Article: Before the rich can be soaked, they have to pay their fair share.(NEWS)(Nick Coleman)

Article: Who are the angry ones? Many in elusivec middle class say things not so bad
The Boston Globe;  February 9, 1995 ;     700+ words ......amorphous economically as it is ideologically. And "middle class" can be as much about a state of mind as money...politicians can't settle on what makes someone middle class. For instance, the Democrats' $500 per child...Equity Alliance of Massachusetts. "But the middle class is not ...

Article: Which Middle Class?
The Jerusalem Report;  February 10, 2003 ;     638 words ......Israel's downtrodden middle-class. No longer a one-iss...those Israelis who pay more taxes, do...Israel's struggling middle class, Shinui's call...interest of the middle class. Shinui's vote...voters will have to pay it." A look at...whom belong to the middle ...

Article: ROYAL TROUBLE FOR MIDDLE CLASS.(Business)
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA);  June 5, 2007 ;     700+ words ......many worried that the middle class is being priced out...Puget Sound losing its middle class? The topic is generating...map. Nationally, job, pay and benefit cuts have...attain, or maintain, middle-class status. The condition...in the discussion of middle class. ...

Article: Middle class that's a force to be reckoned with
New Straits Times;  July 18, 2007 ;     700+ words ......entire class of people, but for the most part, middle class Malaysians tend to have higher education levels...reason. Ideally, anyway. Usually urban dwellers, middle-class people also seem more likely to develop relationships...the country rests on expanding this educated middle ...

Article: THE MIDDLE CLASS YEARS.(Main)
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY);  December 7, 1991 ;     700+ words ......recently if that didn't mean raising taxes on the middle class. The New York governor replied, It depends on how you define middle class ... to me, middle class is people who aren't poor enough to be on welfare...new taxes were imposed, he would spare the middle class ...

Article: No rich and no poor - we're all members of middle class
Chicago Sun-Times;  August 19, 1986 ;     432 words ......every American a member of the "middle class." From now on, there should...in the United States: Upper middle class. Middle middle class. Lower middle class. Face it: Really rich people...prefer to be known as "upper middle class" and as plain as an ...

Article: Rising Middle Class Pumping Up Retail, THE MOSCOW TIMES
The Moscow Times (Russia);  November 21, 2002 ;     700+ words ...00-00-0000 With fewer bills to pay, members of the middle class have plenty to spend on clothes...allowing members of Moscow's middle class to spend a larger percentage...increasing demands of the Russian middle class will succeed, he said. The...

Article: Retail Sector Pumped Up By Growing Middle Class, THE ST. PETERSBURG TIMES
The St. Petersburg Times (Russia);  November 22, 2002 ;     656 words ...00-00-0000 With fewer bills to pay, members of the middle class have plenty to spend on clothes...St. Petersburg and Moscow's middle class to spend a larger percentage...increasing demands of the Russian middle class will succeed, he said. The...

Article: PITY THE POOR MIDDLE CLASS.(Editorial)(Column)
Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO);  February 9, 1997 ;     469 words ......the same as saying the middle class is vanishing. Of course...with the definition of middle class, but then the argument...your seat belt, you're middle class. If you floss, you're middle class. If you have a mortgage and you pay it, you're middle ...

Article: Middle class hard to define
St. Joseph News-Press;  June 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......income was $43,592 a year in 2001. "Our idea of middle class is the norm," Dr. McMurry said. "But how do...around us." People often think of themselves as middle class because they are around people making the same...Growing up, I would have guaranteed you I was middle class, but ...

Article: Understanding China's Middle Class
The China Business Review;  January 1, 2009 ;     700+ words ......likely rise to 60 percent. At present, the middle class accounts for 27 percent of China's total urban...purchasing power, and trajectory, China's middle class presents marketing opportunities that companies cannot afford to miss. What does it mean to be middle class? Different types ...

Article: LEGISLATION CREATES A NEW MIDDLE CLASS OF BLACKS
Post-Tribune (IN);  November 19, 1987 ;     679 words ......then sneered, "I suppose you're middle class." I refused to be intimidated...sat and answered, "I've been middle class all my life." That settled that...question. What is the "black middle class"? I grew up on the East Side...for your children, you were middle class. ...

Article: Middle-Class Tightrope; It's More Dire Than The Numbers Show
The Washington Post;  August 10, 2004 ;     700+ words ......the super-rich identify themselves as "upper middle class," rare is the candidate who does not claim...Boston, John Kerry said he represented "the middle class who deserve a champion, and those struggling...that his running mate, John Edwards, spoke of middle-class "Americans who ...

Article: Democrats, GOP try to define middle class Parties face question of which income group most deserves tax cuts
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  July 6, 1997 ;     700+ words ......money would go to the middle class. But whether you qualify...about helping the middle class, they mean families...they want to help the middle class, they mean families...making much less don't pay a lot in taxes and...making ends meet. The middle class ...