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Are they seriously prepared to inflict more pain on the middle class because they refuse to ask anything more of those at the very top?

At a university in Florida, Obama said the growing financial divide between rich and middle class Americans needs to be addressed.

Each campaign maintains its opponent is out to destroy fairness and the American dream of a strong and prosperous middle class.

Senator Amy Klobuchar, a Michigan Democrat, said the Americans at all levels but notably the middle class continue to struggle.

One: we've got to extend the tax cuts for the middle class that are set to expire at the end of the month.

She was born in 1951, into a middle-class family in Santiago, the youngest of two siblings (her elder brother is no longer alive).

Even middle - class consumers in the U. S. are beginning to kick against the runaway prices .

I am not sure how much faith we should put into the fact that most people were students, white collar and middle-class.

In political speeches and in the media, the future of the middle class is often used as a stand-in for the future of America.

He just happened to have been born into an upper-middle-class American family that had the resources to send him to a private school.

Adam Smith, who described Britain as a nation of shopkeepers, had a keen sense of what could be expected of the middle class.

The United States' yawning income gap between the middle class and the top percentile isn't unique. It's part of a global phenomenon.

Inside the NEN, "we call it a revolution in middle-class aspirations, " says Laura Parkin, the network's executive director.

Real estate investor Dave Lindahl drives a Ford Explorer and says his middle-class neighbors would be shocked to learn how much he's worth.

It was one of the most sweeping indictments of American capitalism ever drawn by a middle-class group.

Sustainable democracy, she feels, is possible only after a strong middle class has emerged.

Everything else about her history, however, suggests that marriage counseling was bound to be a middle-class affair.

A new middle class is gradually emerging among Muslims, and with it a group of younger leaders who see Britain as their future.

Perhaps a worthy cause, but not the sort of thing on which one builds a middle class.

Once upon a time America was a middle-class nation, in which the super-elite's income was no big deal.

The names of the mummies have not been determined, but the tomb is thought to be that of a middle-class official.

Lu said the package "is not the be all and end all" ; Americans also need middle-class tax cuts and health care.

Half a century ago, the prosperity of America's middle class was one of democratic capitalism's greatest triumphs.

We were all middle-class kids from the Midwest, "Hotel California" was our interpretation of the high life in Los Angeles.

The move aims at ensuring millionaires pay a minimum rate of tax that at least matches that of middle-class families.

one person in two in what had been a broadly middle-class society found themselves below the poverty line.

But this risk is often overstated; a middle-class second marriage has only 3% more risk than a first marriage.

We've got to rebuild this economy and the sense of security that middle class has felt slipping away for years.

Self employment can yield the middle class lifestyle but often requires years of working 60 or more hours a week to do so.

A strong, literate, wealthy middle class that wants to stay that way tends to be a check on the abuse of political power.

How to maintain a stable middle class amid sweeping technological change is a problem the developed world is only beginning to appreciate.

One day, perhaps, an educated middle class may emerge to call for more accountability and a bigger slice of the wealth.

Just as the housing bubble papered over the troubles of the middle class, it also hid, for a time, the declining prospects of many men.

She had understood that the cost of democracy is the price the poor pay in the delay of their entry into the middle class.

I hated to give up the middle-class tax cut, but with the deficit numbers worse, there was no choice.

In a recent column on the senior-citizen lobby, I noted that Social Security is often "middle-class welfare" that bleeds the country.

And yes, we are a middle-class family who raised our children to be grateful for the lives we live and not have such a sense of entitlement.

Russia appears to be rising from the economic doldrums and a new Russian middle class is beginning to emerge.

This time, middle-class residents have been caught up in them. And Mrs Hill was the sixth person killed within a single 24-hour period.

She said the Democrats instead want to steer personal tax cuts to middle-class Americans.

China's middle class may be booming, but a majority of respondents to a recent survey said they do not feel so wealthy.

In Britain, at least among the middle-class downshifters of my acquaintance, we have different reasons for seeking to simplify our lives.

We have done it before and she [Hillary] will lead us in doing in again in rebuilding the middle class life, " he said. "

It's not just tuition fees, it's living cost as well, unaffordable for our middle-class state, but look, we have no one to talk it to them.

Mr. Obama could and should be hammering Republicans for trying to hold the middle class hostage to secure tax cuts for the wealthy.

An expanding middle class in China has brought with it a sharp increase in dog ownership, as well as greater awareness of animal rights.

To Quinn, who grew up in a middle-class, blue-collar Connecticut household, the foods of Europe were a revelation.

It was the first call to arms, and it took place in an unpretentious white middle-class house half a mile from Spengler's office.

