the upper [lower] middle class
Are they all middle class?
Evan was a child of the middle class.
The middle class in the Eastern world grows daily.
But if you tax, you will hurt the middle class.
They propose moderate tax cuts for the middle class.
social mobility is great, so anyone with energy or talent can rise from the working class to the middle or upper middle class or beyond.
Along the way, Americans produced a great middle class and security in old age;
There was no frustrated incipient middle class urging change in 1978.
By the standards of the time, they had social structures with a sizable middle class.
The Ukrainian middle class, tired of muddling through, trusted Mr Yushchenko to smash that system.
The emirate also has a thriving private-sector middle class, but it consists almost entirely of foreigners.
"Uphold the international line quality, reasonable price middle class, promoting a simple decent life," This is our old ideas.
Iraq is rich in oil and-if its fugitive middle class starts to drift home-human resources too.
Mr. Smith nods. "the Banks and Wall Street have taken the middle class and shredded us," he says.
Regardless of its financial outlook, Disney English appears to be a hit with members of China's burgeoning middle class.
It was middle class matrons, the sort who dressed up to go shopping, who missed the deference shown by traditional grocers.
The Catholic middle class has grown as laws against discrimination have taken effect; perhaps as a result, support among Catholics for reunification with Ireland has declined.
This, he noted, ignores the fact that many terrorists are middle class, and that lots of people loathe Western foreign policy without resorting to violence.
One day, perhaps, an educated middle class may emerge to call for more accountability and a bigger slice of the wealth.
This year, however, Mr. Obama ran on a platform of guaranteed health care and tax breaks for the middle class, paid for with higher taxes on the affluent.
For one thing, the report noted, there's little agreement on how many households above or below the midpoint should be included in the standard definition of the middle class.
In the minds of the Thai middle class, poor voters only vote for politicians like the populist Thaksin because they're offered incentives such as a few baht on voting day.
Although the educated middle class has enjoyed big salary increases and a surge in the value of their homes and shares, the60% of the population close to or below the poverty line have not yet seen a material gain.
A middle class family Middletons live in Bucklebury, a small village near Newbury, Berkshire, and run a mail-order business called party Pieces which sells toys and party paraphernalia.
In part, that is the result of the growing affluence of India's emerging middle classes.
But for the new middle classes of China, India or Brazil, with factory jobs, cars and bank accounts, the problems of extreme insecurity lie in the past.
