Nearly anyone who can afford it, including the lower middle class, now lives in a gated community, with private security.
Politicians had a laudable goal to spread the American dream of home ownership to the lower middle class, minorities and immigrants.
Salinas, then 26, helped the chain recover by reducing the number of lines the stores carried and by catering to the lower middle class.
" She recalls telling the campaign's speechwriter: "I want to show that I came from the lower middle class and why I support the president.
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Unlike Amir, the demonstrators came mainly from the lower middle class.
The lower middle class of army officers and bureaucrats who rose in the revolution have joined the gentry they were supposed to have ousted, adopted their haughty ways and now share Egypt's spoils with them.
In India, the middle class is largely a new political movement as the lower-middle class plays a significant part in general elections votes.
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.
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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The Buffett rule is rooted in the fairy tale that taxes on the wealthy are lower than on the middle class.
My family has generally been in the mid to lower middle class.
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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.
We can blame the Republicans for obstructionism when we do not lower rates on the middle class back to where they were.
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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 Conservatives had forgotten how to talk to aspirational lower middle class voters in the way that Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair had done, he argued - to agreement from members of the audience.
For now, the poor and lower-middle class together account for 75% of total spending.
That ends up hurting the middle and lower class Americans.
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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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As these women rise into the middle class, the men stay in the lower class, becoming less compatible.
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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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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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.
The right said that the best thing that government could do to is to lower the tax burden of business as well as upper middle class and wealthy Americans so that they would invest their money and take risks that were needed to grow the economy.
All the tools I brought from a large, lower middle class, family from Pittsburgh promptly failed me.
In fact, it actually promises to lower rates for the wealthy and sticks the middle class with the bill.
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.
Then in the 1986 tax reform, he consolidated all the lower rates into a single 15% rate, effectively the income tax rate for the middle class.
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In addition to taxation, the proposed spending cuts further threaten the middle class, as cuts to federal programs disproportionately impact those with lower incomes.
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