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| | Middle class - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | In the United States and in the United Kingdom, politicians typically target the votes of the middle classes. | | | The middle class is not a fixed category within Marxism, and debate continues as to the content of this social group. | | | For example, in the United States, a small-business owner who owns her own home and cleans it herself would generally be described as "middle class". |
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| | TomPaine.com - Milking The Middle Class |
| | Every four years, like clockwork, the middle class and their concerns are pushed to the forefront of the national discussion as candidates court their prized electoral votes. | | | The legislation we examined didn’t specify “middle class” in their titles, but the impact on the middle class was remarkable. | | | It will require middle-class Americans to recognize the sources of their financial strain—and act on it. |
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http://www.tompaine.com/articles/milking_the_middle_class.php
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| | Upper middle class - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | This is a very specific class in England and is, in many respects, peculiar to England as its characteristics do not fit easily into the social gradations of the other constituent parts of the United kingdom. | | | Please improve the article or discuss the issue on the talk page. | | | The upper-middle class is a sub-label sometimes applied by sociologists to the social group of wealthier or more privileged members of the middle class. |
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| | The Collapse of the Middle Class - A BuzzFlash Guest Commentary |
| | One of the manifestations of the collapse of the middle class is the increased number of hours that Americans are now forced to work in order to pay the bills. | | | Second, there is a shrinking middle class in which ordinary people are, in most instances, working longer hours for lower wages and benefits. | | | The corporate media doesn't talk about it much, but the United States is rapidly on its way to becoming three separate nations. |
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http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/03/09/04_sanders.html
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| | Manuel L. Quezon III: Too few to go right |
| | An upper class in danger can always summon money to its defence, as well as influence policy makers and politicians. | | | Since the political class is dependent on public support, and since public support is based on a mendicant attitude, wealth is maintained through power which is, in turn, maintained through the bribery of the electorate, which is content to use the corruption of society to its advantage. | | | The problem is, the right has not being able to use the selfishness of the individual, regardless of economic circumstance, to political effect. |
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http://www.quezon.ph/archives/000233.html
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| | Russia's Middle Class |
| | Forget the house and mortgage, the golden retriever, and the sports-utility vehicles so common in the U.S. They're not saddled with mortgage payments because most live in apartments they got for free during privatization. | | | The development of a middle class is too large a task for local initiative alone. | | | A fledgling middle class got its start during the chaotic rein of Boris N. Yeltsin, but many saw their fortunes wiped out by the economic crisis of August, 1998. |
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http://www.businessweek.com/2000/00_42/b3703093.htm
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| | New Middle Class Home Page |
| | Song-O-Matic software is copyright 1999 New Middle Class and Jason Epstein. | | | All lyrics supplied by Song-O-Matic are copyright 1999 Mike Borok, all rights reserved. | | | You retain all rights to all lyrics written by you; neither New Middle Class nor Mike Borok have any rights to your lyrics, and may not use them for any reason without your permission. |
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| | Townhall.com :: Columns :: Middle class mania by Alan Reynolds - Sep 30, 2004 |
| | At the Democratic convention, he was emphatic that "our great middle class is shrinking." Some misunderstood that to mean that middling incomes are shrinking. | | | By this measure, the middle class was expanding rather than shrinking. | | | Any unchanging definition of "the middle class" can always be shown to vanish over the years, of course, simply because more people are making more money. |
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http://www.townhall.com/columnists/alanreynolds/ar20040930.shtml
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| | AlterNet: The Middle-Class Squeeze |
| | Please show your support with a tax-deductible donation. | | | The legislation we examined didn't have "middle class" in their titles, but the impacts on the middle class were tremendous. | | | While almost 90 percent of Democratic Senators received an A, fully one quarter of Republican Senators received an F for their failure to support the middle class. |
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http://www.alternet.org/story/18856
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| | Another Kind of Middle-Class Squeeze |
