better-off

Example Sentences

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But the independent Institute for Fiscal Studies said the change would "encourage a relatively small number of better-off workers to stay in the workforce a bit longer" and was "unlikely to have a big effect on overall employment".

From BBC

I was a broke journalist for most of my twenties, and the only thing I felt when a better-off friend offered to do that was relief.

From Slate

The city’s better-off residents and Haitian diaspora groups set up soup kitchens and brought drinking water for the displaced.

From New York Times

“This suggests that the program is not only largely ineffective, but that it is effectively a subsidy to better-off communities with the ability to join,” he said.

From Scientific American

They provided not only meals but also spaces where refugees, the homeless, unemployed young people and others who might otherwise have fallen through the cracks could interact with and develop relationships with better-off families, creating a social-security network of sorts.

From Scientific American