All these things -- health care security, American manufacturing, rebuilding America and putting construction workers back to work, making sure our kids are getting a great education and can afford college -- all these things that make up a middle-class life, they all tie together.
Perhaps most importantly, the middle class has influenced the aims and make-up of the party itself.
The Senate has already passed a bill that would make sure that middle-class taxes do not go up next year by a single dime.
And the choice I make is not asking middle-class families to give up their home mortgage deduction or tax credits they get for raising their kids just to pay for a tax cut for me.
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The protesters argue that politicians, too, have ignored kidnapping because its victims make up a relatively small middle-class constituency.
Just before we got here, Congress did the right thing and voted to make sure that taxes would not go up on middle-class families at the end of this month. (Applause.) Congress also agreed to extend unemployment insurance for millions of Americans -- maybe some of your family members -- who are still out there looking for a job.
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We've got to make sure that taxes don't go up on middle-class families, that our economy remains strong, that we're creating jobs.
That wasn't nearly enough to make up for a 3.1% decline in first-class mail, still the main revenue driver.
Those steps alone won't make up for the economic security -- insecurity that middle-class families have lost over the past decade.
The ten students make up the first class of the Ambassador Andrew Young International Scholars program, a newly-established scholarship program which is founded and funded by Capernaum Trust, a Christian charity which Masiyiwa funds.
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' He said 'Travis, let's go buy 10 Mercedes S-Classes, let's go hire 20 drivers, let's get parking garages and let's make it so us and a hundred friends could push a button and an S-Class would roll up, for only us, in the city of San Francisco, where you cannot get a ride.
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And we are going to stand up this bureau and make sure it is doing the right thing for middle-class families all across the country.
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