| | The designation itself seems more an abstract state of mind than a measure of hard currency. | | | Maybe that's because the middle class and the wealthy are more likely to vote than the poor. | | | It's determined not only by disposable or discretionary income but by how it's spent, which also suggests social class, or to invoke an even more un-American term, status. |
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http://www.tenant.net/Alerts/Guide/press/nyt/sr051897.html
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| | Tax Burden Shifts to the Middle (washingtonpost.com) |
| | The effective federal tax rate of the top 1 percent of taxpayers has fallen from 33.4 percent to 26.7 percent, a 20 percent drop. | | | The poorest taxpayers saw their taxes fall 16 percent. | | | In contrast, the middle 20 percent of taxpayers -- whose incomes averaged $51,500 in 2001 -- saw their tax rates drop 9.3 percent. |
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61178-2004Aug12.html
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| | Elizabeth Warren and Amelia Warren Tyagi: What's Hurting the Middle Class |
| | Elizabeth Warren and Amelia Warren Tyagi: What's Hurting the Middle Class | | | Social security must remain secure, but programs to encourage saving and to buttress employer-sponsored pensions are also necessary to ensure the long-term security of the middle class. | | | The federal government has not reported the data for the full 30-year period we have been examining, but looking at the period from 1984 to 2001 we see that housing prices for families with at least one minor child at home grew at a rate three times that of other families. |
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http://bostonreview.net/BR30.5/warrentyagi.html
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| | Loss of middle class a 'crisis' for Democrats - The Washington Times: Nation/Politics - June 01, 2005 |
| | The Democratic Party, the self-proclaimed defender of the middle class, was trounced by Republicans among those voters in the 2004 election, according to a Democratic advocacy group that says the party faces "a crisis with the middle class." | | | With middle income voters, it is Democrats -- the self-described party of the middle class -- who are running far behind Republicans, the oft-described party of the rich," the report says. | | | Loss of middle class a 'crisis' for Democrats - The Washington Times: Nation/Politics - June 01, 2005 |
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| | Lower middle class - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Lower middle class |
| | This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional. | | | Karl Marx used the term bourgeoisie to refer to the capitalist class who do not live by the sale of their labour. | | | Their income is usually higher than that of the working class in recognition of greater skills. |
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http://encyclopedia.farlex.com/Lower+middle+class
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| | Lincoln/Net: Project Overview |
| | By Julie Roy Jeffrey, Ph.D. In a period when industrialization, commercial capitalism, and urbanization were transforming the class structure and social relations in the United States, a new middle class culture emerged. | | | In its arrangement of rooms, the number of bedrooms, the presence, in some cases, of a bathroom, the middle class home did allow for greater personal privacy than had been available in the previous century. | | | Their personal fulfillment came from caring for and serving others. |
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http://lincoln.lib.niu.edu/digitalmiddleclassculture.html
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| | Argentina's anxious middle class csmonitor.com |
| | The squeeze is also on in Venezuela, where the oil boom of the 1960s and 1970s that created a new middle class went bust. | | | A central factor in the stagnant job market is a region-wide retrenchment of the public sector, a traditional bastion of the middle class, as governments privatize services, and in some cases hand pay cuts to public employees. | | | But now, the middle-class pie is shrinking again with every job that disappears. |
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http://www.csmonitor.com/2001/1205/p4s1-woam.htm
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| | POPULATION: Brazil's Shrinking Middle Class |
| | Judges and lawmakers in Brazil earn more than their counterparts in wealthy countries like the United States, which is why the greatest wage inequality "is found in Brasilia (the seat of the federal government), not in the private sector," he said. | | | ARGENTINA: Once Upon a Time, There Was a Middle Class | | | This fact further demonstrates that larger numbers of middle class youth are now being forced to look for work, and thus raising the open unemployment rate, which only takes into account those who are actively seeking employment. |
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| | BBC NEWS World Asia-Pacific China's middle class revolution |
| | Others maintain that this will not happen until around the middle of this century, and point out that in either case, China will still be well behind the US in per capita terms. | | | And the communist government, which once despised such displays of wealth, is counting on a new middle class to help it succeed. | | | By then - or somewhat later, depending on whose methods of measurement you trust - China will have overtaken the United States to become the world's largest economy, thus regaining a position it held for much of human history. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/3732914.stm
