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#middle-class

The PTI party begins drive from the eastern city of Lahore, where authorities impose restrictions on public gatherings in some areas.Islamabad, Pakistan The political party headed by Pakistan's former Prime Minister Imran Khan has launched a Jail Bharo Tehreek (fill the jails) movement to protect the fundamental rights of the people.

From January through March, 18 congressional party leaders reported raising a combined $16 million for their campaigns.Rep. Hakeem Jeffries hugs Rep. Kevin McCarthy after handing him the speakers gavel in a meeting of the 118th Congress, Friday, January 6, 2023, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington D.C.Jabin Botsford / The Washington Post via Getty Images US House party leaders brought in the biggest fundraising hauls during the first three months of the 2024 election cycle, a new OpenSecrets analysis of first quarter federal campaign finance disclosures found.

Powerful labor union IUOE Local 150 has pledged $1 million to Paul Vallas' campaign for Chicago mayor, giving him a financial and labor boost as he vies for City Hall's top job against Brandon Johnson in the April 4 election.The International Union of Operating Engineers Local 150 initially threw its support behind U.S. Rep. Jesús "Chuy" García late last year but is now pivoting to support Vallas after García's candidacy sputtered to a fourth-place finish in the first round of voting Feb. 28.

Obama takes to the road to promote his economic agenda with other priorities in limbo President says the "stakes could not be higher" for job creation Top Republicans in Washington mock Obama's agenda Jacksonville, Florida CNN For the third time in two days, President Obama left Washington on Thursday to deliver the message that it's time for politicians to refocus on economic policies that help the middle class.

Britain's middle-class voters are beginning to return to the Conservatives because they like Rishi Sunak, according to a top polling guru.Labour has become overconfident in recent months, said elections expert Lord Hayward describing the large poll leads enjoyed by Sir Keir Starmer's party as overestimated.

Signorello, 35, has developed a relatively high profile for a mayor of a town of just 14,000, in part thanks to his irreverent tweets and his town's fight against a resident who displayed profane anti-Joe Biden signs in public view on her property.The ACLU represented the resident, who was charged with violating the town's obscenity law and Roselle Park ultimately dropped its case against her.

If President Biden sometimes sounded a lot like Donald Trump during his State of the Union address, boasting about a record of economic nationalism, the imitation may soon run the other way.Biden's attacks on congressional Republicans for being allegedly eager to cut Medicare and Social Security were a clear preview of how he hopes to run against the G.O.P. in 2024.

Dozens of American companies are in Vietnam this week in hopes of pushing further into the fast-growing Southeast Asian economy, which has emerged as an attractive potential alternative to China as companies seek to diversify their markets and supply chains.Senior executives from 52 US firms are taking part in the biggest business mission ever organized by the US-ASEAN Business Council, the trade lobby told CNN.

Tenants living in Manhattan's largest apartment complex, Stuyvesant Town-Peter Cooper Village, won a battle to keep their rents insulated from potentially sharp increases, after a judge ruled this week against their landlord, the Wall Street private equity firm Blackstone.The company is the largest owner of commercial real estate in the world, and has lately been expanding into rental housing.

Swell the full chorus to Solomon's praise, a very full chorus sings in Handel's Solomon, elegantly performed by the English Concert and Clarion Choir under Harry Bicket on Sunday at Carnegie Hall.In the 1730s, as Handel's London audiences gradually broadened into the middle class from the aristocracy, they lost much of their interest in his Italian-language operas, which had thrilled the cognoscenti for years.

Where else but Chicago could a nickname like "Decent Dever" be the kiss of political death for a mayor?Elected 100 years ago, William Dever was defeated for reelection four years later by William Hale "Big Bill" Thompson, a former mayor and awesome boodler.Graft is an art form in Chicago, and Dever was an uncompromising apostle of reform.

Starbucks will open more than 400 stores across Asia Pacific in 2023, marking its biggest expansion in the region in five years.The coffee chain plans to add the new outlets in India, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, Laos and the Philippines, where it aims to expand beyond major cities.It will open one outlet in Laos, a Southeast Asian market the company only entered last year, it said in a statement Thursday.

Democratic Rep. Barbara Lee on Tuesday announced her campaign for US Senate in California, joining a competitive Democratic primary to fill retiring Sen. Dianne Feinstein's seat.Today I am proud to announce my candidacy for U.S. Senate.I've never backed down from doing what's right.And I never will.

I used to have, or rather hoard, a lot of books.Still do, I think, at least by the standards of the average home, but I'm doing my best to get rid.In the last couple of years I have given away hundreds.If the thought of this fills you with horror, then maybe look away from this next part, where I confess that sometimes I even put them in the recycling.

The proportion of Americans who put off care for a "very" or "somewhat" serious condition skyrocketed last year.A pedestrian walks past the entrance of an emergency room of a hospital in New York on December 13, 2021.Wang Ying / Xinhua via Getty Images New polling finds that the proportion of Americans who have delayed medical treatment due to costs has hit a record high as the pandemic rages on and it becomes harder for the working class to afford regular and emergency costs.

With the recent Chicago Auto Show, talk of electric cars has kicked into high gear.It's hard to turn on a radio or television and not hear joyful coverage of our grand transition to electric.But forgotten amid all the happy hype is the fact that electric vehicles are still a small percentage of the whole.

With the recent Chicago Auto Show, talk of electric cars has kicked into high gear.It's hard to turn on a radio or television and not hear joyful coverage of our grand transition to electric.But forgotten amid all the happy hype is the fact that electric vehicles are still a small percentage of the whole.

Women's football is "middle class" and girls do not have the same access to playing football as boys, says Chelsea boss Emma Hayes.Earlier this month, the Football Association also announced plans to ensure every girl with talent has access to high-quality training."We should be thinking differently," Hayes said.

President Joe Biden responded to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's (R-GA) claim he was responsible for deadly fentanyl overdoses that occurred during the Trump administration.On Tuesday, the House Homeland Security Committee on which Greene sits heard emotional testimony from a Michigan mother whose two sons died from fentanyl poisoning in 2020 after they took what they believed was a less potent painkiller.

Before he was a dungeon-pilfering rogue, a Starfleet captain, or a handsome prince, Chris Pine was an English major.And while he's ended uplike many an English major before himmaking a living in a different field, dude still loves to read.And he reads everything when we met at his house in Los Angeles a few months ago, the volumes in his on-deck circle ranged from Lucy Ellman's Ducks, Newburyporta stream-of-consciousness novel told in a single run-on sentence that stretches over 1,000 pagesto Michael Mann and Meg Gardiner's page-turner Heat 2. Ahead of our meeting, he'd agreed to give us a top-five list of recent favorites; by the morning of the interview, he'd managed to narrow it down to around twenty.

WASHINGTON Representative Adam B. Schiff, the California Democrat who emerged as one of President Donald J. Trump's chief congressional tormentors from his perch atop the House Intelligence Committee, announced on Thursday that he would seek the Senate seat long held by Dianne Feinstein.I wish I could say the threat of MAGA extremists is over, he said in a video on Twitter.