Young people deserve stable employment opportunities and not mountains of debt. When young people can access the middle class, America is strengthened.

Educational opportunities have supported the rise of the African middle class, the professional cadre of young people who are now willing and able to contribute to Africa's future prosperity.

With a billion people and a huge middle class being created, how can you ignore it?

India has an increasingly well-funded middle class. Imagine a market of 100 million to 150 million people all able to consume.

I'm painfully middle class.

Our thinking is that a healthy middle class is important to the city. We want to keep these people in Boston; they are the glue in the neighborhoods and the glue in the economy as well.