"The rise in inequality seems to be driven by gains at the upper end of the income spectrum and declines in the middle class," notes Business Week.
However, for me, the revelation was Rupert Everett, who in tuxedo and pompadour cut a fine Coward figure, hitting every upper-middle-class note of the Master's teasing nonchalance with swaggering languor.
Dismissed by members of Hitler's inner circle as a "blöde Kuh" — a silly cow — Eva Braun struck an incongruously middle-class note in the feverish atmosphere of the Berghof compound.
A particular tip of the cloth cap to Everett, who in tuxedo and pompadour cuts a fine Coward figure, hitting every upper-middle-class note of the Master's teasing nonchalance with swaggering languor.
The cost of out-of-state tuition at a top public U.S. university is a relative bargain for China's growing middle class, she notes, and community colleges are dirt cheap.
He told an anecdote about an Asian client walking triumphantly into Annabel's, the Mayfair nightclub, a long-time haunt of the upper middle classes, and noting, "London is all ours".
A recent World Bank report on the expanding middle class in Latin America noted that although an additional 17 percent of the Mexican population had entered the middle class since 2000, class mobility was still low.
Instead, he focused relentlessly on job creation for the middle class, which, he noted, has seen incomes fall by $4,300 under this president while gas prices have doubled and health care costs have surged.
But Obama's critics have seemingly gone too far in their naked disrespect and disdain of our duly-elected president (the recent cheering of the right over the loss of the Olympics drove this disrespect straight into the swamp of anti-Americanism... and middle class voters are taking note).
Emphasizing the focus on the middle class, that same budget noted that from 2000 to 2007, the heart of the Bush presidency, "median income among households headed by those under 65" fell by about $2,000.
Some are even on the verge of pole-vaulting into the middle class, though, as Boo notes, "for every two people in Annawadi inching up, there was one in a catastrophic plunge".
