In America's middle-class era, the mansion-building, yacht-owning classes had pretty much disappeared.
The exhibition focuses on their dining rooms, or triclinia, in order to recreate the city's great middle-class era, and for middle-class America at the beginning of the third millennium, those ancient houses reveal a familiar ostentation.
After all, his campaign is premised on responding to the crisis of the middle class in an era of skyrocketing inequality – a problem that has only deepened over the past eight years.
In distant memory it was a grand old pile, an 1874 25-room home that could have been the dream of any couple in the upper middle class of that era, given significance by the kind of scribbling that took place within.
He attended the almost entirely black high school I would have gone to if my parents hadn't decided, like most of the black middle class of that era, to move away from the inner city.
The Democratic candidates are reflecting back the public criticism of the status quo, but so far, they have avoided stating how an aspiring future president would restore the economic security of the American middle class in this era of globalization. 1.
His mother was earning a college degree at Johns Hopkins — which probably would have provided the family a ladder to the middle class — when Reagan-era budget cuts terminated her financial aid and forced her to drop out.
The Bush-era "middle class" tax cuts were extended for two years, along with other tax cuts that both sides wanted; the cost is high — $485 billion — but the breaks will support consumer spending while the economy is weak.
While the Senate agreement was designed to protect the middle class by allowing the Bush era tax cuts to rise for people making $450,000 and above, don't believe anyone who tells you that it's a tax cut.
Growing up in modest middle class circumstances in the postwar era, I relentlessly heard from my parents that I was privileged.
My family moved to Queens about twenty years after John Ward's did, as part of a nascent civil-rights-era black middle class.
