The share of Republicans and Democrats from working-class jobs who went on to hold seats in state legislatures remained below 2% in 2023. In contrast, approximately 50% of the U.S. labor force is made ...

Kaela Berg, a single mother and flight attendant without a college degree, is one of the few state lawmakers across the nation who qualify as “working class,” according to recent research. (Courtesy ...

There is a coordinated, nationwide effort to roll back child labor laws, part of a broader campaign to concentrate even more power into the hands of employers. “Since 2021,” the left-leaning Economic ...

The reasons for the erosion of Democratic Party support within the American working class is a topic on which seemingly everyone has an opinion. It has renewed the debate between the left and the ...

A new crop of candidates has turned away from the aspirational “American dream” message of campaigns past and is leaning into how difficult life can be for working people — including them. By Annie ...

With just over 30 weeks left before the 2024 election, Democrats are debating which voters to put at the center of their summer and fall efforts. Some want to focus on young people, others on ...

President Donald Trump speaks during a swearing-in ceremony for new U.S. Ambassador to China David Perdue in the Oval Office at the White House on May 07, 2025 in Washington, DC. Perdue, a former ...

It has long been said that politics "makes strange bedfellows," but some such alliances are surely stranger than others. Take, for example, the emerging collaboration of working-class voters with the ...

A foreign policy for the working class is not merely a call to rebuild America’s physical and technological infrastructure but to restore its moral and spiritual foundations. In the third century AD, ...

I can’t recall ever seeing presidential candidates condescend to the public on the subject of the economy to anything like the degree we’ve seen this year. There are two economies right now: the real ...

"[Zohran Mamdani] has…put together a coalition of working-class New Yorkers," Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said when she endorsed him. It’s a vivid story, but is it true? Tuesday’s exit polling tells a ...

The cornerstone of the modern Republican coalition continued to shrink as a share of the electorate in 2024, raising the stakes for whether the GOP can hold President Donald Trump’s landmark gains ...