The Economist recently defined middle class as the point where people have roughly a third of their income left for discretionary spending after paying for basic food and shelter.
In addition to income measurement, a research team led by Professor Zhou Xiaohong in Nanjing University further defined middle class occupations as professionals in management and technology, entrepreneurs, private business owners, and civil servants (meaning government officials).
Audiences remarked on the poignancy of his struggling youths, who seem always to be searching for something to value in an America defined largely by class.
Fully 52% defined themselves as middle class, with aspirational values to match.
In 2000 and 2004, Mr Bush got the vote of a majority of the white working class (here defined as whites without a college degree).
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As defined by CSR, the middle class made up some 15% of the population.
Middle and lower class eating patterns were defined by working hours.
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The conservative majority might find a way to craft a new rule limiting such class actions to more narrowly defined groups.
Instead, there may be something to be gained by leaning less on modern gurus who pontificate about such things as best in class and more toward Aristotle, who defined virtue not in terms of maximum excellence, but as a habit of choosing the mean lying between the extremes.
But charters also need to attract one class of candidates who are likely to be very keen on defined-benefit pensions: teachers who have already accrued years of pensionable service in public schools, and who want to keep accruing service so they can reach that rich third decade.
Recently, with our colleagues in BBC Lab UK, we developed the class calculator which told you which of seven new classes you were as defined by new research.
Even if our success is as part of a team effort, we are each unique and can never be defined by a label bestowed upon us by others or by being forced into a group or class.
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