If Britain wants to attract a better class of MP, a more effective measure than larger salaries would be institutional reform.
What I want is to change the whole darn way we define political success in America and thereby draw a better class of person to politics.
But, the consequences of continued slow growth and high unemployment fall most heavily on the least skilled and those who lose their job or the opportunity for a better life, to say nothing of the broad middle class that has suffered a historic decline in median income during the past four years.
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Moreover, though a few nostalgics are still eager to refight old wars, Mr Menem has got himself a better, democratic class of general.
But it is better to leave than to be a second-class citizen.
Since then, he has focused like a laser on making the city a better place for the middle class to live in.
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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Like members of the middle class in the West, they want to have a better life and give their children an even better life.
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So we know they may have more resources on the air, but we have a message that we think -- and a plan that we think is going to translate better for middle-class voters and people who are deciding in November who they want to support.
It is a term my middle-class tribe uses disparagingly to make us feel better about being educated, but comparatively poor.
Furthermore, if the students had read the history chapter that afternoon, chances are they would recall it better than I did, not having a chance to review it before class.
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The middle class is also far more likely than the poor to expect a better life in future.
They have a world-class squad and we're going to have to play even better than against Quins to win.
"It's much better to focus on the things you are struggling with than be in a class of 20, " she says.
And they may be just saying that to make me feel better, which, again, is a sign of their character and their class.
He had been hired to work on a class of immune-system proteins called interleukins, but he had a better idea: He proposed, instead, that the two of them work on cloning the receptors for TNF.
Aging Baby Boomers and their families would all be far better off if congressional critics of CLASS sat down with the White House to design a national long-term care insurance program that does work.
They eventually settled but Heinecke took his experience and turned it into a new opportunity, opening his own competing chain, The Pizza Company, that offered middle class Thai consumers dishes, including a tom yum gung flavored pie, to better suit their tastes.
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The Reagan Democrats were blue-collar voters who crossed party lines in the early 1980s to support Ronald Reagan, a Republican, because they thought he would do a better job protecting the working class.
Running a well-paid job to sustain a middle-class life incurred pressures that never eased: you needed a bigger house, a better car, private schools for your growing children and shop accounts for your wife so that she looked good when business clients had to be entertained at your home.
"There's little if any evidence that they try to negotiate a better price, " says Joseph Grundfest, a professor at Stanford Law School who runs the Stanford Securities Class Action Clearinghouse.
And this funding is tied to reforms that raise student achievement, inspire students to excel in math and science, and turn around failing schools which consign too many young people to a lesser future -- because in the 21st century there is no better anti-poverty program than a world-class education.
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