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
Many of the country's middle classes have invested their savings in buying the family home, only to watch their house prices slump in the last four years.
From BBC • Apr. 15, 2025
The Threepenny Opera was a kind of Trainspotting for the late 1920s, presenting the middle classes with a grimy, warts-and-all vision of the alienated, nihilistic underclass.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
