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	Middle class - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Descending from this distinction, the phrase "middle class" came to be used in the United Kingdom during the 18th century to describe the professional and business class, as distinct from both the titled nobility and the landed gentry on the one hand and the agricultural and (increasingly) industrial laborers on the other.
		Here the middle class is defined by a similar income level as semi-professionals or business owners; by a shared culture of domesticity and sub-urbanity; and by a level of relative security against social crisis in the form of socially desired skill or wealth.
		A modern threat to the middle class is downsizing in many sectors of the American economy, competition from lower-paid foreign workers and contractors, and the systematic elimination of unionized labor.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Middle_class (1477 words)

	Lower middle class - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The lower middle class much like the upper middle class is a sub-division of the greater middle class which constitutes the by far largest socio-economic class.
		According to the US Library of Congress, "The lower middle class, constituting the bulk of the middle class, came primarily from upwardly mobile members of the lower class." This particular sub group is, as the quote infers, the largest sub-label applied to members of the middle class.
		While it is often stated that the lower middle class is simply a synonym for the working class, it has been widely accepted in most class models, such as the Weberian model, as a sub-group of the middle class in its own right, positioned in between the working class and true middle class.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lower_middle_class (540 words)

	Middle class - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The middle class (or middle classes) comprises a social group once defined by exception as an intermediate social class between the nobility and the working class.
		In the developed world, industrialization eventually caused the middle class to swell at the expense of the lower, so that by the middle of the 20th century it constituted a majority.
		As the swollen middle class lost its distinctive usefulness as a label, observers invented sub-labels: we often detect in contemporary societies an "upper middle class" and a "lower middle class".
	www.encyclopedia-online.info /Middle_class (516 words)

	FRBSF: Economic Letter - The Shrinking Middle Class? (3/07/97)
		It is argued that a large and growing middle class is an antidote to poverty, an incentive for individuals to work and improve their economic position, and an answer to those who worry that the disparity between the top and bottom of the income distribution in the U.S. is too large.
		The path of the middle class during the 1980s can be traced by determining the magnitude of the shift in population mass from inside the middle class income boundaries into the tails of the distribution.
		The conceptual middle class population declined throughout the 1980s, from 50.5 percent of the population in 1979 to 45.4 percent in 1989, but the movement was almost entirely to the right.
	www.frbsf.org /econrsrch/wklyltr/el97-07.html (1731 words)

	Manuel L. Quezon III: Too few to go right
		The middle class at home is preparing to leave, or sinking into the ranks of the upper lower classes; the most capable of the middle class is already abroad.
		Worse still, middle class values and cohesion are being eroded by the bankruptcy of the educational system and the erosion of traditional middle class values, including the work ethic, because of the proven success of the get rich quick OFW mentality.
		Since the political class is dependent on public support, and since public support is based on a mendicant attitude, wealth is maintained through power which is, in turn, maintained through the bribery of the electorate, which is content to use the corruption of society to its advantage.
	www.quezon.ph /archives/000233.html (610 words)

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		Middle class, by this survey is around $31,000 to $49,000, upper middle class from $49,000 to $76,000 and that top 20% bracket, over $76,000.
		Interestingly enough, this survey found that middle class households tend to be clustered right here in the middle west as well as the east and west coast.
		Of those who are statistically in the middle class, 13.3% of the heads of household over 25 years of age have less than a high school education.
	charlestonsc.hiringnetwork.com /common/article88.html (677 words)

	WKSU: Who Is The Middle Class?: Transcript
		Another way to determine the economic middle class is to take the median household income of $40,800 and define as middle class those households that are between 80% and 120% of the median...that is households between $33,000 and $49,000.
		That's why the notion of being middle class is often disputed because different social scientists and economists use different variables to determine what constitutes middle class.
		She also believes that during the last decade, the economic situation of the middle class has improved, although not nearly as much as the wealthy...
	www.wksu.org /news/features/familyseries/middleclass_transcript.html (1448 words)

	Middle class Info - Encyclopedia WikiWhat.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
		In Europe and the United States, industrialization eventually caused the middle class to swell at the expense of the lower, so that by the middle of the 20th century it constituted a majority.
		As the swollen middle class lost its distinctive usefulness as a label, observers invented sub-labels: we often detect in contemporary societies at least an "upper middle class" and a "lower middle class".
		Modern political economy considers a large middle class to be a beneficial, stabilizing influence on society, because it has neither the explosive revolutionary tendencies of the lower class, nor the stultifying greedy tendencies of the upper class.
	www.wikiwhat.com /encyclopedia/m/mi/middle_class.html (206 words)

