In terms of Barack Obama's appeal to working-class voters, Barack Obama is getting the same amount, if not more, of those working-class voters than any other Democratic nominee.
Edwards, at one point, in one of the debates - that he and Obama had a deep belief in change, and that Edwards, according to Obama, was a voice for the working class and he wants to be that working-class voice.
These are the breaks for "folks who make less" that have been adopted over the last 30 years to bring us to the point where federal income taxes have been abolished for the working poor and what some people term the working class, and almost abolished them for the middle class.
Number four, I want to reduce our deficit without sticking it to the middle-class and working-class families.
Experian asked people in a number of different jobs to place themselves in the working class or the middle class.
To the intelligentsia, smitten with Marxism and other progressive theories, some failing endemic to Western Civilization had prevented the working class from recognizing their class interests.
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Are American middle-class and working-class consumers finally tapped out?
All of those things impact middle-class and working-class Americans.
And are you going to elect somebody who has consistently fought for middle-class, working-class interests, as you heard the President say, or somebody who campaigns as an independent and has voted 96 percent of the time with Republicans in the state Senate?
But there is no working class anymore and the middle class is disintegrating.
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Its central relationship, between an upper-middle-class man and his working-class lover, has been described as sentimental, its happy ending dismissed as wish-fulfilment.
One is it makes no sense to pass into law a payroll tax cut for working and middle-class Americans and have it paid for in a way that hurts working and middle-class Americans.
The end result of these Reagan Republican tax policies is that federal income taxes were abolished for the poor and working class, and almost abolished for the middle class.
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And the main focus has been on the middle class and the poor, but what about working-class families?
But the U.S. economy is producing squat in the way of working-class jobs, and inflation-adjusted income for working people has been sliding mostly sideways for the better part of 30 years.
At the same time, the Communist Party has a much broader concern: that middle-class dissatisfaction with stockmarket losses, coupled with working-class anger at the continuing wave of lay-offs at state enterprises, could threaten the legitimacy of the party's rule.
The oldest of six children from a working-class Omaha family, he spent seven years getting through college, working odd jobs to pay tuition.
Ms. Malcorra had worked hard to move herself from the working class neighborhood where she grew up, graduating among the top of her class (and as the only woman) of electrical engineers at the University of Rosario, followed by a successful 15-year career at IBM.
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This will demonstrate to middle income voters that true, free-market principles can, indeed, work for the working class, and that they are willing to fight for these principles regardless of class concerns.
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Broad mistrust of the Tories, cemented during the 1980s recession, means middle-class voters in the north are actually more likely to vote Labour than are working-class voters in the south.
As a young 25 year old professional woman, I was faced with a confused male professioanl working class.
But a new allegiance from working-class women could add even more momentum this time around.
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On the left, changing economic and social structures have shrunk the old working class.
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