/tags/series-success-factors Series: Success Factors en-US Copyright KUNC/Community Radio for Northern Colorado 2020 Wed, 31 Oct 2012 21:50:00 GMT /npr-news/2012-10-31/at-the-economys-bottom-rungs-striving-to-climb-up In the last of a three-part series, All Things Considered talks with several North Carolinians who are living in poverty, but aspire to the middle class. Hard work is key to a better life, they say — but it's not easy to keep moving up the ladder. Wed, 31 Oct 2012 21:50:00 GMT /npr-news/2012-10-31/at-the-economys-bottom-rungs-striving-to-climb-up NPR Staff /npr-news/2012-10-30/paid-in-america-the-road-to-the-middle In the second of a three-part series, All Things Considered asks several Americans with incomes solidly in the mid-five figures why they feel they've landed on the middle of the nation's economic ladder. Tue, 30 Oct 2012 21:00:00 GMT /npr-news/2012-10-30/paid-in-america-the-road-to-the-middle NPR Staff /npr-news/2012-10-29/want-to-be-rich-be-lucky-know-the-right-people Class, wealth and personal responsibility have dominated much of the national conversation throughout the presidential election. In the first of a three-part series, All Things Considered asks several wealthy Americans with very different perspectives how they account for their own economic prosperity. Mon, 29 Oct 2012 20:27:00 GMT /npr-news/2012-10-29/want-to-be-rich-be-lucky-know-the-right-people NPR Staff