But while the study shows the black middle class swelling, it also points to a downside: blacks represent a disproportionately high number of adults and juveniles in prison and those dying of cancer, AIDS and other diseases.
With about half of India's 1.2 billion people under the age of 25, and with the ranks of the middle class swelling, the country's handful of highly selective universities are overwhelmed.
The problem, in part, is one of a numbers, "with about half of India's 1.2 billion people under the age of 25, and with the ranks of the middle class swelling".
"There's one Charleston, where the population of middle class and upper middle class is swelling, taking advantage of new jobs.
The ranks of the middle class are swelling around the world, especially in Asia, and the O.E.C.D. estimates that there may be almost five billion people in the "global middle class" by 2030 — more than twice the current figure.
Brazil's middle class is swelling: at the last count there were 97m people in marketing bracket "C", which means they are rich enough to contemplate getting on an aeroplane.
He then showed the assembly, including dozens of top executives from around the world, a slick video that illustrated each word with stock footage of world-class athletes, swelling music, and shots of employees waving awkwardly at the camera.
The mean APACHE II score was 17 ± 4, the Revised Trauma Score 9 ± 1, and the Injury Severity Score 31 ± 7. According to the Traumatic Coma Databank classification, eight were class II (diffuse injury), seven class III (diffuse injury with swelling), six class V (mass lesion surgically evacuated) and one class VI (mass lesion not operated).
Public schools will worsen, and private schools will eventually face the same problems that plague our public schools today: swelling class size, crowded schools and teacher shortages.
MANCHESTER, N.H. — Budget cuts have eliminated about 95 full-time teachers from the school district here over the past year, swelling class sizes and prompting parents to cry foul.
The rapidly growing business is catering to the swelling class of affluent Chinese women, who, like millions of new mothers across the country every year, continue to follow the practice prescribed by their ancestors.
