A Tenuous Hold on Middle Class
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Even as African Americans and other minorities have made economic progress in the last 40 years, many of those reaching the middle-income rung are finding it a hollow promise.
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If you think the worst is over for the US home market, hold on to your hats.
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With recession looming, there are pitfalls and opportunities.
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Reservation Road and Things We Lost in the Fire both show middle-class lives thrown into crisis
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Comment is free: Gary Younge:  The Bush years have been so crushing that progressives have set their expectations low.
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People who refuse to sell their houses for less than they paid for them are violating a cardinal rule of the market: stuff is worth what itâs worth.
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As Turkey lurches toward a repeal of a ban on head scarves at universities, the countryâs secular upper middle class is feeling increasingly threatened.
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The East Village has been dragged up-market, but isnât going without a fight.
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An election next year for the mayor of London is shaping up to be an unusually brutal battle that exposes one of the country's deepest social divisions: class.
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John McCainâs economic platform contrasts sharply with his rivalsâ and represents the start of a Republican response to middle-class anxiety.
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BRUSSELS, Dec. 13 (IPS) - By 2030, 1.2 billion people in developing countries  will belong to a global middle class, up from 400 million today.  The increase in wealth will make income inequality and  environmental pressures more acute, predicts the World Bank in a  report on 'Managing the Next Wave of Globalisation'.
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BUDAPEST, Jan 11 (IPS) - The introduction of some of the most wide-ranging  austerity measures in the recent history of Central-Eastern  Europe is forcing Hungarians to endure a period of hardships, but  an opposition-initiated referendum and the resistance of the  middle classes are endangering the socialist government's  plans.
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Not everyone wants the market to keep going up.
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WASHINGTON - Over two decades, the income gap has steadily increased between the richest Americans, who own homes and stocks and got big tax breaks, and those at the middle and bottom of the pay scale, whose paychecks buy less.    The growing disparity is even more pronounced in this recovering economy...
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Comment is free: George Monbiot: The middle classes congratulate themselves on going green, then carry on buying and flying as much as before.
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Voters are often told that the countryâs economic health depends on pulling the right lever. But a new administration often brings only moderate economic policy changes.
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The US is in an exceptionally difficult situation, with the economy on the brink of recession and limited scope for policymakers to ride to the rescue.