-depth interviews, focus groups with lower-middle-class saleswomen with headscarves, and ethnographic study in five

states -- A disparate world : inequality and poverty -- The rise of the global middle class and the high

restore security and opportunity for the middle class and to foster stronger growth rooted in broadly

rise of the middle class 7. Digital innovation and communication and its key role in Chinese luxury

Our roots -- Stalled : today's middle class -- Stuck : today's low-income families -- Soaring above

of the American middle class -- Ending a rigged economy -- Health care for all -- Making higher

protections for employees been decimated? Why do hedge-fund billionaires pay a far lower tax rate than middle-class

Islamic middle class in Turkey / Erol Balkan and Ahmet Öncü -- The question of AKP hegemony : consent

, and Rita Berlofa -- Labor in the 21st century : the top 0.1% and the disappearing middle class

Islamic middle class in Turkey / Erol Balkan and Ahmet Öncü -- The question of AKP hegemony : consent

comprised the largest portion of the populace, to an economic power with an expanding middle class and more

oligarchy, a shrinking middle class, and the greatest income inequality and wealth disparity in eighty years