A much higher percentage of the new admits were either from middle-class and upper-middle-class backgrounds or had been filtered through middle-class and upper-middle-class institutions.
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This will be the sum of the percentages of the other categories: lower-middle-class, middle-class, upper-middle-class and rich.
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Slash state and local deductibility, which is a bedrock middle-class and upper middle-class deduction, would hurt so many middle-class taxpayers.
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Oak Park had middle-class white sections and middle-class black sections.
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You have a true growing middle class in China -- we have a strong middle class in the U.S., but it's a very mature middle class.
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Lamb ran a campaign based on middle-class economics and middle-class values.
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And it will be more of a middle class — we did a lot for the middle class, but this will be more aimed at the middle class.
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Based on the overall data, here are the top five states for the middle class: Percent of middle-class households: 49.1Percent of middle-class job growth: 1843Middle-class income tax rate: 19.7Median home value: $250,300Homeownership rate: 2400Overall score: 268 Percent of middle-class households: 281.78Percent of middle-class job growth: 245.7Middle-class income tax rate: 2105Median home value: $216,1003Homeownership rate: 2100Overall score: 45.7 Percent of middle-class households: 281.78Percent of middle-class job growth: 23Middle-class income tax rate: 15.3Median home value: $160,700Homeownership rate: 67Overall score: 82.59 Percent of middle-class households: 633Percent of middle-class job growth: 31Middle-class income tax rate: 19Median home value: $189,400Homeownership rate: 68Overall score: 81.78 Percent of middle-class households: 45.7Percent of middle-class job growth: 105Middle-class income tax rate: 16Median home value: $184,100Homeownership rate: 63Overall score: 81.78 "Go West," says SmartAsset.
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Cutting middle-class brackets helps middle-class taxpayers, but it also helps rich ones.
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Nor does a shrinking middle class necessarily mean the middle class is getting poorer.
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"Unions built America's middle class and unions will rebuild America's middle class," Warren said.
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And it&aposll be more of a middle class, we did a lot for the middle class but this will be even more aimed at the middle class.
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"It will be more of a middle class — we did a lot for the middle class, but this will be more aimed at the middle class," he said.
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Whenever societies develop a strong middle class, the middle class wants to be represented, and the best way to represent the middle class is through a liberal democratic regime.
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Based on GOBankingRates' study, which considers changes in income versus the costs of big-ticket items like housing and college tuition, here are the five best states in the US for the middle class: Median middle-class income: $77,156Median household income change of middle class: 1.7 percentIn-state tuition and fees: $8,450Median home list price: $19993,500 Median middle-class income: $75,953Median household income change of middle class: -2391 percentIn-state tuition and fees: $26.5,27Median home list price: $2990,2180 Median middle-class income: $2000,20143Median household income change of middle class: -22014 percentIn-state tuition and fees: $21.7,20.2Median home list price: $290,000 Median middle-class income: $75,811Median household income change of middle class: -0.6 percentIn-state tuition and fees: $5,1.73Median home list price: $249,900 Median middle-class income: $71,391Median household income change of middle class: -6.5 percentIn-state tuition and fees: $7,990Median home list price: $180,000 GOBankingRates analyzed income trends, including the change in median household incomes of middle-class families from 1999 to 2014 and the change in the proportion of households earning a middle-class income, to determine where middle-class incomes stretch the furthest.
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This seems a severe financial burden to many middle-class and upper-middle-class couples.
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Talk about the plan's middle-class tax cuts — and ignore the middle-class tax increases.
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They left on their way to the middle class and often the upper middle class.
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Black people with upper-middle-class incomes do not generally live in upper-middle-class neighborhoods.
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"This is not a tax on middle-class families, nor upper-middle class families," she said.
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If you are a middle-class or upper-middle-class salaried employee, it is much easier.
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Kugelmass found that 30 percent of white middle-class clients were offered appointments from therapists, compared with 13 percent of black middle-class men and 21 percent of middle-class black women.
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Their middle class now has as many as 500 million people, compared to 150 middle-class Americans.
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The American middle class is shrinking and the median income of those considered middle class is decreasing.
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"We consider ourselves middle class, and we think the middle class has been shafted," Mike Bannon said.
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It promised a tax cut to the poor, the middle class and to the upper middle class.
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We did a lot for the middle class but this would be more aimed at the middle class.
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In fact, the American underclass eats fast food less frequently than middle-class and upper-middle-class families.
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Instead, previous middle class Americans are moving up the economic chain -- resulting in a thriving upper middle class.
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At least initially, Trump had his finger on the pulse of middle class and lower middle class America.
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He needs middle-class support, but feels threatened by the capacity of the middle class to make trouble.
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The family eventually moved to Connecticut, where they entered the middle class and then the upper middle class.
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And, for the same reasons that the middle class is under attack, there are not middle-class companies.
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A. I had a great family — kind of middle class to lower middle class, depending on the year.
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"The lifeblood of this country, the middle class and upper middle class, is getting hosed," he told me.
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One such example is the phrase "middle class," which is often deployed by conservative politicians to refer not just to members of the middle class, but to white members of the middle class in particular.
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We did a lot for the middle class, but this will be even more aimed at the middle class.
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The public-sector middle class is huge despite decades of wolf-crying about the destruction of the middle class.
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Today, middle-class and working-class voters and communities are falling further and further behind the upper middle class.
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But it symbolizes the role of government to help middle-class people and create and build a middle class.
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I will not raise middle class taxes because the middle class hasn't even yet recovered from the Great Recession.
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Burns's clientele was primarily composed of the middle class and upper middle class women who could afford her services.
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We didn't live in a mansion, we lived in a very middle class home in a middle class neighborhood.
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Gentrification of poorer and middle-class neighborhoods on the part of middle-class black people is a similar phenomenon.
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You have to get a middle class that's big, and of course a middle class that's big is consumptive.
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The upper middle class has kept pace with the economy, while the middle class and poor have fallen behind.
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The middle class is disappearing in America, and it's really hard to have a democracy without a middle class.
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To pinpoint where life is easiest for middle-class families, researchers gathered U.S. Census Bureau and Bureau of Labor Statistics data for all 50 states and Washington, D.C., in eight key metrics: percent of middle-class households, percent of below middle-class households, number of new middle-class jobs, percent growth in middle-class jobs, effective property tax and income tax rates, median home value and homeownership rate.
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Because the American middle class includes such a broad spectrum of earners, LendingTree also broke the results down into three groups: lower-middle class, or those who make two-thirds of the median income; middle-middle class, who make exactly the median income; and upper-middle class, who make double the median income.
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To determine where middle-class incomes have increased, GOBankingRates analyzed the change in median household incomes of middle-class families from 1999 to 2014 and the change in the proportion of households earning middle-class incomes.
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Kamala Harris (D-CA) last year announced the Livable Incomes for Families Today the Middle Class Act, or the LIFT the Middle Class Act, which would give the middle class and working families a tax credit.
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We did have a lot for the middle class but this will be even more aimed at the middle class.
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Meaning that not only is more money going to the middle class, some middle class families depend on it more.
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Notably, network sitcoms in particular generally come at these story lines from a middle-class or upper-middle-class perspective.
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Corruption is always bad and it's always bad for the middle class and we need the middle class to grow.
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The effect on the African American middle class, and a somewhat lesser extent on the Latino middle class, was catastrophic.
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"The first thing we can do to help the middle class is to have a thriving middle class," she said.
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"Modi's constituency is the middle class, and the middle class in Indian cities is choking on pollution," Mr. Pant said.
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African students end up renting apartments in the vicinity of their universities in lower-middle-class and middle-class neighborhoods.
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"We're all middle-class Canadians and we're raising these kids like middle-class Canadian kids," said Peggy Karas, another sponsor.
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The middle class: Who fits in the middle class varies by income, the cost of living and local tax policy.
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I think it's that what Donald Trump calls the middle class – disenfranchised middle class – we would describe them differently in Britain.
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They are paid well, but they're still essentially living middle-class lives—or what lives the middle class used to have.
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Or that her plan to raise taxes on the middle class and businesses will help the middle class and create jobs.
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Let's be clear: By failing to fund them, the Trump administration is punishing the middle class, and the middle class alone.
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Economics: Three ideas to strengthen the middle class There is political, as well as economic ballast in a strong middle class.
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Incomes for the middle class and poor have grown sluggishly since 1980, while the upper middle class has done modestly better.
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America created the first truly middle-class society; now, a middle-class life is increasingly out of reach for its citizens.
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Despite reports that the middle class is shrinking, it seems that the definition of middle class as a mindset still holds strong.
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Another way to do a tax plan that benefits the middle class would, of course, be to directly cut middle-class taxes.
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To summarize: The middle-class tax cuts vanish, while the middle-class tax increases (and an enormous tax cut for corporations) remain.
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There were middle-class white people who were gay, but there were no middle-class white people who were black, or poor.
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I have heard a lot of people say that being middle class is difficult because FAFSA gives little to the middle class.
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Good paying jobs are the ticket to the middle class and we're going to stand up for the American middle class again.
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A 220 Journal of Health and Social Behavior study found that 30 percent of therapists responded to calls for help from middle-class white people, 21 percent to middle-class black women, and 13 percent to middle-class black men.
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In fact, what we know is that the typical poor white family lives in a wealthier neighborhood than a middle-class black family and therefore is more likely to have access to middle-class schools than middle-class black families.
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Roughly 60 percent of Americans identify as middle class or upper-middle class, despite a wobble during the worst of the Great Recession.
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That nice middle-class home on Grand Avenue which counted for nothing, because in Louisville, Kentucky black middle-class was nothing like white.
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It's the difference between a prospering and optimistic middle class, and a pessimistic middle class that lives day-to-day, paycheck-to-paycheck.
