Blue Quote by Christopher Lasch

When I'm talking about the white working class, here's what I'm defining: high school degree, no more, and working in a blue-collar job or…

— Charles Murray

There's no such thing as the middle class. It's absolutely vanishing.

— Marc Andreessen

'Middle class' used to be synonymous with secure, with steady, with boring, because middle-class people were people who were pretty much safe from the…

— Elizabeth Warren

At the same time, it's people that are employed - many folks - but they're still not earning enough to get into the middle…

— Julian Castro

in our culture, the professional, and largely white, middle class is taken as a social norm - a bland and neutral mainstream - from…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

The middle class is a group defined by more than just money: it also leans on credentials, education, aspirations, assets, and, of course, household…

— Alissa Quart

Even when uttered by Democrats, "middle class" often sounds like a mealymouthed way of saying, "Us, and not them," where "them" includes poor people,…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

The middle has not enough class that I think about the middle class.

— Karl Lagerfeld

There is a middle class in America for only one reason: organized labor. If not for organized labor, where would you find a job…

— Joe Biden

There are more differences between poor people than between middle-class people.

— Rita Mae Brown

In the States everyone aspires to be middle class. It's so engrained into the American psyche: As long as you work hard you're going…

— Nigel Cole

You have to live among rich liberals to understand what they're saying. You'll never believe what they mean by 'middle class.' They mean themselves.

— Joel Stein