Considered as a group of consumers, a middle class created by the state is unlikely to behave any differently from a private-sector middle class.
It is rarer to find a middle-income state in which law and order once existed but later failed.
That leaves the battle for Florida heavily contested in a handful of counties in the middle of the state: a region often referred to as the I-4 corridor after Interstate-4, which runs from the Tampa Bay region in the west through Orlando in the inland centre to Daytona Beach on the east coast.
The Future Home is in the middle of a state park in Phoenix, Md.
Brazil offers a case study in the differences between a middle class created by the state and one that owes more to the private sector.
But almost one in five (19%) said that being middle age is a state of mind, rather than something that begins at a certain age.
New York's state legislature is in the middle of negotiating a new franchise to see who will operate the state's three thoroughbred racetracks.
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And in that vision, he does see an Israeli state, our good friend Israel, that is secure, where it is fully recognized and accepted that Israel has the right to exist within secure borders, where terrorism has been wiped out as a factor in the Middle East, and where the Palestinian people have a state in which they can determine their own fate and their own future.
The progressive fantasy, shared by most American voters, is that a modern welfare state with expansive middle-class benefits can be sustained.
Mike Gapes, deputy chairman of Labour friends for Israel, said Mr Sharon's plan gives "the beginnings of a possibility" of some movement towards a two state solution for the Middle East.
We will work tirelessly with you as partners for peace in the Middle East: for a two state solution that provides for nothing less than a secure Israel safe within its borders existing side by side with a viable Palestinian state.
Turkey remains for many protesters across the Middle East a beacon, a democratic state they can only dream of.
In his first speech accepting the concept of a two-state solution for the Middle East conflict, Netanyahu set rigid conditions for moving forward.
They will discuss a variety of issues, as they always do -- regional issues as well as King Abdullah's important leadership role in the region, notably through his pursuit of our shared goal of a two-state solution through the Middle East peace process.
But obviously there is a lot of work that remains to be done so that we can create a two-state solution in the Middle East in which we have an Israel that is secure and fully accepted by its neighbors, and a Palestinian people that have their own state, self-determination, and the ability to chart their own destiny.
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As tension between the US and EU and Iran heats up, as a tenuous peace dialogue plods along in the Middle East, and as the withdrawal from Iraq continues, a state stuck in between these conflicts with unclear alliances can be a powder keg, unless Brussels changes its mind.
His words came as Secretary of State Colin Powell wrapped up a Middle East trip that fell short of any significant steps toward peace but "made progress" in that direction.
Colin Powell, America's secretary of state, has embarked on a Middle Eastern tour and all this diplomacy is designed to shore up a truce painstakingly negotiated earlier in the month by George Tenet, the director of the CIA. So much for Mr Bush's hands-off policy.
The legislation expands the Medicaid program for low-income Americans and provides subsidies for middle-income families getting coverage through a state health insurance exchange.
And he said that it's Barack Obama's economic message that is resonating with middle class voters in his state, a traditionally Republican state, that Barack Obama has a real shot at this year.
On Sunday the state-run China News Agency said a middle school in the nearby town of Baoxing had been heavily damaged.
Darius is now earning his aircraft mechanics license at the Tennessee Technology Center and plans to attend college before taking a job with FedEx, and Wesley is studying at Middle Tennessee State University.
As a part of that plan, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell is crafting a speech that "will clarify its (the U.S.) views on an end result" to the Middle East crisis and the eventual "creation of a Palestinian state, " officials said.
At heart, he was still a state college kid who grew up in a lower-middle class home, the son of an electrician.
OBAMA'S DECISION shows that he has not allowed reality to interfere with his perception of the absence of a Palestinian state as the most urgent problem he faces in the Middle East.
If Republicans want to avoid repeating this mistake, they will have to first and foremost push back against Democratic plans to turn Medicaid--the joint federal-state health insurance for the poor--into a middle-class entitlement by expanding eligibility in the name of covering the uninsured.
Not only was he asked by the Clinton administration to help train and certify all Muslim military chaplains, his organization being the first to do so, but he also was appointed by the State Department in 1997 as a goodwill ambassador to the Middle East, making six taxpayer-funded trips.
He's director of the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution and a former assistant secretary of state for Near East Affairs.
Last May, for example, the secretary of state, Madeleine Albright, presented a plan to revive the Middle East peace process, complete with an ultimatum for its acceptance by Israel and the Palestinians.
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The man who is almost certainly going to be the next US secretary of state has given a broad hint that getting another round of Middle East peace talks going will be one of his top priorities.
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