the 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.

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?

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Mr Obama said he agreed about the change to help the middle class but differed on the strategy.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

In a city where railway tracks really do divide the poor from the middle class, student achievement varies widely.

And the result was an economy where some made out well, but the middle class too often took a beating.

Sharon: You gotta be rich to be insane, Hol. Losing your mind is not a luxury for the middle class.

In Brazil, the middle class is at last delivering on its long-standing promise of growth, stability and equality.

Women earned more than ten million a year in this remote town, it can be said of the middle class.

Even some among the middle class slipped into jeans for a sleepy afternoon on the porch.

In heavily populated countries like India, even a small number of people moving into the middle class made for an awe-inspiring spectacle.

It would be a state under the control of the middle class.

The middle class is unusually broad, and corporate tycoons traditionally were embarrassed to be seen as being paid too much.

The scale was more modest but the principles the same for the middle class.

But aptitude for investment is only part of what makes the middle class important to economic growth.

If the movie caught the character of the nation's poor, the Indian Premier League (IPL) of cricket mirrors it for the middle class.

If everybody becomes middle-class , the middle-class will automatically be abolished. If everybody is in the middle , there is no middle .

During the campaign, Mr Obama also promised to cut taxes for the middle class and send $500 cheques out to taxpayers.

The planet's real fault line is between elites and the middle class in some countries, and the bottom of the pyramid, everywhere.

The underprivileged child from the crowded slum tenement has many more problems to overcome than the child from the middle-class home.

a few rich people are falling into the middle class, or may even fall into the poor class. . . there is mobility.

As things stand, if somebody doesn't wake up, the middle class is on a path to being downsized all the way to the bottom of society.

The truth is that every single month hundreds of thousands more Americans fall out of the middle class and into poverty.

More profoundly, Marx understood how capitalism destroys its own social base - the middle-class way of life.

Credit is booming, particularly to the swelling numbers who have moved out of poverty and into the middle class.

Over the past two years, we've won a number of battles to defend the interests of the middle class.

The rigid class social system had been replaced by the more flexible society of the middle class.

As the economy grows, the bell moves to the right and as it meets the threshold, a great whoosh of people cross into the middle class.

Curbing state companies means taking on all of the well-connected people who ride on their coat-tails, including parts of the middle class.

In the script has been completed, the actress playing Juliet is only the hearts of work, family neglect of the middle class women.

The president spoke at a meeting of a White House advisory panel set up to study the problems facing the middle class and propose solutions.

Still, New York prices are putting such a squeeze on the middle-class that many people are looking for greener pastures in foreign lands.

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

It correctly defines the issue as being the middle class versus the elite (as opposed to the middle class versus the poor).

Parents worked to enable their children to go class-crawling so as to get as close to the middle class as they could.

International financial monopoly capital, the extinction of the middle class, with distinctive features of the international.

YiNan and her husband LiuCheng through years of struggle finally ranked in the middle class.

The plight of the middle class is made all the more bitter by the concentration of wealth among the super-rich.

But look what happened in Europe after the plague: rising wages, land reform, technological innovation, birth of the middle class.

Every other utterance is about "fighting" for the middle class, "fighting" for jobs, "fighting" against the big bad banks.

Every one of those so-called tax-the-rich schemes ends up taxing the middle class families.

In cahoots with the politicians, these giant firms are indeed ripping off the middle class and poorer Americans.

Those discontents called themselves the Green Movement, drawn primarily from the ranks of the middle class, intelligentsia, and students.

Moreover, retail sales tell a slightly less gloomy story and may be better indicators of the mood of the middle class than GDP growth.

This means tax increases for the middle class as well as the rich, and cuts to Social Security and Medicare.

Even before the current recession hit, the middle class had been hurting from stagnant incomes and declining economic security.

With or without the rise of the middle class, China faces serious demographic challenges, namely, urbanization, or internal migration.

They want the public to support the gutting of essential support programmes for the middle class like social security and Medicare.

Members of the middle class are also more likely to let their children stay on at school as teenagers, especially if they live in cities.

