Tag: working class
How liberals left the white working class behind
White working-class anger has been simmering for decades, due to globalization, wage stagnation, and the myth of meritocracy.
‘Big attack on working people:’ Trump moves to redefine poverty in...
"A novel way to take health care etc. away from people AND make it look like there are fewer poor people – change the formula."
Donald Trump has betrayed the working class.
He still claims he’s on their side. That’s one of his biggest lies of all.
White supremacy in the age of Trump
Never forget that this country has a long history of upper-class whites using racism to their advantage.
The notion that white workers elected Trump is a myth that...
Trump didn’t win the working class. The Democrats lost it.
Why the white working class rebelled: Neoliberalism is killing them (literally)
The rage of these workers accounted for the unpredictability of the 2016 election, since they voted in very large numbers for Donald Trump.
Into the World of Work
What do you need to know – about the new world of work, but also about yourself.
The Wages of Sin
Huge segments of working-class whites—victims paying for the sins of American empire—are desperately seeking to halt change and re-create a mythical past. This is always the last, desperate gasp of a dying culture.
Who Lost the White Working Class?
Nothing in politics is ever final. Democrats could still win back the white working class – putting together a coalition of the working class and poor, of whites, blacks, and Latinos.
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Senate Democrats demand investigation into Iran school bombing as Fetterman stands apart
Nearly the entire Democratic caucus calls for a probe into a deadly strike on a girls’ school in Minab while one senator backs the military operation.
EPA chief met with Bayer CEO over Supreme Court fight, agency records show
The June 17 meeting, between officials at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Bayer CEO Bill Anderson and two other top Bayer executives, came as Germany-based Bayer was working to quash costly U.S. litigation.
Americans skipping meals and delaying life decisions as healthcare costs strain households nationwide
New Gallup surveys show tens of millions of Americans cutting back on food, utilities, and daily necessities to pay medical bills while healthcare affordability worsens.
Democrats’ last major obstacle to defeating MAGA for good
If all Americans regardless of their political beliefs, racial backgrounds, and economic standing were required to serve together and learn from each other to achieve a goal as a cohesive unit, it could be what helps future generations heal from the division that’s plaguing our political system.
UNICEF warns child casualties are becoming catastrophic as evidence grows in Iran school bombing
More than 1,100 children have been killed or wounded across the Middle East since the United States and Israel launched war on Iran while investigations point to outdated intelligence behind the Minab school strike.