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My Economics professor told us that there are two types of middle class - upper and lower. I stuck to that concept until I found out from Pew Research Center that there are four - in America. No, they’re not upper, upper middle, lower and low lower. Here’s the list:
Top of the Class. It’s the largest of the four groups, comprising slightly more than a third of the 53% of Americans who identify themselves as “middle class” in the Pew survey.
Struggling...
There are currently more than six billion people on the planet! This enormous number can be difficult to grasp, especially for a child. But what if we imagine the whole world as a village of just 100 people?In this village
22 people speak a Chinese dialect
20 earn less than a dollar a day
32 are of Christian faith
17 cannot read or write
39 are under 19 years old
(Source: If the World Were a Village: A Book about the World’s People)
Families welcome spring with a trip to the park. Ah, Spring!
Cards and flowers do have a way of cheering someone but Wendy Wayne did not want cards and flowers. She did not want to be cheered by flooding her bedside with witty worded cards and colorful bouquets of flowers, she wanted that we instead cheer others through random acts of kindness.
Having been a Peace Corp volunteer in Africa and a long time child advocate she understands that there are others out there who are in need of cheering - the underprivileged. Indeed, it is a...
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