One letter writer, we assume of the more liberal persuasion, asserted, "Unless we all agree that in 2015 wages have to match the cost to live, we will wipe out the middle class sector of our society.
It remains a largely white, middle-class sector and its least diverse department tends to be creative.
And corporations profit enormously by replacing middle class public sector jobs with ones without benefits or security.
The inclusion of ordinary citizens -- poor, female, Afro-Brazilian, indigenous, middle class, private sector -- in multiple forms of political participation and economic production has deepened Brazilian democracy.
There is probably a tendency to provide more elbow room for a rapidly growing intellectual middle class and educated sectors of the population, which, after all, will be measured in tens, possibly hundreds of millions.
As the author of a widely read column in the weekend supplement of the newspaper Yediot Aharonot, he wrote a column under a title that became his catchphrase: "Where's the money?" He wrote: "This is the big question asked by Israel's middle class, the same sector on whose behalf I am going into politics.
Using their dichotomy, the Philippines clearly falls within the extractive category, whereby the core-elite have blocked appropriate policies, which would have made the country a true democracy, anchored by a large middle class, an entrepreneurial sector, and strong institutions spurring growth and innovation.
Perhaps most importantly, urban environs have a middle class and formal sector that support commerce, promote stability, and anticipate change for the better.
Kuwait has both a public-sector and a private-sector middle class, but they are totally separate.
Israel's middle class and the poorer sectors of society have been squeezed by sharp increases in prices of basics like food, water and gasoline in recent years.
