Drivers, mostly white and middle class, honked their horns and gave thumbs-up in support.
Ditto for whether the absolute standard of living of the poor and middle class improves or declines.
Rising income disparity has threatened to price out many working and middle class Chinese from the coastal cities.
This remark would seem to have been spot-on on two counts, for both men are black and middle class.
It was a great time to be white and male and middle class.
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The state-by-state reports below show the impact the sequester will have on jobs and middle class families across the country.
The recently enacted sequestration cuts will further fuel the disparity between corporate America, the wealthy and middle class, and the poor.
Tax hikes on the poor and middle class are minuscule compared to the increases on the most productive small business owners.
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He also promised that it would be neutral in terms of distribution: the relative positions of the rich, poor and middle class would not change.
Early indications are that he will focus on the economy and talk in particular about turning the nation back towards the middle class and middle-class values.
In the process, they do not have to give up preserving paradise, but focus as well on creating economic opportunity for the emerging working and middle class majority.
The Greatest Generation had the can-do attitude and forged the Greatest infrastructure and middle class prosperity in the history of the world with top tax rates of 70% to 90%.
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These supporters believe that entitlements are fine as long as the rich pay for them, but what happens when the poor and middle class are called to the table to pay?
The costs to the affluent and middle class in wasted dollars and hours of emotional hardship can be minimized with proper planning and action, informs the NAEPC Education Foundation news release.
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"More city graduates and middle class families are burdened by student loans than ever before and are struggling to repay a higher amount of debt than ever before, " Gillibrand said in a statement.
One is it makes no sense to pass into law a payroll tax cut for working and middle-class Americans and have it paid for in a way that hurts working and middle-class Americans.
While Obamacare includes new health insurance welfare to help pay that cost, the net that working and middle class taxpayers would have to pay is still like a new payroll tax or income tax.
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It's not surprising that Ryan's budget plan, which cuts programs for the poor and middle class while imposing no new taxes on the rich, has been criticized by some in the Roman Catholic Church.
As a thought leader, Larry has urged us to confront the problems of income inequality and the middle class squeeze, consistently arguing that the key to a strong economy is a strong and growing middle class.
Cuomo said other measures include tax breaks for small business, corporations and middle class families that will take effect not in the budget being negotiated now, but in the 2014-15 budget, which includes the election year for Cuomo and lawmakers.
More recent immigrants have tended to come from lower-skill trades, and the community is a mix of the working and middle class, said Mr. Lavarro, adding that concerns about crime and the draw of the suburbs have led some to leave.
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The jobs you discribe here are middle class jobs and middle class people have to watch thier money even more so then the poor because the poor are already poor so it can almost all but get better for them but middle class live on a line that can break them into being poor class with one financial crisis.
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Everywhere in the developed world, the decline of mass-production industries has put pressure on the roles and incomes of working-class and middle-class men.
And so what you end up with in New York City, is a very small number of very good schools that serve largely middle, and upper middle class kids - and then a large number of not-so-good schools that serve mostly poor kids.
More and more working class and lower middle class people will see no point in saving through the government's voluntary pension schemes: savings cannot be extended down the income scale by clever tax vehicles, but only by reform of the welfare state to make saving worthwhile.
And everything we've done over the last four years has been designed to figure out how we can restore that sense that we've got a strong and broad and deep middle class, and that there are ladders of opportunity for people to get into the middle class.
And the question now is whether Republicans will vote to raise taxes on the middle class and hold the middle class hostage on the insistence that the wealthiest Americans continue to get tax breaks that contributed mightily already to our deficits, which in this economic environment they do not need.
The expansion of government and service industries has opened new opportunities for women, of which working-class and middle-class men seem less able to avail themselves.
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