Republicans blithely shipped jobs for lower-middle-class Americans off to India.

共和党人还轻率地将下层中产阶级的工作机会转移至印度，公司的利润上升了———很好！

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For now, the poor and lower-middle class together account for 75% of total spending.

目前，穷人和中低阶层占消费总数的75%。

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Tens of millions of Latin Americans have climbed out of poverty and joined a swelling lower-middle class.

上千万拉美人走出贫困，称为了正在壮大的次中产阶级的一员。

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Two liberal House Democrats, Lynne Woolsey and Barbara Lee, said on Wednesday they intend to fightto keep this public option in, along with other steps to protect lower and middle-income Americans and hold insurance companies accountable.

VOA: standard.2009.12.24

This is a sign of my economic status: I don't have to work. It is middle and lower-class women who do not get to observe purdah in this way.

但这恰好是我经济地位的标志：,我不需要工作，只有中下阶层的女人,才像这样不遵守深闺的习俗。

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Members of the House Progressive Caucus have vowed to fight to keep this public option in any final legislation that emerges, along with other provisions they say are needed to protect lower and middle-income Americans and hold insurance companies accountable.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

By my estimates the lower-middle class is being systemically priced out of American health care.

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For now, the poor and lower-middle class together account for 75% of total spending.

ECONOMIST: India's consumers

Manufacturing, one of the city's largest employers of the lower-middle class, has disappeared almost altogether.

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