: a class occupying a position between the upper class and the lower class
especially
: a fluid heterogeneous socioeconomic grouping composed principally of business and professional people, bureaucrats, and some farmers and skilled workers sharing common social characteristics and values
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Don Lee, Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2024
Project 2025's tax rates Millions of low- and middle-class households would likely face significantly higher taxes under the Project 2025's proposals.
—Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 11 July 2024
Keith M. Phaneuf, Hartford Courant, 10 July 2024
There is no longer a cohesive middle class to hold this country together and save it from its fate.
—Steve Laffey, Baltimore Sun, 8 July 2024
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Adjective
High interest rates have weighed especially on small businesses and lower- and middle-class consumers as the borrowing costs for credit cards, automobiles, home mortgages and home equity loans have jumped to their highest levels in more than two decades.
—Don Lee, Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2024
Project 2025's tax rates Millions of low- and middle-class households would likely face significantly higher taxes under the Project 2025's proposals.
—Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 11 July 2024
Noun
Even after those cuts are applied, the poor pay more than four times the share paid by the highest-earning households, while the middle class faces one-and-a-half times the effective tax rate of the top group.
—Keith M. Phaneuf, Hartford Courant, 10 July 2024
There is no longer a cohesive middle class to hold this country together and save it from its fate.
—Steve Laffey, Baltimore Sun, 8 July 2024
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“Middle-class.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/middle-class. Accessed 15 Jul. 2024.
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