Within a generation, the middle class in China will be roughly four times the size of the American middle class population, according to the UN Population Division and Goldman Sachs.
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Around 130 million people in Indonesia qualify as middle class, according to the World Bank.
Born in the Bronx, Picower grew up solidly middle class, according to his sister, Emily Cohen.
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Yet, according to Mr Varma, the Indian middle class shows little inclination to fight the corruption, bad governance and incompetence that hold back the poor and block upward mobility through education.
According to a recent McKinsey report, Africa already has more middle-class consumers than India, which has a larger population.
According to the AFDB report, members of Africa's growing middle class are better educated than their poor counterparts and tend to have salaried jobs or small businesses.
Meanwhile, independent voters say they are more likely to vote Republican, by a margin of 10%, according to YouGov. The Democrats trail among white, male, middle-class voters in particular.
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According to the renowned consulting firm McKinsey, twenty years ago, the global middle class was comprised of roughly one billion people.
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In Britain, according to one estimate published in The Financial Times this week, the typical middle-class working household will be 720 pounds worse off in real terms in 2012 than in 2009.
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Their reach doesn't generally include the small lots damaged in lower- and middle-class neighborhoods, which will be rebuilt mostly through local contractors, according to Gieber.
According to Nakia Jean Lozoya, a marketing assistant at Tustin-based Peak Power Solutions, middle-class homeowners are leading the charge towards 100 percent renewable energy in Orange County.
According to the folks at Pew, fully a third of Americans now admit they are either of lower middle class or flat out lower class economic status, an increase of 25% since 2008.
So what we end up with is upper-middle-class taxpayers paying the highest actual percentage of their income, over 31%, according to a 2010 study by the group Citizens for Tax Justice.
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