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My parents worked hard and we lived a lower-middle class life.
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If vouchers are instituted on a wide scale the $3k would probably help middle and lower-middle income parents who are on the border of sending their kids to private school or public school.
Two-Handed on Vouchers, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Instead he forced them to live a lower-middle class life in Libya, for a while even in a shack.
Elisabeth Braw: Crown Prince Mohammed of Libya: Gaddafi Will Be Killed If He Doesn't Leave Elisabeth Braw 2011
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The Central American nation has the sixth-worst rate of chronic malnutrition in the world, despite being what might be described as a relatively well-off lower-middle class country.
Hungry in Guatemala 2009
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The Central American nation has the sixth-worst rate of chronic malnutrition in the world, despite being what might be described as a relatively well-off lower-middle class country.
Hungry in Guatemala 2009
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Instead he forced them to live a lower-middle class life in Libya, for a while even in a shack.
Elisabeth Braw: Crown Prince Mohammed of Libya: Gaddafi Will Be Killed If He Doesn't Leave Elisabeth Braw 2011
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What my Evangelical-leader/author mother (Edith Schaeffer) had once represented (in her unreconstructed fundamentalist heyday in the 1970s and 80s) to a Evangelical retreat/mission full of young gullible men and women looking for Jesus, and later to tens of thousands of readers of her many books, Palin became for tens of millions of alienated angry white lower-middle class men and women convinced that an educated "elite" was out to get them.
Frank Schaeffer: Sarah Palin: Professional (Wealthy) "Victim" Frank Schaeffer 2011
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Remember Ginny and Ron grew up in a lower-middle class environment.
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Instead he forced them to live a lower-middle class life in Libya, for a while even in a shack.
Elisabeth Braw: Crown Prince Mohammed of Libya: Gaddafi Will Be Killed If He Doesn't Leave Elisabeth Braw 2011
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Studies have shown that even small changes in income have significant effects on marriage rates among the poor and the lower-middle class.
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