He said his views were influenced by the many poor and working class people he had met in his life.

VOA: special.2010.05.21

While populist policies, while prime minister led to support from the rural poor, Bangkok's middle class and urban elite accused him of corruption and abuse of power.

VOA: standard.2010.04.03

The jobs you discribe here are middle class jobs and middle class people have to watch thier money even more so then the poor because the poor are already poor so it can almost all but get better for them but middle class live on a line that can break them into being poor class with one financial crisis.

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In particular, it has mobilised support among the poor working class in Ireland's urban areas, who might otherwise back the prime minister's party, Fianna Fail.

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The poor and working class in America may indeed have hunger issues, but they are not starving the way that the poor of famine-swept Somalia are starving.

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