Raising tariffs on these goods could harm millions of middle- and lower-class consumers.
The lower classes spend money on goods and services provided by people working in jobs that pay a middle-class or lower-class wage.
More and more lower-class men can, and do, live off women economically.
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The real problem with alchemy as the title of Boyle's book points out was not that it was lower-class, but that it was not sceptical enough.
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You rate a lower-class lifestyle, plus whatever you obtain from private charities which are better than government at distinguishing the deserving from the undeserving.
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Lower-class individuals felt that 5.6% was the appropriate slice.
In lower-class neighbourhoods the togetherness of communities has vanished.
They found that both real lower-class participants and those temporarily induced to rank themselves as lower class felt that a greater share of a person's salary should be used to support charity.
And no one knows how a new Supreme Court ruling that allows election workers to require photo identification at the polls, a ruling that disproportionately affects minority and lower-class voters, may affect turnout.
Just inside the entrance to the Bodega Aurrera store in Mexico City's lower-class Naucalpan neighborhood sit two shopping carts filled with the same sampling of products--things like Kellogg's Corn Flakes and a dozen eggs.
Having failed to get his preferred deal - which would have limited the extension of tax cuts to middle- and lower-class Americans - Mr Obama described keeping taxes low for wealthy Americans as the "holy grail" for the Republican Party.
Beckham has never tried to hide her celebrity, nor has she ever quite shed her lower-class roots, which just seemed more amplified by the way she showed off her newly acquired wealth through broadcasting her designer labels through monogrammed bags, labeled Ts and the Burberry check.
While experts say there is a hardline ideological core to Basij, its members, who often come from lower-class backgrounds, are attracted to the perks that the Basij (and its superior agency, the Revolutionary Guard) has to offer: a little cash, a seat at a university and a bit of authority.
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Do U.S. presidents really want to orchestrate price increases, real income declines, and cost of living increases for middle-class and lower-middle class American families?
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Another was that Yiddish theater brought middle-class German Jews into the same theater with lower-middle-class Russian Jews, to see the same dramas and hear the same music.
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One is that the class solidarity of those who created and sustained the revolution, many of whom came from provincial lower-middle-class backgrounds, has dissipated.
Rising housing costs in Shanghai, Beijing and Guangzhou have exacerbated the problem of rising inequality in China, as the major city centers become unaffordable to many middle class and lower-middle class Chinese.
Training for these volunteers - "nearly all ill-educated, unemployed lower-middle-class youths full of enthusiasm" - is laughably inadequate.
It is a 1970 picture of a small tricycle, shot like the Ford truck from a low angle, with two lower-middle-class ranch-style houses in the background.
His mainly lower-middle-class, middle-aged audience listens with rapt attention.
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The actor Tony Goldwyn, directing his first movie, and working from a fine screenplay by Pamela Gray, beautifully captures a moment in which the straitened moral world of the lower-middle-class Jewish characters is beginning to open up with necessarily painful results.
In India, the middle class is largely a new political movement as the lower-middle class plays a significant part in general elections votes.
Ms Banerjee lives in a modest two-storey house near a stinking canal in a rundown, lower middle-class Calcutta neighbourhood, and dresses and eats simply.
When it comes to taxes, I said in 2008 I was going to lower middle-class taxes.
By my estimates the lower-middle class is being systemically priced out of American health care.
For now, the poor and lower-middle class together account for 75% of total spending.
Manufacturing, one of the city's largest employers of the lower-middle class, has disappeared almost altogether.
Foreign investment is pouring in, attracted by a market boosted by falling poverty and a swelling lower-middle class.
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How does that help lower- and middle-class families struggling to make ends meet?
Mr Cameron proposes to limit state funding for teacher training to those who gain lower-second class degrees or better.
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