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.
From its foundation in 1959, until 1979, Dawa was Iraq's largest Shia party, seeking to bridge the gap between the Shia clergy and the Shia lower-middle class, many of whom took a shine to communism.
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.
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.
The party that once relied for its votes on lower-middle-class state employees, especially in the south, is now arguing for privatisation.
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.
Weary of the strict surveillance on the ground, online and on the phone, he only spoke of "minor" incidents in his lower middle-class neighbourhood on the night of Sunday, 20 February.
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.
The most likely reason is that any realistic cull of loopholes to pay for his lower income-tax rates (and the lower capital-gains and dividends rates he wants) will hit the middle class.
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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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.
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.
Take a turn and see the kaleidoscope reveal the story of class struggles--women of lower socio-economic standing taken advantage of by powerful, wealthy men.
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.
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.
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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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.
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