#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. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#america #both #category #chronic #class

When the civil rights battle was won, all the Jews and hippies and artists were middle class white people and all the blacks were still poor. Materially, not much changed. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

#battle #blacks #changed #civil #civil rights

The middle class, one of the great achievements in history, is becoming more of a relic than a reality. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#becoming #class #great #great achievements #history

Women leading means that Congress is working to create jobs, make quality child care more affordable and strengthen the middle class because we understand that America grows the economy and opportunity from the middle out, not the top down. ↗

— Barbara Mikulski

#america #because #care #child #child care

The 1970s - I was ten in 1975 - were a bad decade in all sorts of ways but the middle class had comfortable assumptions about the prospects for its children. The middle class was smaller then; it was a much less competitive Britain, less meritocratic. ↗

— David Miliband

#assumptions #bad #britain #children #class

Our parents and grandparents understood this truth deeply. They believed - as we do - that to create jobs, a modern economy requires modern investments: educating, innovating and rebuilding for our children's future. Building an economy to last, from the middle class up, not from the billionaires down. ↗

— Martin O'Malley

#billionaires #building #children #class #create

Romney economics would spell disaster for America's middle class. In this economy there are shipbuilders and ship wreckers. ↗

— Martin O'Malley

#class #disaster #economics #economy #middle

Today's tax cuts provide yet another illustration of the Republicans' fiscally irresponsible economic policies that ignore the needs of America's middle class, students, and working families. ↗

— Ellen Tauscher

#another #class #cuts #economic #economic policies

I strongly support tax relief for the middle class. ↗

— Rick Larsen

#i #middle #middle class #relief #strongly

I came from Nebraska, a very middle class family with a progressive father. ↗

— Theodore C. Sorensen

#class #class family #family #father #i