working people
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An improvement in the finances of working people at the lower end of the economic scale might help explain why their spending on both essentials and discretionary items has accelerated recently, some economists said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
Rags-to-riches stories tend to be as fabulistic as tales designed to sell the upper class as fair and solicitous to the needs of working people, or amenable to Cinderella fantasies.
From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2026
The latest Gallup poll found just 45% of working people expected to have enough money in retirement to be able to retire comfortably.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 17, 2026
Angela Rayner, the former deputy prime minister who had also been talked up as a potential leadership candidate, said Labour "must now redouble our efforts to deliver for working people".
From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2026
Garfield promised prosperity for working people and a peaceful nation in which they could raise and educate their children.
From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow
