The formula for achieving middle-class success is simple: Finish high school; don't have a child before the age of 20; and get married before having the child.
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In America today, a young person needs more education after high school just to have a chance to make it in the middle class. Not a guarantee, just a chance to make it.
Middle class families are struggling to send their sons and daughters to school. For many Americans, a college education is essential to future success.
My parents were determined to move into the middle class.
A thriving middle class is the source of growth in a technological, capitalist economy. Investing in the middle class is the most pro-business thing you can do.
The middle class creates us rich people, not the other way around.
I am hard-core middle class.
For students today, only 10 percent of children from working-class families graduate from college by the age of 24 as compared to 58 percent of upper-middle-class and wealthy families.
I'm painfully middle class.
Increasingly, staying in the middle class - let alone aspiring to become middle class - is becoming a game of chance.
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.