The lower classes spend money on goods and services provided by people working in jobs that pay a middle-class or lower-class wage.
Raising tariffs on these goods could harm millions of middle- and lower-class consumers.
They found that both real lower-class participants and those temporarily induced to rank themselves as lower class felt that a greater share of a person's salary should be used to support charity.
Rising housing costs in Shanghai, Beijing and Guangzhou have exacerbated the problem of rising inequality in China, as the major city centers become unaffordable to many middle class and lower-middle class Chinese.
Another was that Yiddish theater brought middle-class German Jews into the same theater with lower-middle-class Russian Jews, to see the same dramas and hear the same music.
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In India, the middle class is largely a new political movement as the lower-middle class plays a significant part in general elections votes.
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By my estimates the lower-middle class is being systemically priced out of American health care.
For now, the poor and lower-middle class together account for 75% of total spending.
Manufacturing, one of the city's largest employers of the lower-middle class, has disappeared almost altogether.
Foreign investment is pouring in, attracted by a market boosted by falling poverty and a swelling lower-middle class.
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Mr Cameron proposes to limit state funding for teacher training to those who gain lower-second class degrees or better.
In another time, being "lower-upper class" might actually have freed him to explore a few rungs up the social ladder.
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At heart, he was still a state college kid who grew up in a lower-middle class home, the son of an electrician.
More and more lower-class men can, and do, live off women economically.
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The surge was accelerated by the financial crisis and mortgage meltdown, which put many lower-middle class families out of their homes, economists have said.
Lower-class individuals felt that 5.6% was the appropriate slice.
In lower-class neighbourhoods the togetherness of communities has vanished.
Just inside the entrance to the Bodega Aurrera store in Mexico City's lower-class Naucalpan neighborhood sit two shopping carts filled with the same sampling of products--things like Kellogg's Corn Flakes and a dozen eggs.
Beckham has never tried to hide her celebrity, nor has she ever quite shed her lower-class roots, which just seemed more amplified by the way she showed off her newly acquired wealth through broadcasting her designer labels through monogrammed bags, labeled Ts and the Burberry check.
Ms Banerjee lives in a modest two-storey house near a stinking canal in a rundown, lower middle-class Calcutta neighbourhood, and dresses and eats simply.
They just voted to let millionaires and billionaires keep paying low tax rates -- lower tax rates than middle-class workers.
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The choice of programs -- shows produced in-house and educational and other specialized fare less likely to appeal to lower class viewers -- contributed to the high rate of people signing up and then dropping the service.
When it comes to taxes, I said in 2008 I was going to lower middle-class taxes.
It is a 1970 picture of a small tricycle, shot like the Ford truck from a low angle, with two lower-middle-class ranch-style houses in the background.
"We were lower middle-class, " said Pamella Cash-Roper, a 54-year-old nurse.
His mainly lower-middle-class, middle-aged audience listens with rapt attention.
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Selectronic recruits from its lower-middle-class Delhi neighbourhood.
The actor Tony Goldwyn, directing his first movie, and working from a fine screenplay by Pamela Gray, beautifully captures a moment in which the straitened moral world of the lower-middle-class Jewish characters is beginning to open up with necessarily painful results.
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