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Article: ROYAL TROUBLE FOR MIDDLE CLASS.(Business)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- June 5, 2007
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Byline: BILL VIRGINP-I columnist
BILLBOARD NOT YET spotted along state Route 99:
Will the last middle-class family leaving Seattle please turn out the lights?
The future - or lack thereof - of the middle class has been on the minds of a lot of people lately. Escalating housing prices have many worried that the middle class is being priced out of the city. Three locals of the United Food and Commercial Workers union are sponsoring a Town Hall forum Sunday that asks, "Is Puget Sound losing its middle class?"
The topic is generating chatter well beyond our little corner of the map. Nationally, job, pay and benefit cuts have many ...