With a wide assortment of product offerings to its target group of low-to-middle class U.S. consumers and by maintaining its pricing power over suppliers, we believe Wal-Mart will be able to sustain its leadership in the retail industry.
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He also signed into law the Massachusetts Healthcare Reform Act, which expanded the MassHealth Medicare program for low income state residents to include un-insured middle class families, given them low cost access to public and private hospitals and medical centers in the state.
That's why we worked with Republicans and Democrats in Congress to reach an agreement that keeps income taxes low for the middle class and helps to grow the economy.
My attitude is, to strengthen this economy we've got to make sure that those rules are actually enforced, not watered down, and in the meantime, let's work to make sure that we're keeping taxes low for middle-class families who are still struggling to get by.
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Supporting the automotive industry through the current crisis and steering a clear transition to a low-carbon future will create millions of middle-class jobs that are vital to a strong economy while reinvigorating American technological superiority.
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Many Republicans oppose raising taxes and oppose raising the minimum wage, but they could face a test in their new public campaign to appeal to middle-class and low-income Americans.
We should at least do what we agree on, and that's to keep middle-class taxes low.
The work to change that perception has been wildly successful, but now the messaging around breastfeeding tends to be rooted in a middle-to-upper class mindset that fails to relate to low-income communities.
His hourlong speech demonstrated the wide ideological gulf between the parties, even as Republicans work to reposition themselves after the 2012 presidential election defeat by taking pains to show they are attuned to the struggles of low-income and middle-class Americans.
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Senator CLINTON: To those who object to our government helping middle class families and low-income families devastated by the housing crisis, I say this.
And it certainly includes keeping tax rates low for middle-class families and extending unemployment benefits to help those hardest hit by the downturn while generating more demand in the economy.
Yesterday, President Obama called on Americans to speak out in favor of keeping taxes low on the middle class.
True, the original customer base of Dollar General was the price-conscious low income group, but it has since expanded its appeal to the middle-class families with its more varied assortment of products readily available at its stores.
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The huge market size and Amazon pricing its devices at low margins which most likely will appease the growing Chinese middle class leads us to expect that the devices will be well received and likely provide substantial upside to e-books and other content sales as well.
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"Fewer lenders will be willing to make loans at campuses that have a disproportionate number of low- or middle-class families, " Joyce said.
They just voted to let millionaires and billionaires keep paying low tax rates -- lower tax rates than middle-class workers.
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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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Never in history have so many middle class households been able to borrow so much against real estate at such low mortgage rates.
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What these bonuses foster, instead, is an ultra-expensive environment inhospitable to more middle-class employment, although it does create a boom market for low-end service workers.
Mark Kantrowitz, publisher of Finaid.org, a website that compiles data and provides financial advice for students, said the subsidies sometimes go to students from middle-class families who attend pricey colleges, and not just low-income students.
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But, as the results show, this is a false promise that leads to a less secure economy, less opportunity for low and middle-income people, and higher middle-class taxes.
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And he said a "shockingly low" number of children from poor backgrounds were getting into grammar schools, while middle class children were being coached to pass the exam.
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Look, this is something that I think everybody has to remember, and I would speak especially to my fellow Democrats who I think rightly are passionate about middle-class families, working families, low-income families who are having the toughest time in this economy.
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