So let's consider the definition of "middle class" through five different lenses.
Blue-collar voters in Ohio, many of whom got to the middle class through collective bargaining, understood the game.
They were the product of a deliberate program to build up the middle class, through the Interstate highway system, the G. I. Bill and other measures.
The main problem now is that the good times are no longer good enough to carry the middle class through the bad times.
At the helm of the largest media empire in the world, Henry Luce piloted the American middle class through a century of tumult and change by giving his magazines, American journalism, and even American culture a distinctive voice: his own.
Millions of African-Americans — one in five who are employed — have entered the middle class through government employment, and they tend to make 25 percent more than other black workers.
He was a police officer, she was a school teacher, and both were at the vanguard of a new generation of black Americans who vaulted into the middle class through public employment.
Why would you bother to develop any kind of export industry if oil makes your money worth more and that hurts all your other exports?" The most successful societies develop a middle class through manufacturing; oil makes this extremely difficult.
Baldwin emerged as a popular figure and the architect of what he called the "new Conservatism," an attempt to appeal to the middle class through a modest movement away from the laissez-faire economic policies that the party had advocated since 1918.
Multi-nationals are increasingly looking to reach China's emerging middle class through the Internet.
Although the reasoning for this decision has been questioned, there is no doubt that this move helped establish and sustain the American middle class through its 20th century heyday.
