working class
The $1.9 trillion stimulus package dramatically expands tax credits for families, bolsters unemployment benefits and reduces taxes on student loan debt.
Speaking at a virtual town hall, Biden said getting coronavirus relief to working-class Americans would be a major priority once he was sworn in on Jan. 20.
Jason Boog, author of "The Deep End," sees a template for writers and publishing workers today in the political activism of Great Depression writers.
"We don’t go to rich people’s wine caves — this is a campaign of the working class ... by the working class, and for the working class," the senator declared.
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"We should be taxing the soaring profits of our own multinational corporations and using the revenues to help working-class households," Jeffrey Sachs wrote.
The ironworker who took on Paul Ryan wants to help other people of modest means run for Congress.
Like the congresswoman-elect, poor people are simultaneously shamed for their poverty and told that they're not poor enough.
The midterms are a test of the Democrats' strategy of targeting middle-class voters on Medicaid, Social Security and raising the minimum wage.
Come November, his members will "probably" back Democratic candidates.
It's not just billionaires who are benefitting from runaway inequality.