All the tools I brought from a large, lower middle class, family from Pittsburgh promptly failed me.
Lower middle class voters, though, are seen as very important in this election.
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.
The list of countries who have gone from destitution to what we might call lower middle class incomes is a long one.
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My family has generally been in the mid to lower middle class.
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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 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.
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.
According to the folks at Pew, fully a third of Americans now admit they are either of lower middle class or flat out lower class economic status, an increase of 25% since 2008.
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.
It is also a place where it is possible to see up close the social mobility that over the past few years has raised millions of people out of poverty into a newly expanded lower middle class.
More and more working class and lower middle class people will see no point in saving through the government's voluntary pension schemes: savings cannot be extended down the income scale by clever tax vehicles, but only by reform of the welfare state to make saving worthwhile.
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.
In India, the middle class is largely a new political movement as the lower-middle class plays a significant part in general elections votes.
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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At heart, he was still a state college kid who grew up in a lower-middle class home, the son of an electrician.
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.
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.
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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"We were lower middle-class, " said Pamella Cash-Roper, a 54-year-old nurse.
What is so disturbing about fraud on Wall Street is the notion that a devilish character like Bernie Madoff, who stole from the rich, is whisked off to jail, while those who steal from lower to middle class individuals and families tend to fall into a familiar pattern of getting caught, paying fines, skipping jail time and walking away with bonuses worth millions of dollars.
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.
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