Increases in wages, pensions and unemployment benefits have cushioned the impact on the middle class and the poor.

The middle class is one of the key forces in upholding social stability.

Economists say there is no specific criteria for defining the middle class, though income level is the most common way of breaking it down.

Many governments are aware of the risk of political discontent among the middle class population.

As people emerge into the middle class, they do not merely create a new market.

In the past century, leisure travel has shifted from a luxury enjoyed by the wealthy to a necessity of the middle class.

"These are profound tendencies which strike at the middle class as well as the poor, at whites as well as people of color" (Jesse Jackson).

Netanyahu said Israel needs to improve the plight of the middle class, but stressed that the government must be "fiscally responsible. "

"In six days we can choose an economy that rewards work and creates jobs and fuels prosperity, starting with the middle class, " he said.

He cast Democrats as fighters for the middle class and Republicans as protectors of millionaires, billionaires and special interests.

During this presidential campaign, voters will hear much about the divergent economic realities between "the rich" and "the middle class. "

But Obama says McCain would continue President Bush's failed economic program that favored the wealthy over the middle class.

'Our intention is to do things to help the middle class. '

At issue: should broad tax cuts enacted during the Bush administration continue for all income levels, or only for the middle class?

Communist Party of China recognized that the formation of the middle class is conducive to maintaining domestic stability.

LI: The middle class wants to have freedom of the press, but China has severe censorship.

As these women rise into the middle class, the men stay in the lower class, becoming less compatible.

But "the capitalist class" has overplayed its hand by snatching the American dream away from the middle class, he says.

Democrats have tried to push a compromise: let tax cuts for the wealthy expire, but extend tax cuts for the middle class.

So here are the homeless ensconced in the middle class alongside you and me and the no-name millionaires.

The White House seems blind to the struggles of the middle class.

In many emerging markets the middle class does not grow incrementally, in line with, say, economic growth.

He is likely to be front and center in Mr. Obama's push to reduce taxes on the middle class and create good jobs.

The White House says the Republican plan unfairly targets the middle class.

The middle class had been shafted in the eighties, and Bush had been crippled by signing a gas-tax increase.

She thought those who disagreed might be from the middle class.

So I'd rather to stay in the low class, or even negative class so you can be in the middle class.

Result, middle-class incomes are not increasing frequency of strikes to further accelerate the collapse of the middle class.

This cycle of protest and counterprotest, then, could be the most damaging blow inflicted by the middle class.

The growth is happening as a rapidly expanding economy propels millions into the middle class.

In short, the anxiety gripping the middle class is not simply a product of the current economic slowdown.

If things go on, the middle class will continue to reduce the FN, probably will stop growing middle class.

A recent African Development Bank report measured the rise of the middle class in Africa, totaling 313 million out of 1 billion Africans.

Political science has a very wide spread in the proposition: the middle class developed a healthy democratic conditions.

But increasingly, centrist and right-wing billionaires are starting to worry about income inequality and the fate of the middle class.

As Japanese laborers moved into the middle class, that advantage disappeared. Those jobs moved to China and Taiwan and Thailand.

Tax reduction for the middle class is being urged to increase the wealth of this social stratum.

We drove from the middle-class suburbs to a very poor area of the inner city.

We drove from the middle-class suburbs to a very poor area of the inner city.

Tax cuts: The middle class will get a tax cut quickly, say several Democrats familiar with the planning.

The Middle Class was a child of the Great Depression and the Second World War.

And in truth, technological advancement has probably done far more than trade to hollow out the middle class and widen inequality.

By the 19th century, industrialization brought jewelry within the reach of the middle class.

The middle class expanded fast thanks to jobs in state-owned companies, the public education system and the bloated civil service.

But the middle-class millionaire is not content to simply upgrade the tiles in his bathroom.

But it is less sure that it could deal so adroitly with grievances shared by swathes of the middle class.

And long before this recession hit, the middle class had been taking some hard shots.

The middle class generally holds higher socio-economic status and functions as the mainstream in a society.

Well it's not so bad these days but the cost of food problem is really bringing the middle class down.

The trend reflects the import of cheap clothes and electronics, but retailers targeting the middle class are also buying from China.