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Because not only is the Obamacare insurance mandate a tax, it's a tax that hits the middle class and lower middle class hard.
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Instead of working to move into the upper-middle class, middle class Americans are fighting just not to slip further down the ladder.
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In the end, the psychotherapists called back 28% of the white, middle-class callers, versus just 17% of the Black, middle-class callers.
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We've seen not just the decline of the middle class but the decline of those middle-class neighborhoods in cities and suburbs alike.
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But today in the city, that is primarily true only for middle-class or upper-middle-class patients seeking help with their addiction.
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Related: The middle class is growing again -- but slowly Overall, just over half of American adults were in the middle class in 2016.
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Providing a fun and cheap tourist destination for their upwardly mobile middle class can't provide the basis for rebuilding the American middle class.
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So, the middle class, I have to say that I take some exception with the idea that the middle class has gone away.
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I think building the middle class, investing in the middle class, making college debt free so more young people can get their education.
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While the middle class has hardly grown since 2008, the black percentage of the middle class has increased from 47% to 64%, he says.
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At the same time that meritocratic inequality excludes the middle class, meritocratic ideology convinces the middle class that this situation is their own fault.
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I think that politically this like upper middle class is probably more moderate, but that upper middle class doesn&apost exist anymore in America.
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A Donald Trump presidency uniquely represents an opportunity to bolster the middle class through policies that actually help build and strengthen the middle class.
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We must be champions of the middle class, and all those who aspire to it – because the middle class is the backbone of democracy.
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If we want to be a middle-class nation, we need policies that give service-sector workers the essentials of a middle-class life.
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Income inequality is at a record high, the middle class is shrinking, and even some households earning six figures feel like they're middle class.
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The wealth (total value of home, savings, investments, etc.) of middle-class white families is about four times that of middle-class black families.
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We must be champions of the middle class, and all those who aspire to it — because the middle class is the backbone of democracy.
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Why it matters: As wages have remained stagnant, more people can't afford middle-class basics, and income inequality grows, the middle class is increasingly relying on the federal safety net, according to the new report by Brookings Institutions' Future of the Middle Class Initiative.
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It takes around a minute for the animation to finish and display the final data, at which point the percentages of children who ended up as poor, lower-middle-class, middle-class, upper-middle class and rich adults will be displayed at the right.
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Only 34% of black working-class individuals got a call back, compared with 49% of black middle-class and 51% of white middle-class individuals.
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We're used to hearing about the sagging middle class, but in 2015, the middle class experienced its most income growth in nearly half a century.
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And, indeed, the way that he talks about his tax cuts would end up raising taxes on middle-class families, millions of middle-class families.
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The company launched over a year ago in October 2014 to begin making moderately priced furniture for the Mexican middle class and upper middle class.
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Should the Senate pass a tax bill that hurts the middle class but doesn't hurt the middle class as much as a House tax bill?
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Built mostly as rentals to meet pent-up demand, they catered to the middle class — or at least what passes for middle class in Manhattan.
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Kamala Harris spoke of her LIFT the Middle Class Act, which would offer cash payment to most middle-class families, not just descendants of slaves.
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And for too long, the country's economic policy, even under Democrats, has blurred the distinction between the upper middle class and the actual middle class.
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And the biggest growth will be in the "upper middle class," which earns substantially more than the "mass middle class," according to consultants McKinsey & Company.
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And indeed, the way that he talks about his tax cuts would end up raising taxes on middle class families, millions of middle class families.
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Nearly 70 percent of Americans consider themselves middle-class but, in reality, the middle class makes up just over 50 percent of the total U.S. population.
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It has become a middle-class haven packed with middle-class subdivisions, with sidewalks leading down cul-de-sacs adorned with three-bedroom, three-bathroom houses.
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"Part of the phenomenon of black middle-class neighborhoods is they aren't isolated from other communities the way maybe white middle-class communities are," Moore says.
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It "collects taxes from the middle class and spends them on the middle class", says Pablo Simón, a political scientist at Carlos III University in Madrid.
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Designed by architect Minoru Yamasaki, the structure was supposed to facilitate the cohabitation of middle-class African Americans with middle-class white residents between 33 buildings.
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It's also telling that though neither bill is good for the middle class, the two bills' treatment of middle-class tax issues is actually quite different.
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The definition of "middle class" is a hot topic, especially with the unveiling of the Republican tax plan, which proponents say will help the middle-class.
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Homeowners, married couples, car owners, and families in middle class and upper middle class brackets are all statistically more likely to vote for a Republican candidate.
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Millions of middle-class taxpayers are likely to see their taxes go up, though the typical middle-class taxpayer would see a tax cut next year.
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Going into law without any cost gave me the opportunity to attain higher middle-class income levels despite my parents' low- to middle-class income level.
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For many decades, Sumner had a middle-class, upper-middle-class life in the Boston suburbs running a regional ... Big deal in the Boston area. Right.
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Currently, Asia's middle class totals around 525 million people, or 28 percent of the world's middle class population, according to DBS bank's "Imagining Asia 2020" report.
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Themes: It is common among politicians whose peers speak often of the middle class to wonder aloud why no one talks anymore about the middle class.
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The effort is the latest part of the group's Middle-Class Growth Initiative to promote a tax-code rewrite that helps middle-class families and businesses.
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And while we've heard a lot about the economic decline of the middle class, the cultural decline of the white middle class isn't discussed nearly as often.
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When land is that expensive, a middle-class family simply can't afford the kind of suburban house that many middle-class American families aspire to live in.
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Almost all of the high-profile bakers of these little treats are white, middle-class women, and almost all of the rest are white, middle-class men.
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Republicans insisted, falsely, that Obama had imposed a "massive tax increase" on the middle class; in fact, for the most part he actually cut middle-class taxes.
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Which makes sense -- because, politically speaking, the idea of raising taxes on what we broadly consider the middle class isn't terribly popular among, well, the middle class.
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And though growth normally slows when countries attain a middle-class income, in China the new middle class provides the main customers for new mobile internet services.
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These were mostly upper-middle-class and middle-class Bangkok residents enraged by the Shinawatra family with its political roots in the working-class and rural North.
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" On average, a middle-middle class family makes about $450 more a month than needed for a median-priced home, an upper-middle class family makes more than $1,900 needed and lower-middle class families "can still afford a median-priced home in 34 of the nation's largest metros.
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" Bannon said that "the black working and middle class and the Hispanic working and middle class, just like whites, have been severely hurt by the policies of globalism.
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It's hard for people with middle class incomes to buy a home, so in most American cities the middle class is losing ground in terms of home ownership.
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Republicans are offering a full-employment plan for congressional staffers on special investigative committees but have basically nothing to say about middle-class paychecks or middle-class problems.
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Reverse snobbery against the wealthy People in middle class and lower middle class households don't tend to have much sympathy for the problems of the affluent, psychologists say.
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What's implied—and the idea we're being sold—is that millennials are middle class and that "millennial" is a catch-all term for young, middle-class (white) person.
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And rather than granting a permanent tax cut to the middle class, the middle class gets a temporary one while corporations and the rich get the biggest benefits.
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While tying Medicaid to the middle class is a politically powerful tactic, Medicaid's ultimate value can't be predicated on the fact that it's become a middle-class program.
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Particularly as the middle class continues to grow in international markets, and recent projections estimate a majority of the world's population could be middle class in five years.
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Pinckney grew up in a middle-class family, in the 1960s, when being black and middle class often meant being accused of "trying to act white," he writes.
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Single-payer requires taxes the middle class is going to pay, and that makes single-payer a hard sell politically, even if it benefits the middle class ultimately.
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Each therapist received four calls, supposedly from a Black middle-class person, a white middle-class person, a Black working-class person, and a white working-class person.
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Many individuals who were once members of the middle class or who grew up in solidly middle-class families are justifiably dissatisfied with current political and economic realities.
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It's no longer viewed as a disease that affects only white middle-class boys, as eating disorders are no longer seen as afflicting only white middle-class girls.
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So when I made the statement that people have $218,222 or $22017,000 in their home, obviously I was talking about a middle-class, upper middle-class, wealthy family.
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If the objective is middle-class tax cuts, here's what we know for a certainty: The middle class has very little capital, and therefore very little capital income.
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Republicans have pitched the bill as a middle-class tax cut and the overhaul is intended to immediately cut taxes for about 70 percent of middle-class families.
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Afterward, participants filled out a survey and reported, among other things, what social class they fell into: poor, working class, middle class, upper-middle class, or upper class.
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Greenberg suggested that Democrats offer a kind of grand bargain to the white middle-class voters he called "Reagan Democrats": The Democrats would reinstate the middle class as the gravitational center of the party's economic policy if those voters accepted an expanded definition of who was included in the middle class.
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That's a typical story for many white, middle-class families in America, many of which became middle-class through the mortgage and tuition assistance afforded by the GI Bill.
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This point is particularly important for middle-class, able-bodied, cisgendered white people to reflect on (a point we make as middle-class, able-bodied, cisgendered white people ourselves).
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"We want to help the majority of the middle class, or even lower-middle class to increase their economic situation by improving the efficiency for these services," Wu said.
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A fully 83 percent of survey participants who say they are middle class today but weren't five years ago largely considered themselves lower middle class or low income previously.
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AND YOU CAN'T CHANGE THAT PERCEPTION UNTIL YOU CLEAN THIS MESS UP. AND IT MAY SOUND CORNY BUT I CAME FROM MIDDLE CLASS FAMILY, LOWER MIDDLE CLASS IN QUEENS.
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During the nineties, upper-tail wage inequality (the gap between the middle class and the rich) exceeded lower-tail inequality (the gap between the poor and the middle class).
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Because of those provisions, both bills are projected to cut taxes initially for the bulk of middle-class taxpayers, yet raise them on millions of other middle-class families.
