About half of them will never get out in my opinion: they will end up in the destitute and hopeless class, couchsurfing and scrounging off their still-surviving friends for a while before finally giving up their sense of middle-class identity and accepting their new lives in trailers, tent cities or on the streets.
Given the current dire state of the Conservative Party, it may make some sense to bribe middle-class interest groups, even at the price of broader credibility.
They are steps we have to take if we want to build an economy that lasts, if we want to be able to compete with other countries for jobs that restore a sense of security to middle-class families.
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And long before this recession hit -- for a decade -- middle-class families had already been expensing -- experiencing a sense of declining economic security.
From a branding and customer-appeal perspective, it makes good business sense to create interiors that are instantly recognizable and world-class.
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.
An ESM bailout would classify Spain as a second-class borrower in a formal sense and actually delay its rehabilitation.
Those who do not attend college are second-class citizens in a cultural sense first, and in an economic one only second.
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And of course, long before this recession hit, for a decade middle-class families had been experiencing a sense of declining economic security.
With its stunning Renaissance art and architecture on view in well-proportioned squares and in world-class museums, there is a sense of elegance and permanence that helps root all who live here.
But what always impresses me about Cambridge is the sense that all kinds of bridges are now being built between world-class science in the university and the commercial world.
Two first-class stamps will have illustrations from Pride And Prejudice and Sense And Sensibility.
One is it makes no sense to pass into law a payroll tax cut for working and middle-class Americans and have it paid for in a way that hurts working and middle-class Americans.
In a sense, they are a continuation of the strategy that made it a world-class airline: back in the 1970s it was the first to offer all passengers free drinks and head-sets, in defiance of the airline cartel that insisted on charges for such items.
The first, 'The Gilded Cage', centres on Nightingale's sense of frustration as a highly educated young woman, from a wealthy upper middle-class family, who was prevented from following her ambition to be a nurse in the 1840s and early 1850s.
Sunday had started with a similar sense of inevitability that Ramprakash would convert his overnight score of 63 into the 109th first-class hundred of his formidable career - and he did not disappoint.
He is a member of the first generation of working-class Britons to have received a college education, which fostered in them a sense of possibility that was thwarted by the country's rigidly stratified class system.
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But in the long term, it means recognizing that for a lot of middle-class families -- for entire communities, in some case -- a sense of economic security has been missing since long before the recession began.
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