Its large rooms and affordable rent gave middle class black people a new kind of housing opportunity in the nineteen sixties.

VOA: special.2009.12.27

He wants to let the Bush administration's tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans end next year, replaced by a middle-class tax cut.

VOA: special.2009.02.27

Some people criticize his art for only showing a false or very limited image of America, one that is white and middle-class.

VOA: special.2010.09.20

The suspect was born in a tiny northwestern village to an upper-middle class family.

VOA: special.2010.05.08

Senator Amy Klobuchar, a Michigan Democrat, said Americans at all levels but notably the middle class continue to struggle.

VOA: standard.2009.12.05

In his comments to the Middle Class Task Force, which is chaired by Vice President Joe Biden, Mr.Obama offered a preview.

VOA: standard.2010.01.25

The president spoke at a meeting of a White House advisory panel set up to study the problems facing the middle class and propose solutions.

VOA: standard.2010.01.25

A Coast Guard lieutenant said the government's plan was driving the middle class into poverty.

VOA: standard.2010.03.11

Atkinson says countries with a growing middle class will embrace smartphones much faster.

VOA: standard.2010.06.25

And this is also where you have a major emerging middle-class market,".

VOA: standard.2009.12.23

"I think in Japan there was a collective identity as a society where everyone is middle class, everybody shares the same fate, there are not huge, wide disparities of income.

VOA: standard.2009.09.09

The White House is also promising action to make it a little easier for middle-class students to pay for college,and to provide expanded community services to help families caring for elderly relatives.

VOA: standard.2010.01.25

While some of their clients are middle class professionals from the community at large, many brothels will only accept a narrow clientele to make it difficult for law enforcement to catch them.

VOA: standard.2010.05.24

President Obama said the current system has led the country to a breaking point, imposing hardships on middle-class Americans who struggle to pay for health care, who are unable to obtain it.

VOA: standard.2009.09.10

"We have just come through what was one of the most difficult decades the middle class has ever faced a decade in which median income fell, and our economy lost about as many jobs as it gained,".

VOA: standard.2010.01.25