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"If this framework is all about the middle class, then Trump Tower is middle-class housing," said Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon, the ranking Democrat on the Finance Committee.
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LIFT the Middle Class Act When asked what she would first work to accomplish as President, Harris quickly pointed to her proposed middle-class tax cut, the LIFT Act.
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They — you, most likely — are not middle class.
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Based on that data, here are the three most affordable metros for each cohort of the middle class: LendingTree: Most affordable U.S. metros for each subsection of the middle class.
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What constitutes "middle class" is debatable, but if you accept her definition of the middle class, the math checks out, so we rate the tuition portion of her claim: TRUE.
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For example, the name Amy Roberts was supposed to indicate that the caller was a white middle-class woman, whereas Latoya Johnson was used for a black middle-class woman.
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Middle-class black women and men were about 30% and 60% less likely, respectively, than their white middle-class counterparts to hear back from a therapist agreeing to see them.
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It is true that since rich people also pay the same taxes that middle-class people pay, a tax cut for the middle class will likely also benefit rich people.
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This is also true of second-tier schools, where students come from less affluent backgrounds, but administrators still come from upper-middle class backgrounds and exhibit upper-middle class expectations.
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What we all do is hard and we are middle class people and I think that I have the same sort of middle class average person credentials as he does.
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" "China's middle class ... lack power to change the law or to lobby with interest groups," said Zhang, "Without rights, assets are unprotected, and middle class has to face more uncertainties.
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Bills supported just by the rich but not the poor or middle class passed 280 percent of the time, and those supported by just the middle class passed 21986 percent.
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Kamala Harris' LIFT The Middle Class Act, a significant extension of the earned-income tax credit that would give monthly cash payments to middle-class people and families, and Sen.
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They were mostly middle-class and upper-middle-class kids from Stanford, and so some of the brightest minds focused on convenience apps, grocery delivery systems and on-demand laundry.
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It has improved test scores, but has not yet significantly changed the demographics of the schools, many of which are in middle-class areas but serve few middle-class children.
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People were sick of seeing poor kids sent off to combat while rich and middle-class kids (remember when we still had a middle class?) duck out of harm's way.
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It's not as if free tuition for the middle class was a dream that has been burning in the governor's heart since he was growing up in middle-class Queens.
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In the late 1970s, the middle class began to stagnate, while the ultra-rich start getting even richer, and almost immediately after that, middle class Americans got really into brie.
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A better diet—one perhaps achieved through growing wealth and trade with other countries—leads to greater earnings and a growing, better-educated middle class, and a middle class brings democracy.
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We need to understand who the job creators are in this country, because we need more jobs to grow the middle class and to grow the wages of the middle class.
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And one of the reasons the middle class is shrinking is because more Americans are making it into the upper middle class faster than the ranks of the poor are expanding.
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That means the luxury housing being built today will contribute to the middle-class supply 30 years from now; it means today's middle-class housing was luxury housing 30 years ago.
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And that wealth was really distributed among a middle class, a rising middle class, people who come from really working-class environments and created what we really call a Pax Americana.
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"We're not just talking about consumers just entering the middle class but climbing a few rungs further into the upper middle class," said Walters, a Hong Kong-based partner at BCG.
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Fighting for the middle class vote Last year, according to exit polls, Trump succeeded in convincing voters that he would take care of the middle class better than Hillary Clinton would.
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"Every Republican member of Congress needs to run on the middle-class tax cut and win on the middle-class tax cut," Congressional Leadership Fund Director Corry Bliss told USA Today.
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For instance, he claims, millionaires talk about ideas, while the middle class talks about things and other people, and millionaires embrace change while the middle class often feels threatened by it.
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"If this framework is all about the middle class, then Trump Tower is middle-class housing," said Senator Ron Wyden, the top Democrat on the tax law-writing Senate Finance Committee.
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Twenty-six percent of respondents told Monmouth that they expect Trump to help the middle class a lot, and 40 percent say his tenure will help the middle class a little.
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The White House has pushed the bill as an effort to provide tax relief to middle-class Americans, but Democrats have argued the bill favors the wealthy over the middle class.
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So far, so routine for Ms. Reza, who studied sociology as well as theater and who has made an illustrious career out of satirizing middle-class and upper-middle-class mores.
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Trump's final campaign-trail proposal included some changes in deductions, meant to help the middle class, that some analysts projected would raise taxes on millions of middle-class families with children.
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He recognizes that he has to close the gap here in terms of income spread and helping middle-class families and lower-middle-class families on the campaign that was his pledge.
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Why it matters: Though many people consider themselves middle-class, a 1353 study from Pew Research Center found only about half of the country's population lived in middle-class households in 2016.
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That he was raised at times middle class and at times lower middle class depending on his father's career, Robbie says, is the reason he's so flashy about getting that desert money.
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If the Democrats ever want to bring back the white middle class and lower middle class to the fold, he's just about the polar opposite of the kind of candidate they'll need.
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People in London, from all walks of life, from upper-middle-class to middle-class, love nothing more than quaffing a £6 [$7.85] pilsner named after the borough in which they live.
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We knew that midwesterners built a strong middle class by organizing unions that gave them a voice and the power to transform dangerous and poorly paid factory jobs into middle class work.
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With 3.2 billion people in the global middle class today, Kharas points out that by the year 2020, we may have a majority middle class world — for the first time in history.
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Though Trump has touted the GOP tax plan as a "gift" to middle class families, 53 percent of respondents said that middle class families have benefited "not at all" from his policies.
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His policies were thought to have bolstered Uganda's economic welfare and propelled more Ugandans to enter the middle class, though the parameters of what constituted a middle class in Uganda were questionable.
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Thanks to then-strong unions, relatively affordable housing and good public education, they raised three children in lower-middle-class stability, all of whom climbed the rungs into the American middle class.
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Her language about "costs" does provide the possibility that she would raise middle-class taxes, but ensure that middle-class families would save enough on health care spending to come out ahead.
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I think because even though in politics we're supposed to talk middle class, they know there's no scripture that says as you've done unto the middle class, so you've done unto me.
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The report said inequality has declined for the past three years and is expected to continue its downward trend as more of the world's lower-middle class and middle class gain ground.
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Democrats have ripped both tax-reform proposals as harmful to the middle class, pointing to the elimination of certain deductions that could ultimately lead to higher taxes for some middle-class families.
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However, experts think this will likely mean steep premium increases for middle-class individuals with pre-existing conditions, while healthy middle-class individuals who earn too much for ObamaCare subsidies will benefit.
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As Wilkerson notes, these black men and women and children are also full-fledged members of the middle class, though often forgotten and invisible in today's political discourse about the middle class.
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But the latest round of Democrats are putting even more of an emphasis on fighting poverty and on helping the true middle class (as opposed to the self-identified upper middle class).
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The George W. Bush tax cuts heavily favored the rich over the middle class, but they contained enough clear middle-class tax cuts to have broad public approval, at least at first.
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If middle-class pay had increased as fast as the economic growth, the average middle-class family would today earn about $15,000 a year more than it does, after taxes and benefits.
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We have always been a party with a sharp-edged economic message that talks about helping the middle class and people who want to get to the middle class get there more easily.
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The nation with the next-skimpiest middle class after the U.S., Spain, had 252 percent of adults living in middle-class households in 2941, down from 22010 percent in 413, according to Pew.
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The nation with the next-skimpiest middle class after the U.S., Spain, had 64 percent of adults living in middle-class households in 0763, down from 69 percent in 1991, according to Pew.
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Jeff Sessions Reality Check: Sessions on middle-class incomes By Tami Luhby, CNN Money Republicans have been knocking Obama and Clinton for the declining fortunes of middle-class Americans throughout this election cycle.
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Overall, 28% of the middle-class white individuals seeking care were offered an appointment, compared with 17% of the middle-class black group and 8% of the working-class white and black groups.
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The LIFT the Middle Class Act would give middle-class households a monthly cash payment amounting to as much as $3,000 per year for single people and $6,000 per year for married couples.
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"He knows how to operate in the elitist world and has unbelievable empathy for the common struggle that's going on with the middle-class people and the lower middle-class people," he said.
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Members of the new middle class covet government employment, which still remains a mark of status, but such work does not provide sufficient income to sustain their idealized level of middle-class consumption.
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Newspaper astrology columns used to offer different advice in papers catering to working- and middle-class readers, with middle-class horoscopes recommending spending more money, traveling more, and focusing more on their careers.
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Just like FDR helped create the modern middle class with the New Deal, we too can rebuild the middle class with a Green New Deal that equitably creates millions of good, union jobs.
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Between 1971 and 2011, the share of adults in the middle class fell by 2000 percent — but since 2499, Pew reports, the middle class has remained relatively stable instead of continuing to shrink.
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The upper middle class believe they deserve their good fortune.
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Democrats retort that these reforms would hurt the middle class.
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The middle class fare similarly when pitted against the rich.
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The middle class shudders at the memory of her presidency.
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"For the middle class, it's not too good," he said.
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Middle class folks are paying less, and deregulation well underway.
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China needs growth to keep its emerging middle class happy.
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They can afford to make sure there's a middle class.
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The parents at this preschool were mostly lower middle class.
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"The middle class has to be protected," Trump told NBC.
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This country, and the middle class, bailed out Wall Street.
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Possibly 30 percent of middle class gets a tax hike?
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Contra Clinton, the middle class is where the money is.
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Poverty has fallen and the urban middle class is growing.
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Brexit is class war and the middle class have lost.
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Most of the middle class had fled or been killed.
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Now it is their time to help the middle class.
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That's why this IPO season matters for the middle class.
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Of the connected middle class, most buy and bank online.
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It focuses on bettering the lives of the middle class.
