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I don't think that the black market's a new thing. It's always been a part of history, and it's been one of the ways that immigrants and disenfranchised people move into the middle class.
Lela Loren
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Actor
Disenfranchised
Immigrants
Middle Class
History Black People
New Thing
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When I was a kid, and Elvis Presley broke through to a middle class, white audience, it was a sociological phenomenon that lasted through the Beatles and even a bit through Fleetwood Mac.
Lindsey Buckingham
/
Musician
Audience
Broke
Class
Fleetwood Mac
Middle
Middle Class
Phenomenon
Sociological
White
Bit
Elvis
Mac
Fleetwood
Lasted
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For a Jewish Puritan of the middle class, the novel is serious, the novel is work, the novel is conscientious application why, the novel is practically the retail business all over again.
Howard Nemerov
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Poet
Application
Class
Literature
Middle Class
Novel
Puritan
Retail
Serious
Jewish
Conscientious
Practically
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I truly believe that the job creators, those people making $200,000 a year, are the small business men and women that create the jobs and ultimately will help the middle class and the poor.
Phil Gingrey
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Former U.s. Representative
Job Creators
Men And Women
Middle Class
Small Business
Men Business Women
Creators
Business Women Men
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If you go and stop people at a supermarket and ask them for their receipt and say, 'Hey how much did you just spend?' middle class shoppers have no idea. The poor know what they just spent.
Sendhil Mullainathan
/
Professor
Hey
Middle Class
No Idea
People Poor Know
Supermarket
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I think the trick is to understand that universal isn't defined by a singular way of being. We don't have to somehow accept universal as being middle class, or white, or whatever it may be.
Rick Famuyiwa
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Defined
Middle Class
Trick
Singular
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I wanted to try and change the idea of what we call mainstream. So many times what we call mainstream is upper middle class white suburbia. And anything outside of that is considered niche.
Rick Famuyiwa
/
Middle Class
Niche
Suburbia
Upper
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We need to work together, on a bipartisan basis, to create new jobs, increase job training, enact real and substantive middle class tax relief, and reward companies that create jobs at home.
Ruben Hinojosa
/
U.s. Representative
Jobs
Home
Bipartisan
Job Training
Middle Class
Real
Relief
Tax
Work Home Together
Basis
Companies
Enact
New Jobs
Reward
Substantive
Tax Relief
Work Together
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To fulfill the promise of economic opportunity, we must remain true to the principle that collective bargaining is a cornerstone of a free society and indispensable to a strong middle class.
Tom Perez
/
Bargaining
Class
Collective Bargaining
Free Society
Indispensable
Middle
Middle Class
Promise
Collective
Cornerstone
Economic Opportunity
Fulfill
Principle
Remain
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Educational opportunities have supported the rise of the African middle class, the professional cadre of young people who are now willing and able to contribute to Africa's future prosperity.
Mo Ibrahim
/
Entrepreneur
Future
Able
Cadre
Class
Educational
Middle
Middle Class
Prosperity
Willing
Young
Future People Young
Now
Africa
Rise
African
Contribute
Educational Opportunities
Opportunities
Professional
Supported
Young People
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Today's tax cuts provide yet another illustration of the Republicans' fiscally irresponsible economic policies that ignore the needs of America's middle class, students, and working families.
Ellen Tauscher
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Former United States Representative
Illustration
Irresponsible
Middle Class
Tax Cuts
Tax
Cuts
Economic Policies
Families
Republicans
Fiscally
Ignore
Policies
Provide
Working Families
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Remember, America's greatness is based on creating wealth like the rest of the world has never known, and then, making sure it's shared throughout a middle class and even the underprivileged.
Darrell Issa
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U.s. Representative
Class
Creating
Greatness
Middle Class
Underprivileged
Wealth
Shared
Throughout
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I belong to the middle class that grew up very influenced by the Catholic church. The people of the novel are from a more pagan and practical world in which the Christianity is just a veneer.
John Mcgahern
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Writer
Catholic
Catholic Church
Christianity
Class
Middle
Middle Class
Novel
Pagan
People
Veneer
World People More
Belong
Influenced
Practical
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From 1950 to 2000, the U.S. economy grew at an average rate of 3.5 percent. That generated a massive gain in real GDP per person from $16,000 to over $50,000. A huge win for the middle class.
Lawrence Kudlow
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Economist
Average
Gdp
Massive
Middle Class
Rate
Gain
Per
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Look, there is a sort of old view about class which is a very simplistic view that we have got the working class, the middle class and the upper class, I think it is more complicated than that.
Ed Miliband
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British Politician
Class
Complicated
Middle Class
Thinking
Views
Simplistic
Upper
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Along with the rise of inequality, the slowdown in productivity growth, and the shrinking of the middle class, the spiraling cost of living has become a central facet of American economic life.
Annie Lowrey
/
Inequality
Middle Class
Productivity
Shrinking
Economic Life
Facet
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Betty Sutton and I will make it a point to put state government back on the side of the middle class, not the wealthy and well-connected who have run the show at the statehouse for far too long.
