#middle class

In real life there are indeed black people who have been in the middle class for generations, but in entertainment it's as if they don't exist. ↗

— Stephen Carter

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#black #class #entertainment #exist #generations

I think the state has some serious problems. Just look at the layoffs going on across the state, not just in Chicago. It affects the middle class. It pushes people down. ↗

— Richard M. Daley

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#affects #chicago #class #down #going

Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think about. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

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#america #both #category #chronic #class