I might not agree with him, but he was probably speaking for a fast growing number of middle-class Chinese.

Middle-class women had been relieved of housework and left with a good deal of free time on their hands.

The rally appeared to be part of a growing trend in China, as well-educated, middle-class citizens complain about environmental hazards.

They appeared to be middle class; one was accompanied by his child.

As a spiritual aristocrat, he has no truck with the complacent notions of progress and conquest of a Whiggish middle class.

The result is a middle class more vulnerable to hardship and insecurity than is often grasped.

His major subjects are the domestic life of the American middle-class and its attendant rituals marriage, sex, child-rearing, and divorce.

The growing Chinese middle class means there is no shortage of parents willing to pay $2, 200 a year for tuition of two hours a week.

The "Affluent Middle Class Farmer" Social Class : It was one of the social classes classified in Chinese countryside in 1950s.

A middle-class society may be a little less easy to control.

Whatever you think of these three white, middle-class, middle-aged men with their schoolboy humour, all three are smart.

Is it (A) to help spur the economy, (B) to help homeowners pay their mortgages, (C) to help middle class face financial hardship?

Like many middle-class families, Cortney Munnaand her mother began the college selection process with a grim determination.

He made a study of the position of the middle class in Britain.

And I think that the fundamentals of the economy have to be measured by whether or not the middle class is getting a fair shake.

Growing up in a strict middle-class home in Mumbai, India, Bachchan was a top student.

Moderate middle-class swing voters, and wealthy Wall Street Democrats may not like the edges of these demonstrators.

Jennifer and her two younger brothers were raised in a middle-class suburb of Detroit by her mother and stepfather.

He sounds so dispassionate and bloodless that his quest and his abandonment of his own middle-class life are almost unintelligible.

It was middle class matrons, the sort who dressed up to go shopping, who missed the deference shown by traditional grocers.

The only realistic solution is to subsidize the poor by charging industrial, wealthy and middle-class users much higher rates.

The middle class in this article refers to people neither at the top nor at the bottom of a social hierarchy.

Then they did it out of necessity, as their own Middle Class finances and lifestyle became squeezed.

It was an erotic dance of working-class people by this time, which made it difficult for middle-class Europeans to accept.

This was an instinct that helped make jazz's impulsive energies more palatable to the white middle-class that hugely expanded his fanbase.

The Morningside Cannibals: a circle of polite middle-class people who dined out on each other, with aid of a medical tissue incubator tank.

There was a time when any pop star who even admitted to enjoying books was dismissed as a middle-class twat .

He's worried that its financial eligibility criteria would be too liberal and thereby turn SCHIP into a middle class entitlement.

The growth of a small but highly visible black middle class stirs resentment among the poor.

The millionaires argue that over-burdening the middle-class with taxes to pay for the U. S. deficit would be far worse for the economy.

He wants to let the Bush administration's tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans end next year, replaced by a middle-class tax cut.

And often new jobs are going to a few skilled, highly paid knowledge workers rather than to many middle-class workers.

The question is whether the movement can last long enough to capture the imagination and participation of the middle class.

China is now a marketplace with a rapidly expanding consumer-led middle class with an appetite for Western goods.

'We're responding to the rise of the purchasing power of the middle class, ' he said.

Welcome to the club, when a very healthy middle-class man woken up to find himself closed in a room.

Much of that transport infrastructure is anyway badly needed to meet the demands of Brazil's booming economy and expanding middle class.

I know how that sounds, but keep in mind that a million a year is middle class in New York City , so I don't think I'm overreaching at all.

I suppose it suggests that if your salary is at least $50K, you're middle class?

China isn't the only Asian nation with a strong emerging middle class.

Chinese middle class to see the current situation, there is a writer in Shenyang at the bottom of the icehouse Qileng and desolate.

Tourism consumption has increased for the new middle class of China trying to retouch their roots.

"Middle class" is defined as a self-reported income of at least $4, 286 a year in 2007 PPP dollars.

Tourism consumption has increased for the new middle class of China trying to retouch their roots.

His father was a fireman, and Lau was the fourth child in a middle-class family of seven children.

And a middle-class, well-educated nation like the one you've built cannot sustain arbitrary imprisonment and torture indefinitely.

I feel like the middle class has been almost completely wiped out now. Now, you have got the bottom class and the top class.

If it is to become a middle-class society, Latin America's first priority must be to improve the quality of schooling.

He became one of a previously silent liberal middle class that played a crucial role in the unprecedented uprising against the regime.

But those problems are compounded by an emerging Chinese middle class that wants all the energy-guzzling luxuries that the West has.

