I say, 'Good enough!' It's a middle-class quality, which does make for productivity".
PAGE A17 BOB HERBERT A college degree is becoming a prerequisite for a middle-class quality of life.
Pavel Morozov, 23, said he realized that dislodging Mr. Putin might hurt the middle-class quality of life he enjoys.
"The key thing I like to talk about when I talk about my community is that its middle-class quality has not changed over the years.
If you want to go along with those expectations of what a middle-class quality of life is nowadays, then you can probably afford to have one child," he said.
In an era in which a college degree is becoming a prerequisite for a middle-class quality of life, we are having big trouble getting our kids through high school.
Ford CEO Mark Fields noted four trends for the auto industry's future: Increasing urbanization, and its constituent clogging of roads; a growing global middle class; air quality, or what you could call a lack thereof in many parts of the world; and finally, changing consumer sentiment, with shifts in the global economy seeing youths, for example, have different buying patterns than their parents.
This election is about rebuilding America's middle class, providing affordable, quality health care for all and ending the war in Iraq.
He notes, for example, that metropolitan areas with lower social mobility also tend to be segregated, with a relatively small middle class, poorer school quality, and more single parents.
Tough new limits on pollution -- accompanied by bold investments in domestic, clean energy manufacturing -- will provide a once-in-a-generation chance to revive America's ailing industrial sector and rebuild the middle class through high-quality, family-supporting green jobs.
