But the word implies a customer service model of higher education, in which labor is cheap and tenuous and power trickles up to administrators. In this model, undergraduates are customers first, consumers second, clients third, infants with wealthy …

Young Americans from low-income families are as likely to move into the ranks of the affluent today as those born in the 1970s, according to a report by several top academic experts on inequality. The study, published this week by the National Bureau …

Citigroup Inc. (C), whose international consumer bank is the largest of any U.S. lender, is preparing to trim branches in South Korea outside big urban areas this year to concentrate on more affluent customers, its chief financial officer said …

WASHINGTON (AP) — Is it harder than it used to be for young Americans from low income families to become affluent? Not according to …. Product Recalls. Get the latest recalls on autos, child safety seats, consumer products and FDA food and drugs …

Founded as a life insurance company in 1851, Phoenix offers products and services designed to meet financial needs in the middle income and mass affluent markets. Its distribution subsidiary, Saybrus Partners, Inc. offers solutions-based sales support …

Banks have withdrawn from giving advice to lower level affluent clients.” Whether this can be ascribed to the retail … We also restrict the advice our partners can give to only products that have gone through our due diligence process.” The firm will …

We provide them with deposits and investment services and also lend to them through a mix of products – credit cards, mortgages, personal loans – depending on market convention. 42% of our consumer loans are in the emerging markets, with … At the …

Aroon Raman, a Bangalore-based entrepreneur, who has published two thrillers in the past two years, with his biggest sales coming from Bangalore, says the young and affluent in the city love thrillers that are quick reads. "Books sell like consumer …

However, in more affluent families some adolescents receive $50 to $100 a week or more. To many parents, even $15 or $20 a week is a lot more than they received. But, when they were children, an ice cream cone cost 10 or 15 cents, much less than it …