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| | middle class. The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. 2002 |
| | Middle class is sometimes loosely used to refer to the bourgeoisie. | | | A social and economic class composed of those more prosperous than the poor, or lower class, and less wealthy than the upper class. | | | ‡ Values commonly associated with the middle class include a desire for social respectability and material wealth and an emphasis on the family and education. |
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http://www.bartleby.com/59/17/middleclass.html
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| | Middle Class |
| | Find out how Congress voted on the legislation most important to America's middle class in 2004. | | | It's a toolkit for those who make, influence and monitor public policy on the state of the middle class and the policies that could impact their lives. | | | Washington Post, April 9: "While Democrats and Republicans vie for voters on social issues, the middle class is taking an economic beating, according to the Drum Major Institute for Public Policy." |
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http://www.themiddleclass.org
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| | FactCheck.org Update on Kerry's "Shrinking Middle Class" -- Still Shrinking in 2003 |
| | Update on Kerry's "Shrinking Middle Class" -- Still Shrinking in 2003 | | | Another indication that the middle class continued to shrink in 2003 is the increase in the number and percentage of persons living in poverty. | | | FactCheck.org Update on Kerry's "Shrinking Middle Class" -- Still Shrinking in 2003 |
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| | Bolivia - The Middle Class |
| | For lack of common criteria, the middle class was defined largely in terms of occupational specialization and economic status: its members were successful merchants, white-collar workers in commerce or government service, and educated professionals lacking the family requirements for upper-class status. | | | Cholos, who were typically bilingual in Spanish and one or more Indian languages, made up the lower levels of the middle class. | | | The wealthier members of the middle class tended to follow elite mores and aspired to an upper-class life-style and acceptance into that group. |
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| | The Emerging Democratic Majority WebLog - DonkeyRising |
| | Or, the middle class may simply believe that their schools will not be better, their health care will not be more affordable, and their jobs will not be more secure should Democrats run the Congress and control the White House. | | | Assuming these issues are truly important to middle class voters (and there is no reason to believe they are not), it could be that Democrats have a set of flawed messages that do not reach the middle class. | | | Either way, the so-called party of the middle class has some serious work to do. |
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http://emergingdemocraticmajorityweblog.com/donkeyrising/archives/001209.php
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| | Kerry woos middle class - The Washington Times: Nation/Politics - June 17, 2004 |
| | Bush's economic policies of hurting the middle class and making a TV reference of his own. | | | Kerry's charges, the Bush campaign released two policy memos yesterday laying out the president's plans for easing the burdens of rising health care and education costs on the middle class. | | | Kerry was telling a crowd of loyal supporters how the middle class built America and how the tax code should show proper appreciation for this when the faint tunes of an old familiar song first could be heard. |
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http://www.washtimes.com/national/20040617-120823-6869r.htm
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| | Ecuador - Middle Class |
| | They constituted a diverse group, often poorly defined in terms of both self-identity and criteria for membership. | | | By contrast, the lower levels of the middle class often made common cause with the more prosperous segments of the working class. | | | The rise of a middle class whose interests were not those of the rural oligarchy transformed national politics. |
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| | NOW. Politics & Economy. Who is the Middle Class? Overview PBS |
| | Sources: United States Census Bureau; Drum Major Institute for Public Policy; THE WASHINGTON TIMES. | | | The Drum Major Institute for Public Policy, a non-partisan and non-profit organization, reports that the middle class has conventionally come to mean families with incomes between $25,000 and $100,000 each year. | | | Read the candidates' records and proposals on such issues as minimum wage, bankruptcy abuse protection, federal regulation of credit card and lending industries, health insurance, unemployment insurance and more in "The Myth of the Middle? |
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| | CBS News Middle Class Blues June 13, 2005 16:00:12 |
| | Despite John Kerry and others courting them with populist rhetoric and targeted get-out-the-vote efforts, large majorities of middle class voters chose President Bush and congressional Republicans in last fall's elections. | | | Two other conclusions in the report could send Democrats into a catatonic state. | | | You wouldn't know it from reading the mainstream media, but Democrats are plagued by middle class blues. |
