Article: Retail Sector Pumped Up By Growing Middle Class, THE ST. PETERSBURG TIMES

Article: Middle class society a long way off, says author
Xinhua News Agency;  February 18, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... 35.18 million middle class members in China ... is about 2.8 percent of the total population ... about 13.5 percent of the country ... now belong to the middle class. Last month ... for more than 50 percent of the economy, is it possible for a middle class to become a ...

Article: Middle-class myths
Chicago Sun-Times;  March 31, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... monks, or single teenage dads. The middle class? Ho-hum. Nothing much of interest ... why bother? We already know what the middle class is all about. They are fearful folk ... t look like them (says the left.) Middle-class people believe their conservative ideology ...

Article: Middle-Class Minorities Face Risk.(Affordable ...
National Mortgage News;  October 20, 2008 ;     700+ words ...NEW YORK-A study based on the "Middle Class Security Index" developed by Demos ... American and fewer than one in five Latino middle-class families in America are financially ... minority families who have entered the middle class "are on shaky financial ground" and ...

Article: Middle class society a long way off
China Daily;  February 18, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... to go before the much-anticipated middle class becomes a mainstream, accountable group in China. The talk about China's middle class among research institutes and experts ... Sciences (CASS), 35.18 million middle class members in China last year, which is ...

Article: MIDDLE CLASS GETS HARDER TO DEFINE.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY);  May 20, 1995 ;     700+ words ... ... call themselves middle class. Government figures ... census numbers, 64 percent of American households ... folks would call middle class. In 1994, Americans ... Census Bureau, 54 percent of American households ... say worrisome 40 percent earn less than ... one indicator of ...

Article: Black middle class values money, not social ...
Cape Times (South Africa);  April 11, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... but how does our own new black middle class rate after 1994? Most of this ... differentiation has led to individualism, middle-class aspirations and discrimination ... poorer black people. Ours is a middle class that cares little about what ...

Article: Black Middle Class Redefined
The Washington Post;  September 17, 1987 ;     700+ words ... ... According to Landry, in 1960, just 13 percent of blacks, compared with 44 percent of whites, were in the middle class. By 1970, the proportion of middle-class blacks doubled-to 27 percent. "While this was far below the 1 out of ...