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"Middle-class customers are increasing — that's why," Mr. Asegiemhe said.
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It's population is mostly upper middle class and 85% white.
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That's the same rate as most upper middle class filers.
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The middle class needs to be assured of retirement security.
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We're looking at the growth of the global middle class.
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So, in that time, we've seen our middle class shrink.
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What's fueling advertiser interest is China's rapidly expanding middle class.
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Coal mining was once a ladder to the middle class.
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But the App Store's middle class is small and shrinking.
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It's the largest middle class the world has ever seen.
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" Some even say that "millionaire is the new middle-class.
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"The middle class is getting clobbered," Mr. Biden told reporters.
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BEFORE the late 0003s China barely had a middle class.
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Public sector work long offered a stable, middle class life.
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The middle class feels pushed out by impossible housing costs.
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In 2002, the middle class population percentage was 4 percent.
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Middle class people don't earn enough to make themselves into
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"It's called a middle class miracle once again," he added.
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Under Brazil's Workers Party governments, a growing middle class emerged.
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Millions of middle class families will win under our plan.
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I want to lower the rates for the middle class.
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The middle class is the one — they're getting absolutely destroyed.
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So what income levels have Americans feeling solidly middle class?
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This is a working and middle class tax relief proposal.
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The blow to the middle class could decrease market growth.
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The U.S. middle class has always had a special mystique.
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Take this lamentation on the state of the middle class.
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The destruction of the American middle class didn't just happen.
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Because he knew how to talk to the middle class.
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New York isn't exactly known for embracing its middle class.
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Wow. I think Middle Class Rut came well after this.
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It's anything but affordable for much of the middle class.
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Economists sometimes use median income to define the middle class.
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Kumar, 25, was the breadwinner in his middle class family.
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"It's about the collapse of white middle class," said Case.
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The ranks of the Chinese middle class have grown astronomically.
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The effects wouldn't be limited to the middle class, either.
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Some provisions raise taxes on the middle class and poor.
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"The middle class tax cuts are in there," Portman said.
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Her upbringing was Roman Catholic, suburban and comfortably middle class.
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Most of the letter writers started poor or middle class.
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Delegates are drawn overwhelmingly from the liberal upper middle class.
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"Middle class" is not a concept with a fixed definition.
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For far too long, the middle class has been ignored.
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Sharma, who belongs to a growing, mobile Indian middle class.
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Taylor sensed that Rachel, raised middle class, disapproved of her.
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It's like a minimum wage hike for the middle class.
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But if you're worried about middle class families, working families —
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Later, the novel was leisure reading for the middle class.
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And the core Tory voter remains the affluent middle class.
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This wave of globalization has wiped out our middle class.
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They called for tax cuts aimed at the middle class.
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All these reforms mean more money for the middle class.
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It takes place in Maine; the boys are middle class.
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You know, we built, in America, a great middle class.
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Will we see a tax cut for the middle class?
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Really good options are limited, particularly for the middle class.
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The size of the India middle class is super tiny.
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"Why is America's middle class being hollowed out?" she asked.
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Together with the rising Russian middle class, the airline flourished.
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Clinton: I think when the middle class thrives, America thrives.
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We've got to get back to rebuilding the middle class.
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The new tax law favors corporations over the middle class.
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Our economy doesn't work as well or grow as fast when a few prosper at the expense of a growing middle class and ladders for folks who want to get into the middle class.
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Overwhelmingly, the person who is deciding who is the funniest is going to be a white guy, usually in his 30s or 40s who for sure grew up middle class or upper middle class.
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With most Americans feeling that the federal government does not do enough for the middle class, it is clear that policies that were meant to help the middle class are now holding it back.
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The president has said that the middle class would reap the benefits instead of the wealthy, but Ryan would not guarantee every middle-class person would receive a tax cut under the new plan.
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Historically, our economic greatness rests on a simple principle: When the middle class thrives, and when there is ample opportunity for those who work hard to climb into the middle class, then America thrives.
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Ten months before President Trump began making promises of a 10 percent tax cut for the middle class, he signed a sweeping bill that included a 10 percent tax cut for the middle class.
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This is common for middle-class black mothers, found Dawn Dow, a sociologist at the University of Maryland whose book, "Mothering While Black: Boundaries and Burdens of Middle-Class Parenthood," comes out in February.
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He dresses much like the liberal, middle-class Iranians in his films, which is to say, much like liberal, middle-class people everywhere: bluejeans, red crew-neck sweater, a three-quarter-length black overcoat.
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Even though the middle class has had a bigger income boost under Trump than anytime in 21625 years, the middle class is allegedly now suffering a decline since the rich saw even faster gains.
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The White House has pushed the bill as an effort to provide tax relief to middle-class Americans, but Democrats have argued the bill favors the wealthy over the middle class: http://bit.ly/2023BXGiQI.
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Our economy doesn't work as well or grow as fast when a few prosper at the expense of a growing middle class, and ladders for folks who want to get into the middle class.
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Surprisingly, it may not be the government middle-class tax cuts that actually benefit the middle class, but instead corporate tax cuts could be of far greater benefit to workers by raising their wages.
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Congress should work in a bipartisan fashion to reform the tax code in a way that helps middle class families, instead of passing this scheme, which is bad for the middle class and workers.
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When asked how he would define the middle class, Trump offered up a platitude that "the middle class has been forgotten in this country" before pivoting to his tax plan and proposals to cut regulations.
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Even with the longstanding differences between the rich, the middle class, and the poor in the U.S., the idea of the American middle class has a profound pull on the public imagination in the states.
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About 545 million people are middle class in Asia, according to recent data from Ernst & Young, which estimates three billion people will move into the middle class by 2030 — most of them in emerging markets.
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One-party rule will survive the growth of a vast middle class, Mr Xi seems to be saying, only if it can provide what the middle class wants: better schools, cleaner air, good health care.
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Because any democracy needs a robust and thriving middle class, and we have spent the last 153 or so years transferring trillions of dollars from the middle class to the people at the very top.
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Asked about the impact of a reform effort led by Trump, though, about four in 10 say they expect taxes for the middle class to rise, while just 25% say middle class taxes will drop.
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I think building the middle class, investing in the middle class, making college debt-free so more young people can get their education, helping people refinance their — their debt from college at a lower rate.
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David Leonhardt The old formula for passing a big tax cut for the rich was simple: Package it with a modest tax cut for the middle class — and talk endlessly about the middle-class part.
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Politicians say it a lot, and people from all over the income scale identify as middle class, but the fact is there's no consensus view of who the middle class is, not even among economists.
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And one of the striking things was that if you're middle class, if you're upper middle class, if you're a single digit millionaire like Hulk Hogan, you have no effective access to our legal system.
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I'm thankful to have been born to a middle-class family in a wealthy nation, during an era when the middle class still shared fully in the nation's wealth and social mobility was still high.
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Consider Ganesh Sitaraman's 2017 book "The Crisis of the Middle-Class Constitution," which warns of the collapse of a strong middle class as the "number one threat to American constitutional government" in the United States.
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Perhaps that's why a recent Gallup poll showed only 51 percent of Americans believe middle class people are taxed too much while a decent 40 percent say the middle class is paying their fair share.
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Although the street demonstrations today have a broader middle class base than those of 2014 ― unlike back then, many middle class people today are really hurting ― they have generally not been joined by poorer Venezuelans.
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There's a big appetite as people move into the middle class.
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It essentially extends premium subsidies to middle-class people through Medicaid.
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If there was ideology called middle class it would be his.
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It's not just the upper-middle class overscheduling its kids, either.
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"(Trump) talked about a collapsing middle class in America," said Sanders.
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Before there was the rich, the middle class and the poor.
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He said the middle class is the winner in Trump's plan.
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This would be devastating for middle-class households with an illness.
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The changes have hit poor and middle-class Egyptians especially hard.
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So Kimye's "middle class" is the rest of America's "legendary superproducer."
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In effect, this is a tax increase on the middle class.
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We were lower middle class — never hungry, but definitely not rich.
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The poor and the middle-class have stagnated or gone down.
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I grew up lower middle class on the outskirts of Copenhagen.
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But the App Store's middle class has been shrinking, some say.
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He lives in a middle-class neighborhood with his wife, Salma.
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It had a functioning black middle class after the Civil War.
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Hers was a typical experience for a middle-class Athenian woman.
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Many are emerging as middle-class consumers for the first time.
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The American middle class is getting squeezed and it's getting worse.
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About half of Americans live in households with middle-class salaries.
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"A family of four needs $162,000 for a middle-class life."
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We tried the Republican plan and it failed America's middle class.
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And so middle-class people can install them in their gardens.
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He has also prioritized a tax cut for the middle class.
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Now, it is Wall Street's time to help the middle class.
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And we are crushing small businesses and destroying the middle class.
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Poor people are more alienated than the rich and middle class.
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And a bachelor's lifts the degree-holder into the middle class.
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A huge new middle class has emerged, armed with the internet.
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"I'm from a middle-class family on Staten Island," he explained.
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I mean, this is an unprecedented growth of the middle class.
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Who work on the real problems for the American middle class?
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Will you raise taxes on the middle class to do it?
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The most obvious victim of this cycle is the middle class.
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Poor Egyptians, and even the shrinking middle class, have few options.
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Some of this is a punt on the global middle class.
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To others, the movement is evidence of a middle-class backlash.
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Most of them were young men from upper middle class families.
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I grew up not poor, but sort of lower-middle class.
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He seems like he really, truly identifies with the middle class.
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He's trying to tell us he cares about the middle class?
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Clinton admits she's "kind of far removed" from middle-class struggles.
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More and more people are falling out of America's middle class.
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Working and middle class parents understand these numbers all too well.
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Her scholarship began as an exploration of middle-class financial instability.
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The bill also contains a time-bomb for the middle class.
