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Politicians courting "middle class," but who's that?
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| Contributor | Servo |
| Last Edited | Servo Nov 27, 2007 01:22pm |
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| Category | Analysis |
| Media | Newspaper - Seattle Times |
| News Date | Tuesday, November 27, 2007 07:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Who's rich? Who's middle-class? How can you tell the difference? By the "upper class," do we mean the yacht-club set, the ascot-wearing folks with lockjaw diction? Or does the upper class include all those harried, two-income suburban families who somehow burn through 200 grand a year and fret about orthodontist bills?
Class, always an awkward topic in the United States, made a cameo appearance at a recent candidates debate in Las Vegas.
Democratic presidential contenders Sen. Barack Obama and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton sparred over tax policy and quickly got entangled in the question of whether someone making more than $97,000 a year is middle-class or upper-class.
That's upper-class, Obama said. Not necessarily, Clinton suggested. |
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