The city's middle-class unemployment rate is 6.2%, three times higher than it was in 2008, the report said.
The trouble for them is that, among the middle classes at any rate, the racial gulf is closing.
The principle is that affluent Americans should pay the same -- at least the same tax rate as middle American wage earners.
And the fact of the matter is, is that some of the wealthiest Americans pay a lower tax rate than middle-class Americans.
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In the Tax Reform Act of 1986, President Reagan reduced the federal income tax rate for middle and moderate income earners all the way down to 15%.
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We are -- by preserving the rate for middle-class taxpayers, we're providing them certainty in not having their taxes go up at the end of the year.
In the Tax Reform Act of 1986, President Reagan further reduced the federal income tax rate for middle and lower income families all the way down to 15%.
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Mr. Obama endorsed the political ruse he calls the Buffett rule, which asserts as a matter of moral principle that millionaires should not pay a lower tax rate than middle-class wage earners.
Another real classy charge is the idea that, well, wealthy Americans who feel like paying their fair share, feel like paying taxes at a rate that middle-class Americans do -- if they don't, have the option of doing it themselves by writing a check.
He wants to lower the overall sales tax rate to help middle-class families, reduce the corporate income tax and freeze business property taxes.
Then in the 1986 tax reform, he consolidated all the lower rates into a single 15% rate, effectively the income tax rate for the middle class.
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External stressors such as joblessness play a role. (National figures on whether suicides increased in the 2008 recession are not in yet, but suicides generally go up in bad economic times.) The very elderly once had the highest suicide rate, but middle-aged men and women, 45 to 54 (see graph, below), have surged recently and surpassed them.
Our health care spending growth rate is in the middle of the pack among developed countries.
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And it is why the average tax rate paid by millionaires is three times the average rate paid by the middle class.
Mr. FLETCHER: I'm not optimistic about any middle class unless we increase the rate of unionization and unless we change the political priorities of this country.
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), which looks after Palestinian refugees across the Middle East, says that the rate of infectious diseases, including diarrhoea and viral hepatitis, which result from bad water and sanitation, has risen.
Chris Cairns and Chris Read quickly followed as the run-rate slowed in the middle overs, with Voges pulling Du Plessis to the waiting Flintoff at deep mid-wicket, leaving Mark Ealham to hit two sixes in a late cameo of 28 off 21 balls.
"While it appears likely that the observed seismicity rate changes in the middle part of the United States in recent years are manmade, it remains to be determined if they are related to either changes in production methodologies or to the rate of oil and gas production, " wrote David J.
In fact, one in four millionaires pays a lower tax rate than millions of hardworking middle-class households.
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However, the projected growth rate for Asia, the Middle East and Africa is much higher than the U.S. and Europe.
The rate of attrition in the middle ranks has slowed a bit in recent years, but the most senior jobs remain almost exclusively male.
Overall, the illiteracy rate in the young and middle-aged population group has fallen from over 80 per cent down to about 5 per cent.
Rising disposable income, the growth of the middle class and a relatively low penetration rate for appliances are making the Philippines a hot market for consumer durables.
Here are the top three countries in those categories, along with the U.S. Salary is in euros (based on July 1, 2012 exchange rate) and is for middle management only.
Transactions are expected to double in the next five years in Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and Africa while the growth rate for the U.S. is expected to be around 44% and that for Europe around 51%.
Hopefully, Congress will agree upon a lower estate tax rate and a higher exemption so middle-class income and other taxpayers are more protected.
The reported death toll gives the Middle East-based disease a case fatality rate of about 60%, similar to that of the feared H5N1 avian flu.
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Elsewhere McDonald's has used global branding and great strategy to penetrate the Middle Eastern and Asian markets at twice the rate at which it's growing global sales.
Those tax rate increases will actually hurt the middle class and working people the most, as they will drive the economy back into a double dip recession, causing unemployment to rocket back into double digits, real wages to decline further, and poverty to soar.
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Buffett would end up paying 28% on gains while middle-classers continued to benefit from a low rate.
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