As the participation by Italian shareholders in American class-action suits against Parmalat show, litigiousness is not a trait confined to America.
Being content with your station is, of course, antithetical to the American class system, which presents itself, with some justification, as a meritocracy.
For generations, it was the great American working class, the great American middle class that made our economy the envy of the world.
Radically reducing the price of products that people depend on helps create a middle class with cash to spare and it can help reset the American middle class.
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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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The American middle class has been hit hard by the ongoing global economic crisis.
Between elections, most members of the American middle class can go about their lives with little distraction from Washington.
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Malveaux also notes that the sharp decrease in black poverty since the 1960 has created a strong African American middle class.
Any examination of Mr Vidal's background dispels the old canard that there is no such thing as an American upper class.
Greenberg believes that only by massively expanding government programs for the American middle class can the Democrats become a natural majority party.
By definition, the American middle class has to pay its own way.
It's unions like yours that forged the American middle class -- that great engine of prosperity, the greatest that the world has ever known.
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They met, and fell in love, in an American citizenship class.
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In the new conversation, marriage and thrift, the two great engines of the American middle class since the nation's founding, stand best when they stand together.
American middle class families are gouged by high health costs, high motoring costs, high communications costs and companies escaping commoditization by (quite legitimately) inflating their brand proposition.
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Of course, his standards of rich in the Brazil of the 1990s was more like the Hollywood depiction of the American middle class in movies like Home Alone.
With sustainable demand and rising aspirations of a growing Latin American middle class, housing stocks serving that region are likely to prove more attractive than their U.S. counterparts for some time.
Six decades ago, Detroit was a city of nearly two million people brimming with factory jobs that offered immigrants from the South and abroad a pathway into the American middle class.
From this vantage point, Codevilla was able to get a close look not only at the international relations elite, but at the entire American ruling class, from which the former are overwhelmingly drawn.
Much like the forgotten American middle class, small businesses are the backbone of America, and they receive far less government attention than big business, despite the fact that they actually employ more people.
Here it must be remembered that the wages and salaries of the solid American middle class have been relatively stagnant in recent years and are likely to remain so for the next decade.
But he remains -- while adhering to his principles -- hopeful that we can get a bigger deal, because it would be of such great benefit to the economy and to the American middle class.
As Reich points out in his video, the decline in the American middle class has led to a strange phenomenon, whereby the victims of the policy identify politically with the folks who caused the problem.
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It can help explain why the so-called median American voter, a concept used in political science literature, seems so angry at this time, looking around for culprits behind the economic predicament of the American middle class.
The American middle class is falling into obscurity with nary a wimper, lost in its own self interest and unable to work together as a single force, making us mostly to blame for our own demise.
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The viability of the American middle class seems to be thrown into question now and as you may have noticed there are now many people that are questioning the strength of our future as a leading nation.
The great American middle class, which has the most to lose when Big Government supplants the private sector, will be energetically demanding some of the very policies that will crush the life out of the economy.
The US president has gone to Kansas to make a big economic speech, saying this is a make or break moment for the American middle class and that the ongoing debate about tax is "the defining issue of our time".
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