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He'd pay a lower rate than millions of middle class families.
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"'Middle class' stands as a signifier for whites," Haney-López argued.
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"I had a decent, just regular middle-class life," said Wolf.
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They happened to be urban, Assamese-speaking, Hindu and middle class.
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What is clear is that the region's middle class has grown.
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Those businesses benefit from the growth of the middle class here.
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These are the best and worst states for middle-class Americans .
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Clinton specifically promises not to raise taxes on the middle class.
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It checked every box on the proverbial middle class heartland form.
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A country rich in oil where the middle-class ones prospered.
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This led to modest economic growth and a growing middle class.
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Billy, 22, is from a middle-class family in New Mexico.
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They say, well it will trickle down to the middle class.
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So that's a better cycle—the poor become the middle class.
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Biden warned, however, that the middle class is being hollowed out.
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As the economy grew, so did middle class employment and wages.
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Consider our two measures of upper- and lower-middle class mobility.
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And China's middle class is only expanding and growing in sophistication.
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American middle-class families are making less money across the country.
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But some states are better for the middle class than others.
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The middle class won't suffer the most; the working poor will.
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I think it's easier to be middle-class here in Mexico.
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That's a lower tax rate than many middle-class families pay.
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Sanders decried trade deals as hurting manufacturing and the middle class.
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I grew up in an upper middle class Northern Virginia suburb.
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"This is a good day for the middle class," he said.
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Trump's tax plan a new death tax for the middle class?
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There's something very middle class about people considering themselves a redneck.
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Joe Biden's roaring paean to America and its resilient middle class.
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With China, you're getting a middle class of 600 million people.
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Atlanta is the heart of the black middle class in America.
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"I'm a white, middle-class guy from London," the actor said.
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Her middle class family was healthy, nobody had any chronic conditions.
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For one, overzealous federal regulations are holding the middle class hostage.
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But that does not explain the behaviour of middle-class women.
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Middle-class and wealthy Chinese are afraid because of the past.
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However, the primary losers in this formula are middle class workers.
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These shootings, by and large, are not a middle-class phenomenon.
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Overtime pay in particular emerged as a key middle class issue.
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The middle class, she said, would not pay "one penny" more.
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And how would this raise stagnant incomes for middle-class Americans?
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It is time to ignite America's middle class miracle once again.
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Is the middle class in dire straits, as Mr. Sanders contends?
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The middle class is not the only source of potential instability.
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Many of the new middle class are living beyond their means.
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Collins' character is cast as a thin, white, middle-class woman.
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Meanwhile the middle class was left to fend for our own.
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That said, the region does not lack a suburban middle class.
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That's what we need, a middle class that can really consume.
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That sends a message for other emerging aspirant middle-class economies.
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"The middle class allows for both democracy and stability," he writes.
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She has also advocated cutting middle-class taxes and rebuilding infrastructure.
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Middle-class activists were among the leaders of the 2011 uprising.
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"The conversations should have been about middle-class people," he said.
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Median household income measures the average income of middle class families.
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It means fewer jobs and less pay for the middle class.
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Trump argues that immigration has sown chaos across middle-class neighborhoods.
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You can't have a healthy city without a healthy middle class.
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What does it take to be middle class in Los Angeles?
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Hondius said he expected more growth as the middle class increases.
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I grew up poor, while my husband was raised middle-class.
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Meanwhile, surrounding suburbs were upper-middle class and nearly all white.
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They tended to settle quietly and happily into America's middle class.
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The plans on the table are not middle-class tax cuts.
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More high earners than the middle class take advantage of it.
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This is why together we launched the Middle Class Jobs Caucus.
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Single people are far less likely to consider themselves middle class.
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Just three years ago, Denver was a solid middle-class market.
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Getting covered is the middle class' best recourse against political bullying.
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CLINTON: Well, I think when the middle class thrives, America thrives.
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The Chinese middle class is bigger than the entire U.S. population.
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This change would hurt the hard-working middle class the most.
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It will require middle-class taxes to go up, not down.
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She argued that Sanders would raise taxes on the middle class.
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Superfoods are certainly within reach for upper middle class urbanites folks.
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When the middle class was rising, so were middle-tier hotels.
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Democracy always is at risk when the middle class drops out.
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The middle class doesn't really have a representative in that fight.
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We're looking at the middle class and we're looking at jobs.
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My one issue is trying to rebuild a disappearing middle class.
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Somewhere, in Dartmouth probably, a middle-class teen bought some grills.
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Additionally, millennials are much less likely to identify as middle class.
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The average middle-class family was worth as little as $19,000.
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By and large, Syrian refugees seem to be middle-class families.
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The audience that Bob Marley had was white middle-class kids.
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It kind of reminds me of that band Middle Class Rut.
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Unrelated: Why do Democrats oppose giving middle class people more money?
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And second, a rising Asian middle class wants to fly cheap.
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It would allow for lower tax rates for the middle class.
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For far too long, the middle class has been left behind.
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This enabled them to achieve, work and enter the middle class.
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Sharon Winick, 221, and her husband Michael consider themselves middle class.
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They are known as the "old middle class" in contemporary Pakistan.
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Today, there is a black middle class, but inequality is entrenched.
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"In middle-class communities, intelligence is the same thing," he said.
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Liberal-minded members of China's middle class bridle at that ideology.
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Here's what the bill would mean for 25,000 middle-class families.
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A broader definition of "middle class" would escalate the cost considerably.
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So that's an additional, hidden indirect tax on the middle class.
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So you might conclude from that that I'm probably middle-class.
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"It certainly doesn't benefit the middle class that much," he said.
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That worsens the bill's distribution for the poor and middle class.
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The median income of middle-class households was $78,442 in 2016.
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Though the colony had significant poverty, his parents were middle class.
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Still, driving could serve as a path to the middle class.
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This guy does not have a clue about the middle class.
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For the first time we have a mass global middle class.
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I grew up in Oregon in an upper middle class home.
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"That means telling the middle class in America to pay up."
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Both, however, would raise taxes for millions of middle-class families.
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Both see unfettered greed gnawing away at the country's middle class.
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Nobody ever told me that there was a black middle class.
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Too many white middle-class Americans, victimized by globalization, are struggling.
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Gauteng includes the biggest concentration of black middle-class South Africans.
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The focus is on what the plan offers middle-class people.
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All the big provisions benefit the rich, not the middle class.
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By 1965, many middle-class men had come to expect deferments.
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His Catholic, middle-class family lived in a suburb of Boston.
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Philip Baker was raised in a middle-class family in Toronto.
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Democratic ideology is increasingly dominated by the educated upper-middle class.
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Free college is a massive subsidy for the upper middle class.
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It would also raise taxes for millions of middle-class families.
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But all of the plan's middle-class tax cuts are temporary.
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Go deeper: How paying for college is changing middle-class life
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Their central promise: Cutting corporate taxes will lift the middle class.
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"It's country club living for the middle class," Ms. Goldy said.
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As for the middle class, the benefits appear to be modest.
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The exact impact on the middle class is not yet clear.
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Without the support of the middle class, he suggested, democracy wilts.
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The country missed the chance to build an inclusive middle class.
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Warren has ducked how much middle-class taxes would be raised.
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Warren has not said if middle-class taxes will go up.
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Quite simply, this is welfare for middle class and wealthy families.
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Go deeper: Hockey's "middle class" hit hardest by NHL salary caps
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The reason: the wealth of the global middle class is rising.
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The middle class has so far been happy with his reforms.
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These aren't exceptions to a general rule about middle-class politics.
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They're aggrieved by identity politics and a hollowed-out middle class.
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The Midwest is home to many robust middle class metropolitan areas.
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It's a mindset that often separates millionaires from the middle class.
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These people know the middle class has gotten the short end.
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A country where All the middle class seems to be forgotten.
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Move millions of people out of poverty into the middle class.
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The rich copied the poor; the middle class copied the rich.
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It's very difficult at this point to expand the middle class.
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"Most middle-class jobs are in border security," Mr. Preciado said.
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The middle class is not falling behind, it is getting richer.
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He said that a middle-class tax cut was coming soon.
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He's talking about defeating radical Islamic terrorism, middle-class tax relief.
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" Matt Cartwright of Pennsylvania is "fighting back for the middle class.
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The median income of middle class households was $78,442 in 373.
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Both women had firm toeholds in the genteel upper middle class.
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It's not realistic, going to raise taxes on middle-class people.
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In recent years, dining options for the middle class have exploded.
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To imagine the middle class, then, is to invoke a myth.
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How does hurting the so-called rich help the middle class?
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The middle class, paying much higher prices for daily living needs.
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These reforms will be a tremendous boost to the middle class.
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He is also promoting a plan for middle-class tax cuts.
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"We wanted to be Crazy Middle Class (Asians)," Toledo told DeGeneres.
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The tax cut is not going to help the middle class.
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Crucially, those gains are finally starting to lift middle-class incomes.
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It should have rapid productivity growth and a vibrant middle class.
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Most analyses show the middle class receiving a modest tax cut.
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The working middle class had the cultural authority in that moment.
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Ayyub grew up in Sahar, a middle-class neighborhood of Mumbai.
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I think we have a path to those middle-class jobs.
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In many places across the U.S., the middle class is struggling.
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"We've put up a paywall to the middle class," he said.
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Many middle-class families and above are assessed at 47 percent.
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But Democrats have also accused Republicans of attacking the middle class.
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Raising taxes on the middle class is a political third rail.
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It covered the needs of middle-class white women quite nicely.
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There's a lot of upper-middle class, white businessmen around here.
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Where you have a strong middle class in the middle. Right?
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Most middle-class Americans are expected to see lower tax bills.
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Republican leaders say that they want to help the middle class.
