleen writes.
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Having savings gives you the opportunity to wait for the right clients, not freak out if a client is late on payment, set your own standard of living and to take advantage of all the amazing opportunities you'll have from being a nomad.
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Bruni: A few quibbles with that analysis: There's a difference between jobs, as measured by the unemployment figures, and decent wages that allow people to recapture a past standard of living, maintain their current one or count on something better in the future.
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A majority of Americans also say their optimism about the future of the U.S. and their confidence that they can maintain or improve their standard of living is affected at least "a fair amount" by who is serving in the White House.
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Instead of being a great achievement in fiscal discipline, GOP health bills represent a failure of leadership; a historical departure from almost a century of grand policy initiatives seeking to reduce inequality by providing a better standard of living for all Americans.
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The factory became one of the most productive sugar refineries in the country, if not in all of Latin America, and the village was the envy of surrounding towns, which lacked the standard of living that Mr. Hershey bestowed on his namesake settlement.
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Global consumption is increasing exponentially as the standard of living rises worldwide, from East Asia — and a Chinese consumer class that no longer tolerates being the world's dumping grounds for used electronics and recycling — to an African continent with a burgeoning middle class.
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Which means that DACA advocates are arguing that the United States has a moral obligation to undermine its own laws in order to avoid returning illegal aliens to countries whose citizens are considered to have a higher standard of living than many Americans.
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Holtz-Eakin told me that getting better sustained productivity that translates to higher wages and a higher standard of living is a sort of "holy grail" in tax cuts such as this one, but it's "genuinely too soon to know" what will happen.
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With so many unknowns, she's considering ramping up her hair career, but it would mean a considerable downgrade in her standard of living (she recently took a full-time job at a hair salon but quit when she realized the job paid minimum wage).
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This will necessitate large projects to better connect communities, but also focus on small and simple solutions to everyday concerns that people have about their day to day lives, such as using sensors to collect data and improve services improve every day standard of living.
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A survey taken a year after Mr Trump won found that 278% of Republicans thought government should make sure everyone has access to good health care and 60% of Republicans thought the government should provide a decent standard of living for those unable to work.
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If you can get people out of poverty and getting to where the work is and deliver health care and food easily in city centers, we will enhance the quality of life and standard of living around the world and that's a worthy goal.
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We got to record, document, and be able to provide good advice to the government, [like] what direction should be taken in order to ensure a standard of living for Mozambicans, but also make sure that biodiversity, flora, and fauna remain part of these places.
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What reason is there to believe that the resources used to produce the exports to purchase Packards subtract more from the poor man's standard of living than the resources that would be used to produce Rolls-Royces at home or to provide additional chauffeurs?
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In fact, the trade imbalance is a reflection of the fact that Americans can have a much higher standard of living buying Chinese goods at low cost at Walmart than straining to buy goods they could not really afford if they were made here.
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Workers in Britain, many of whom have seen a decline in their standard of living while the very rich in their country have become much richer, have turned their backs on the European Union and a globalized economy that is failing them and their children.
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The Trump administration has made clear that it — and, for that matter, the international community — is prepared to help navigate a soft landing for the Kim regime: a "bright future" of economic prosperity and significantly higher standard of living for the North Korean people.
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The question is whether Macron will bend to the will of the street or whether he will stay the course, hoping to hang on long enough for his reforms to take hold and raise the French standard of living, as he has promised all along.
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" Bernie Sanders, meanwhile, told CNBC on Tuesday, "The Trump administration has proven itself indifferent to labor rights, and apparently would prefer that American workers are reduced to the position of Chinese workers, rather than that labor everywhere enjoy basic protections and strong standard of living.
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While the term "economic growth" gets thrown around a lot, it is the best way to measure standard of living improvements, especially for younger and lower income Americans who have been shut out of the 40 percent stock market surge since the 2016 election.
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If you have 244 years in retirement, a "safe" strategy may not grow your assets enough to keep pace or outpace inflation, which could lead to struggles down the line to maintain your standard of living or manage a big medical bill, Stinchcombe said.
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How will he excite them in the general election when he did things during the primary like promise elite donors at the $34 million penthouse of a hedge fund billionaire that under his presidency, "No one's standard of living will change, nothing would fundamentally change"?
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If I get a job, I will be able to afford a higher standard of living, I will return to the higher social status of the employed, and my family will respect me more — would all of that really be enough to justify my existence?
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Buehler diverges from the typical Republican on some issues, vouching he'll protect abortion rights and same-sex marriage and increase the standard of living — all in a state that sees a big discrepancy between big cities like Portland and farming communities in the rural areas.
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The subtext of some of the curiosity is whether the North Koreans, exposed to glimpses of popular culture or the higher standard of living in the South, might be tempted to defect, as athletes from other Communist countries have done at previous Olympic Games.
