middle classes
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Their experiences offer an insight into a question confronting emerging economies like the Philippines: what happens when AI begins to automate the jobs that helped lift millions of people into the middle classes?
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
For the working and middle classes, changing economic realities such as stubbornly high mortgage rates have led to a new calculus.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 27, 2026
Expanding middle classes and urbanization are creating attractive growth opportunities, prompting investors to seek a share of the region’s most promising hospital and specialty-care assets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
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
In the late nineteenth century, Irish and German immigrants served the urban upper and middle classes, then left for the factories as soon as they could.
From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich
