By my estimates the lower-middle class is being systemically priced out of American health care.
For now, the poor and lower-middle class together account for 75% of total spending.
Manufacturing, one of the city's largest employers of the lower-middle class, has disappeared almost altogether.
Training for these volunteers - "nearly all ill-educated, unemployed lower-middle-class youths full of enthusiasm" - is laughably inadequate.
While most discussions of slang focus on the lower and lower-middle classes, the gentry, too, have their argot.
Foreign investment is pouring in, attracted by a market boosted by falling poverty and a swelling lower-middle class.
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Lower-middle-income countries will also forge forward but only if we invest in the right technologies to avoid severe climate change.
The party that once relied for its votes on lower-middle-class state employees, especially in the south, is now arguing for privatisation.
At heart, he was still a state college kid who grew up in a lower-middle class home, the son of an electrician.
In India, the middle class is largely a new political movement as the lower-middle class plays a significant part in general elections votes.
The surge was accelerated by the financial crisis and mortgage meltdown, which put many lower-middle class families out of their homes, economists have said.
Strife is getting more common in lower-middle income countries, and weak government is at least as big a predictor of violence as poverty itself.
One is that the class solidarity of those who created and sustained the revolution, many of whom came from provincial lower-middle-class backgrounds, has dissipated.
Do U.S. presidents really want to orchestrate price increases, real income declines, and cost of living increases for middle-class and lower-middle class American families?
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All of the 7- to 12-year-olds are from lower-middle to upper-middle socioeconomic communities, said Harrison, a professor of communication studies at the University of Michigan.
It is a 1970 picture of a small tricycle, shot like the Ford truck from a low angle, with two lower-middle-class ranch-style houses in the background.
Born into respectable poverty in the tropical lowlands, he saw the army as a route to advancement as do so many lower-middle-class provincial youths in Latin America.
Of the area's 25m households, he is chasing just 9m, mainly the lower-middle classes, who tend to watch more television and care more about its cost.
Another was that Yiddish theater brought middle-class German Jews into the same theater with lower-middle-class Russian Jews, to see the same dramas and hear the same music.
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His mainly lower-middle-class, middle-aged audience listens with rapt attention.
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Rising housing costs in Shanghai, Beijing and Guangzhou have exacerbated the problem of rising inequality in China, as the major city centers become unaffordable to many middle class and lower-middle class Chinese.
"What is going to happen is lower and lower-middle income families squeezed out of downtown and glamorous suburban locations are going to be pushed economically into these McMansions at the suburban fringe, " said Nelson.
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From its foundation in 1959, until 1979, Dawa was Iraq's largest Shia party, seeking to bridge the gap between the Shia clergy and the Shia lower-middle class, many of whom took a shine to communism.
Robert Irwin, from the School of Oriental and African Studies, says the stories were written to entertain in normal, conversational Arabic of the late Middle Ages - and were aimed at the tradesmen and the lower-middle classes.
Selectronic recruits from its lower-middle-class Delhi neighbourhood.
The actor Tony Goldwyn, directing his first movie, and working from a fine screenplay by Pamela Gray, beautifully captures a moment in which the straitened moral world of the lower-middle-class Jewish characters is beginning to open up with necessarily painful results.
Though he reminded lawmakers of the Fed's first responsibility to maintain a healthy economy, he also sought to assure them that the Fed has a role in working with financial advisers serving lower- and lower-middle income communities to try to help them identify strategies to help.
But the small Perkins Loan Program, which helps lower-income and lower middle-income students, was spared.
How does that help lower- and middle-class families struggling to make ends meet?
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