working people
Example Sentences
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“Whether they’re farmworkers or construction workers, hotel workers, restaurant workers, nannies who take care of children, these are working people, and yet they are being treated as if they were some sort of horrible criminals.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026
"I am standing to unite our party, to back our movement, to seize this moment and rebuild Scottish Labour as a party for working people of Scotland," he said.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
The most recent high-profile progressive candidate to embrace those working people: Abdul El-Sayed, whose economic populism helped him win the 2026 Michigan Democratic Senate primary.
From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2026
In simpler terms, Romer said, she believes “in a different structure of economic policy that puts working people first.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
Ordinary working people wouldn’t walk on the sidewalks.
From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell
