So as President Obama and Congress begin (resume) to joust over what carrots and sticks might really bring more work and over time help to get the declining middle class out of its jam, what can individuals do to put themselves in a better spot?
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We're not going to abandon in any sense, the hardcore, the faithful gamers that have brought us here, but you know, as I think we made clear in the session last night, we are going to try to broaden out and get a new class of people involved with the console this round.
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My job is to look out for middle-class families who are struggling right now to get by and Americans who are out of work through no fault of their own.
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President Obama believes in building an economy where those in the middle class and those fighting to get out of poverty have a fair shot.
What are your future plans in helping middle-class America -- Generation X and Y and middle-class America will get the country out of where we are, and I want to know what are your contingent plans?
Parents spend sleepless nights trying to rearrange schedules to get out of Mr. Bleh's fourth-period math class.
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And back before she was a newly-elected Senator, Elizabeth Warren was trying to get the word out about the nastiness of credit card debt ruining the middle class.
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Most middle-class families can get this system without shelling out a huge amount of cash.
That's just the nature of the job, but I feel very good that we have filled all of the needs that I set out to get before we got into this class.
The consultants get out of the deal with their dough before any money is paid to borrowers and any class action lawsuits are filed that claim borrowers were cheated by the process.
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With batsmen of Australia's class you have to do something different to get them out.
But when the young consumers decide to indulge, they are running out to get the latest model of the iPod or a new cellphone instead of a gym-class wardrobe.
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.
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