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25 Vintage Photos of Growing Up Middle Class in the 1970s
There are plenty of things parents today probably do better — snack labels, helmets, sunscreen, fewer choking hazards. But ...
Teacher made this school his home, and the neighborhood helped him thrive
For 31 years, Tim Chase has taught science in the same classroom at Murray Middle School in St. Paul, and he begins class on ...
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11 Things Middle-Class Families Think Are Normal But Are Actually Huge Privileges
In a middle-class family, access to technology at home is a given. Computers, Wi-Fi, smartphones, tablets, gaming consoles, ...
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Kamala Harris gave the ‘middle class’ Berkeley neighborhood of her childhood a convention shout-out. But the middle class can’t afford it anymore
This is the kind of middle class neighborhood and people, she said, that she would fight for if she defeats former President Donald Trump in November. Yet much has changed in this pocket of the ...
Chicago's 'missing middle' housing program adds more neighborhoods, extends developer deadline
The program aimed at turning vacant city land into housing for working middle-class families recently expanded to include ...
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8 lifestyle habits that separate the upper-middle class from the regular middle class
In the middle-class neighborhood where I lived, supermarkets were filled with processed foods, ready meals, and sugary drinks. But when I visited a supermarket in an upper-middle-class locality ...
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Cautionary tale for Steamboat: Loss of middle class in resort mountain communities
The final two speakers at the annual Routt County Economic Summit earlier this month told a sobering, cautionary tale of ...
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Think tank urges next Detroit mayor to focus on reversing shrinking middle class
the report calls on city leaders to “commit to being a middle-class city.” That includes expanding access to affordable homeownership, improving rental housing, investing in neighborhood ...