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

Decades of this have disillusioned the working and middle classes into expecting nothing can or will change, that it’s every man, woman and child for themselves.

From Salon • Feb. 23, 2026

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

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