A middle class is so important to a society that its value cannot be overestimated.Ģ8. There is no such thing as a black middle class.Ģ7. I grew up in a middle-class family in the middle of America in the middle of the last century.Ģ6. In my family, as in most middle-class Indian families I knew when I was growing up, science and mathematics were held in awe.Ģ5. Let us wage a moral and political war against the billionaires and corporate leaders, on Wall Street and elsewhere, whose policies and greed are destroying the middle class of America.Ģ4. They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class.Ģ3. Middle-class-led reform movements, from the Progressive Era to the War on Poverty, have been marred by an elitist distance from the would-be beneficiaries of reform.Ģ2. While the poor and middle class fight for us in Afghanistan, and while most Americans struggle to make ends meet, we mega-rich continue to get our extraordinary tax breaks.Ģ0. White middle- and upper-class men have a longer journey to go than many people.ġ9. Middle-class parents are paying more and people from lower incomes have slightly higher debts than they did 15 years ago, … That’s about it.ġ7. Probably because I'm from a middle class family, I have that nature in me that I don't get too excited with big thingsġ6.
They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back.ġ5. We don’t mind the Republicans joining us. We gotta have middle class families up in front. We can’t have special interests sitting shotgun. There is far too little discussion in Washington about the collapse of the middle class, almost no discussion at all about the incredible income inequality and wealth inequality in this country, and the fact that we’re moving toward an oligarch form of society.ġ4. The middle class is so funny, it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny.ġ3. Rural Americans want leaders who help middle-class communities to plan and prosper over the long-term – not opportunists who reap the rewards for themselves, leaving nothing for the people who do the sowing.ġ2.
We have it better than we’ve ever had it.ġ1. But I think that people at the high end – people like myself – should be paying a lot more in taxes. If anything, taxes for the lower and middle class and maybe even the upper middle class should even probably be cut further. How were we faring in the Age of the Common Man? How ought we to be faring?ġ0. We had spent our early years as privileged members of a privileged class. I wanted to look at the upper-middle-class scene since the war, and in particular my generation’s part in it. I am very disappointed, but not surprised, that only one Republican agreed to even consider the legislation.ĩ. While Vermont and other states have raised the minimum wage higher than the national level, it is important that Congress pass a national minimum wage of at least $10.10 an hour. The truth is that the national minimum wage of $7.25 an hour is a starvation wage. At a time when the middle class is disappearing and millions of working Americans are still living in poverty, it is absolutely imperative that we raise the minimum wage. Losing your mind is not a luxury for the middle class.Ĩ. With a billion people and a huge middle class being created, how can you ignore it?ħ. Rich people paying rich people to tell middle class people to blame poor peopleĦ. Most middle-class whites have no idea what it feels like to be subjected to police who are routinely suspicious, rude, belligerent, and brutal.ĥ. It's time for folks to stop rooting for its failure, because hard working middle-class families are rooting for its success.Ĥ. I’m a daughter of the middle class with a strong sense of social mobility and individualism, like the waves of immigrants, like my Spanish grandparents, who made Argentina.ģ. The hopes he had for his family and for me, he had for all Americans. The solid, middle-class values of hard work, responsibility, family, community, and faith my father talked about tirelessly from Iowa to New York, he lived at home. Middle Class is the broad group of people in contemporary society who fall socio-economically between the working class and upper class.ġ.
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