The ten students make up the first class of the Ambassador Andrew Young International Scholars program, a newly-established scholarship program which is founded and funded by Capernaum Trust, a Christian charity which Masiyiwa funds.
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All these things -- health care security, American manufacturing, rebuilding America and putting construction workers back to work, making sure our kids are getting a great education and can afford college -- all these things that make up a middle-class life, they all tie together.
When Britain, the colonial power, left Nigeria, it handed authority not to traditional rulers, who were viewed as having some legitimacy, but to doctors, lawyers and the horde of literate hustlers who did well in the British bureaucracy and the British army and now make up Nigeria's ruling class.
The protesters argue that politicians, too, have ignored kidnapping because its victims make up a relatively small middle-class constituency.
Perhaps most importantly, the middle class has influenced the aims and make-up of the party itself.
The Senate has already passed a bill that would make sure that middle-class taxes do not go up next year by a single dime.
Created by process of omission in 1913 and hyped up post WWII to make homeownership available to the middle class (when there was one), the mortgage interest deduction once made sense.
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And the choice I make is not asking middle-class families to give up their home mortgage deduction or tax credits they get for raising their kids just to pay for a tax cut for me.
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Just before we got here, Congress did the right thing and voted to make sure that taxes would not go up on middle-class families at the end of this month. (Applause.) Congress also agreed to extend unemployment insurance for millions of Americans -- maybe some of your family members -- who are still out there looking for a job.
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That wasn't nearly enough to make up for a 3.1% decline in first-class mail, still the main revenue driver.
Those steps alone won't make up for the economic security -- insecurity that middle-class families have lost over the past decade.
We've got to make sure that taxes don't go up on middle-class families, that our economy remains strong, that we're creating jobs.
She's a senior citizen from Virginia, and we invited her to the White House because she wrote in to explain why it is so important for all of us to make sure that taxes don't go up on the middle class.
And that kind of approach, I believe, will not grow our economy because the only way to pay for it without either burdening the middle class or blowing up our deficit is to make drastic cuts in things like education, making sure that we are continuing to invest in basic science and research -- all the things that are helping America grow.
An old class of antidepressants called tricyclics can make people lightheaded when they stand up (technically called orthostasis).
And we are going to stand up this bureau and make sure it is doing the right thing for middle-class families all across the country.
If you do not make up the cost of this course in a negotiation conducted within the six months following the last class, I will personally refund the full amount of the course.
Even during this turbulent patch, Tombini notes that nearly 40 million people have been pulled up into the middle class and that measures to cuts energy costs and payroll taxes will make Brazil much more competitive.
Jeff Skoll, a billionaire thanks to his ground-floor shares of eBay, writes about how as a middle class kid in Canada he grew up wanting to be a writer who told stories that make a difference in the world.
When it comes time to stand up for the middle class so that our kids can go to college and our families can make a decent living, save for retirement, you know what my husband is going to do.
So when it comes time to stand up for the middle class so that our kids can go to college and our families can make a decent living and save for retirement, you know what my husband is going to do, right?
' He said 'Travis, let's go buy 10 Mercedes S-Classes, let's go hire 20 drivers, let's get parking garages and let's make it so us and a hundred friends could push a button and an S-Class would roll up, for only us, in the city of San Francisco, where you cannot get a ride.
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Moreover, less than a third of new drugs these days are first or second in their class and it is hard to charge blockbuster prices for the mediocre medications and line extensions that make up the rest of the new products.
After class, faculty, students, and guests often pick up lattes at Starbucks or cafeteria snacks and make their way to outdoor tables.
But despite that rapid growth, in 2005 this global middle class accounted for only 6% of the world's population and in 2030 it will still make up only 15%.
Growing up on the South Side of Chicago, a working-class kid, I watched my own father make that exact uncomplaining journey every day to his job at the city water plant.
Now, we all hope that the economy will remain resilient, and we know that, if we make the right choices, the American economy can, once again, create millions of jobs and lift up the middle class.
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