Eddie Noulsent is a former government worker and current resident of a tent city in the middle class suburb of Delmas.

The size of the middle class has waxed and waned throughout U. S. history, as has income inequality.

On the current situation is concerned, absolutely impossible for Chinese farmers into the middle class.

But the task-force has the difficult job of reconciling public anger at the very rich with the troubles of the middle class.

But the main question about the middle class in the immediate future will be different: how badly will it be hit by a global recession?

The middle class is now in a majority, 52% of the population.

In fact, income earners ranked in the top 1% enjoyed significant increases in wealth even as the middle class fell into decline.

Finally, the combination of realism and satire is analyzed to reveal Lewis's ambivalent feelings for the middle class.

'The path into the middle class has gotten a lot harder for New Yorkers, ' said Jonathan Bowles, director of the think tank.

No doubt about it, you are in the middle class.

Our economy as a whole can't move ahead if small businesses and the middle class continue to fall behind.

Marx, who admired Malthus, was equally astonished by the emergence of the middle class.

Following Argentina's return to democracy in 1983, power alternated between the populist Peronists and the middle-class Radicals.

Democrats have acknowledged they don't have the votes in the Senate to pass a bill that extends only the middle-class cuts.

Public spending is likely to grow more slowly, and utility tariffs may rise for the middle class.

Extending the middle- class tax cuts but permitting tax cuts for the wealthy to expire on schedule supports both goals.

In England, The middle class are the most loyal supports of the supermarket's owner goods.

Mandy outlined the anxiety of the middle class about jobs, retirement, health care, and education.

More confusingly, everyone has a different definition of the "middle class" that is supposed to be behind this growth in consumer spending.

The middle-class woman of the late eighteenth century had good reason to accept and magnify these values of sensibility and passionate love.

But the quality of growth matters too, as the middle-class protesters in Zhejiang indicate (see article).

Much of the middle class has fled; many of its members have been killed.

Although much of the middle-class see public transport as beneath them, it is the city's only salvation.

BCG expects the middle class in cities with a population below 1m to grow twice as fast as in other cities.

Mr Romney's focus on the plight of the middle class is good politics and could potentially turn into good economics.

Actually the middle class in much of Europe first achieve prominence in agriculture, not industry.

"Beginning with China, the middle class will rapidly grow in Asia, " says Yasuhiko Harada, a senior Shiseido executive.

The middle class, many Americans have come to believe, is being hollowed out.

His books are all bestsellers among the middle class.

It's such a huge market for them and there's an explosion in the middle class.

sports leisure as a status symbol by the middle class is wide- lv recognized.

The bulge in the middle of the range got bigger, making the bell taller, so the middle class is growing even faster.

Her works are famous for the depiction of the life of the middle-class working women, particularly governesses.

China's online retail booms as consumer base grows The middle class in China loves brands as much as shoppers in any other country.

Bill Easterly of New York University reaches similar conclusions, though he defines the middle class differently.

The O'Connors, descended from mid-19th-century immigrants from Ireland, were unexceptional specimens of the middle class.

As hundreds of million of Chinese move to cities and enter the middle class, China faces a huge demand for new infrastructure.

A person whose attitudes and behavior are marked by conformity to the standards and conventions of the middle class.

Republicans took the opportunity of televised hearings to bash the bill for raising taxes on the middle class.

He argues that by joining with local generics firms, multinationals can get "cheap access to the middle class" in these markets.

This plan means real change: It will strengthen the middle class, not just Wall Street CEOs and special interests in Washington.

In fact, China's economic restructuring, the overall system, has already decided the fate of the middle class.

Abolish If everybody becomes middle-class, the middle-class will automatically be abolished.

All it would do is cut benefits for the middle class while slashing taxes on the rich.

Republicans say they want a chance to debate extending the tax cuts beyond the middle class or else they will block the Democratic proposal.

of all social groups, the middle class has proved most volatile, and most likely to shop around for its politicians.

And even that higher income is not enough to embark on the middle-class dream in China of owning a small apartment and subcompact car.