	POPULATION: Brazil's Shrinking Middle Class (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
		The middle class -- defined in Brazil as the segment of the population with a monthly per capita income of more than 1,000 reals, or 340 dollars -- accounted for 42.5 percent of the country's total population in 1981.
		The study reveals that while the middle class shrank, the ranks of the poor in Brazil grew larger, from 30.5 percent of the population in 1981 to 35.9 percent in 2002.
		The "nouveau poor" of Argentina are middle class families who continue to own property and assets and have been able to maintain certain levels of education but do not earn enough in terms of income to remain above the poverty line.
	www.ipsnews.net /africa/interna.asp?idnews=25559 (1314 words)

	New middle class - INQ7.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
		It is said that in Britain, the upper classes established schools to prepare the lower and middle classes for inclusion in the ranks of the wealthy-either as bureaucrats, managers or clerks.
		For example, the middle class sent its sons to Ateneo and La Salle to learn the ways of the wealthy, as its daughters did in the Assumption; for the less socially mobile, there were the public schools that trained and taught those without means to adopt the values and ways of the middle class.
		A new middle class, deprived of the sense of cohesion and belonging instilled in the 1920s to the 1970s by the institutions of church, club and school.
	news.inq7.net /opinion/index.php?index=2&story_id=17415&col=111 (1036 words)

	Rising middle class redefining China
		Even in some dictionaries published as recently as 1996, the term middle class is explained as the middle level of the bourgeois class.
		The middle class, as explained in the book, is defined by American sociologists as a group of society dependent on large organizations, having few fixed assets in business, earning their living mainly through utilizing professional knowledge and skills, and lacking in revolutionary passion.
		Whether one considers China's new middle class, currently less than 15 per cent of the total working population, as big or small, its very existence is enough to warrant further discussion and public attention, says Li Qiang, a professor at Tsinghua University.
	www.chinadaily.com.cn /english/doc/2004-10/19/content_383575.htm (627 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Magazine \| Black, middle class and invisible
		Separating people via their classes has caused many social problems the world over...rich vs. poor, working vs. middle class etc. So while some want to get rid of stereotyping, adding a class label to a group of people is only encouraging that stereotyping.
		Class is a way to exclude and so if a fl middle class does emerge all that will happen is that the goalposts will move and exclusion will happen in some other more subtle way.
		Maybe the reason middle class 'fl' people are so invisible is because people don't acctually care they are fl, and rather see them as individuals.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/magazine/4595072.stm (1919 words)

	Middle Class 2004: How Congress Voted (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
		Middle Class 2004: How Congress Voted issues each member of Congress, as well as the House and Senate as a whole, a letter grade based on their 2004 votes on selected pieces of legislation affecting the middle class.
		While the U.S. Census Bureau has no official definition of the 'middle class,' conventionally it has come to represent the large swath of the American people with incomes between approximately 200 percent of the federal poverty threshold and those of the nation's top five percent income earners—roughly $25,000 to $100,000 a year.
		Middle Class 2004 concludes that Congress did not rise to the occasion when presented with the opportunity to support policies strengthening and expanding the middle class.
	www.drummajorinstitute.com /library/report.php?ID=4 (848 words)

	middle class. The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. 2002
		A social and economic class composed of those more prosperous than the poor, or lower class, and less wealthy than the upper class.
		Middle class is sometimes loosely used to refer to the bourgeoisie.
		‡ Values commonly associated with the middle class include a desire for social respectability and material wealth and an emphasis on the family and education.
	www.bartleby.com /59/17/middleclass.html (174 words)

	Anarchism - Indvidualistic Middle Class Trend
		The ideological roots of anarchism lie in the striving of the middle class to avoid being crushed in "the middle" by the sharpening struggle between capital and labour.
		The sons and daughters of the middle class who go to university, or who end up on the dole queue, are the natural recruits to anarchism which (as AAA declares) "starts from the individual" in its opposition to the capitalist state.
		This is the ideological expression of middle class people seeking a non-existent "middle way" between the rule of big business (the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie) and the rule of the working class (the dictatorship of the proletariat).
	www.mltranslations.org /NewZealand/Anarchism.htm (3733 words)

	FactCheck.org Update on Kerry's "Shrinking Middle Class" -- Still Shrinking in 2003
		However, Kerry's description of a declining middle class is supported by new Census Bureau figures showing median household income failed to grow in 2003.
		So by this measure, the "middle class" continued to shrink in 2003, and while some "middle class" households moved to the upper-income group, a larger proportion moved down.
		Another indication that the middle class continued to shrink in 2003 is the increase in the number and percentage of persons living in poverty.
	www.factcheck.org /article249.html (1236 words)

