Some of her Democratic opponents have tried to use that against her, suggesting Quinn is too close to a mayor they say has sometimes turned a cold shoulder to the concerns of middle-class and working-class New Yorkers.
But a new allegiance from working-class women could add even more momentum this time around.
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Streep, who has been nominated for a Best Actress award at this year's Academy Awards for her role, stars as fiercely caustic nun, Sister Aloysius, the iron-gloved principal of a religious school in a working class New York neighborhood in the 1960s.
The fact is, while a lot of work remains, especially to rebuild a strong middle class and offer working folks new pathways to rise into the middle class, our economy is better positioned for tomorrow than most of those other countries hit by the financial crisis.
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Many in the working-class New Orleans neighborhoods closely tied to local culture feel priced out.
Swan said the New Jersey-born working-class hero's musical railings against inequality echoed his own public battle against Australian billionaire mining tycoons who oppose his tax reforms.
It is a humorous, poignant bringing-together of Peckham old and new, a hitherto unloved working class urban district on the verge, perhaps, of achieving international prominence.
Announcing on Twitter that she's in the race, Quinn said she wanted to give middle- and working-class New Yorkers the same opportunities generations of her family got when they came here.
Announcing through her Twitter feed that she's in the race, Quinn said she wanted to give middle- and working-class New Yorkers the same opportunities generations of her family got when they came here.
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 contrast, he is astounded by the kind of liberalism he sees in his adopted state of California and his native New York, where a mayor who jets down to his mansion in Bermuda on weekends tells working- and middle-class New Yorkers that they really shouldn't be driving to work or living in single-family homes.
Bedford-Stuyvesant, a community in Brooklyn, New York, of predominantly working-class African-Americans, is the group's only urban sponsored community.
While Obamacare includes new health insurance welfare to help pay that cost, the net that working and middle class taxpayers would have to pay is still like a new payroll tax or income tax.
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The expansion of government and service industries has opened new opportunities for women, of which working-class and middle-class men seem less able to avail themselves.
Tuesday morning, people arrived at the Richards' home in the working-class neighborhood dotted with large New England-style homes.
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Argentines rejoiced at the appointment, evoking the new pope's missionary actions in the working-class districts of Buenos Aires.
Like Parker, Morales is a geeky, working-class teenager from the boroughs of New York City.
By and large, for-profit education firms like Apollo Group (APOL) have been taking advantage of new trends in education by providing class structures that suit working adults who want to get a degree.
Third, while corporate profits are reaching new heights, our labor market is just not working for middle-class families.
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Developers hope improvements will attract new buyers, especially young professionals and families, to a traditionally working-class area.
New television deals allowed fans regularly to see the great teams from the working-class North, against the best from the London-dominated South.
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Along these lines, a new working paper out of Argentina finds that most earners there consider themselves a part of the middle class, suggesting that this as far as misconceptions go this one transcends borders.
Bridgeport is a working class city of 130, 000 on Long Island Sound, 66 miles northeast of New York City.
The Faubourg Marigny neighborhood, just a few blocks away from the French Quarter, is home to a cosmopolitan mix of immigrants and working class, artists and musicians, along with some of the best-preserved architecture in New Orleans.
The slick new services often don't connect with each other and older public transport systems, leaving poor and working-class people struggling to get to work.
Mr Murray starts by lamenting the isolation of a new upper class, which he defines as the most successful 5% of adults (plus their spouses) working in managerial positions, the professions or the senior media.
Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, a Democratic mayoral candidate, said strengthening the middle class requires "more than lofty words" and he criticized Ms. Quinn for hurting working New Yorkers, citing her opposition to requiring employers to pay workers for sick days.
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