Gregory Rodriguez, of Pepperdine University, has found that by 1990 more than half the households of American-born Latinos and about a third of those of foreign-born Latinos were middle-class, in the sense that they owned their own homes.
About half of them will never get out in my opinion: they will end up in the destitute and hopeless class, couchsurfing and scrounging off their still-surviving friends for a while before finally giving up their sense of middle-class identity and accepting their new lives in trailers, tent cities or on the streets.
An ESM bailout would classify Spain as a second-class borrower in a formal sense and actually delay its rehabilitation.
Those who do not attend college are second-class citizens in a cultural sense first, and in an economic one only second.
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The Watergate babies continued to hold class meetings, but their original sense of mission and cohesion drained away.
And of course, long before this recession hit, for a decade middle-class families had been experiencing a sense of declining economic security.
With its stunning Renaissance art and architecture on view in well-proportioned squares and in world-class museums, there is a sense of elegance and permanence that helps root all who live here.
"At a time when we absolutely must cut where we can, looking at ways we can close special tax breaks that aren't targeted to help the middle class or our economy just makes sense, " Sen Murray said at a hearing last week.
Rebuilding that sense of security the middle class has felt slipping away for years.
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Given the current dire state of the Conservative Party, it may make some sense to bribe middle-class interest groups, even at the price of broader credibility.
If you are the kind of person who would ever consider buying a premium airline seat, it does not make sense to not go first class with a Derby package.
Mr. JACK LISSAUER (NASA): This is likely to be or plausibly the first rocky planet around a normal star other than the sun, and in that sense it's a class of planets like Earth.
He is a member of the first generation of working-class Britons to have received a college education, which fostered in them a sense of possibility that was thwarted by the country's rigidly stratified class system.
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They are steps we have to take if we want to build an economy that lasts, if we want to be able to compete with other countries for jobs that restore a sense of security to middle-class families.
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Two first-class stamps will have illustrations from Pride And Prejudice and Sense And Sensibility.
And long before this recession hit -- for a decade -- middle-class families had already been expensing -- experiencing a sense of declining economic security.
And this makes sense, because in general, the middle class are more dependent on things like mortgage interest and state and local tax deductions than their wealthy brethren, and the elimination of those deductions would have punished those taxpayers to a greater extent than they would have benefited from the 20% reduction in their tax rate.
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Adam Smith, who described Britain as a nation of shopkeepers, had a keen sense of what could be expected of the middle class.
And if you were white and working class, listen to the songs of Bruce Springsteen to get a sense of the frustrations.
Yet his anger at what he sees as the cluelessness of the governing class hasn't dampened his zest for life, or his sense of wonder at such transformations as the tatty dog track of his youth giving way to a resplendent Olympic stadium.
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From a branding and customer-appeal perspective, it makes good business sense to create interiors that are instantly recognizable and world-class.
He is willing to make hard choices, however, but he will make hard choices that make sense for the economy and for our seniors and our middle class and our students and families with disabled children.
Created by process of omission in 1913 and hyped up post WWII to make homeownership available to the middle class (when there was one), the mortgage interest deduction once made sense.
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But in the long term, it means recognizing that for a lot of middle-class families -- for entire communities, in some case -- a sense of economic security has been missing since long before the recession began.
But what always impresses me about Cambridge is the sense that all kinds of bridges are now being built between world-class science in the university and the commercial world.
The Askernish controversy has been portrayed as a class conflict, between struggling crofters and wealthy golfers, but the distinction makes no sense on South Uist, since virtually everyone on the island has at least one croft.
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.
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.
In a sense, they are a continuation of the strategy that made it a world-class airline: back in the 1970s it was the first to offer all passengers free drinks and head-sets, in defiance of the airline cartel that insisted on charges for such items.
My own sense is that premiums will be lower than Foster projects, but still too high for CLASS to work.
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