	NOW. Politics & Economy. Who is the Middle Class? Overview \| PBS
		In November 2003, Chris Baker of THE WASHINGTON TIMES reported in "What is middle class?" that the Census Bureau shows the middle 20% of the country earning between $40,000 and $95,000 annually.
		The Drum Major Institute for Public Policy, a non-partisan and non-profit organization, reports that the middle class has conventionally come to mean families with incomes between $25,000 and $100,000 each year.
		As NOW reported in "Middle Class Squeeze" (December 13, 2002), the shape of income distribution in America is changing and many are finding it increasingly difficult to afford housing while keeping up with necessities such as food, clothing, transportation, and health care.
	www.pbs.org /now/politics/middleclassoverview.html (401 words)

	Lower middle class - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Lower middle class (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
		Their income is usually higher than that of the working class in recognition of greater skills.
		The subdivisions upper middle class and lower middle class refer respectively to the more skilled professions (doctors, lawyers, and so on) and white-collar workers (lower management, shopkeepers, and so on).
		Karl Marx used the term bourgeoisie to refer to the capitalist class who do not live by the sale of their labour.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Lower+middle+class (159 words)

	2blowhards.com: Art & The Middle Class
		A more useful line of research, with regard to class and art, is how will the artists of tomorrow, who will most certainly come from the vast middle class rather than the rich (just a numbers game-vastly more middle class, most artists will come from that group), will FIND and AFFORD their training.
		There is something about some middle class (or maybe upper middle class) folk that views art (and subsidiary professions such as editing and marketing) the way that the English nobility used to view certain designated “gentlemanly” occupations as being superior to actually doing any kind of meaningful work.
		Tchaikovsky, indeed, belongs in the middle class group, for though he was technically a nobleman, his father supported the family through professional income (he was a mining engineer).
	www.2blowhards.com /archives/002520.html (6423 words)

	The French Revolution in the Electronic Passport
		The first class was the clergy and the second was the nobility.
		A third class was made up of the "middle class," a group shopkeepers and craftsmen who were neither rich nor poor.
		The middle class argued that voting should be "by head" rather than by class, because they had more representatives than the first two estates combined.
	www.mrdowling.com /705-frenchrevolution.html (553 words)

	Another Kind of Middle-Class Squeeze
		The middle class is the club that everyone wants to join, despite the downsizing, dependence on more than one wage earner and record amount of consumer debt that make membership so tenuous.
		Going back at least to Franklin D. Roosevelt, politicians described the middle class as forgotten Americans -- remembering them often enough, though, to enact tax deductions and other benefits that might be denounced as giveaways to the rich or handouts for the poor.
		Maybe that's because the middle class and the wealthy are more likely to vote than the poor.
	www.tenant.net /Alerts/Guide/press/nyt/sr051897.html (1004 words)

	http://www.qando.net/ - Democrats: Whither the middle class?
		With middle income voters, it is Democrats—the self-described party of the middle class—who are running far behind Republicans, the oft-described party of the rich," the report says.
		The middle class is too stupid/sheeplike/misinformed to realize that their own interests rest with the Dems, and not the GOP.
		I base my comment on the fact that the poll’s middle class majority still identifies mostly with the Democrat party, but that they feel the party is more concerned about the schools, jobs and health care of "others" over theirs.
	www.qando.net /details.aspx?Entry=1900 (1315 words)

	Upper middle class: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
		Upper middle class is a sub-label sometimes applied by sociologists sociology quick summary:
		Sociology is the study of the social lives of humans, groups, and societies, sometimes defined as the study of social interactions....
		The middle class (or middle classes) comprises a social group once defined by exception as an intermediate social class between the nobility and the...
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/u/up/upper_middle_class.htm (651 words)

	ZNet \|Venezuela \| Why Venezuela's Middle Class (for the most part) Opposes Chavez (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
		Another reason why inflation affects the middle class more than the poor is that the middle class depends on a salary that is fixed at the beginning of the year.
		The middle class, however, tends to rely on private education, and private health care, which is of a better quality, but which have to be discontinued as soon as the prices for these service rise too much for their income.
		Added to the mix of middle class economic decline and lack of government programs that benefit the middle class is a virulently anti-Chavez media.
	www.zmag.org /content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=45&ItemID=2546 (2032 words)

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