Hold our representatives accountable to every constituent, regardless of economic class or insider access.
Conservative members of Congress oppose all tax increases and particularly if it would single out of an economic class.
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And regardless of their socio-economic class, you can see some differences, but it's not predominantly enough to separate them as a people.
But most commentators agree that economic class is also an important factor.
The dirt on the feet indicated the lack of social status, the level of economic class and the level of education and lack of sophistication and intellect.
It is so powerful that participants at the 2012 World Economic Forum at Davos declared it a new class of economic asset, like currency or gold.
"It could happen quickly as part of a middle class economic relief package, " he worries.
If so, they hold one kind of middle-class economic interests.
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According to the folks at Pew, fully a third of Americans now admit they are either of lower middle class or flat out lower class economic status, an increase of 25% since 2008.
More importantly, continued policy focus on income redistribution perpetuates the idea that income inequality is the root of middle class economic problems, rather than the effect, allowing for the continued avoidance of the deep-rooted structural issues in the U.S. economy.
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Using a social network, one of the single most powerful tools since the Internet arrived on the scene, as a platform to narrow an audience to salacious gossip, defeats the purpose of opening up our world to everyone, regardless of socio-economic status or class.
Instead, Obama is trying to change an economic debate that has been focused on deficits and on managing the national debt to one about middle-class opportunities and economic growth.
"There is an imperative on republicans, challenging though it may be, to build alliances on social and economic issues with working class loyalists and unionists, " he said.
They strengthen economic security for middle class families.
The lack of change over this period indicates that while the Bush-era tax cuts have been extended over the last four years, these cuts alone are not sufficient relief for the economic issues the middle class faces.
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The fact is, the economic crisis of the past two years -- indeed the growing economic insecurity of the middle class that's been going for a decade -- was born not just of failures in our economic system.
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But deficit reduction cannot come at the cost of economic growth or middle-class security.
That puts this booming, economic monolith in the same class as Algeria and El Salvador.
The economic security of the middle class has been under attack for decades.
The Obama Administration's number one priority is to strengthen our economy, create jobs, and restore economic security for the middle class.
Putting the American people back to work, expanding opportunity, rebuilding the economic security of the middle class is the moral and national challenge of our time.
It was a week in which together, we took bold new steps toward restoring economic security for our middle class and rebuilding a stronger foundation for our future.
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Twinning unequal outcomes with equality of opportunity produces sustainable world class community and economic outcomes that are the foundation for the next generation of economic and social success.
Premium brands trump economic slowdown due to middle class growth.
But her true greatness lies in how, using a mountain of facts carefully gathered and presented, she could explain to a bewildered and anxious middle class the great economic question of her age.
If the economic problems of the middle class are employment-based, therefore, it is unlikely that the additional revenue generated by the tax rate increase will fix this problem, especially in the short term.
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That's why he has urged Congress to give economic security to the middle class, to 98 percent of taxpaying Americans, by extending tax cuts for the middle class now, because we all agree on it.
So I hope that my friends on the other side of the aisle are going to change their minds going forward, because putting the American people back to work, boosting our small businesses, rebuilding the economic security of the middle class, these are big national challenges.
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