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Country after country, where the demagogues of class warfare and "something for nothing" economics have sold their bill of goods to a frustrated electorate, has seen not only a drop in its standard of living, but in many instances peoples' freedoms and lives destroyed.
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That means running unapologetically on the belief that inclusion and diversity is our nation's strength, that government can and should ensure opportunity and a decent standard of living for its people and that democracy should work for the people, not just the wealthy and corporations.
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The difference between Finland and America is that our Nordic friends have a much more harmonious marriage between democracy and capitalism; in Finland, the inequities that are created by capitalism don't cut as deep, because the government has established a minimum humane standard of living.
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Nostalgia for a time when getting an undergraduate degree, or even just a high-school diploma, was enough to achieve a middle-class standard of living is really a longing for a time when growing up in America was all one needed to do.
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The big headline conclusion of analyzing the returns, though, is that over this 10-year period, Trump reported more than $1 billion in business income losses, allowing him to pay no federal income tax for eight of the 10 years, despite his obviously high standard of living.
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The government has tried to disown, play down and deny the recent finding of the Financial Services Agency, a regulator, that the average elderly couple will need to top up their public pension by an eye-watering 20m yen ($185,000) to maintain a reasonable standard of living.
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If 12 billion people is where the world is headed, and if those 12 billion are likely to have a reasonable and sustainable standard of living, I can't think of an ethical or philosophical reason for thinking that the ideal population is anything less than 12 billion.
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A Romanian-born journalist with no training in ecological matters, he secured a Canada Council of the Arts grant to write The Conserver Solution (1978), a treatise that argued technological and policy innovations could lead to an improved environment without sacrificing our high standard of living.
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Large majorities of female voters will conclude that the only way to protect their rights, their standard of living, their children, their health, their families, their dreams and their futures will be to vote Democratic for the presidency, the House, the Senate, governors and state legislators.
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"My personal goal is to have enough in retirement savings that I can sustain my standard of living on a 3 percent sustainable withdrawal rate for a 30- to 40-year period," said financial advisor Manisha Thakor, director of strategies for women at The BAM Alliance.
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"The budget is a road map to a future that embodies America's values and aspirations: a future of opportunity and security for all of our families; a rising standard of living; and a sustainable, peaceful planet for our kids," Obama wrote in a message to lawmakers.
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Although a similar age to my mother, my domestic worker was previously marginalized by the government, leaving her with no access to education and a low standard of living while my mother had access to a high standard of education and grew up in a quiet suburb.
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In the 123s, the largely African-American National Welfare Rights Organization demanded welfare payments that would maintain a decent standard of living, partly on the grounds that these mothers were working already, raising future workers, and partly because they couldn't find jobs that would support them.
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A recent United Nations study ranked Australia to have the second best quality of life in the world, after accounting for "three basic dimensions of human development": life expectancy at birth, mean and expected years of schooling and standard of living, which was measured by income.
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We're looking to hear from folks whose lives rely on this train; who have ambitious ideas and ways we can think differently about how we get around; and who have serious concerns about the standard of living in a borough that has seen such rapid change.
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Putin remains popular with many Russians who see him as a welcome source of stability, even as others complain that he has been in power for too long, that their pensions and standard of living are being steadily eroded, and that poverty is widespread and healthcare poor.
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Study participants, who were surveyed in 2016, also reported whether they were worried about paying their bills, paying costs due to serious medical events, paying costs due to unexpected medical events, paying for retirement, paying for children's college, or being able to maintain their standard of living.
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Today, almost half of black women ages 25-44 are not married compared to 15 percent of white women; a fact, he writes, that's no doubt partly due to the increasing difficulty black men have in finding a traditional standard of living in an overcrowded labor market.
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Even more important, but much less commonly discussed in these terms, the essential element of long-term U.S. power and influence is a growing economy that generates a rising standard of living and sufficient public resources to cope with risks and problems at home and abroad.
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The higher the percentage, the more likely it will be that you will need to spend money on additional years in school — and either raid your savings to pay for it or rack up student debt that could lower your standard of living, according to Bankrate.
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"If you think about what the No. 22010 job of an elected official ought to be, it's raising the standard of living of citizens they're elected to represent," said Scott Courtney, an executive vice president of the union, which will formally unveil the initiative on Labor Day.
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The Democrats must develop an agenda that speaks to the pain of tens of millions of families who are working longer hours for lower wages and to the young people who, unless we turn the economy around, will have a lower standard of living than their parents.
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"The budget is a roadmap to a future that embodies America's values and aspirations: a future of opportunity and security for all of our families; a rising standard of living; and a sustainable, peaceful planet for our kids," Obama wrote in his budget message to Congress.
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If Cuban agricultural products could be exported freely to the United States in a two-way agricultural trade relationship, private Cuban farmers could earn the income needed to buy modern U.S. farm equipment and other agribusiness needs, improve productivity and lift their overall standard of living.