Richard Cordray
/
Middle Class
State Government
Betty
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My parents are the last of the middle class. My father worked for the government designing sea mines. My mother was a substitute teacher. Together, they worked really only until they were sixty.
Lewis Black
/
Comedian
Teacher
Father
Middle Class
Mines
Mother
Sea
Sixty
Designing
Substitute
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We cannot get serious about helping the private sector create quality jobs without focusing first on the main drivers of our economy - the American middle class and those struggling to enter it.
Paul Tonko
/
Drivers
Helping
Middle Class
Private Sector
Enter
Focusing
Sector
Struggling
We Cannot
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I grew up in Queens, in New York City, in a middle class Jewish family. My mother was a public school teacher, my father was a lawyer. They were Democrats - kind of middle-of-the-road democrats.
Elliott Abrams
/
Lawyer
New York
Queens
Teacher
Class
Middle
Middle Class
Mother
New York City
Public School
Jewish
Democrats
School Teacher
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The GOP's policies are not designed to help the middle class. They are designed to help their wealthy, powerful friends and donors under the misguided idea that wealth will one day trickle down.
David Brock
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Journalist
Donors
Gop
Middle Class
Misguided
Wealthy
Designed
Policies
Trickle
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We're facing headwinds from Europe. Europe doing the right things here to stabilize their situation is important to our small businesses, our workers, the middle class here, and overall economy.
David Plouffe
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Political Strategist
Middle Class
Workers
Businesses
Facing
Overall
Right Things
Small Businesses
Stabilize
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We want to repeal the ObamaCare tax. We want to save middle class families from European health care. And that's what we're going to do as a party and that's what Mitt Romney will do on day one.
Reince Priebus
/
Class
Health Care
Middle Class
Obamacare
Party
Romney
Tax
Health Day Care
Day One
Mitt
Mitt Romney
Repeal
Save
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The Corbynista brand of politics representing metropolitan, middle class, pro-open border values is far removed from millions of Labour voters, especially those who voted Leave in the referendum.
Nigel Farage
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British Politician
Class
Labour
Metropolitan
Middle
Middle Class
Millions
Representing
Voters
Voted
Border
Leave
Referendum
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We can't have special interests sitting shotgun. We gotta have middle class families up in front. We don't mind the Republicans joining us. They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back.
Barack Obama
/
44Th U.s. President
Class
Joining
Middle
Middle Class
Mind
Sitting
Special
Special Interests
Families
Republicans
Front
Gotta
Interests
Ride
Shotgun
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I do think that there is both a very powerful sense of entitlement and a kind of bubble of wealth which makes it hard for the people at the very top to understand the travails of the middle class.
Chrystia Freeland
/
Entitlement
Middle Class
Bubble
For The People
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For 25 years, it has been my privilege to represent the city of San Francisco and the great state of California; to work to strengthen our vibrant middle class; to secure opportunity and equality.
Nancy Pelosi
/
Minority Leader Of The United States House Of Representatives
Equality
Opportunity
California
Class
Middle Class
Privilege
San Francisco
Secure
Years
Work Great Opportunity
Represent
Francisco
San
Strengthen
Vibrant
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As Ohio's working families continue to recover from the worst economic recession in our country's history, we need a president who's committed to growing our economy by lifting up the middle class.
Sherrod Brown
/
United States Senator
Committed
Lifting
Middle Class
Ohio
Recession
Working Families
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In every society, manufacturing builds the lower middle class. If you give up manufacturing, you end up with haves and have-nots, and you get social polarization. The whole lower middle class sinks.
Vaclav Smil
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Professor
Manufacturing
Middle Class
Polarization
Builds
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That's the underlying tactic of the Obama administration in 2012: push the war on women, the war on the middle class, the war on gay people, and the war on Hispanics, and hope it will carry the day.
Mike Gallagher
/
Radio Host
Administration
Class
Middle
Middle Class
Obama
Carry
Hispanics
Obama Administration
Push
Tactic
Underlying
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Policing was developed, created, and implemented for the elite, and - in the case of the United States - the elites were and almost entirely remain white, upper middle class, cisgender straight men.
Patrisse Cullors
/
Middle Class
Elite
Entirely
Implemented
Policing
Upper
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Free enterprise has done more to lift people out of poverty, to help build a strong middle class, to help educate our kids, and to make our lives better than all the programs of government combined.
Mitt Romney
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Former Governor Of Massachusetts
Kids
Class
Educate
Enterprise
Free Enterprise
Middle
Middle Class
Our Lives
Poverty
Strong
Combined
Programs
Lift
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When my father was a young actor, it is absolutely true that the vast majority were fairly middle class. Then all of a sudden, people like Albert Finney burst through and turned all that on its head.
Jack Davenport
/
Actor
Majority
Middle Class
Fairly
Albert
Burst
Vast
Sudden
Sudden People
Vast Majority
Young Actor
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Crippling student loan debt doesn't just affect those who took out loans to get an education. It harms all of us because we can't have a healthy economy without a strong middle class to stimulate it.
Ana Kasparian
/
Class
Debt
Economy
Healthy
Loan
Middle
Middle Class
Affect
Crippling
Student
Healthy Economy
Loans
Stimulate
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My parents taught me practical things, about how important hard work, discipline and the necessity of managing your own money were. Their values were very much the values of the postwar middle class.
