Indeed, for the nine-tenths of the population that is native-born, middle-income trends continue their improvement of the 1950s and 1960s.
Kim was born to middle-class farmers on Ha Enido, a small island in South Cholla province, but the family moved to the nearby port of Mokpo so Kim could complete high school.
Indolent blue-collar imbecile Homer may not be a model citizen or a working-class hero, but you have to look next door, at his squarely middle-class, born-again neighbor Ned Flanders to find where the slap invariably sticks.
By the time Bettie is born again in middle age and feels a "liftin' up, " I was feeling a sinkin' down.
The third letter was born in the middle of the 20th century, when we started realizing that the solution to pollution was not dilution.
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After industrialization a new woman, the middle class lady, was born.
Gregory Rodriguez, of Pepperdine University, has found that by 1990 more than half the households of American-born Latinos and about a third of those of foreign-born Latinos were middle-class, in the sense that they owned their own homes.
Born into a middle class Jewish family, she lost her father, brother and sister during the German occupation, survived four concentration camps and the Death March and went on to bear witness to the creation of Israel in 1948.
Mr Macedo was born to a fairly comfortable middle-class family that became less so when his father died.
Murrell was born and raised in a middle-class family in Alpena, Mich.
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Boston-born Michael Bloomberg grew up middle class in Medford, Mass.
Born in Iran to a middle-class family, she worked so hard in high school that she was one of only a handful of women admitted to the country's most prestigious engineering university.
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Lovejoy, who was born in 1915, was the middle of three sisters.
He was born and raised in Mangalore, a middle-class town near Bangalore.
She was born Anita Kushner in New York, to middle-class Jewish parents.
Born in the Bronx, Picower grew up solidly middle class, according to his sister, Emily Cohen.
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Dilma Rousseff was born in 1947 and grew up in an upper middle class household in Belo Horizonte, in the coffee-growing state of Minas Gerais.
As a country that values fairness, wealthier individuals have traditionally born a greater share of this burden than the middle class or those less fortunate.
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But I want to stress, the ultimate goal for economic policy is not hitting a specific metric, but whether the culmination of your policies lead to a stronger, more secure, and more inclusive middle class where everyone can rise, and where even children born into the poorest circumstances have a chance to reach their potential and where dignified work and retirement is promoted.
Born and raised in Kunshan, he started as a middle school math teacher there.
Dilma was born in Belo Horizonte in 1947 to an upper-middle class family.
One reason why so many middle Americans still admire George Bush is that he is both a born-again Christian and a reformed alcoholic.
The prospect of peace in the Middle East strikes a personal chord with the violinist, who, while born in Jordan, is the son of two Palestinian refugees.
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 if further study confirms that very early treatment can cure HIV-infected newborns, it could spur widespread use of such an aggressive regimen in babies born with HIV, nearly all of them in low- and middle-income countries.
Born into World War II, as a young boy in the middle of the Korean War, having to flee the fighting with his family -- just as his home country has risen, so he has risen to leadership on the world stage.
Wheat Stem Rust is a devastating wind-born disease affecting cereals that has spread across Africa and is now in the Middle East, and migrating further eastwards.
You know, a few years after World War II, a child who was born into poverty had a slightly better than 50-50 chance of becoming middle class as an adult.
Born in 1968 in the town of Hisar in the northern state of Haryana to middle-class parents, Mr Kejriwal graduated from the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Kharagpur with a degree in mechanical engineering.
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