Education is key, but giving Americans the ability to negotiate for decent, middle-class wages is also important, especially in an economy that is increasingly outsourcing everything from tech-support to animation to legal services.

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But most commentators agree that economic class is also an important factor.

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But it is also important for a number of broader principles and strategies in the realm of class action litigation that could affect thousands more future plaintiffs and defendants.

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