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A winner-takes-all economy that offers only limited access to the middle class is a recipe for democratic malaise and dereliction.
The real middle class India that has always been looking for a voice that is its very own. I write about it because I belong to it.
I hail from a middle class educated family and now that God is kind to me by giving me enough money, I want to share it with others.
As a middle class girl from Delhi, with practically no backing in films, this industry and the audience have given me a lot of love.
A secure retirement is one of the pillars of middle class life. For all too many Americans, however, that pillar needs more support.
I come from an everyday middle class family in India. The film industry reached us only through our television sets and cinema halls.
We've always been in favor of improved wages for workers. When you have a strong middle class, they want to buy more stuff at Costco.
We are from the very middle class family. We have not come from the English medium school. We came from our regional languages school.
It's very difficult for the middle class in America to keep up because of the inflationary pressure and the devaluation of the dollar.
I'm really sick of the 'one percent' that is taking all the money from this country, draining the middle class, making it nonexistent.
Globalization is stirring widespread economic anxiety, and middle class incomes have stagnated while a class of super-rich has emerged.
The Fed has got to become a more democratic institution that is responsive to the needs of the middle class, not just Wall Street CEOs.
By keeping most tax rates at present levels, Obama and the Democrats will claim that they have championed tax cuts for the middle class.
Fame has not changed me as a person, but life on the whole has changed a lot. I belong to a middle class family and that hasn't changed.
I came from a seedha-saadha middle class family in Mumbai. The Infosys story changed our life drastically but we have remained the same.
I've always believed that the things middle class families struggle with around their kitchen tables should define my work in Washington.
You know, without China there is no Wal-Mart and without Wal-Mart there is no middle class and lower class prosperity in the United States.
I grew up in a middle class English family just outside London. I wasn't surrounded by that speedy city lifestyle, it was a little mellower.
Illinois needs a real strategy for job creation that grows the economy over the long term with high-wage jobs that rebuild the middle class.
Our argument is everybody ought to be paying lower rates, and we ought to be focused on growing the economy and rebuilding the middle class.
You know, you cut taxes for the rich sometimes and it sits in a bank account. You cut taxes for the middle class, they will spend the money.
One of the strengths of our nation has always been a strong middle class who could afford their own homes and send their children to school.
We need policies that will benefit the middle class because you will not have a strong society without a strong middle class, fundamentally.
What we're looking for in a president, most importantly, is leadership. A person that will actually stand up and fight for the middle class.
And if we truly want a strong and secure middle class, we must restore the ability of labor unions to organize and represent working people.
The union movement has been the best middle class job creating program that America has ever had, and it doesn't cost the government a dime.
I don't mind the rich getting richer, but the poor shouldn't be getting poorer, and there should be more people moving into the middle class.
The hollowing out of the middle class is a problem common to all Western industrialized economies. Maybe we should work together to solve it.
I know why we're strong. I know why we have held together; I know why we are united: it's because there's always been a growing middle class.
We were working class, and you don't lose that. Later on, I bolted on media middle class... and now people like me are in the House of Lords.
America's real business leaders understand unless or until the middle class regains its footing and its faith, capitalism remains vulnerable.
Working 40 hours a week used to mean a minimum standard of living and a foothold on the first rung of the economic ladder to the middle class.
There's no conscious plan here; my whole life in politics as a state legislator and in Congress has been about strengthening the middle class.
There once was this powerful, both capital and political, class who cared about supporting and affirming a solid middle class in this country.
The middle class today would be poor by the standards of the 1950s. Today, with two people working, they would still live paycheck to paycheck.
In real life there are indeed black people who have been in the middle class for generations, but in entertainment it's as if they don't exist.
The truth is the middle class is not only stagnant but it is my fear that, without sustained and focused action, it is at risk of disappearing.
I'm of the opinion that the Democrats have the ideas I agree with more often than not. Reenergizing the middle class and giving people a break.
The Clinton administration cared a lot about the middle class and the poor. But it also cared a lot - too much, in retrospect - about the rich.
Urban residents, most of them middle class, have a much better sense of their environmental rights, and they're willing to take to the streets.
College costs continue to rise, and student loan debt threatens to price many Americans out of a college education and out of the middle class.
Members of the middle class do not have to worry about falling off $250,000 sailboats because they don't have $250,000 sailboats to fall off of.
What has always made the Clintons great politicians and better people is their unyielding commitment to expanding the middle class for everyone.
The truth is that beginning in the 1970s, the heart of our Democratic party, America's strong striving middle class, began drifting away from us.
People feel these job-killing trade agreements have really squeezed the middle class and caused lots of people to lose their middle-class status.
Misguided economic and tax policies have hampered growth, allowing the rich to become richer while turning the middle class into the working poor.
The beauty of not growing up middle class is that you don't think like the middle class. You don't have anything to protect, you know what I mean?
Americans want Washington to put aside political differences, find common ground, and start producing real economic solutions for the middle class.
If you go to Udaipur, even the locals from the lower middle class have a certain air about them. They are very proud of their heritage and history.
I know, it sounds generic and is a cliche, but coming from a middle class family in Kanpur, it was always the neighbourhood opinions which mattered.