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According to the latest annual retirement survey from the Transamerica Center for Retirement Studies (TCRS), one of the largest surveys of its kind and which I have directed for many years, 45% of Boomer workers are expecting a decrease in their standard of living when they retire.
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"Our only defense against the cheap production, low wages and low standard of living which exist abroad, and our only method of maintain our own standards, is through a protective tariff," wrote Calvin Coolidge, the Republican president who presided over the booming economy of the mid-1920s.
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So, ultimately that benefits the entire world economy and benefits American consumers, and also American workers from the standpoint that the higher the level of our standard of living and more economic prosperity and liberty we have, it is going to create jobs in all of these various industries.
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But in not one of the 226 cities CNBC Make It examined did the minimum wage, even if set at $212 an hour, allow a person to earn enough money to afford a modest, yet adequate standard of living while working a typical 225-hour full-time work week.
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Many are concerned about what the next generation will face: 50% say they expect their children to have a lower standard of living than they currently have, compared with 35% among whites who have college degrees, 43% among the black working class and 7013% among the Hispanic working class.
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CAPE TOWN, South Africa (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - In Cape Town, the slums of Flamingo Crescent and Santini are just 20 kms apart but the gap in the standard of living in these two settlements is being hailed as an example of how residents can actively upgrade their own lives.
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The study was conducted by Manulife and surveyed investors born between 1984 and 2004, finding that nearly 90 percent said they expect to be able to maintain or improve their standard of living into retirement, but nearly 30 percent expect to run out of money later on in life.
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In our book, Blue Skies Over Beijing: Economic Growth and the Environment in China, Professor Siqi Zheng of Tsinghua University and I argue that rising demand for environmental protection in China is an emerging trend that will improve the standard of living in China and increase overall global sustainability.
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This puts the original Andean farmers in a pickle; using their current farming techniques they are not competitive on price alone, and the market rate for quinoa is $2 per kilogram, compared to the $2.60 that the Fairtrade Foundation says is necessary to maintain a decent standard of living.
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Leave government statistics (which almost half of Trump supporters completely distrust) on one side; Gallup finds that 80 percent of Americans are satisfied with their standard of living, up from 73 percent in 2008, and that 55 percent consider themselves to be "thriving," up from 49 percent in 2008.
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That's according to the Economic Policy Institute's newly updated family budget calculator, which shows the income differently sized families need in order to attain a baseline standard of living across the U.S. In other words, it measures "what families need to get by," says EPI Senior Economist Elise Gould.
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"Strategically, I knew I wanted to build a system where all of my investments were maxed out and automated, forcing me to live below my means and keep my standard of living in check for as long as possible," he wrote in one of his blogs, ESI Money.
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The fact that workers in trade-competing industries can lose their jobs or suffer lower wages is unfortunate but inevitable; just as importantly, policies that interfere with the adjustment of an economy to changing technologies and comparative advantages will condemn itself to a lower standard of living that benefits no one.
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Child support belongs to the child, and the child deserves, under California law as well as New Jersey law, to be supported at a level that the relative and respective income of each parent makes possible for that child to enjoy the standard of living that both parents can provide.
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Jobs generate the standard of living for the private sector and taxes for the public sector, and the value of those jobs are felt from the business doing the hiring and those employed by that business's supply chain, like the coffee shop across the street that now has more customers.
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Because he had given away most of his wealth, he was forced to borrow money from his son, John D. Rockefeller Jr. He only had about $1313 million left ($2131 million in today's dollars), and that money did not generate enough income for him to maintain his standard of living.
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While Women's Marchers, student leaders and minority activists are spearheading efforts to register voters and mobilize turnout, it is malpractice for DNC leaders to be merchandizing court filings and discussing legal briefs that voters do not give a damn about compared to their jobs, health care, wages and standard of living.
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The major issue this time around is that just as American workers are experiencing increases in their standard of living in response to pro-growth economic policies, the Federal Reserve is taking direct aim at both the equity market and economy with a dual tightening policy to take away those improvements.
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The basic idea here was that George W. Bush's administration wanted to use the program's long-term fiscal deficit as a pretext to alter its fundamental structure away from a guarantee of a decent standard of living in retirement to one where individuals would be reliant on private investment accounts.
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"Freedom's Fearful Foe" was the second article in "Crisis in Latin America," a five-part series intended to promote President John F. Kennedy's proposed Alliance for Progress, which fostered cooperation between the United States and Latin America, while discouraging the spread of communism by raising the standard of living in region.
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The brightest and hardest workers went off to start businesses or work for other enterprises, and the remaining members of the socialist endeavor slowly saw their standard of living reduced (think of Cuba) and the entire effort eventually either collapsed or, in a few cases, adopted a "private enterprise" model.
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After all, she and Bernanke clamored for years for Congress to get more proactive with fiscal policy — investments in the economy that would boost lagging production, raise the standard of living and take the heat off central bankers — and there's now a much friendlier climate to that way of thinking.
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