Safety concerns have driven the middle classes into gated compounds and tourists into all-inclusive resorts.
The middle classes tend to hire decoration companies, which subcontract to whichever construction firm pays the best kickbacks.
The trouble for them is that, among the middle classes at any rate, the racial gulf is closing.
The middle classes would prefer to forget about this situation, rather than pay more taxes to rectify it.
If their businesses are so starved of capital, why do the middle classes not invest more in them?
The poor had been poor for decades and may have been able to adjust better than the middle classes.
The middle classes moved in instead, with the village gaining a reputation for boasting a number of distinguished academics.
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It continues, mainly, to draw its support from businessmen and the middle classes.
According to Putin, a U.S. style tax system would burden the middle classes.
And a government keener on redistributive clobbering of the middle classes, without breaking its pledge not to raise income-tax rates?
Some critics of the free schools programme have claimed they will be set up and used mainly by the middle classes.
The hardest issue of all to tackle will be the perks that currently flow to the middle classes and the elderly.
But he says that many such families, outside the fringes of the middle classes, now face a more fragile economic future.
America has a progressive tax system - the rich pay more than the middle classes, who pay more than the poor.
But they had not reckoned with the changing public mood: the middle classes' patience with endless strikes seems finally to have snapped.
He said he wanted to make public services so good that the middle classes would not want to opt out of them.
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The middle classes, often the locomotive of political change, are growing fast.
This is the corollary of the evacuation of city centres by the middle classes, who take jobs and tax revenues with them.
Incomes have stagnated or even fallen at the bottom of the spectrum, as the rich pull further ahead of the middle classes.
In northern California, the middle classes are worried about a housing bubble.
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But it is spreading rapidly among the middle classes and the elites.
Conservation is a luxury, and preponderantly the concern of the middle classes.
The middle classes may number only 15m, just 7.5% of the population.
The social services organisation Klimaka runs a food kitchen that feeds 3, 000 people a day - many are now from the middle classes.
That optimism has given way to a sadder, meaner goal of preventing the middle classes from monopolising the good schools that already exist.
For the rest, it provides a connection with an increasingly distant Labour past where scaring the landed gentry came above reassuring the middle classes.
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The middle classes, who fled to the suburbs in the 1990s (when the city lost 5% of its population) seem to be coming back.
Of course, the middle classes have been fleeing California for years.
Despite the middle classes being the dominant class in Brazil for two years running, Brazil has over one million people who live in the dark.
Gordon Brown reckoned that the more you gave the middle classes in tax credits and other benefits, the more they will support the welfare system as a whole.
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