The result is to shift the tax burden to lower-income groups.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slow-Motion Solutions] Reference

Within New Orleans the majority of households are lower-income.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bill Quigley: Katrina Pain Index 2010 New Orleans -- Five Years Later] Reference

An exception: a new prescription-drug plan for lower-income patients.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Next Beltway Battle] Reference

The terrible terriers are popular mainly among lower-income urbanites.    From Wordnik.com.  ['American' Pit Bulls: Off With Their Heads] Reference

It would have preserved some of Bush's tax cuts for lower-income people.    From Wordnik.com.  [FactChecking Biden-Palin Debate] Reference

Free or low-cost legal assistance is often available for lower-income people.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jason Alderman: Accidents Happen: Get Your Affairs in Order] Reference

I would love to do more urban housing, for middle - and lower-income residents.    From Wordnik.com.  [Master Builder] Reference

• Provides subsidies to help many lower-income Americans afford health insurance.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Geyman: Hijacked: Stolen Health Care Reform V] Reference

• Starting in 2014, expands Medicaid to cover 16 million more lower-income people.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Geyman: Hijacked: Stolen Health Care Reform V] Reference

Some deficit cutters will promise that lower-income people will not see benefit cuts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Richard (RJ) Eskow: Come on Down -- It's Time to Play "Social Security Survivor"!] Reference

(Remember, the wealthy save most of their after-tax income, lower-income Americans spend it.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert Reich: The Jobs Emergency] Reference

Should there be welfare for lower-income retirees who take lump sums and then run out of money?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Star Wars And Social Security] Reference

Clinton brags that the '91 legislative session cut taxes for lower-income and middle-class taxpayers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bold Plans--And Trims On The Edges] Reference

Affordability: The House bill generally makes health insurance more affordable for lower-income Americans.    From Wordnik.com.  [Health-care reform: Senate passes health-care overhaul] Reference

Staying power matters big time, too -- and higher-income people have more of it than lower-income people do.    From Wordnik.com.  [SOCIAL SECURITY: A DARING LEAP] Reference

I would recommend limiting the availability of the subsidy to smaller mortgages or lower-income buyers or both.    From Wordnik.com.  [Housing policy must be set on sustainable basis] Reference

Earned-income tax credit: Congress has ordered a study of why so few lower-income working parents take this credit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Surprises From Uncle Sam] Reference

Time and again, middle-income and lower-income Americans have been unable to get credit on consumer-oriented, fair terms.    From Wordnik.com.  [David M. Abromowitz: Shirley Sherrod: Beyond the Media Circus, Lessons for Economic Progress] Reference

You're swapping benefits skewed toward lower-income people for investment opportunities skewed toward higher-income people.    From Wordnik.com.  [SOCIAL SECURITY: A DARING LEAP] Reference

Others point out that lower-income groups have suffered disproportionately, which could curb Democratic turnout in November.    From Wordnik.com.  [FLORIDA: THE SWIRLING WINDS OF POLITICS] Reference

(With an individual mandate to make sure everyone gets in the pool, and subsidies to help lower-income consumers pay for it.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Health-care summit: the two big arguments] Reference

The campaign's internal polls showed that those lower-income swing voters in industrial states had not forgotten about Wright.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great Debates] Reference

What they show is that lower-income people tend to rent their homes and have higher "financial obligations" than those who own.    From Wordnik.com.  [We’ve Still Got Room to Spend] Reference

"We must ensure that lower-income Americans get the help they need to have dignity and peace of mind in their retirement," he added.    From Wordnik.com.  [SOCIAL SECURITY: A DARING LEAP] Reference

As the very lucky son of poor immigrants, I am also deeply concerned about preserving the social safety net for lower-income families.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tax Aversion Syndrome and Our Deficit Future] Reference

Leadership contender to publish study showing party lost six votes from lower-income bracket for every vote lost in professional class.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ed Miliband: Loss of less-affluent voters cost Labour the election] Reference

Although unemployment is at a record low, resentment toward the new arrivals is simmering -- particularly among lower-income young men.    From Wordnik.com.  [Austria's Power Player] Reference

But only about three quarters of those eligible receive the EITC; you have to apply for it, and many lower-income workers fail to do so.    From Wordnik.com.  [Between The Lines, Online: Whacking The Waitresses] Reference

In lower-income homes, for instance, kids watch more and are more likely to have TV in their bedrooms, a practice pediatricians discourage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Guilt Free TV] Reference

In small industrial cities like Huntington Park, Wilmington, Vernon, and Bell, these people are mostly lower-income, working class Latinas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Toxic Tours Of Los Angeles] Reference

A national sales or value-added tax would fall disproportionately on lower-income people who spend everything (or almost everything) they make.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE FIX IS IN] Reference

It's true that certain groups of individuals were allowed to take on unreasonable levels of debt — mainly speculators and lower-income people.    From Wordnik.com.  [We’ve Still Got Room to Spend] Reference

But, as with HSAs, they'd almost certainly tempt small employers to drop their own plans and push their lower-income workers onto the public rolls.    From Wordnik.com.  [BAD MEDICINE] Reference

Higher-paid people, by definition, would have bigger private Social Security accounts and less need for annuity income than lower-income people would.    From Wordnik.com.  [SOCIAL SECURITY: A DARING LEAP] Reference