And now, I completely get it, you know? It's a sport that low classes, high classes, middle class. . . everyone shares.

virtually no member of the middle class , which includes just about all expatriate workers , is without at least one all - night guard.

virtually no member of the middle class , which includes just about all expatriate workers , is without at least one all - night guard.

The troubles of the nonprofessional middle class are inseparable from the economic troubles of men.

Ronald Madison, the mentally disabled man the police killed, was a member of a respected middle-class New Orleans family.

Regardless of the size of the middle-class, or even their wallets, discretionary spending will remain a fraction of markets like the US.

This de facto privatisation has led to an explosion in personal wealth and was instrumental in the creation of an urban middle class.

It was a middle-class place, full of people who looked as if they disapproved of pubs.

This tax would be a body blow to the Wall Street speculators while leaving middle-class investors largely unaffected.

Warren grew up in Oklahoma in a middle-class family that was always short on cash.

Their explanation was that unrest often erupts when a wealthy middle class is weakened.

But even if the current pace of economic growth can be sustained, turning China into a middle-class nation will take decades.

But even if the current pace of economic growth can be sustained, turning China into a middle-class nation will take decades.

All that's changed as the middle class has emerged and suddenly there's an interest in foreign brands.

His concept of the dance was utterly 20th century, extravagantly multi-dimensional, and not in the least middle class.

The additional fact that New Orleans has upper-class and middle-class black populations has been a significant factor in such projects.

Middle-class protests against Mr. Musharraf have risen in recent months, triggered by his ouster of the Supreme Court's chief justice.

The potential prize is great: for the growth of the middle class in the rising powers of the East to be of benefit around the world.

Her classmates were the children of cash-strapped single mothers, middle-class professionals and the rich.

Memory #1: I grew up in a nice middle class neighborhood in Detroit, with cozy houses, fenced in backyards, and close neighbors.

China's strategic pork reserve is the direct consequence of an emerging, meat-eating middle class and a government determined to feed them.

If you want to be middle-class now, you have to earn it; you can't have a state that creates a middle class as you could 40 years ago.

And yet the current Republican plan puts the burden of avoiding those cuts mainly on seniors and middle-class families.

As China's middle class continued to grow , its appeal as a tourist destination came to the fore .

And Lijiang is dreaming to be the Capital of Oriental Experience tourism and a paradise for the middle class .

Obama comes to the White House promising to pursue universal health-care coverage, alternative sources of energy and middle-class tax cuts.

With its growing middle class embracing cars, China already depends on imports for half of its oil needs.

It was the biggest protest in Delhi since a march against corruption last month drew many, mostly middle class, people on to the streets.

He said: 'of course, Mr Treasurer, you come from Australia. That country has (in per capita terms) the largest middle class in the world. '

The middle class is weak and ineffectual and tends to become dependent on and subservient to the ruling class .

The lure of a growing middle class in emerging markets, particularly amid slower consumer spending in the U. S. , has been hard to ignore.

Some Shenzhen politicians fear their city could be the next to suffer what they describe as a blow to China's growing middle class.

Middle-class families see their graduate offspring on the dole queue and wonder why they bothered shelling out on school fees.

The rest of the money would cover tax cuts that would offer relief for businesses and middle-class taxpayers.

The paper said the portal was targeted at "educated, affluent , global citizens" of China's growing middle class.

Marx, who admired Malthus, was equally astonished by the emergence of the middle class. As he wrote in the "Communist Manifesto"

The DPJ platform calls for an increase in aid to develop Asia as a way of helping bolster those middle-class consumers.

He gazed recently at the 11-story structure, in a slum that has begun to take on the trappings of a lower-middle-class district.

An only child, Ms. Brooks grew up in a middle-class family in Chesire, England. Her father died when she was young.

But like I said, being middle class is less about what you've got, and more about what you do with what you've got.

In particular, the notion that putting more kids through college can restore the middle-class society we used to have is wishful thinking.

The party appeals most to groups whose share of the electorate is growing: relatively young, middle-class urbanites with a good education.

Both Victoria and Albert had been reared by tutors from the German middle class with whom they formed close emotional ties.

"I'm about as middle class as you can get, " he said.

But rising prices for moo-shoo pork due to increasing middle-class appetites and upticks in inflation may be the least concern to Beijing.

Working, saving, planning--these, the daily aspects of ambition . . . have always been the distinguishing marks of a rising middle class.

Her answer was to focus her reporting on the Kenyan middle class as a way of humanizing African citizens.

Even middle-class consumers in the US are beginning to kick against the runaway prices.

