working people
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Wendell Berry, a Kentucky farmer and writer whose work advocated fiercely for working landscapes and working people, died “suddenly and peacefully” on Monday at his home in Port Royal, Ky., according to his family.
From Los Angeles Times β Sep. 4, 2026
She founded crisis support centre Second Chance Medway, which runs a discounted food pantry two days a week, where she now sees not only people on benefits, but working people too.
From BBC β Aug. 19, 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 β 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 β Jul. 17, 2026
Outside on the terrace working people were drinking.
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