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Elites don't understand the challenges and frustrations of middle-class people.
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Democrats opposed his changes, calling them "extreme" and anti-middle class.
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She had grown up outside Chicago, in a middle-class family.
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Over the past few decades, the US middle class has shrunk.
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Sarah Bowen: This is an image of white middle-class families.
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These collective goods give the middle class more choices, not fewer.
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Indonesia's fast-growing middle class has an increasing demand for energy.
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It gives new insurance subsidies to some upper-middle class Americans.
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This narrative isn't true either — even for middle-class white women.
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Everyone in the middle class and everyone aspiring to join it.
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DEMOCRATS HAVE DONE NO FAVOR TO THE LOWER MIDDLE CLASS GUY AND,THEREFORE, TO ME IT WAS SORT OFA NO BRAINER THAT IF YOU'RE A MIDDLE, LOWER MIDDLE CLASS PERSON WHY WOULDN'T YOU VOTE FOR DONALD?
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By the numbers: By Pew's standards, being middle class is within 2/3 to double the median income of $57,617 By that standard, the middle class for a household of one would be $26,000 to $78,000.
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They are unrepresentative of Britain: according to research from Queen Mary University of London, 86% of Tory members are middle class and 443% are white, whereas only 54% of Britons are middle class and 87% white.
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Sections of Africa's rising middle class are increasingly finding themselves with greater spending power -- although debate remains about how to define Africa's middle class and whether it is resilient as middle classes elsewhere in the world.
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Though Trump and the GOP have boasted that the plan will benefit middle-class families, Democrats have criticized the bill as primarily benefitting corporations and the wealthy at the expense of poor and middle-class Americans.
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As he proclaimed that the middle class built America — and unions built the middle class — a woman rushed onto the stage waving a sign that said "Let Dairy Die," and screamed out the phrase as well.
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Both Rad and Kharrazi stressed that, based on their conversations with relatives and friends, this wave of demonstrations differs from the Green Movement of 2009, which primarily consisted of middle-class and upper middle-class professionals.
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In today&aposs economy, $100,100 is considered middle class in the US.The Pew Research Center defines the US middle class as people earning two-thirds to twice the median household income, which was $60,336 in 2016.
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"The Meritocracy Trap" is full of striking statistics illustrating just how dramatically the meritocratic elite is pulling ahead of the middle class by just about every measure, while the middle class sinks closer to the poor.
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"New York knows that our progressive principles of acceptance and diversity are not the enemy of our middle class, and we know that middle-class success is not the enemy of our progressive beliefs," he said.
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Sanders probed the Trump voters to explain why they believed middle-class wages were stagnating or falling, and they strongly agreed with him that free trade deals were to blame: SANDERS: Why is the middle class declining?
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"And one of the striking things is that if you're middle class, if you're upper-middle class, if you're a single-digit millionaire like Hulk Hogan, you have no effective access to your legal system," he said.
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For this reason, while I will never complain about low taxes (and I fully support middle class tax reform), it's intellectually dishonest to say that lower corporate taxes are going to help the middle class one bit.
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"At least of the people who have jumped in, I'm the only one who is living a middle-class lifestyle in a middle-class neighborhood in middle America," he added in comments to reporters in Washington Wednesday.
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Andrew M. Cuomo has made Excelsior the centerpiece of his middle-class agenda, saying it will "make college accessible to thousands of working and middle class students" who might otherwise not be able to afford to attend.
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RAYMOND DALIO: Well, when I started off, you know, obviously, as I say, I was -- I started off as a, you know, middle class kid -- middle class kid, maybe, and I made an enormous amount of money.
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Two middle-class tax breaks that stayed: Senate negotiators convinced their House counterparts to preserve two important middle-class tax breaks: the deduction on student loan interest and the exclusion for tuition waivers received by graduate students.
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In his 1956 best-seller, The Organization Man, William Whyte wrote of a middle class—an implicitly white middle class—trapped in suburbs and office jobs, shorn of the entrepreneurial individualism and wartime solidarity of earlier generations.
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Black male children raised in middle-class households in the late 1970s and early '80s have fallen out of the middle class at particularly higher rates than white male children after becoming adults, another Pew report found.
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A Howard Johnson's meal was affordable glamour for the growing middle-class.
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She's written about 10, several on working families and the middle class.
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She's written about 25, several on working families and the middle class.
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But many middle-class families don't have the resources to opt out.
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It's no surprise when Chapin admits Casper's customers are largely middle-class.
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And it's not just competitiveness that is eroding the white middle class.
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Is it any surprise that white middle-class voters are in rebellion?
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The middle class, the poor and small traders will face no problems.
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It's difficult enough these days for Americans to reach the middle class.
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They helped those already rich, not the poor or the middle class.
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The Wilsons are the picture of an upper-middle class American family.
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"The border tax would hit the middle-class consumer," Cook told CNBC.
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Except they're aligned against the young, new migrants, and the middle class.
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The secularist CHP draws support broadly from Turkey's urban, educated middle class.
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After the Arab Spring was crushed, middle-class Egyptians abandoned public life.
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Right now, anybody there that was middle class is now low income.
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There may be an even bigger problem for the middle class, however.
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They're white, middle-class people that are squeezed by the welfare state.
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Picture, if you will, the average heterosexual middle-class British married couple.
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And they don't only work for the rich or the middle class.
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There's a middle class family that's going to help a kid out.
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The show targeted white middle-class suburban boys from six to twelve.
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As China's middle class grows, its consumers are buying more from abroad.
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She can pull former Bernie supporters in and the middle-class housewives.
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It's just not one ordinary middle-class families can take advantage of.
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But much of the urban middle class has already purchased a vehicle.
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There was no wealth in my family of black middle class women.
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Along with rising wages, that policy contributed to an expanding middle class.
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Fast food was initially created with middle-class, striving families in mind.
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Now many of the protesters are middle-class, with uniforms and satchels.
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I'll rely on the middle class and working families... HOLT: That's time.
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You've seen middle-class wages go backwards $133,700 during the Obama administration.
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Middle class may notice it when they get to the cash register.
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Financial security, Brainard said, is an important marker of middle-class living.
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The rural populists forged alliances with urban workers and middle-class progressives.
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In the United States, the middle class is not a solid status.
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Critics have argued that the tax would hurt middle-class retirement savings.
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That unrelenting growth doesn't affect only poor and middle-class urban residents.
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Forced idleness excludes the middle class from a feeling of social usefulness.
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CHUCK SCHUMER: When middle-class incomes decline, America is a different place.
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That has put coverage out of reach for some middle-class Americans.
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The middle class bailed out Wall Street in their time of need.
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It's clear that the Sheffs are an upper middle class (white) family.
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In Mexico, middle-class urban families such as Camacho's got fatter too.
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She proposes tax breaks for the middle class and affordable college plans.
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Migrants form a huge group, roughly as numerous as the middle class.
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The middle-class provisions are afterthoughts, scrounged together to meet messaging goals.
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Kaliana was the primary source of income for her middle-class parents.
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Conditions have improved since 733, and the black middle class has expanded.
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It was big business, mostly performed for and by middle class suburbanites.
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They watched as the American dream of a thriving middle class vanished.
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In this context, the true purpose of middle-class marriage becomes apparent.
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The middle class has cut back on everything from groceries to education.
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It'll be a huge middle-class stimulus that will boost our economy.
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The middle class expanded dramatically and the political system became more transparent.
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We have a rising middle class, especially in the Asia-Pacific region.
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If anybody&aposs in touch with the middle class it&aposs Trump.
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Chinese appetite for beef has climbed due to its expanding middle class.
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The middle class household no longer reigns supreme in U.S. political rhetoric.
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As the middle class has withered away, so has its electoral salience.
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No, I'm a threat to middle class families, that's what I am.
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I hear it can be pretty rough, were you upper middle class?
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Regardless, it has led to a decline in middle-class job opportunities.
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Middle-class blacks experience higher levels of pollution than low-income whites.
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JOHN HARWOOD: The stagnation of middle class incomes— V.P. JOE BIDEN: Yes.
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Macron's popularity, especially among the young middle class, is worrying his opponents.
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Ones targeted at the middle class and ones that are fiscally responsible.
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It totally brought up the standard of living in the middle class.
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Those are the sort of policies that will help the middle class.
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Despite the philosophies underpinning the sport, it's visibly white and middle class.
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Every group throughout the middle class had very unfavorable views toward welfare.
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The past several decades have been particularly rough for the middle class.
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Now, most American middle class retirement savings are in 401(k) plans.
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That would suck up vast amounts of wealth from the middle class.
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What was more, this middle class had a powerful new weapon: information.
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And here's the killer: Real middle-class wages are still flat-lining.
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Essentially, the middle class has not gotten a raise in 15 years.
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China's growing and increasingly influential middle class take a more pragmatic line.
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Those jobs provide a pathway to middle class prosperity for average Americans.
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"No doubt, my parents were hardworking, you know, middle class," she said.
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She remembers when the Goose was a tight-knit, middle-class village.
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Relying on one form of income could be costing middle-class workers.
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Kasich won Ohio by dominating among moderates and the upper-middle-class.
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The economic middle class is usually the driver of a country's politics.
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Clinton's proposal is part of her plans for middle-class tax relief.
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"The middle class in streaming is largely gone now," says Mr Porter.
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Middle-class ones tend to vote more, and are also pro-European.
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That felt like a fancy treat for an average middle class family.
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Fast-food work could be a middle-class job in this country.
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But they've been a bust for poor and middle-class Americans. Drs.
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Lower-income and struggling middle-class Americans will get hit the hardest.
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These people are upper middle-class white liberals to their very core.
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Are you abusing tax loopholes at the expense of middle-class families?
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Yet again supported by white, middle-class Brazilians, like many times before.