Remember that the middle class is not a monolithic group.

They proposed a new property tax on the middle class. The middle class will probably revolt politically if that happens.

But the fact is that eliminating earmarks alone is not a recipe for how we're going to get the middle class back on track.

Liba is a database marketing company established in 2003 focuses on the middle class families' consumption in large and medium-sized cities.

The middle class's anxieties have not yet fermented into a broader anti-government rage.

In most countries with Russia's income levels the middle class accounts for half the population or more.

But now [without economic reform and increasing upward mobility], the middle class will shrink.

Obama was going to revive the middle class - until the financial system collapsed and the entire economy needed reviving.

"If they mean what they say, there's no reason to delay moving ahead with tax relief for the middle class, " Geithner said.

Traditionally, the middle class has supported meritocracy and upward mobility, more than the elite has done.

This report has argued that in recent years the middle class has surged, not merely expanded along with economic growth.

I think she is a champion for the middle class. I think she is a strong advocate for women, for civil rights. I love her.

The result would be larger deficits and higher taxes on the middle class.

Preserve the social fabric by reducing wage disparity and strengthening the middle class.

And appreciation of the RMB can also improve people's actual living standard, especially the middle class in coastal cities.

Our royalty -- athletes, actors, singers -- almost always come from the middle class or below.

Household incomes rose by 32% under Mr. da Silva as millions of newly minted members of the middle class moved into new homes.

This is troubling for the poor and the middle class, since homes represent a greater share of their wealth.

The middle class's third distinctive contribution to growth is its gift for entrepreneurship.

The main relief for the middle class is that many of its members have jobs in the public sector, which can resort to deficit spending.

Has never seen as many people rising into the middle class. Has quickly become the No. 2 country in terms of revenue for Apple.

Extremely wealthy people live close to the mountains, while the middle class resides in the valley.

And if more tax is the solution, then the middle class could well begin demanding a greater political say.

'My base is the middle class, ' Mr. Prokhorov told a news conference. 'But that's not just businessmen. '

It will add to a lively debate on the shrinking of the middle class.

The disappearance of the middle class, on behalf of the middle class where there are almost deprived of political parties.

Even so, seen through the eyes of the middle class, recent times compare favourably with the period of economic take-off in the 1960s.

Then, teaching was not only a respected profession but also a way in which a clever poor child could leap into the middle class.

Both Democrats say they are against tax cuts for the wealthy. They propose moderate tax cuts for the middle class.

The middle class is more likely to invest in new products and new technologies than the rich, who tend to defend their existing assets.

The middle class collectively holds several values and principles.

In 2005, says the reputable National Council for Applied Economic Research, the middle-class share of the population was only about 5%.

But the middle class is squeezed between sluggish pay rises and the soaring costs of health care, college and petrol.

The middle-class explosion has been most prominent in the country's largest cities and government policies have helped to aid it along.

But affordable Kong Garden, Gong Yuan 6th person, not the middle class, but rich class.

To economists who look at the numbers, college is a necessary, even if not sufficient, ticket to the middle class.

'The middle class has the tastes of the wealthy and the salary of the poor, ' says Nuria Susmel, an Argentine economist.

S B: What are the primary challenges affecting the middle class?

gulf between the middle class and the poorest sections of society.

The middle class's newfound disdain for democracy is counterintuitive.

The middle class is also far more likely than the poor to expect a better life in future.

Businessmen and the middle class are deliberately seeking gold customers.

That made the middle class poorer (not least by destroying its savings) and caused it to rebel.

Perhaps my confusion about where I fit in the middle-class spectrum is because the term middle class is such an ambiguous one.

Now the middle class everywhere is under a great threat.

As incomes increase and the middle class expands, wine is growing in popularity in both countries.

But at the same time, we cannot allow the middle class in this country to be caught in the political crossfire of Washington.

"The growing wealth gap is threatening the middle class, " says a local economist.

Online shopping widened the target audience to men and women of the middle class.

Experian asked people in a number of different jobs to place themselves in the working class or the middle class.

Mr. Smith nods. "The banks and Wall Street have taken the middle class and shredded us, " he says.