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Though median households are generally benefiting from lower borrowing costs, wealthier households are benefiting much more, thanks in part to savings on mortgage loans, which are highest relative to income for the upper middle
class.
Today, the US has the smallest middle class, holding just 22% of total net financial assets, half the average of other industrialized countries, and the highest concentration of wealth than in any other country.
Meanwhile, in emerging economies – especially the so-called BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) – members of the burgeoning middle
class
are changing their diets to resemble those of their rich-country counterparts.
The government must provide the context to restart the engines of economic recovery; and policies should serve as growth accelerators by providing development gateways for the energetic young, the restive poor, and the pressured middle
class.
School districts are increasing
class
sizes as they shed teachers, as well as deferring maintenance projects and curtailing the school-bus service.
This was not a case of mere nationalism but of a
class
monopoly fearing competition from outside.
In mathematics and science, PISA’s latest report card puts Asia at the head of the class, with China, Singapore, and South Korea on top.
China, by contrast, is governed by a political
class
that holds democracy in contempt.
The nineteenth-century European bourgeoisie was a largely rentier class, and few questioned their work effort.
Such a modern China would be a world leader in innovation, with a clean environment, a large middle class, and a much narrower gap between rural and urban growth, public services, and living standards.
“Ever since the World Economic Forum started to discuss personal data as a new asset
class
in 2011,” she told me, “personal data markets have thrived on the idea that personal data might be the ‘new oil’ of the digital economy as well as – so it seems – of politics.”
A study by a
class
of WU graduate students “benchmarked the data collection practices of our top online services (such as Google, Facebook or Apple) and compared them to their new privacy-friendly competitors.”
In Asia, the middle
class
now represents 60% of the total population (1.9 billion people).
Moreover, an additional three billion people will join the global middle
class
over the next two decades, altering the types of health issues that countries will face, and the way health care is financed.
The electoral process has been unable to guarantee decent democratic governance, rein in predatory practices among the political class, or make public officials follow established rules, keep them responsive to citizen preferences, and deter them from channeling public funds into private hands.
Moreover, the American Dream seems to be slipping out of reach, in part because a good education, which seems to be the passport to prosperity, is increasingly unaffordable for many in the middle
class.
Obama understands this, which explains his appeal to, and focus on, the middle
class.
The weight of votes in the middle
class
would carry the day.
The middle class, however, is divided: some want to protect whatever entitlements and property they already have, while others want the government to give them a fairer chance.
The United States needs to restore the possibility of achieving the American Dream for its middle class, even while it reaffirms the historically light regulation and relatively low tax burden that have allowed enterprise to flourish.
At the time, the working
class
dependably supported parties of the left.
The classic working
class
has disappeared: social democratic parties and trade unions are shadows of their former selves.
But it is one thing to be described as the best pupil in
class
– Germany is used to that; it is quite another to feel like the only pupil showing up at all.
In fact, since 1970, aggregate labor compensation (wages plus fringe benefits) has grown only a little more slowly than aggregate profits have, and average wage growth at the bottom of the income scale has not slowed relative to the “middle class.”
Such an approach to today’s economic stagnation and deprivation threatens to drive a silver spike into the heart of innovation – and the American working
class.
The ideology of violence is underpinned by the Marxian idea that the road to progress is
class
struggle.
The way forward involves inculcating hatred among “the people” of their
class
enemies.
Under this paradigm, a government that talks to the enemy is either weak or a traitor to its
class.
Institutions designed for liberal democracies – such as an independent judiciary, a comptroller-general, and a free press – become assets to be seized and used in the
class
struggle.
Most important, Venezuela will also have to abandon the ideology of
class
warfare.
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