When you grow up middle class, you just always feel like you've got to be working, or you won't be able to pay the bills.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I'm painfully middle class.
Middle-class people worry a lot about money. They worry a lot about job security, and they do a lot of nine-to-five stuff.
In the States everyone aspires to be middle class. It's so engrained into the American psyche: As long as you work hard you're going to be rich some day. The history of Britain is that if you're born working class, you're going to stay there, although that is changing.
My parents were determined to move into the middle class.
The key to a vibrant middle class is an abundance of jobs that pay enough so that workers can provide for themselves and their families, enjoy leisure time, save for retirement and pay for their children's education so they can grow up and earn even more than their parents.
Right now, America's middle class is struggling to meet their basic needs.
The middle class creates us rich people, not the other way around.
'Middle class' used to be synonymous with secure, with steady, with boring, because middle-class people were people who were pretty much safe from the time they first started work on through retirement and until their deaths. No longer.
It's the middle class that feels the luxury of being able to have causes.
Increasingly, staying in the middle class - let alone aspiring to become middle class - is becoming a game of chance.