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I can tell you this opioid crisis is present in every demographic that we represent, it’s in the affluent areas; it’s in the poorest and the middle-class areas. And it’s often with people who have no experience using narcotics. – Robert Abbott	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The electeds are like,' I got my apple for the day, we did it, we dropped crime.' But can you imagine living there ? That would not happen in an affluent neighborhood. Would not happen if people were paying a lot for those apartment complexes. – Art Hushen	Found on CNN 2 years ago
They were an affluent, middle-class family and they never thought in a thousand years something like that could happen, and while Adam wasn’t taken from their home, it was at a Sears Department store, we aren’t always at home. We are out there in public with our children and there are plenty of opportunities. – Callahan Walsh	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Today, you really have two kinds of racial residential segregation, within large cities, you have racially identifiable neighborhoods and schools. You also have suburbs that are White and affluent, and then suburbs that are heavily non-White and much poorer. – Stephen Menendian	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Go ahead, don't tell me when to go. Your community has done enough, okay? You can shake your head. Our community does not have to kiss the ring of affluent people ... in order to see our curriculum reflected in the classroom. – Di Salvo	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
There are still many affluent and famous people who believe in the simplicity of life. They live in peace without wanting it or needing it. – CLIFFORD VILLALON	added by anonymous 3 years ago
These are affluent communities that I'm delivering to. There's almost no need to not tip, especially because not only is this a convenience for you but we're in a pandemic right now. – An Instacart spokesperson	Found on CNN 4 years ago
We are seeing turnout spike in affluent, highly-educated suburban areas – precisely the kinds of places where the GOP has slipped since 2016 and where at least some formerly Republican voters appear to be more open to voting Democratic than in the past. – Kyle Kondik	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
The affluent people just take everything from poor people, in the long-term I want Hong Kong to become an equal society. – Lou Tit-Man	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
People should be given just as much access as somebody in an affluent neighborhood, our recommendation was how to bring scooters into the neighborhood in a thoughtful way that would encourage ridership. – Fernando Pujals	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Phone use is unevenly distributed with landlines mostly present in older, more affluent populations, cell phones with younger populations and less affluent populations often not having any phone access. – Chris Jackson	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
The incarcerated fraudsters — who typically bribe guards to acquire cell phones — would choose an affluent area such as Beverly Hills, California, they would search the Internet to learn the correct area code and telephone dialing prefix. Then, with nothing but time on their hands, they would start dialing numbers in sequence, trolling for victims. – The FBI	Found on CNN 4 years ago
In a culture that's more affluent than ever imaginable in human existence, why is there so much mental anguish ? Why aren't we just filled with joy and contentment ? – Lawrence Levy	Found on CNN 5 years ago
It may be that this election realigns the way affluent college women look at the two parties, because Kelly Dittmar are also seeing a lot of professional women being elected as House Democrats, and almost only as House Democrats, as part of this wave. That may well reinforce what is happening with them, i don't think this is just a blip. – Stanley Greenberg	Found on CNN 5 years ago
There is a remarkable variety of kids who become gutter punk, many come from broken homes, or are throwaway kids. But there are also people from affluent backgrounds. This is a very varied set of kids, just like at any high school across the country. – Jeff Farrell	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
People are shocked because it's an affluent neighborhood. – Susan Berry	Found on CNN 6 years ago
It's hard for me to imagine the indifference that we've seen exhibited if this had happened in a much more affluent community. – Dan Kildee	Found on CNN 8 years ago
White people in [ the affluent Brooklyn neighborhood of ] Park Slope virtually never get ticketed for these kind of activities whereas African-American and Latino people in different neighborhoods in this city will get sanctioned — ticketed and sometimes arrested. – Robert Gangi	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
We are certainly not saying that all affluent parents do this, or even that most do. But there is a sizable and vocal minority of parents who do not just bail their kids out but do it repeatedly and do it in very inappropriate circumstances, so these are the kids who then start to believe, and rightfully so, I'm not getting caught and even if I do, nothing's going to happen to me. – Suniya Luthar	Found on CNN 8 years ago
There is an extreme disparity when it comes to treating HIV and AIDS, it's critical, when we talk about ending the epidemic, to not just to talk about the science. These are people who are incredibly vulnerable as it relates to all aspects of society. In contrast, more affluent HIV positive people — specifically gay white men — are able to access care, they have jobs, they have homes, they have access to life's basic necessities that many do not. – Anthony Hayes	Found on CNN 8 years ago
It tells me that obviously there is a sense on the part of the black middle class and the black affluent that suburban neighborhoods are not welcoming environments or, even at that income level, they're not able to get the mortgage loans they would need to move into those neighborhoods. – Marc Levine	Found on CNN 8 years ago
I guess I was simply a brown face in an affluent neighborhood. – Police Chief Debra Walthall Bland	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
We're seeing a lot of affluent newcomers looking to buy high-purchase price homes, now we can actually service any mortgage amount. – Christine Shisler	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
If you happen to be in an affluent community, there's a lot more money for the schools, better facilities, everything. All that does is perpetuate the situation, wouldn't it make more sense to put the money in a pot and redistribute it throughout the country so that public schools are equal, whether you're in a poor area or a wealthy area? – Ben Carson	Found on CNN 8 years ago

I can tell you this opioid crisis is present in every demographic that we represent, it’s in the affluent areas; it’s in the poorest and the middle-class areas. And it’s often with people who have no experience using narcotics.

