moderate-income
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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It allows developers to bypass local zoning restrictions and build bigger, denser projects as long as low or moderate-income units are included.
From Los Angeles Times
“But moderate-income consumers are pulling back and middle–income consumers are being very selective.”
From MarketWatch
“It’s exciting to see more low- and moderate-income households participating in the stock market,” said Timothy Flacke, chief executive of Commonwealth, which builds tools to help low-income workers save.
The financial repercussions can be big: 44% of underinsured people in the Commonwealth Fund survey, particularly low- and moderate-income respondents, had medical debt, with the most common cause of debt being new and ongoing health conditions, rather than costly emergencies.
From MarketWatch
It's critical that people whose job it is to protect the programs that low- and moderate-income people rely on focus on the threats and opportunities that are appearing.
From Salon
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