So, if we know that a higher education is the clearest path to the middle class, why would we make it harder to achieve?
Keeping interest rates on student loans low would allow more Americans to get: a fair shot at an affordable college education, the skills they need to find a good job, and a clear path to the middle class.
And with that bill -- and the Tuition Assistance program -- last year we supported more than 550, 000 veterans and 325, 000 servicemembers who are pursuing a higher education. (Applause.) Because a higher education is the clearest path to the middle class.
The push to put people in homes and save the casualties of housing downturns has caused a gradual long-term divergence between housing prices and incomes, paradoxically putting us on an inexorable path to redefine the middle class as property-less.
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We also know, though, that there is no surer path to success in the middle class than a good education.
If ATC is busy and clearance cannot be obtained to fly through the Class Bravo airspace, it is still possible to fly the Bay Tour: execute a left Dumbarton departure heading toward Half Moon Bay, follow the coastline all the way to the Golden Gate Bridge, then east to the Bay Bridge and retrace your path back to PAO staying under Class Bravo airspace throughout.
Higher education, whether it's a four-year college or two years at a community college, is the clearest path we've got to the middle class.
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That fiscal year 2011 budget focuses on three things: job creation, middle class security, and putting the nation back on a path to fiscal sustainability.
Her name was (and is) Anne Marie, and I met her in our senior seminar in packaging science, the class where you finally stake your claim and choose your path, et cetera.
Imagine, for a moment, an obscure scribbler today in a garret somewhere trying to outline an ideology of the future that could provide a realistic path toward a world with healthy middle-class societies and robust democracies.
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We had seen jobs shipped overseas so that the traditional path for a lot of folks into the middle class through manufacturing jobs -- that was gone.
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All the themes of upper-class English life are here: sex and incest, class, inequality and the enduring tussle over whether the best path to success is through hard work or effortless charisma.
On Thursday night, I will offer what I believe is a better path forward -- a path that will create good jobs and strengthen our middle class and grow our economy.
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There is a rising class of individuals, organizations and countries putting themselves on the Garden Mindset path.
They appear to have chosen an economic path that essentially penalizes their own middle and upper-middle class residents, believing that keeping up public spending, including on public employee pensions, represents the best way to boost their economy.
The parameters of a deal are clear, and the President is willing to continue to work with Republicans to reach a bipartisan solution that averts the fiscal cliff, protects the middle class, helps the economy, and puts our nation on a fiscally sustainable path.
Now, this Thursday night, I will offer you what I believe is a better path forward -- a path that grows this economy, creates more good jobs, strengthens the middle class.
There were never doubts for Kentucky, whose path to New Orleans has been clear ever since coach John Calipari inked a freshman class full of pre-fab, plug-and-play basketball Brahmins.
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Just hours after the Class of 2011 walked across this stage, the most powerful tornado in six decades tore a path of devastation through Joplin that was nearly a mile wide and 13 long.
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It's the surest path to finding a good job, earning a good salary, making it into the middle class.
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So the President believes that the opportunity is there, the parameters of a deal are clear, the path to a compromise is clear, and he hopes that the Republicans will meet him on that path and do something that would be very good for the American people, for the middle class, and for our economy.
With the support of family, friends and teachers, Sonia earned scholarships to Princeton, where she graduated at the top of her class, and Yale Law School, where she was an editor of the Yale Law Journal, stepping onto the path that led her here today.
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