as in middle class
the class of people who earn money by doing usually physical work and who are not rich or powerful
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Recent Examples of working class
Ken Silverstein, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2025
Invest in Our New York, a statewide coalition of organizations advocating for the working class, has proposed a package of legislation that would raise taxes on incomes above $450,000, capital gains, corporations, heirs and the state’s 130 billionaires.
—Claire Valdez, New York Daily News, 28 Mar. 2025
Nafees Alam, Boston Herald, 19 May 2025
But in this primeval stage, nearly all of the potential Democratic candidates are discussing problems that have bedeviled their party for years: how to win back working-class voters, how aggressively to oppose President Trump and how to reach voters beyond the traditional news media.
—Lisa Lerer, New York Times, 18 May 2025
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The day before, Trump signed a series of executive orders to placate coal country, portending to extend the lives of coal plants and promote coal exports — a move that the Sierra Club said guts pollution and safety controls while raising energy bills on working class Americans.
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Programs and policies aimed at addressing systemic inequalities sometimes overlook the struggles of men, particularly those from working-class backgrounds or minority communities.
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His base included young voters and the elderly, women, the urban middle class, and dual-nationality Moldovans who viewed Simion’s rhetoric as dangerously aligned with Russian authoritarianism.—
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The Vanishing Middle Class Perhaps most alarming is the hollowing out of Hollywood’s creative middle class.—
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As Stan crosses $30 million in annual recurring revenue and $300 million in gross merchandise value, Bartlett’s hands-on involvement signals a growing belief that the middle-class creator is the business story of the decade.—
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California’s median home price in March was $884,000 — very tough if not impossible for many middle-class families.—
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This creative evolution has expanded papier-mâché’s market appeal, with a new generation of clientele emerging – a group that includes interior designers, a local urban bourgeoisie, and international buyers.—
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The company was started around the same time as other famous French stores like Le Bon Marché (1852) and La Samaritaine (1870), both of which, like Printemps, catered to the country’s growing bourgeoisie.—
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The film follows a single mother and her teenage son in a bourgeois house near the port of Beirut.—
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Beneath the surface, there are, in fact, some major conflicts brewing in Enzo’s life: He’s been waging a quiet war against his bourgeois parents (Pierfrancesco Favino, Elodie Bouchez), rejecting the typical academic route that his older brother (Nathan Japy) has successfully chosen.—
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The original doesn’t go that deeply into it, but this poor girl was essentially forced to be a teen mom at this time in her life when all of her friends would be graduating high school and dating and thinking about their futures.—
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The product was released in 2023 to a poor reception, and discontinued before the company began winding down operations in February.—
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To critics, the obvious answer would be ego, stubbornness or just plain stupidity.—
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The plain version of the chips got a high score, while the other, with a tequila lime flavoring, scored poorly.—
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“Working class.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/working%20class. Accessed 31 May. 2025.
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