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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/06/13/opinion/main701403.shtml
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| | Dust my Broom » Blog Archive » Native middle class |
| | A middle class life requires a certain level of economic activity which supports the middle class, and to which they contribute. | | | I would continue free tuition programs for all Natives pursuing any post-secondary degree, diploma or certificate except a BA or LLB; if that’s your goal as a Native student - good luck, but you are on your own. | | | That’s fine - I don’t think we should be forcing people, Native or non-Native, to become what they are not, or have no wish to be. |
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http://dustmybroom.com/?p=1472
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| | Of those who are statistically in the middle class, 13.3% of the heads of household over 25 years of age have less than a high school education. | | | The views are his, and not necessarily those of Liss Financial Services or the Job Connection/Hiring Network.) | | | Interestingly enough, this survey found that middle class households tend to be clustered right here in the middle west as well as the east and west coast. |
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http://charlestonsc.hiringnetwork.com/common/article88.html
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| | Middle class scholar |
| | The development of an economic middle class is the hallmark of success in any mature nation. I think it is possible that the development of a scholarly middle class could represent a similar development in the life of democracy of a nation. | | | I would like to introduce a concept that perhaps many have not given consideration. I would like to introduce middle class scholarship. | | | I suspect that the source of many of the problems we find in our society result from the fact that our educational system is designed to teach us what to think and not how to think. If our middle class citizens are to learn how to think they must learn that on their own time. |
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http://criticalthinking.org/forum/index.php?...&topic=104.0
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| | NOW. Politics & Economy. Middle Class Squeeze PBS |
| | As economist Paul Krugman sees it, the broad middle class society we have gotten used to may have just been a temporary aberration of the 1950's and 60's. | | | The Economic Policy Institute is a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank that seeks to broaden the public debate about strategies to achieve a prosperous and fair economy. | | | And within the top one percent, most of the gains went to the top 1/100th of a percent. |
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| | Middle Class Italian Renaissance gown |
| | Many of the earlier paintings from the 1460’s were portraits and allegorical paintings of higher class people, such as those by Cosmè Tura. | | | This may have been more fitted in the upper class version and slightly altered for the workers. | | | The gown is well suited to middle class or working class wear as it is very comfortable and does not contain the common ostentatious decorations seen on gowns of the nobility. |
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| | Simon World :: China's middle class |
| | While the emergence of China's middle class is at an early stage, it is going to pose a growing challenge to China's governance. | | | Regardless of the exact number China is rapidly gaining a class of people who are increasing in affluence and disposable income. | | | You are on the invidual archive page of China's middle class. |
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http://simonworld.mu.nu/archives/051951.php
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| | : Middle class trash |
| | From an upper-middle class person who is disgusted by you scumsucking lowlifes. | | | The typical college student could care less about how the budget has a chokehold on landscaping issues or how JMU stresses the need for blacks to enroll to increase the overall betterment of the community. | | | Now as most of you know or do not know, that making up the plurality of my visitors, I work for the controversial student newspaper The Breeze here at good ol' JMU. |
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| | Edwards focuses on middle-class money worries |
| | Edwards vowed to crack down on predatory lenders and credit card companies, which he said preyed on America's middle class through excessive interest rates and hidden fees. | | | He also reiterated proposals he has mentioned before, such as a $5,000 tax credit for first-time homebuyers and matching savings accounts of up to $1,000 for workers earning less than $50,000 a year. | | | While Edwards accused the Bush administration of worsening this trend, he said the middle class's slide from prosperity had been a problem for decades. |
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| | 9/2/2004 The Middle Class Squeeze |
| | Democrats in the House of Representatives propose to help the middle class by providing incentives for employers to create and keep jobs in the U.S.; removing obstacles for workers to form and join a union; restoring overtime pay eligibility to all workers that once had it; and raising the minimum wage. | | | Shrinking middle class: The number of Americans living in poverty rose by 1.3 million last year, to 35.8 million. | | | And the number of Americans who lacked health insurance grew by 1.4 million, to 45 million, as health care premiums rose 14%. |
