middle classes

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Now, similar debates are spreading across the developing world, as Google, Amazon, Microsoft and other companies rush to capitalize on growing demand for AI in places with newly emerging middle classes.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 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

Most employees who have been furloughed by the federal government are members of the professional and middle classes.

From Salon • Nov. 1, 2025

Demand is increasing in countries with growing middle classes, such as China, South Africa, and India.

From BBC • Oct. 21, 2025

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