Meanwhile, my week-long class on on start-up strategy had far more students signing up than the other eight courses being offered.
It is a term my middle-class tribe uses disparagingly to make us feel better about being educated, but comparatively poor.
But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents' savings were being spent on my college tuition.
My sixth-grade class was reading this happy, snoozy tale about a girl and her horse, and my friend Michelle sneaked me the Wyndham book, which chronicles the end of the civilized world.
So from the start, my concern was making sure that we had a tax code that was fair and that protected the middle class, and my biggest priority was making sure that middle-class taxes did not go up.
The single drawback was that because Union, like Hillside, was a Gentile working-class town, my father would most likely be the only Jew in an office of some thirty-five people, my mother the only Jewish woman on our street, and Sandy and I the only Jewish kids in our school.
My own mother, a beautiful, uneducated woman from a working-class New York family, and my father, a young southern man from a poor sharecropping family who entered the Marines at the age of 17, represented far more to each other than just romance.
By my estimates the lower-middle class is being systemically priced out of American health care.
While law school taught me how to read a court case and analyze legislation, working at Nordstrom was a crash course in how to think on my feet and provide first-class client service.
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In November 2002, I was flown first-class from my home in Palm Beach, Florida to the island of Guam to deliver a keynote speech at the Third Annual Investment Conference of the Asia Pacific Association for Fiduciary Studies.
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At the core of the experience is the band, a group of my friends who are all world-class, Juilliard-trained musicians in their 20s.
As President, my top priority is simple: to do everything in my power to fight for middle-class families and give every American the tools they need to reach the middle class.
My number-one priority is making sure that we make the middle-class tax cuts permanent, that we give certainty to the 98 percent of Americans who are affected by those tax breaks.
"I was definitely clearly very aware that I was different from the other kids in my class, in a lot of ways -- in terms of maturity, in terms of risk taking, " Catherine told CNN.
My youngest son's pre-school class was recently asked what their dads do for work.
Here's how American retirement accounts will work: To give a strong incentive for saving, my plan will offer working and middle-class families generous matching tax cuts.
CNN: Clinton's October 9, 2007 speech on retirement security
It is my luck that I was in the second-class compartment and the explosion was in the first-class compartment.
My job is to look out for middle-class families who are struggling right now to get by and Americans who are out of work through no fault of their own.
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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.
My hubby comes from a family of middle-class savers.
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Recently, a new reader who discovered Consumerism Commentary due to my multi-year coverage of Bank of America (primarily the articles pertaining to the overdraft fee class-action lawsuit), wanted to share a cautionary tale about the same bank.
On Tuesday, the President will travel, as you know, to Newport News Shipbuilding, a division of Huntington Ingalls Industries in Newport News, Virginia -- region of my forebears -- to highlight the devastating impact that the sequester will have on jobs and middle-class families if congressional Republicans fail to compromise to avert the sequester by March 1st.
The core of my job is to keep that cadre of world-class scientists going.
Michael Carter: My mom grew up in a very working class, Mexican-American family.
In short, my plan will help tens of millions of middle-class families go from just getting by to getting ahead.
CNN: Clinton's October 9, 2007 speech on retirement security
In the 70s, I may have occasionally put gel upon my hair, smeared mascara upon my eyes and arranged a sneer upon my lip, but I was really a middle-class grammar school boy masquerading as part-time punk.
As my colleague Eric Savitz notes, Workday has a dual-class stock structure.
Carpe Diem Collegiate Middle and High School, one of my favorite blended-learning models, has no physical education class.
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When the dinner-party episode was read in class, my sons found it hilarious, which is why they were taunting me.
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