And consider the impact of this path on the living standard of working families.
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The Obama administration also wants to facilitate economic expansion, encourage job growth and improve the living standard of all Americans.
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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.
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).
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.
And higher taxes have the effect of lowering the standard of living for those it affects.
As the emerging economies raise the standard of living for their populations, people move into the middle class.
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Items at the bottom of the list include improving the standard of living in poor countries, helping to spread democracy and protecting weak nations against foreign aggression.
Seniors would do far better each choosing their own health insurers themselves in a competitive marketplace, which is the system that has generated the highest standard of living in the world in America for all goods and services.
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Just maintaining the real, long term, U.S.economic growth rate of 3.2% from 1947 to 2007 would have doubled our GDP of today 4 times, meaning a GDP 16 times as large as today, In that future, the poor of the time will have the standard of living of the American middle class in 2065.
And something that now happens far away from Iowa can have a ripple effect that impacts the quality of life and the standard of living for Americans.
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Five people could keep working and share half of their stuff with the other five, giving us each the same standard of living as at the start.
These households will arrive at retirement with insufficient wealth to maintain the average level of consumption enjoyed over their working life, let alone the increased standard of living enjoyed after the children leave.
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The United Nations has pushed all of us to think more strategically about the best ways to help raise the standard of living of all people.
It is the goods and services produced, not the paper money, that make up the standard of living.
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How will we ensure a continuous increase in the global standard of living, not only for the few at the top, but also for the many working to get there?
"It's not going to be a matter of years but over the next one or two decades that the standard of living becomes more uniform across the European Union, " and wages in Eastern Europe catch up with the West, says Brian O'Reilly, director and global equities strategy at UBS wealth management.
But the difference between the modern prosperity we enjoy today, and the standard of living of caveman days, is entirely due to the savings and investment that provides the modern tools and equipment of today, from computerized steam shovels, to skyscraper tall cranes, to the desktop at work, to the laptop you take on business travel.
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Tough measures brought in to rescue the Greek economy have seen a massive drop in the standard of living, and it's brought pressure on the interim government.
Wasted in the sense that arms spending does nothing to boost the standard of living in the purchasing country and less than might be imagined in the selling nation.
And the United States has seen our economy grow along with the standard of living enjoyed by our people, while bringing the Cold War to a successful conclusion.
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For many, the death of a spouse is accompanied by a decline in the standard of living.
The child mortality rate, of course, is directly tied to the standard of living that a culture experiences.
The Slovene retail chain Mercator bought many stores in ex-Yugoslav states, expecting the standard of living to rise as their countries got closer to EU membership.
And the obvious question to ask after that is whether the capital and people working in the future will produce enough goods and services to provide those who have retired with the standard of living that they expect or at least hope to have, based on the dollar value of their retirement savings and entitlement benefits.
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Reynolds notes as well that by 2001 the Census Bureau was reporting that the poor enjoyed as much or more of the indicia of a comfortable, modern standard of living as the middle class 30 years before.
The standard of living rocketed upward, making America the richest nation in world history.
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The standard of living for many working Americans will go down over the next decade.
At 3.5 percent growth, the standard of living would more than quintuple in that time.
In Argentina, where this belief is most prevalent, the standard of living is the lowest.
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