Right now, America's middle class is struggling to meet their basic needs.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The middle class has just fallen further and further behind the rich.
The United States is a country where practically everybody considers himself middle class.
A thriving middle class is a necessary precondition for a free representative government.
Doing nothing while the middle class is hurting. That's not leadership. Loose regulations and lax enforcement. That's not leadership. That's abandoning our middle class.
I'm painfully middle class.
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.
Whether you're a Republican or Democrat, liberal or conservative, it is clear that we've got big problems that we need to address, starting with making our economy more competitive so that we can create more good-paying jobs for the middle class.
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.
The middle class creates us rich people, not the other way around.
The middle class has disappeared. We have a highway to poverty and no roads coming out.