Sentences with phrase «aid middle class people»

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Interesting question, but I think that if you're not satisfied by the answers given, it is because you already know the right answer: indeed in the US, «middle class» means «hard working» while «lower class» has a clear pejorative connotation of «people who don't want to work, who live off state's aid, food stamps, or petty criminality».

«I think people have had it with a system that's systematically ruining the middle class and mortgaging the prosperity of future generations so that a small clique of ultra-rich predators can rob the world blind, aided and abetted by their lobbyist buddies, and the politicians and regulators and media cronies they own lock, stock and barrel.»

«Ghosts,» she says, explaining that the island evokes — or rather is haunted by — the spirits of a generation of men and women: artists, thinkers, people of color, the affluent, the middle class, the ignored, the displaced, those let down by their government, those who caught the disease too early, those who didn't realize they had caught it at all, those who thought they would never catch it but who did, all of those who were lost to the dark times when she first came to New York City in the early 1990s, at the height of the AIDS crisis.

One common problem being addressed by this year's winners is providing better legal services to the vast middle class — people who aren't wealthy enough to pay Wall Street lawyer rates, and aren't indigent enough to qualify for legal aid.