No other state is quite like this: in the electorate as a whole, the white working class adds up to perhaps 40% of the voters.

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The fact that posted comments are there to stay and for everyone to see, makes every component of the group to ensure that whatever information is submitted, adds value to the rest of the class.

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"You don't expect the income of the middle class in Africa to be the same as the United States, but it shouldn't be so overstretched that it may lose its meaning, " he adds, noting that the African middle class should define itself not only in relation to the continent but also in relation to international standards of consumption.

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Little adds the tax fails to match Hong Kong's image as a world-class city and that some of his clients are now thinking about leaving.

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All this adds up to less debt, but at the cost of a slimmed-down middle class.

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