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
There are more than 11 million first-generation immigrants in California from all backgrounds and walks of life, from the working and middle classes to the highest echelons of society.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 25, 2024
They were also encouraged not to settle for old-fashioned and “bourgeois” gender roles—“bourgeois” being a catchall term for the upper middle classes of Imperial Russia who’d aspired to wealth and luxury.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
