The middle class grew in size, as did its average salary, which more than doubled in two decades.
This follow-up chest CT showed numerous subsolid nodules in both lungs, with two part-solid lesions in the right middle lobe, increasing in size and density.
A Pew Research Center study, "The Lost Decade of the Middle Class," released in August, found that "since 2000, the middle class has shrunk in size, fallen backward in income and wealth, and shed some — but by no means all — of its characteristic faith in the future".
Those most likely to be at the heart of a revolution, a young and urban middle class, have been reduced significantly in size as the middle class has been particularly inclined to seek out more attractive alternative destinations in the Gulf, North America and western Europe in the face of the difficult economic conditions that Sudan has grappled with over the last few decades.
Recent anti-government protests have mostly been middle class and diminishing in size.
Beneath the surface, Russia's middle class had grown in size and become sufficiently affluent to assert its yearning for more accountability and less corruption.
And in its latest working paper on the future of Latin America, the Bank now estimates that the middle class will comprise close to half of the total population by 2030.The optimistic projection that Latin America's middle class will double in size between 2005 and 2030 rests on several assumptions.
"The middle class has shrunk in size, it's declined in income and in wealth, and has lost a little bit of that characteristic faith in the future that defines Americans broadly, but particularly the middle class".
"Since 2000," the report read, "the middle class has shrunk in size, fallen backward in income and wealth, and shed some -- but by no means all -- of its characteristic faith in the future".
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