We need more housing in San Francisco, plain and simple, and we especially need more affordable housing for our low-income households, seniors, teachers, formerly homeless people, veterans, and middle-income residents.
Let me tell you, the heart of my tax proposal: I will not raise taxes on the American people. I will not raise taxes on middle-income Americans.
I am hard-core middle class.
My parents are the last of the middle class. My father worked for the government designing sea mines. My mother was a substitute teacher. Together, they worked really only until they were sixty.
Middle class prosperity is lapidary; the flow of cash rounds and smooths a person like water does riverbed stones.
I'm the middle-class kid; it doesn't sound exciting, but a lot of my audience is middle-class kids.
I grew up in a very middle-class life. I'm grateful for it - it has given me a lot of stability.
I'm a middle-bracket person with a middle-bracket spouse / And we live together gaily in a middle-bracket house. / We've a fair-to-middlin' family; we take the middle view; / So we're manna sent from heaven to internal revenue.
By 2035, there will be almost no poor countries left in the world. Almost all countries will be what we now call lower-middle income or richer.
In order to have middle-income, middle-paying jobs, the kinds of jobs that allow people to get ahead, you have to have higher level of training and skill acquisition and education than ever before.
What middle-income Americans want most of all is a job. We need a generous safety net for the most vulnerable in our society, but for most people the biggest social accomplishment that we can help them achieve is a good-paying job.
When you grow up middle class, you just always feel like you've got to be working, or you won't be able to pay the bills.
Middle-income countries need to attend to the education of their poorest people to build their economies and ensure long-term stability.
I don't come from a rich family, but my parents are professionals.
The College Access and Opportunity Act addresses the important need to make higher education more affordable and easier to access for low and middle-income students.
I grew up in the middle class.
The problem of the food price is structural. The growth of demand cannot be checked in that it is coming from middle income countries demanding more quality and more quantity of food. High demand is here to stay.
Pell Grants are, and have been, critically important tools in making higher education a possibility for lower- and middle-income students.
You're looking at a middle-class guy. I am who I am.
Normally, as a country grows richer, students stay in school longer. But in Brazil, they remain in school for an average of just 7 years. The lowest rate of any middle-income country.
Probably because I'm from a middle class family, I have that nature in me that I don't get too excited with big things.
If we're going to have tax cuts, let's focus on those in lower and middle income groups. Make sure that they get the breaks they need to continue to try to provide for their families.
Coming from a middle class background, travel was always considered a luxury then, even if it meant going to a relative's place or a religious shrine.
