In India, the middle class is largely a new political movement as the lower-middle class plays a significant part in general elections votes.
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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By my estimates the lower-middle class is being systemically priced out of American health care.
Manufacturing, one of the city's largest employers of the lower-middle class, has disappeared almost altogether.
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.
For now, the poor and lower-middle class together account for 75% of total spending.
Although mother and children spent the summer in the country, the bread-earning fathers (usually lower middle class then) took the long bus ride from the city on Friday evening and returned on Sunday afternoon.
The study also discovered that West Asian women were more likely to have pre-eclampsia as were those from a lower social class and those with gestational diabetes - the type which occurs during pregnancy.
The point of the provision, as you might imagine, was to help lower and middle-class taxpayers weather the recession by putting more after-tax cash in their pockets.
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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.
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.
In lower-class neighbourhoods the togetherness of communities has vanished.
Your taxes today -- the average middle-class family, your taxes today are lower than when I took office, just remember that. (Applause.) We have cut taxes for small businesses not once, not twice, but 17 times.
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It is, of course, possible to view this entire episode through an extremely cynical lens: Putin is trying to strengthen his support among the lower classes which, far more than the middle class, depend on state-provided healthcare and education.
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At heart, he was still a state college kid who grew up in a lower-middle class home, the son of an electrician.
Their reach doesn't generally include the small lots damaged in lower- and middle-class neighborhoods, which will be rebuilt mostly through local contractors, according to Gieber.
And the fact of the matter is, is that some of the wealthiest Americans pay a lower tax rate than middle-class Americans.
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He wants to lower the overall sales tax rate to help middle-class families, reduce the corporate income tax and freeze business property taxes.
The choice of programs -- shows produced in-house and educational and other specialized fare less likely to appeal to lower class viewers -- contributed to the high rate of people signing up and then dropping the service.
The surge was accelerated by the financial crisis and mortgage meltdown, which put many lower-middle class families out of their homes, economists have said.
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.
Warren Buffett has been getting a load of publicity lately by declaring that the members of The Forbes 400 have lower tax rates than corporate receptionists and other middle-class Americans.
Lower-class individuals felt that 5.6% was the appropriate slice.
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.
Their lead lawyer, Sherrie Savett, says the class-action suit hopes to achieve a proper cleaning for Lower Manhattan, the setting up of a medical monitoring fund and damages for those suffering.
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More recent immigrants have tended to come from lower-skill trades, and the community is a mix of the working and middle class, said Mr. Lavarro, adding that concerns about crime and the draw of the suburbs have led some to leave.
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They think the middle class benefits from lower iPad prices thanks to globalization even if it means off-shoring manufacturing jobs.
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Right now, because of loopholes and shelters in the tax code, a quarter of all millionaires pay lower tax rates than millions of middle-class households.
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These cloud and web hosting customers appreciate the cost savings associated with a lower cost infrastructure, yet still want to deploy a server-class product with reliability and security features and server OS certification.
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In India, where the middle class also is growing, Mr. Capuano said Marriott plans to introduce its lower-end Fairfield hotel chain.
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