Falling real wages are exhibit A in the election-year debate over middle-class angst.
In contrast to the unrest in middle Eastern countries, the middle-class activism of India and China is not aimed at bringing governments down.
Being an entrepreneur is now a respectable career choice, so more of the educated middle-class have taken the plunge.
With at least 10, 000 members today, the gang's reach goes well beyond its inner-city roots into middle-class suburban neighborhoods and schools.
Mr Erdogan also tried to soothe the many urban and middle-class Turks who fear his party is bent on unravelling decades of secularism established under the founder of modern Turkey, Kemal Ataturk.
Posh middle-class child chic.
I could not stay back in my middle-class Seattle suburb and do nothing.
In an age mildly embarrassed by the royal males’ enthusiasm for wearing tweed and killing wildlife, her middle-class origins are a plus.
Politically it was idiosyncratic, a middle-class island within the less affluent and largely African-American south side, racially mixed in a city that is still heavily segregated.
Moreover, these Numbers understate how much middle-class people are spending per child.
In the US, paradoxically, poor students often have an easier time financing their higher education than do middle-class kids.
While northwest DC remains the top quadrant of the city for middle-class renters and buyers, some neighbourhoods in the northeast and southeast have taken off in the last decade.
It was an erotic dance of working-class people by this time, which made it difficult for middle-class Europeans to accept.
Its characters include a soldier caught up in a private world of seduction and a middle-class woman who discovers she has lost the lower half of her bikini while swimming.
That has endeared her to some of the middle-class urban voters who saw her predecessor as sitting at the top of a particularly rotten tree.
"Last Man in Tower" depicts a genteel middle-class impoverishment of imagination and hope.
Obama's recent efforts to remind Americans that the Republicans were proposing to sacrifice the middle-class Americans, yet again, in the name of failed trickle-down economics.