One of the greatest changes is that a college degree is no longer the guarantor of a middle-class existence.

As girls, they may have grown up in middle-class families and seen their parents drink regularly.

Even for many members of the traditional middle class, America is no longer the Land of Plenty.

The reality is that 80 percent of Americans worth at least $5 million grew up in middle-class or lesser households, just like Jeff.

Meanwhile, striving middle-class families like the Wangs are unable to enjoy the full fruits of China's economic miracle.

Obama has said he would cut taxes on the middle class and raise them only for those making more than $250, 000.

All those actions would raise income taxes for middle-class families, by hundreds or even thousands a year.

That prevented Pakistan from tackling a profound handicap: the lack of a middle class between its feudal lords and the poor.

"[If] you destroy the middle class, you destroy the working class, you destroy this county, " he said.

As the country opened up to business -- and middle-class pastimes emerged -- golf gained in popularity.

Aside the political and social justice issues, this inequality may mean that the long-desired massive Chinese middle class may never emerge.

Globalization and technological advances began to reverse the growth of the middle class.

Certainly, the rise of an affluent young Chinese middle class has led to more nationalism across the board.

Simply returning to a Thatcherite message would not electrify the middle class, despite what many on Tory right think.

But for a long time, the circle of my loving care was small and, for the most part, included only white, middle-class people like me.

He has been kicked out of the middle class and must spend the rest of his life with the likes of Steve Jobs and Oprah Winfrey.

Some retailers' profitability could suffer as they wait for the spending power of the emerging middle class to increase.

Nor does he mention higher taxes for the middle class, which will have to be part of the solution.

Regardless of its financial outlook, Disney English appears to be a hit with members of China's burgeoning middle class.

Most of the Peruvian middle-class, however, seem to fear Keiko's opponent even more.

But they didn't, and that meant that every year, the money that would have gone to middle-class wage increases instead went somewhere else.

In an age mildly embarrassed by the royal males' enthusiasm for wearing tweed and killing wildlife, her middle-class origins are a plus.

The high-speed rail system is mostly a middle-class concern, because China's new elite are the only ones who can afford the tickets.

News article on yahoo called "How to gauge your middle class status" . Since I love feedback and statistics, I thought I'd check it out.

And the bedrock of that prosperity must be a growing middle class.

The new universities are real enough, though they remain middle-class bastions: very few of China's poorer citizens get a look-in.

All this is breeding a sense of stagnation that compounds the glum mood of the middle class.

Most state education in Britain is nominally non-selective, but middle-class parents try to live near the best schools.

The Tivoli is a newly renovated middle-class hotel close to the centre of Zurich, located to the west of the city's new commercial district.

Lucy was a 17 year-old girl from a prosperous middle class family in London suburb.

As Hacker found, there has been a gradual erosion in the economic security of the middle class.

Tunisia has a larger middle class and a higher standard of living than any of its neighbors.

In developed countries, if the middle class population, accounted for 70% of the total population of the community can maintain stability.

America's hold on global middle class society and even culture is eroding, though not at the expense of the U. S. middle class population.

It's gonna end up, you know, being a devastating blow to the middle class here.

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In the eyes of our top villa, perhaps just ordinary middle-class people abroad house size, or even smaller, particularly his own garden.

Most of my life, I considered us in the lower middle-class rank Nothing to boast about, but we were mostly content.

Now he faces criticism from some of his own middle-class supporters.

Our social contacts were limited to the middle-class side of it, but the farther scene was sightly and the air salubrious.

One explanation is: middle class, highly educated, more open-minded, support the concept of freedom and democracy.

The middle class invests more in the next generation than do either the poor or, in one way, even the rich.

Reaching these increasingly middle-class and affluent consumers, however, continues to be a challenge, Liao said.

At the same time, the middle class began to migrate to the suburbs, leaving the cities to the poor.

For years, political theorists have argued that developing a healthy middle class is the key to any country's democratization.

To most middle-class Americans, the Haymarket bombing was an alarming symbol of social chaos and radicalism.

It made processing chocolate affordable for the masses -- or at least the middle class.

And, of course, there is a whole new set of impoverished suburbanites: the formerly middle class who lost their jobs.

In other parts of the world, McDonald's is an aspirational brand, identified with middle-class, Westernized consumerism.

There is no denying that for some middle-class Americans, the past few years have indeed been a struggle.

Tax cuts for the wealthy will barely be spent at all; even middle-class tax cuts won't add much to spending.

The middle class in the People's Republic has only existed for a few decades and its evolution is not complete.

To me, that's maybe lower end of the middle class, but it's better than 98 percent of the people in the world.

