In a landmark study, the Brookings Institution found that young adults who finish high school, get a full-time job and wait until age 21 to get married and have children have just a 2% chance of falling into poverty and a 74% chance of ending up in the middle class.

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Its central relationship, between an upper-middle-class man and his working-class lover, has been described as sentimental, its happy ending dismissed as wish-fulfilment.

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Furthermore, young adults who violate all three conditions have a 76% chance of ending up in poverty and only a 7% chance of making it to the middle class.

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For example, it's tougher to certify a class seeking monetary compensation or punitive damages than it is to certify one that just requests a court order ending a defendant's wrongdoing, said Elizabeth Chamblee Burch, a law professor at Florida State University.

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