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.
She also says that schools might choose to make a priority of teaching quality rather than smaller class sizes.
What they get in return is unsurpassed access to priority check-in lanes, first-class lounges and free upgrades.
In her final state of the city address as speaker, Ms. Quinn on Monday said the city's top priority must be to "keep our middle class here, " and she described affordable housing as being at the heart of a "crisis" afflicting this shrinking segment of the city.
As a nation, our top priority is growing our economy and creating good middle class jobs.
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In recent months, Odinga has made it a priority to reach out to the country's middle class and businessmen, many of whom belong to Kibaki's tribe, the Kikuyu.
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.
"It is likely that the government will go into the next election having presided over an increase in secondary school class sizes during a period when the government's top priority has been education, " said the general secretary, John Dunford.
What needs to be our top priority is investing in the kinds of policies that are going to create a strong middle class and that are going to lay the groundwork to ensure that our economy can recover over the long term.
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The Obama Administration's number one priority is to strengthen our economy, create jobs, and restore economic security for the middle class.
Plyer believes the priority for the entire region lies in restoring the higher-paid blue-collar and middle-class jobs that for decades have disappeared from the city.
In his inaugural policy speech in January, the chief executive said the inability of the middle class to buy homes posed a threat to social stability and promised to make it a priority to tackle the housing shortage.
Known as the Community Living Assistance Services and Supports Act, or Class Act, this entitlement is in both the House and Senate bills and was a top priority of the late Sen.
So today we face an array of serious and growing economic challenges that call for a president willing to make responsible economic stewardship a key priority, willing to confront complex problems and devise comprehensive responses, a president who always puts the middle class first.
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The University of Phoenix views its admissions approach as being inclusive, arguing that bricks-and-mortar universities exert a form of elitism by using grades and standardised testing as a way of restricting class size, whereas the distance-learning university can offer places to a wider student body whose priority is simply to move ahead.
Our top priority as a country right now should be doing everything we can to grow our economy and create good, middle class jobs.
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