Middle Class

The middle class is a class of people in the middle of a social hierarchy. Its usage has often been vague whether defined in terms of occupation, income, education or social status. The definition by any author is often chosen for political connotations. Writers on the left favor the lower-status term working class. Modern social theorists—and especially economists—have defined and re-defined the term "middle class" in order to serve their particular social or political ends. Within capitalism, middle-class initially referred to the bourgeoisie; later, with the further differentiation of classes as capitalist societies developed, the term came to be synonymous …

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UNEP: United Nations Environment Programme · 10 December 2024 English

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– mainly due to rapid urbanization, growing middle class, and inadequate waste management infrastructure


Oxfam International · 28 October 2024 English

This briefing from Oxfam explores the immense climate impacts caused by the top 1% of the wealthiest individuals and proposes measures to address this "carbon inequality." It emphasizes that the …

neighbouring gated communities inhabited by middle-class residents.118 Societal disadvantages based on


Pew Research Center · 24 October 2024 English

A 63% majority of Americans have little or no confidence that cryptocurrencies are reliable and safe, but some groups are more wary than others.

SHORT READS SEP 16, 2024 Are you in the American middle class? Find out with our income calculator SHORT READS


ASI: Adam Smith Institute · 24 October 2024 English

Since 2008, the UK has experienced extremely low productivity growth (0.5% per year), in contrast to the US, where productivity has grown at three times that rate;Capital investment is the …

DeepDive: The capital gains tax hike will hurt the middle class too, The Hub, June 10, 2024 34 Alex Whalen &


DIR: Daiwa Institute of Research Group · 23 October 2024 Japanese

米国大統領選挙(2024):「中国に勝つための産業競争力向上」も

Economy)」を スローガンとする経済政策文書、‘A NEW WAY FORWARD FOR THE MIDDLE CLASS’ を公 表した。  この政策文書のうち、米国内外の投資家にとっての一大関心事である、税制改革案(ハ Economy)」1をスローガンとする経済 政策文書、‘A NEW WAY FORWARD FOR THE MIDDLE CLASS’2を公表した。 本稿では、この政策文書のうち、米国内外の投資家にとっての一大関心事である、税制改革案


CSEP: Centre for Social and Economic Progress · 23 October 2024 English

There had been an expectation that after the opening of the economy in the 1990s and the increase in competition, the private sector would be incentivised to give much greater …

even in the cities. For example, almost every middle-class household in cities has to install an expensive


IMF: International Monetary Fund · 23 October 2024 English

Global public debt is elevated. It is projected to exceed US$100 trillion in 2024 and will rise over the medium term. This chapter shows that risks to the debt outlook …

households AEs: Middle class AEs: High-income households EMs: Low-income households EMs: Middle class EMs: High-income


World Bank Group · 22 October 2024 English

This Systematic Country Diagnostic (SCD) Update assesses the evolution of Panama’s development challenges and policy priorities since the publication of the SCD in 2015. During the last eight years, Panama …

share of vulnerable households declined as the middle class expanded (Figure 2).2 However, average GDP sharply reduced poverty while expanding the middle class. 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100% the population Poor US$6.85 Vulnerable US$6.85 Middle Class US $14 - $81 Rich US$81 1971 1974 1977 1980 vulnerability while hindering the expansion of the middle class.21 Overall job creation decelerated, as the driven poverty reduction and the growth of the middle class, including construction, transportation and


AEI: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research · 22 October 2024 English

The American party system is in an unusual extended deadlock, with two minority parties, neither capable of sustaining a durable winning coalition. Both parties have plausible avenues to build a …

parts of the early 19th century’s growing middle class. They resisted presidential power and popu- economic and business interests and the broad middle class, and the Democrats represented not only the eco- nomic growth and rising incomes for the middle class and poor, Democrats continued and refined the mid-1960s, created the world’s first mass middle class—which even factory workers could enter, because education or pro- fessional skills. This was a middle class, in other words, that working-class whites


PCNS: Policy Center for the New South · 22 October 2024 English

This phase of hyper-globalization and deterritorialization began to reverse after the 2008 subprime crisis, the aftermath of which saw the beginning of the deglobalization period of today. [...] In contrast …

low-income individuals but also serves a broad middle class, providing the additional benefit of avoiding


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