Tony Robinson
/
Discipline
Hard Work
Middle Class
Practical Things
Work Money Hard Work
Postwar
Practical
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I'm incredibly boring; I had a very happy childhood. I never starved, nor did I have a silver spoon in my mouth. I'm one of those terribly middle-of-the-road, British middle class, South London gents.
Jude Law
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Actor
Happy
Boring
British
Childhood
Class
Happy Childhood
London
Middle
Middle Class
Silver
South
Did
Terribly
Incredibly
Mouth
Nor
Silver Spoon
Spoon
Starved
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I was raised by both parents up to 17. We had a good family. We had a middle class family, good teaching and good surroundings, raised by the church, where I went every week whether I wanted to or not.
Deontay Wilder
/
Boxer
Good Family
Middle Class
Surroundings
Class Family
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In this case it appealed to me partly because it felt close to me in some ways. This is about a confused, bewildered middle class Englishman adrift in smalltown America and that has definitely been me.
Colin Firth
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Film Actor
Adrift
Bewildered
Confused
Middle Class
Appealed
Englishman
Partly
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But this convention is about more than re-nominating President Obama. It's about Americans coming together to build one economy - not from the top down, but from the middle class out and the bottom up.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
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U.s. Representative
Bottom
Class
Economy
Middle
Middle Class
President
President Obama
Build
Obama
Coming
Convention
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Yanukovych has changed everything in Ukrainian jails - real criminals have been released, while representatives of the middle class and politically rebellious free-minded people have filled the prisons.
Yulia Tymoshenko
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Former Prime Minister Of Ukraine
Class
Criminals
Filled
Jail
Middle Class
Real
Rebellious
Representatives
Ukrainian
Jails
Prisons
Released
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In the run-up to the 1992 Democratic convention, Clinton's campaign realized that voters thought the young governor had a privileged upbringing. They didn't buy his alleged concern for the middle class.
Dee Dee Myers
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Former White House Press Secretary
Running
Campaigns
Class
Clinton
Concern
Democratic
Middle Class
Privileged
Upbringing
Voters
Alleged
Campaign
Convention
Governor
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No. You can't do that. We won't let you go to Bollywood... ' This is the standard reaction of small town, middle class parents whenever their child expresses his or her desire to join the film industry.
Vivek Agnihotri
/
Bollywood
Film Industry
Middle Class
Small Town
Expresses
Join
Reaction
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Since Day 1 of his candidacy, Donald Trump has divided our country and threatened our democracy, attacked the middle class and alienated our allies. Under his administration, real people are being hurt.
John Hickenlooper
/
Governor Of Colorado
Allies
Candidacy
Divided
Middle Class
Threatened
Alienated
Attacked
Donald Trump
Real People
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Today, families like the one I grew up in still believe in that American dream. But as President Obama says, it's a make-or-break moment for the middle class. Mitt Romney's plans would make things worse.
Chuck Schumer
/
Dream
American Dream
Class
Grew
Middle
Middle Class
Plans
President
President Obama
Romney
Obama
Mitt
Moment
Says
Worse
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My agenda for national public service would provide a pathway to the middle class for all Americans and would ensure that those who dedicate themselves to their communities are rewarded for their efforts.
Kirsten Gillibrand
/
United States Senator
Middle Class
Public Service
Agenda
All Americans
Dedicate
Efforts
Ensure
Pathway
Rewarded
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Our focus going forward is on sectors where the life of China's middle class can be upgraded: health, travel, leisure, education, and the Internet. We call it marrying China's growth with global resources.
Guo Guangchang
/
Leisure
Marrying
Middle Class
Resources
Life Education Health
Sectors
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Let's restore sanity and fairness to the tax cut conversation. We simply cannot afford to hand over the bank vault to our nation's millionaires and billionaires while the middle class picks up spare change.
Paul Tonko
/
Conversation
Fairness
Middle Class
Picks
Sanity
Afford
Bank
Billionaires
Millionaires
Restore
Spare
Tax Cut
Vault
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In a sense the quest for the emancipation of black people in the U.S. has always been a quest for economic liberation which means to a certain extent that the rise of black middle class would be inevitable.
Angela Davis
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Political Activist
Certain
Class
Economic
Emancipation
Inevitable
Liberation
Mean
Middle
Middle Class
People
Always People Black
Rise
Certain Extent
Always Black People
Extent
Black People Always
Quest
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As a small-business man myself, I believe strongly that improving the health of small businesses is the key to improving the economy, growing the middle class, and creating innovative products and services.
Raja Krishnamoorthi
/
Improving
Innovative
Middle Class
Services
Small Businesses
Strongly
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We don't want to go back to the same policies and the same practices that drove our economy into a ditch, that punished the middle class, and that led us to this catastrophe. We have to keep moving forward.
David Axelrod
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Former Senior Advisor To The President Of The United States
Catastrophe
Middle Class
Moving Forward
Keep Moving Forward Keep Moving
Ditch
Drove
Led
Policies
Practices
Punished
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