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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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.
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.
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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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.
Ditto for whether the absolute standard of living of the poor and middle class improves or declines.
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.
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.
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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Heavy investment into the Delta from the oil companies and the government will offer jobs to the unemployed, education to the children, clinics to the sick, increase the standard of living, and help stem the violence and corruption that currently plagues the region.
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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In particular, the questions about mandatory licensing, the standard of living, the definition of monopoly, and free trade do not specifically challenge leftist sensibilities.
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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As many in China remain impoverished, an increase in the price of food represents a significant decrease in the standard of living for the average Chinese individual.
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.
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