In 1887, to screen the poverty that had begun to worry the middle-class conscience and also to stifle a nascent republican movement.

Mr Rothman and his team surveyed over 350 middle-class households outside China's biggest cities, where prices are at least 60% cheaper.

China's middle class is still small compared to its much poorer rural population.

I grew up in a middle-class neighborhood in urban New Jersey.

with a huge view along the river bank , the prosperous home , the territory of the middle class's glory .

The question remains, though, whether China can create a middle class as broad as the United States did after World War II.

Even lower middle class people are practically living like royalty when you think about it.

"They're going to have to explain to their constituents why they're holding up tax cuts for the middle class, " Axelrod said.

Born into an upper-middle-class Indian family, she spent most of her early youth overseas studying at private schools and colleges.

The administration official would not offer details about the tax cuts Obama is likely to propose for the middle class.

A tale born of the tough conditions of rural life is taken up as a form of middle class entertainment.

An expanding and restive middle class may tolerate Beijing's restrictive governance only as long as the money flows.

Schwab has built a foundation as the broker for the middle-class and would not want its reputation harmed by letting the lawsuit fester.

Foreign investment is pouring in, attracted by a market boosted by falling poverty and a swelling lower-middle class.

But they concede that the party is a risky step for a movement that drew on middle-class disgust with grubby politics-as-normal.

after all, that order made it middle class in the first place.

President Lyndon Johnson reportedly watched Cronkite's report and concluded that the war had now lost the backing of America's middle class.

This shift from a reformist middle class to a reactionary one over a mere two decades should be surprising.

So far Mr Romney is not connecting with the middle class. But he can at least be commended for trying.

As Britain's economy slows, the gloom felt by its middle class has led to the acquisition of a new label: the coping class.

Chasing the Fun . . . A middle class young boy had quarrel in the house for the lack of fulfillment of his worldly desires at home.

And many are fed up with a system in which the deck seems stacked against middle-class Americans in favor of the wealthiest few.

I've said that this is a make-or-break moment for the middle class, and I believe it.

However, before adjourning, United States of America Democrats failed to adopt the motion for the middle class tax cut.

Now a pink slip, a bad diagnosis, or a disappearing spouse can reduce a family from solidly middle class to newly poor in a few months.

He did so by appealing to the modest aspirations of the poor, middle class and university students.

Fashion is only accepted by the Indian middle-class lifestyle in a part of.

The message now resonates among urban, middle-class types such as those at the rally in Lahore. Many had not previously engaged in politics.

But he has no equivalent of Lady Thatcher's council-house policy for the middle class.

But she also confirmed other studies which have found middle-class and blue collar wages stagnating since the 1970s.

In other research on social standing , he found that middle- class girls tended to have higher IQs than their working-class counterparts .

The growth of a new middle class in emerging economies can fuel the next wave of global demand.

Both those policies are probably progressive: universities (certainly) and libraries (probably) tend to be middle-class haunts.

ATMs, which were introduced into the country by foreign banks were popularised among the middle class by new generation private banks.

Katherine Mansfield was born in Wellington, New Zealand, into a middle-class colonial family.

The survey therefore compares the attitudes of the global middle class with those of the poor in the same countries.

As people emerge into the middle class, they do not merely create a new market. They think and behave differently.

As you would expect, middle-class families also spend proportionately more money than the poor on their children's education.

To be middle class is to have licence to indulge more freely in creature comforts.

Middle-class protesters will be frightened back to their homes, and most ordinary Egyptians relieved to see the unrest end.

He and his wife Hui-qing live in a small apartment in a middle-class neighborhood.

The demise of the boozy lunch is one more sign of the U. S. influence, which pervades Mexico's middle-class.

Its middle-class group included the rich (defined as those with over $17, 000 a year), but their numbers were not statistically significant.

Humanity is only a decade away from a major milestone: By 2022, it is forecasted, more people will be middle-class than poor.

But Chile suffered a general strike last week, in part over the role of the public sector in education, a common middle-class concern.

Tom White (Colin Friels) is at breaking point as an architectural draughtsman , his middle class life overpowering him.

The Beijing Games have been a boon for marketers in China seeking to tap the growing middle class's national pride and interest in sports.

This is not just another election . This is a make-or-break moment for the middle-class and we've been through too much to turn back now.

It holds out the promise of western consumerism for a rising middle class, while rejecting western political liberalism.

Jobs at multinationals tend to pay above-average wages and, for decades, sustained the American middle class.

Companies demanded high-quality office space and a growing clique of upwardly mobile, middle-class buyers wanted swanky new homes.