And consider the impact of this path on the living standard of working families.
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The city was founded at the turn of the last century by high-living Standard Oil tycoon Henry M.
The Obama administration also wants to facilitate economic expansion, encourage job growth and improve the living standard of all Americans.
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Eighteen Russians think their living standard has got worse over the last year for every one who thinks it has improved.
Too much easy charity, too few markets and no respect for labor or property leaves Haitians with the lowest living standard in the New World.
From 1860-1906, the US economic expansion was historically unprecedented for a country that already had a living standard as good as any in the world.
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As a rule of thumb, economists reckon that a family with one child needs 30% more income than a childless couple to maintain the same living standard.
This finding is consistent with previous work showing our lives are perceived negatively if we do not have access to what we feel is necessary to meet a reasonable living standard.
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Unlike traditional financial planning programs, ESPlanner calculates how much you should save each year and how much life insurance to purchase in order to maintain a consistent living standard throughout your life.
The N-spot we really seek is the precise amount of assets needed at retirement to provide the same living standard after retirement as that we enjoy before retirement (or as close a match as possible without going into debt).
In order for his statistical estimates to be valid, he has to assume that a poor couple which decides to have a child needs the same proportionate increase in spending to maintain its living standard as a rich couple.
Add to this a dour mien, high divorce rate, chronic drug problem, and page after page of shrinks listed in the phone book, and you begin to wonder whether Switzerland's claim to the highest living standard in the world can be justified.
Americans, because we live in a country that is mostly free (though moving in the wrong direction in some regards), have a living standard that is roughly ten times higher than that of those living in countries that repress the market and do not respect individual rights.
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Previously the capitalists were able to deceive the masses domestically by throwing out a few crumbs and scraps, while the overwhelming bulk of their programs in the last several decades were deliberately designed to directly attack the lives and living standard of the majority of the American people.
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"In five years time if you come back I hope you are going to see better roads, better health facilities, better education facilities and a good living standard for every Ghanaian, " says Joseph Tandoh as he waits for his two fishing boats to return from several days at sea.
Overall, the local standard of living has improved dramatically walking around Dubai or even a moderately sized city anywhere in the region shows a reasonable standard of living, especially compared to a few decades ago.
While the CPI at one time was the measure desired by the public, government efforts turned the CPI away from measuring the price changes in a fixed-weight basket of goods and services to a quasi-substitution-based basket of goods, which destroyed the concept of the CPI as a measure of the cost of living of maintaining a constant standard of living.
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When the music stops, countries living beyond their means must lower their standard of living one way or another.
That figure will climb steeply as more than 2 billion people living in India, China and other developing nations raise their standard of living.
David Rockefeller Sr. is the only living grandson of Standard Oil founder John D.
On the current trajectory, the developed world will end up living at a standard closer to that of a richer China.
These loans are causing me to live at a standard living below the normal reward and benefits of even having a career in Engineering.
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Most experts agree that the Superlative CPI provides a more accurate measure of the average change in the cost of living than the standard CPI.
"People in my generation who are living on their own salaries don't have such a great standard of living, " says Federica Magro, a 44-year-old publisher in Milan.
Am I living a double standard?
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As you might expect, however, that's not quite as simple as a firmware upgrade, and currently requires a 34-node network to keep watch on a standard living room, which is apparently enough to pin down moving objects within a meter or so.
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But I believe in a living constitution that is not focused on keeping government off our backs but ensures that all our citizens have a decent standard of living no matter who they are or what they do.
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The standard of living rocketed upward, making America the richest nation in world history.
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Leaving your future standard of living to the mercy of government monetary policy is foolish.
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