"I came out of it where the average middle class person would consider me wealthy, " he says.

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Advocates say that with every iPod-wearing middle-class person who shows up, the homeless are being pushed further to the margins.

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They are no longer concerned even with satisfying the customer (who generally is not somebody whom he runs in the same social circles with, but instead is a regular middle-class person).

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National policy favored business and promoted rapid economic growth, creating a 100 million person middle class society.

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When a person manages to break into the middle class, they may still be accustomed to living at a lower income.

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"They expect the middle class could come back to them, " says one person close to the campaign.

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Davis, pleasant and reserved in person, but intensely competitive in business, is the son of a middle-class lawyer.

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