blue-collar
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Like blacks, Hispanics are overrepresented in the working class, and blue-collar workers saw wages rise at faster rates than management in the years leading up to the pandemic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026
Conversely, I would have a blue-collar “Joe Sixpack” that made substantially less but saved and saved and saved, and who got the loan he needed for a house.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026
Born Benjamin Satterley in a blue-collar community in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, he first came to national attention stateside in the WWE, where he wrestled under the decidedly English name Neville.
From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026
Former labor organizer and iron worker Brian Poindexter embodies the emerging blue-collar, practical-minded Democrat type in the upcoming midterms.
From Slate ● Sep. 28, 2026
Here I comfort myself with the Aleve commercial where the cute blue-collar guy asks: If you quit after working four hours, what would your boss say?
From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich
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