"What government should not do is pile on more taxation, regulation and litigation that kill jobs and hurt the middle class."

VOA: special.2010.01.30

Its large rooms and affordable rent gave middle class black people a new kind of housing opportunity in the nineteen sixties.

VOA: special.2009.12.27

Top government officials, led by Vice President Joe Biden, will work on policies to help the middle class.

VOA: special.2009.01.31

But much of the middle class and urban wealthy accused him of corruption and abuse of power.

VOA: special.2010.05.22

This writer is best known for his novels about the private lives of small-town, middle class Americans.

VOA: special.2009.12.27

The suspect was born in a tiny northwestern village to an upper-middle class family.

VOA: special.2010.05.08

The Nobel committee called George Babbitt the popular hero of the American middle class.

VOA: special.2009.03.13

These prints were popular with the middle class people living in towns.

VOA: special.2009.09.02

Middle class businessmen had bought them for their families.

VOA: special.2009.04.04

Then middle class Americans.

VOA: special.2010.08.05

Senator Amy Klobuchar, a Michigan Democrat, said Americans at all levels but notably the middle class continue to struggle.

VOA: standard.2009.12.05

In his comments to the Middle Class Task Force, which is chaired by Vice President Joe Biden, Mr.Obama offered a preview.

VOA: standard.2010.01.25

I was particularly happy to hear his focus," "At least 15 times mentioned small business,"main street", helping middle class families,jobs.

VOA: standard.2010.01.28

Many in the country's urban elite and middle class routinely use such insults when referring to rural residents.

VOA: standard.2010.05.25