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MIDDLE CLASS

Japan Times
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Jul 13, 2018
Poverty in Japan: Underclass struggles to achieve upward mobility
Last month, Liberal Democratic Party Secretary-General Toshihiro Nikai said during an LDP gathering in Tokyo that people who opt not to have children are "selfish" given the country's demographic crisis.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Apr 14, 2018
Japan faces up to the prospect of losing a middle-class war
Modern middle-class life, you could reasonably argue, generates more happiness among more people than any other ever conceived. It has been extravagantly derided — as bourgeois, soulless, spiritless, narrow, boring, mindlessly acquisitive and so on. But back in the late 1970s and early 1980s, when 90 percent of Japanese proudly identified themselves as middle class, the prevailing feeling was of past sorrows overcome en route to an ever-brightening, ever-expanding future.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Oct 24, 2017
Trump vows no tampering with popular retirement savings under tax plan but also rules out fourth bracket for rich
President Donald Trump on Monday dismissed the possibility of curbing a popular tax-deferred U.S. retirement savings program to help pay for sweeping tax cuts, and expressed doubts about adding another top bracket targeting the wealthiest Americans.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jul 14, 2015
Mindful of rise of liberal Sanders, Clinton bashes Wall Street, vows wage equality
U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton took swipes at Wall Street and her Republican rivals on Monday, promising to impose tougher regulations on banks and raise the wages of ordinary Americans if she wins the 2016 White House race.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Jun 4, 2015
'Pyonghattan': Unofficial economy brews up bling for North Korea's growing middle class
Nail salons, massage parlors, cafes and other signs of consumerism were unheard of in rigidly controlled North Korea just a few years ago, but they are slowly emerging in one of the world's last bastions of Cold War socialism.
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 30, 2015
Forty years on, a middle class emerges in Vietnam
Four decades after the reunification of Vietnam under a communist regime, an emerging middle class is reinforcing the country's re-orientation toward a market economy.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 24, 2015
Asia's almighty middle class
Asia's rapidly growing middle class will serve as a keystone for economic and political development in the region.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 2, 2015
Why the squeeze is on middle-class incomes
A right-wing think tank from among President Barack Obama's top economists blames the slow growth of productivity, mainly, for the squeeze on middle-class incomes.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 27, 2014
The slow recovery from a calamitous slump
What does slow recovery from a calamitous slump look like? In the U.S., you see women's pay catching up with men's and steady gains in full-time employment. But middle-class incomes have dropped to levels of the late 1980s or early 1990s.
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 3, 2014
Has the world hit the end of the end of history?
Almost 25 years after the intellectual and political collapse of communism, another — and by far grander — narrative of promised progress is unraveling: that of liberal capitalism.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 24, 2013
The irresistible rise of the Muslim middle class
The Muslim world's current turmoil is rooted in neither religious ideology nor sectarian struggle, but rather in increasingly assertive middle classes want a say in politics.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Mar 11, 2013
How Great Recession turned middle-class jobs into low-wage jobs
The U.S. job market is slowly improving, and most economists expect that gradual recovery to continue this year. Yet one of the most disturbing trends of the Great Recession is still very far from being reversed. America's middle-class jobs have been decimated since 2007, replaced largely by low-wage jobs.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 6, 2013
Power is increasingly fleeting
In 2009, during his first address before a joint session of Congress, U.S. President Barack Obama championed a budget that would serve as a blueprint for the country's future through ambitious investments in energy, health care and education. "This is America," the new president proclaimed. "We don't do what's easy."
EDITORIALS
Dec 24, 2009
Holding steady on gasoline tax
Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama on Tuesday decided to maintain the current rates on gasoline and other road-related taxes throughout fiscal 2010 even though the road-related tax system will be overhauled by April 2010. The abolition of surcharges on road-related taxes was a main campaign pledge of the Democratic Party of Japan, and the question of whether to maintain the tax rates, including the surcharges, had become a focal point of fiscal 2010 taxation policy.

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