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middle class

noun as in neither the nobility nor laboring class

noun as in an economic class perceived as average

adjective as in characteristic of the middle class

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The expansion of federal subsidies for Affordable Care Act health plans, stretching to reach people who are in the middle class or unemployed, is woven into a proposal the House Ways and Means Committee is expected to approve by the end of this week.

Economists predicted that Mexico’s economy would contract by up to 9% in 2020, wiping out years of gains for a burgeoning middle class, and potentially pushing some 10 million people into extreme poverty based on income.

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Today’s politicians take evident pride in the United States’ small businesses, large military and middle class.

Wealth is moving upward everywhere, and everywhere the middle class is disappearing.

Coming out of the Vietnam War era, the middle class really did pay a substantial share of taxes and reap a much smaller share of benefits.

The same picture emerges from middle class men in the U.S., Canada, and the Nordic countries.

As a white, educated, Western, middle-class male, I possess most of the unearned privilege the world has to offer.

But in more middle-class and working-class neighborhoods, sessions are typically a fourth of that price.

No longer does it constitute a reliable, middle class-based alternative to the corporatist mindset of the Republicans.

Faced with the loss of middle class voters, the administration seems determined to double down on its current coalition.

Among the middle class there was a strong party which had accepted the doctrines of the French Revolution.

Governor Street was just as dirty and squalid as any other tenement-house street in the poorer section of a middle-class city.

Wealthy tradesmen, also, hold a special position in the mixed middle class.

A cold tone of gentle-blooded, high-middle-class respectability prevails.

The congregation is a mixture of working and middle class people; the former kind being preponderant.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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