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In the end, Trump voters are mostly white, middle class, and Christian.
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To some degree, "middle-class" seems to be a state of mind.
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They were pitched as help for the middle class — specifically working families.
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For middle-class Tanzanians, though, a successful farmer trumps a successful academic.
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The new middle-class utopia did, of course, exclude most nonwhite Americans.
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At middle-class nuptials a 500-name guest list is not unusual.
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Her plan on paper does not raise taxes on middle class families.
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Are you abusing tax loopholes at the expense of middle class families?
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Trump has said he wants to cut taxes for the middle class.
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That Warren's plan won't raise taxes on the middle class is significant.
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They've argued that the cap hurts middle-class taxpayers in their districts.
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A new, confident middle class in, say, India and China often agrees.
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CNNMoney: Is the Trump tax plan a big win for middle class?
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" That's why some even say that "millionaire is the new middle-class.
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We often think of infertility as a white, upper-middle-class problem.
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Even as the national median income rises, the middle class is shrinking.
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Republicans have characterized their plan as a boon for the middle class.
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They grew up as middle-class children of the Depression in Philadelphia.
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How will a middle-class guy accept [you] if you accept money?
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This ultimately creates a real problem for the poor and middle class.
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His group defines middle-class as households with annual income below $100,000.
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The largest socioeconomic segment moving from California is the upper-middle class.
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He reiterated the "objective" is to lower taxes for middle class taxpayers.
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Here are the best cities for the middle-class, state by state.
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They want to cover up the middle class rebellion against cultural Marxism.
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Domestic tourism, bolstered by the growth of the middle class, is booming.
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By itself, again, this would genuinely constitute a middle-class tax cut.
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Something about his persona is extremely disconcerting to white, middle-class Americans.
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His middle-class background and cabinet experience would be seen as positives.
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Let's not forget that the middle class was built by organized labor.
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His trade policies are designed to benefit middle class, predominantly union, workers.
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"There aren't enough middle-class black folks to go around," Bill said.
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Kamala HarrisHarris wants to implement a tax credit for the middle class.
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About 1,300 homes were lost in Coffey Park, a middle-class neighborhood.
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Because we were middle class, there was not a ton of money.
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So why are lawmakers calling the temporary provisions "middle-class tax cuts"?
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Other factors contribute to the difficulties workers have reaching the middle class.
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The definition of 'middle class' varies wildly, depending on who you ask.
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That means singles making between $24,000 and $72,000 annually are middle class.
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And, sadly, for the middle class those things have all but vanished.
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He is the youngest of 11 children from a middle-class family.
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During most of that time, I've made a comfortable middle-class income.
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Sanders's plan released Sunday includes some tax increases on the middle class.
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The decline in national wealth hit the poor and middle class hardest.
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Only after World War II was being middle class the national norm.
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This will lead to less economic growth and a declining middle class.
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Most that are located in, or serving, middle-class households are struggling.
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Wage stagnation is the most glaring symptom of a declining middle class.
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The sunny reaches of upper-middle-class American life, in other words.
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The city is now shifting its focus toward middle-class Asian tourists.
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The real problem, Reeves tell us, lies with the upper-middle class.
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Meanwhile the middle class is being hollowed out, if not disappearing, entirely.
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The poor, middle class, and rich agree on 226 percent of policies.
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CERTAIN PLACES ARE SAYING IT DOESN'T BENEFIT THE MIDDLE-CLASS AT ALL.
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Free economies within music gut the middle class, not the upper class.
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Can upper-middle class rappers from Toronto even be real hip-hop?
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Democrats have vowed to fight for us and for the middle class.
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I was an only child in a traditional French middle-class family.
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She repeatedly contrasted his personal wealth with her own middle-class upbringing.
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His campaign has caught the imaginations of young and middle-class Pakistanis.
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Editorial "STOP the War on the Middle Class," said one marcher's sign.
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I've lived a middle-class life and grown up in good neighborhoods.
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There's a class of the poor, the middle class and the rich.
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Meanwhile there were astounding turnout surges in middle-class and affluent suburbs.
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Trump's plan would not actually cut taxes for many middle-class families.
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The middle class he supposedly cares so much about got token crumbs.
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President Trump is destroying health care for the poor and middle class.
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My personal Hawkins was the middle-class railroad town of Billings, Mont.
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Here's my suggestion: Paul Ryan's 2017 Tax Increase on Middle-Class Families.
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Mr. Javid also called for a crackdown on middle-class drug users.
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The percentage of lower-middle-class Americans dropped to 17 from 993.
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Do you think Sanders goes too far on middle-class tax increases?
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He is trying to tell us he cares about the middle class.
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The problem begins with the definition of middle class: There isn't one.
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In China, White Castle is there for the upwardly mobile middle class.
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Both are greatly concerned with the working middle class and working poor.
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Its modest tax cuts for the middle class disappear after eight years.
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But he was undone in a middle class revolt over the economy.
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Investment in the middle class and working class is what creates growth.
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Middle-class children today don't have much freedom to find such places.
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Businesses and middle-class Mexicans are hiring private security in record numbers.
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It would be a giant welfare program for the upper middle class.
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He cannot stop our ways to finance college for the middle class.
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Those price increases would make coverage unaffordable to many middle-class families.
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Her opponent, Katie Porter, maintains the tax law hurts middle-class families.
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My family is middle class, traditional, and I have 3 older sisters.
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"But if you're middle class, €5,000 is a lot," Mr. Dooney said.
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Our article reports those costs for poor, middle-class and rich families.
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The tax cut benefits corporations and the wealthy, not the middle class.
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The country's fitness-minded middle class isn't taking the matter sitting down.
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Exclusionary zoning practices allow the upper middle class to live in enclaves.
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These storied schools are largely responsible for the nation's black middle class.
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In theory at least, middle-class and affluent children are relatively safe.
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It was a shock to the middle class community of Eagle Rock.
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"The elite and the middle class are not coming apart," he writes.
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For a certain type of middle-class American, that might feel true.
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In 10 months, does the middle class think we cut their taxes?
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Go deeper: How middle class workers will pay for medicare-for-all
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This deal cannot be fixed with relative crumbs for middle-class families.
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Recovery or not, pay raises for middle-class Americans have been microscopic.
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However, the middle class people are going to receive child tax credits.
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" He declared it a "make-or-break moment for the middle class.
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Your voters want their children to remain middle class and self-supporting.
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His program to make child care more affordable for middle-class families.
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In short, this is the picture of a solidly middle class profession.
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But the Bay Area today is no picture of middle class stability.
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Middle-class wealth and security is not what it used to be.
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Is this the only answer for the American middle-class jobs challenge?
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The American economy may be booming, but its middle class is struggling.
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Some middle-class families, for example, build wealth by owning rental properties.
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The purpose of an economy is to build a robust middle class.
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Taxes on the poor and middle class have largely stayed the same.
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No, this is one program for one slice of the middle class.
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"America's middle class is under attack," Warren declares in the video announcement.
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Will you raise taxes on the middle class to pay for it?
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A stable middle-class life should be possible without a bachelor's degree.
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In fact, they are strikingly homogeneous: Largely upper-middle-class or rich.
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Most middle-class Milwaukeeans zoomed past the inner city on the freeway.
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My school is stereotyped as being the middle class drug infested school.
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American middle-class families are making less money in almost every state.
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Fourth, any tax reform should remember the needs of the middle class.
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The president's goal is cutting taxes for businesses and middle-class families.
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Its customer base depended on a stable middle class far from Detroit.
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They're fighting for politicians to actually prioritize the middle class for once.
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Like Basquiat, Michael Stewart was young, middle class, handsome, dreadlocked, and black.
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And such measures would make possible more support for the middle class.
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Trump said it was important to lower taxes for middle-class families.
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Food safety scandals have made middle-class buyers wary of buying domestically.
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How will lawmakers ensure a bill is focused on the middle class?
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What senator would vote for a tax increase on the middle class?
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However, this understandable corporate flight causes the middle class to hemorrhage jobs.
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Middle class households were also forking out more for education and healthcare.
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The principal justification is that the middle class deserves a tax cut.
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Give the middle class tax cuts already, and be done with it.
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"It has a decidedly middle-class and conservative bent," Jones-Brown said.
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The bailouts showered the crooks with money and gutted the middle class.
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Middle class families like you, and the neighborhood I grew up in.
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Kamala Harris of California wants new tax cuts for the middle class.
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These would be big payoffs for all Americans, especially the middle class.
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It is an agenda that puts workers and middle-class Americans first.
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Both Trump and Moore won by speaking clearly for the middle class.
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Among middle-class urbanites, it was normal to have sex outside marriage.
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The Ayyubs, accustomed to a middle-class existence, found their lives transformed.
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About the deepening anxieties of the middle class in many developed economies.
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That, he said, produced a bill that would burden the middle class.
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Go deeper: How middle class workers will pay for Medicare for All
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It's true that the middle class won't directly pay any new taxes.
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The global middle-class is not a replica of the U.S. consumer.
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This bill has been promoted as a boon for the middle class.
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I don't know when, 2170, 43 ... And a growing middle class. Right.
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For companies to seek new investment, they need a healthy middle class.
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That kids that come from 'good wholesome middle-class backgrounds' aren't safe.
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Tax breaks for the middle class and cash handouts to struggling farmers.
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Amy Klobuchar, Sherrod Brown and how to be a middle-class fighter.
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In Contrast, Hillary's corporatist trade deals would eviscerate the U.S. middle class.
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But he was undone in a middle-class revolt over the economy.
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This middle-class population doesn't get a huge amount of policy attention.
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Alberto picked me up at my apartment in middle-class Colonia Escandon.
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The price is lower if you come from a middle-class family.
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But now their kids, middle-class kids, are going to be affected.
