Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think about.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Right now, America's middle class is struggling to meet their basic needs.
Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.
You can't define what's middle class, what is wealthy, what is poor.
The middle class has just fallen further and further behind the rich.
There is this notion that the lives of the comfortable-off middle class don't merit being treated seriously and with compassion.
Democrats don't relate to middle-class people.
The middle class creates us rich people, not the other way around.
You can only choose between rich and poor. The middle class is gone.
The middle class has disappeared. We have a highway to poverty and no roads coming out.
The United States is a country where practically everybody considers himself middle class.