middle classes
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That’s because if high-income shoppers scale back their spending, then the other horizontal lines of the “E” — the lower and middle classes — may not have enough spending power to keep the economy afloat.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 3, 2026
Tales of withering love leading to betrayal among the upper middle classes are almost as common as murder mysteries.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 5, 2026
Most employees who have been furloughed by the federal government are members of the professional and middle classes.
From Salon • Nov. 1, 2025
"Amandaland, by contrast, seems deliberately designed to get us talking about what happens to a deprived area when the middle classes move in."
From BBC • Feb. 6, 2025
His operas would rip to shreds the comfortable and suffocating morality of the middle classes.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