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But these tax cuts weren't being given back to middle-class Oklahomans.
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" That includes things like "advancing community colleges" and "strengthening the middle class.
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His tax proposal would actually increase taxes for some middle-class families.
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Now, based on what he articulated more clearly than ever on CNBC this morning, Trump is attempting to create a base of support among middle class and lower middle class voters from all geographic segments of the country.
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This is a divide that truly began in America during the Vietnam War, which was protested and defended by the rich and upper middle class while the lower middle class and poor actually did the fighting in country.
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Today's average carpenter salary is at the very bottom of the middle class, which begins at about $40,000, according to Pew, and does not typically put a worker in a position to purchase the 1970s middle-class lifestyle.
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Making college free for the middle class was a repeated applause line in Philadelphia: "Bernie Sanders and I will work together to make college tuition-free for the middle class and debt-free for all!" said Mrs. Clinton.
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Of course, critics have jumped all over that, too, by pointing out that might only result in a 15 percent increase in money middle class and lower middle class earners keep because some other deductions would be eliminated.
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In an era when no politician of either party wants to cut retirement benefits for current seniors or raise taxes on the middle class, Cruz has quietly stumbled into proposing a gigantic tax increase on middle-class retirees.
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There's no way around around the fact that this was music by upper-middle class Brits targeted at upper-middle class American youth—and that many of the top big beat acts were glaringly white, straight, and male.
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The more results we achieve for people, the more we grow the middle-class and create real chances for those working hard to join the middle-class, the more people will grant you a license for further ambition.
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Among those who self-identified as lower-middle class, 68 percent said their parents also belonged to the lower-middle class, and 87 percent of people in the lower class said their parents were in the same class.
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To the Editor: I thought that I knew the narrative of my middle-class life, and so was surprised to recognize myself in Alissa Quart's article "The Power of the Middle-Class Shame Vote" (Sunday Review, Jan. 6).
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For middle-class and upper-middle-class families, the plan would result in a huge increase in monthly income, especially when kids are young and need diapers, cribs, strollers, and new clothes to replace quickly outgrown old ones.
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The Wall Street bottom-fisher told CNBC in June that the Trump "phenomenon" has happened because the middle class and lower middle class have not benefited from the economic rebound and because they are tired of political correctness.
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" He expands on the point, observing: "As the consequences of falling out of the upper middle class have worsened, so the incentives of the upper middle class to keep themselves, and their children, up at the top have strengthened.
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For all its efforts to represent a normal, middle-class American family, the show seems to be doing all it can to stay white, despite the fact that the middle class it seeks to represent is becoming increasingly diverse.
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Harris's platform will focus on the rising cost of living for middle-class Americans, her campaign said, proposing rent credits and tax breaks for low-income and middle-class families, as well as on immigration and criminal justice reform.
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And it's obvious that if part of your plan is permanent and part of it is temporary, and the part you made temporary is the part that helps the middle class, then helping the middle class wasn't your priority.
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According to the Nairobi county environment department, the city's middle class is increasingly showing an interest in protecting the environment – and avoiding traffic – with at least one in 10 middle class commuters now walking to work instead of driving.
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One of Harris's signature policy priorities, the LIFT the Middle Class Act, would give middle-class households a monthly cash payment amounting to as much as $4,000 per year for single people and $6,000 per year for married couples.
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"What's before us today … is not tax reform that prioritizes the middle class but a tax scheme that's a giveaway to the super rich and big corporations at the expense of some, even many, middle-class families," said Sen.
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First, the renewed effort to present the Obamacare repeal as tax relief for the middle class and lower middle class could be what it takes to get Republican senators like Maine's Susan Collins and Alaska's Lisa Murkowski on board.
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Sometimes, in middle-class and upper-middle-class homes, that someone is a nanny or a housekeeper, a woman — frequently a minority woman — who tends to the house and the children so that both parents can hold paying jobs.
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I am not part of the middle class — I grew up poor before achieving "The American Dream" by co-founding The Home Depot — but I spent my career helping middle-class Americans to achieve their personal and professional goals.
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The ad slams Republicans for failing to deliver policies that benefit the middle class and suggests that the Democrats are more committed to cutting taxes for the middle class and ensuring health coverage for people with pre-existing conditions.
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I am not persuaded that we can be saved by the return of a rational and public-spirited middle class, even if I knew exactly how to identify middle-class people, or to measure how well they are doing.
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The analysis found that nearly 30 percent of those in the middle class could see their taxes increase as a result of changes to the deductions and exemptions many middle-class Americans rely on to lower their tax bills.
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"I think the middle class would be better served by Hillary," he said.
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The result is the same — middle class gets shrunken and wages go down.
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Others arrive with professional qualifications and slot into the community&aposs middle class.
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For months, Trump has touted the bill as a middle-class tax cut.
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As noted, the AMT was not intended to be a middle-class tax.
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So, I think anything for the middle class is, of course, wonderful news.
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It's the greatest betrayal of the American middle class and, frankly, American life.
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They amount to one of the biggest middle-class tax hikes in history.
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Mine was one of the middle-class jobs Trump created, then subsequently destroyed.
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Unlike college grads, these people are not soon-to-be upper-middle class.
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Sanders didn't explain how the middle class specifically will do under his proposals.
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But where does that leave a white collar, middle class patriarch like Clark?
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Tiny dark figures bustle around as indistinguishable markers of a burgeoning middle class.
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Growth creates new businesses, new jobs, higher wages, and a stronger middle class.
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" Kamala Harris: "So, passing a middle-class working families tax cut, DACA, guns.
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To middle-class white women, work still seems like somewhat of a novelty.
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"My parents, middle-class parents, they told us: 'Go be great,'" she said.
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The idea that middle class taxes aren't going to go up and crazy.
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By the numbers: Only 1623% of jobs afford Americans a middle-class living.
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He has represented himself as the voice for the ailing American middle class.
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Consumer banking — selling debt to middle class families — has been a gold mine.
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"Marquerite was everything I wasn't—square and churchgoing and middle class," Simpson said.
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That's nearly flipped among Republican voters (63% think it benefits middle-class Americans).
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China's economy is still growing and lifting more people into the middle class.
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Already, some free community college initiatives have become magnets for middle-class students.
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Political relevance, like middle-class prosperity, is harder to sustain than once appreciated.
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But there is still growth, and there is still the emerging middle class.
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We are watching the elimination of our middle class without a shot fired.
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You can be middle class and still not have enough money for college.
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But that was predicated on the growing mass of the region's middle class.
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They are typically educated and on the cusp of the emerging middle class.
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It's going to raise taxes on middle class people, not just wealthy people.
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Middle class individuals believe that their investments in formal education determines their wealth.
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It brought development—a large middle class lived well—but also deep inequality.
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What we need is basically a Marshall plan basically for the middle class.
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Many of the victims hail from white middle-class suburbs and rural towns.
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His market is the fast-growing English-speaking middle class, not wine snobs.
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The Democratic candidates' focus has been on how to increase middle class incomes.
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Stagnating wages and rising debt levels exclude the middle class from socioeconomic prosperity.
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Inequalities have been exacerbated with many middle class families unable to afford property.
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Its primary targets will include middle-class families, women, millennial voters and minorities.
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And the only time America becomes sour is when middle-class incomes decline.
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I think they should go down for everybody, specifically for the middle class.
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Precocious children are often dismissed as the product of pushy, middle-class parents.
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Middle-class voters are in agreement with a surprising group of people: millionaires.
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Economically, the middle class is the heart of the U.S. consumption-led economy.
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Over 70% live in cities, where an educated Indian middle class has emerged.
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The Indian middle class conjured up by the marketers and consultants scarcely exists.
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Her mother's generation prioritized straightened hair as a symbol of middle-class values.
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The Columbus area resembles much of the upper middle class white-collar Northeast.
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Mr Lema hopes to win middle-class customers with his pricier pineapple drink.
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His implication, however, that a shrinking middle class caused that number is misleading.
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Williams grew up in an upper-middle-class neighborhood and goes to Georgetown.
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But Taiwan succeeded economically, producing a middle class that began pushing for reform.
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Blacks make up 50% of the country's middle class, according to recent research.
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The company ran an ad accusing the mayor of hurting middle-class families.
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And will new occupations pay enough for a middle class standard of living?
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The level of annual income Americans said it takes to be middle-class.
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A significant majority of survey respondents, nearly 278 percent, consider themselves middle-class.
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The media will not talk about why the middle class continues to decline.
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Meanwhile, India has gotten more middle class, the youth have become more aspirational.
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There is now a middle class which practically didn't exist in the 1990s.
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They also found that middle-class communities of color are impacted the most.
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Higher fuel prices bother the poorest and expensive housing irks the middle class.
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There are few factors to stimulate spending among the middle class as well.
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But as more people join the middle class, labor is getting more expensive.
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President Trump incorrectly blamed immigration for economic hardships faced by middle-class families.
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Her plan also does not raise middle class taxes, another distinction with Sanders.
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He said you're going to have to raise taxes on the middle class.
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I don't want middle class tax payers to see a huge rate increase.
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It reflects the gradual thinning out of good-paying, middle-class U.S. jobs.
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If you are the middle class and you can't meet your daily needs.
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Crystal meth is mostly consumed by middle-class party-goers in developed countries.
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A middle-class family with two children will get a 35% tax cut.
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ShyShy was also from a lower-middle-class black family with no money.
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And like other exports, this spending drives US growth and middle-class employment.
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Fischer cited demand from China's increasingly urbanized population and its rising middle class.
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"A lot of China's rising middle class loves US brands," said SunTrust's Lerner.
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So any bill that limits that deductibility is squarely nailing the middle class.
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It is the middle-class who will suffer most from the price hike.
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The outcome of those discussions will likely be bad for the middle class.
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