middle class
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The growth of the upper middle class since the 1970s helps explain why the prices of some things, such as housing, have increased far beyond inflation.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 21, 2026
While from time to time, like Matthew Arnold a century before, she professed to see some virtue in the lower classes, she reserved most of her literary barbs for the middle class.
From Salon • Apr. 19, 2026
That is uncertain, but what it showed was the cultural aspiration of the post-World War II American middle class: People wanted to be seen as interested in those things, whatever their actual level of enthusiasm.
From Salon • Apr. 19, 2026
However, Walker said he was concerned about islanders who sat "just above the threshold for government help", the middle class, about financial support.
From BBC • Apr. 8, 2026
They remain aloof from the modern temptation that captivates many in America’s middle class: the temptation to relieve the anonymity of public life by trying to make it intimate.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