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http://www.house.gov/georgemiller/middleclass/middleclass10.html
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| | TCS Daily - Understanding 'Middle-Class Squeeze' |
| | Another way to look at the data is that there is no such thing as a "typical middle-class family," because lifestyles vary more within income classes than across them. | | | People with middle-class incomes are all over the map when it comes to spending vs. saving. | | | Thus, even if you believe that earnings capacity is given by luck or fixed by educational background, people within the middle class still have considerable leeway in determining their long-term financial status. |
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http://www.tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=082704D
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| | something I learned today...: Middle Class |
| | Many a scholar has hailed this as the first true example of hardcore, and for good reason. | | | In 1978 Middle Class appeared out of Fullerton, CA and released their legendary Out Of Vogue EP. | | | I had just finished drafting a post on LA's Middle Class when I stopped over to Agony Shorthand only to find out that Jay had hammered out an excellent writeup on the band's A Blueprint For Joy CD just a couple of days ago. |
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http://somethingilearned.blogspot.com/2005/06/middle-class.html
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| | European Middle Class |
| | There exist very few drawings of Middle Class people that were drawn in the 1500's even fewer in color. | | | The very wealthy could afford to have their portraits painted and therefore, we know what they were wearing. | | | As a rule the middle class dressed in similar styles as the upper class but could not afford the same fine fabric and trims. |
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| | Locana: The great Indian middle class |
| | Anand titled the post Great Indian Middle Class and then said the same people who condone the rape also bash Lalu, among other things. | | | I thought that the Upper Middle Class was actually more openminded (due to access to better education/better society/etc) - Aren't all of us Bloggers "Upper Middle Class" (okay Upper Middle Class or Just Middle Class). | | | And usually these minority vocal groups determine the political agenda for our media. |
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http://locana.blogspot.com/2005/04/great-indian-middle-class.html
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| | Middle Class Mom |
| | It's my age and elitism and maybe my southern upbringing showing, but a lot of people are just clueless about how to act nicely in public. | | | Three ladies who've been in the public eye a lot recently and one who hasn't so much: Katie, Sheryl, Brittney and Julia. | | | I think of the movie Casino, how at the end DeNiro's character is bemoaning how the class and wit of the Rat Pack days is being replaced by hordes of leisure suits and walkers. |
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| | middle class |
| | the class traditionally intermediate between the aristocratic class and the laboring class. | | | a class of people intermediate between the classes of higher and lower social rank or standing; the social, economic, cultural class, having approximately average status, income, education, tastes, and the like. | | | of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the middle class; bourgeois: |
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| | USATODAY.com - Middle class barely treads water |
| | With personal bankruptcy at an all-time high, it's mostly the middle class that gets trapped: 92% of the record 1.6 million filers in the year ended June 30 were middle class, according to a Harvard University study. | | | The Wills acknowledge that they didn't know much about managing money before they went into debt counseling, but they didn't live beyond their means. |
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http://www.usatoday.com/money/perfi/general/2003-09-14-middle-cover_x.htm
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| | Middle Class Families - Colin Bell - eBooks |
| | Based on empirical investigations and personal experience, the studies included in The Sociology of Gender and the Family set of the International Library of Sociology set out to establish patterns and regularities in social behaviour, and to understand the social roles of kinship groups, mothers, wives, children and the elderly. | | | As increased access to employment and educational opportunities brought dramatic changes to women's lives, sociologists began to look at the effect of women's changing roles on their children and families. | | | Middle Class Families by Colin Bell - Get eBooks |
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| | exvigilare: Middle class? |
| | Or rather, how it really can't be quantified, but is still used as a political tool. | | | The Evangelical Outpost has an idea what the mysterious "middle class" is, and how it can be quantified. |
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| | Middle Class quotes |
| | We are squeezing the middle class, we are losing the middle class, and the gap between the haves and the have-nots is growing wider and wider, not closing as it used to be. | | | Find product related with Middle Class quotes on Amazon |
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