Marriage means two incomes at a time when most Americans find two incomes essential to earning a middle-class livelihood.
Considering no one can save every dime they earn, not even quarter-millionaires, all bets are off that a guy earning that standard middle class pay is going to become rich in his or her lifetime.
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He could care less about the embattled middle-class UAW workers earning more than a hundred grand.
And if we have a situation in which middle-class people are earning a decent living, where we've got bottom-up economic growth, then I think that's good for everybody.
Between 2003 and 2011, about 30 million Brazilians joined the so-called "new middle class, " earning between GBP100 and GBP400 per capita per month, and gaining access to formal sector employment, credit, and the country's large consumer market.
The most pathetic of these victims are the high-earning slobs who live middle-class life-styles because of the high costs in cities where they must work and the draining expense of things like child care.
Although mother and children spent the summer in the country, the bread-earning fathers (usually lower middle class then) took the long bus ride from the city on Friday evening and returned on Sunday afternoon.
About 300 of the roughly 46, 000 students who took the class with an MIT professor filed into test-taking centers around the world in the hopes of earning a "proctored honor certificate" from the class signed by the professor.
Camping out for tickets for the games against UNC and Maryland in Krzyzewskiville on the muddy ground outside of Cameron Indoor Stadium is a rite of passage, as important a requirement for earning a Duke diploma as your 34 class credits.
Today Haitian youth confront a number of challenges that prevent them from earning a living that would support a middle class lifestyle.
We have a high-achieving class that happens to be high-earning.
Really what it had offered investors what this cash-cow aspect, this large cash-earning and little-maintenance-capex-requiring asset class.
It's the surest path to finding a good job, earning a good salary, making it into the middle class.
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Because at this moment, we must both restore confidence in our markets--and restore the confidence of middle class families, who find themselves working harder, earning less and falling further and further behind.
Democrats, eager to align themselves with middle-class voters, quickly assailed Romney for paying a low tax rate while earning millions of dollars.
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As a result, by 2009, these Reagan Republican tax policies led to the middle 20% of income earners, the true middle class, paying only 2.7% of all federal income taxes, while earning 15% of before-tax income.
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In sharp contrast, in that same year, the middle 20% of income earners, the true middle class, paid 2.7% of total federal individual income taxes on net, while earning 15% of before-tax income.
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