– Robert Abbott

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The electeds are like,' I got my apple for the day, we did it, we dropped crime.' But can you imagine living there ? That would not happen in an affluent neighborhood. Would not happen if people were paying a lot for those apartment complexes.

– Art Hushen

Found on CNN
2 years ago

They were an affluent, middle-class family and they never thought in a thousand years something like that could happen, and while Adam wasn’t taken from their home, it was at a Sears Department store, we aren’t always at home. We are out there in public with our children and there are plenty of opportunities.

– Callahan Walsh

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Today, you really have two kinds of racial residential segregation, within large cities, you have racially identifiable neighborhoods and schools. You also have suburbs that are White and affluent, and then suburbs that are heavily non-White and much poorer.

– Stephen Menendian

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Go ahead, don't tell me when to go. Your community has done enough, okay? You can shake your head. Our community does not have to kiss the ring of affluent people ... in order to see our curriculum reflected in the classroom.

– Di Salvo

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

There are still many affluent and famous people who believe in the simplicity of life. They live in peace without wanting it or needing it.

– CLIFFORD VILLALON

added by anonymous
3 years ago

These are affluent communities that I'm delivering to. There's almost no need to not tip, especially because not only is this a convenience for you but we're in a pandemic right now.

– An Instacart spokesperson

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We are seeing turnout spike in affluent, highly-educated suburban areas – precisely the kinds of places where the GOP has slipped since 2016 and where at least some formerly Republican voters appear to be more open to voting Democratic than in the past.

– Kyle Kondik

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The affluent people just take everything from poor people, in the long-term I want Hong Kong to become an equal society.

– Lou Tit-Man

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

People should be given just as much access as somebody in an affluent neighborhood, our recommendation was how to bring scooters into the neighborhood in a thoughtful way that would encourage ridership.

– Fernando Pujals

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Phone use is unevenly distributed with landlines mostly present in older, more affluent populations, cell phones with younger populations and less affluent populations often not having any phone access.

– Chris Jackson

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The incarcerated fraudsters — who typically bribe guards to acquire cell phones — would choose an affluent area such as Beverly Hills, California, they would search the Internet to learn the correct area code and telephone dialing prefix. Then, with nothing but time on their hands, they would start dialing numbers in sequence, trolling for victims.

– The FBI

Found on CNN
4 years ago

In a culture that's more affluent than ever imaginable in human existence, why is there so much mental anguish ? Why aren't we just filled with joy and contentment ?

– Lawrence Levy

Found on CNN
5 years ago

It may be that this election realigns the way affluent college women look at the two parties, because Kelly Dittmar are also seeing a lot of professional women being elected as House Democrats, and almost only as House Democrats, as part of this wave. That may well reinforce what is happening with them, i don't think this is just a blip.

– Stanley Greenberg

Found on CNN
5 years ago

There is a remarkable variety of kids who become gutter punk, many come from broken homes, or are throwaway kids. But there are also people from affluent backgrounds. This is a very varied set of kids, just like at any high school across the country.

– Jeff Farrell

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

People are shocked because it's an affluent neighborhood.

– Susan Berry

Found on CNN
6 years ago

It's hard for me to imagine the indifference that we've seen exhibited if this had happened in a much more affluent community.

– Dan Kildee

Found on CNN
8 years ago

White people in [ the affluent Brooklyn neighborhood of ] Park Slope virtually never get ticketed for these kind of activities whereas African-American and Latino people in different neighborhoods in this city will get sanctioned — ticketed and sometimes arrested.

– Robert Gangi

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

We are certainly not saying that all affluent parents do this, or even that most do. But there is a sizable and vocal minority of parents who do not just bail their kids out but do it repeatedly and do it in very inappropriate circumstances, so these are the kids who then start to believe, and rightfully so, I'm not getting caught and even if I do, nothing's going to happen to me.

– Suniya Luthar

Found on CNN
8 years ago

There is an extreme disparity when it comes to treating HIV and AIDS, it's critical, when we talk about ending the epidemic, to not just to talk about the science. These are people who are incredibly vulnerable as it relates to all aspects of society. In contrast, more affluent HIV positive people — specifically gay white men — are able to access care, they have jobs, they have homes, they have access to life's basic necessities that many do not.

– Anthony Hayes

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It tells me that obviously there is a sense on the part of the black middle class and the black affluent that suburban neighborhoods are not welcoming environments or, even at that income level, they're not able to get the mortgage loans they would need to move into those neighborhoods.

– Marc Levine

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I guess I was simply a brown face in an affluent neighborhood.

– Police Chief Debra Walthall Bland

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

We're seeing a lot of affluent newcomers looking to buy high-purchase price homes, now we can actually service any mortgage amount.

– Christine Shisler

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

If you happen to be in an affluent community, there's a lot more money for the schools, better facilities, everything. All that does is perpetuate the situation, wouldn't it make more sense to put the money in a pot and redistribute it throughout the country so that public schools are equal, whether you're in a poor area or a wealthy area?

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN
8 years ago

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