The middle class, in the white population, encompasses a wide swath.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The black population now consists of two distinct classes-the middle class and the poor.
Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.
The United States is a country where practically everybody considers himself middle class.
'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.
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.
The American middle class always wants to be upper class and is scared to death of being lower class. It's a highly mobile group of people. They're not like the people that want to be shopkeepers forever, have always been shopkeepers and want always to be shopkeepers. These people mostly are insulted by being called middle class.
White middle- and upper-class men have a longer journey to go than many people.
You can't define what's middle class, what is wealthy, what is poor.
I wanted to look at the upper-middle-class scene since the war, and in particular my generation's part in it. We had spent our early years as privileged members of a privileged class. How were we faring in the Age of the Common Man? How ought we to be faring?
The middle class creates us rich people, not the other way around.