moderate-income

adjective

1. of or relating to those with a close-to-average income within the overall population.

Example Sentences

“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.

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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.

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“This is how almost 24 million moderate-income working people will experience the loss of the enhanced tax credits — in the context of family budgets already straining to pay for food, utilities and housing,” Altman wrote.

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It takes more public money from the poor and working class and other low—and moderate-income Americans and gives it to the rich by cutting the social safety net.

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Public health professionals, economists, social demographers and other social scientists and experts have repeatedly shown that the Republican Party’s proposed cuts to an already weak social safety net, as well as other supports for poor and moderate-income Americans, will shorten lives, make the public less healthy and less happy, more insecure and therefore less able to exercise their agency and freedom in a democracy.

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