working class

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When there aren’t marriageable or even dateable men around, fewer women marry and have children, a dynamic that has been particularly pronounced in America’s working class.

From Slate • Jul. 6, 2026

Pate said recent Democratic wins in regional and local elections had given her "hope that the little people -- the working class — maybe are being heard."

From Barron's • Jul. 4, 2026

Approximately 46% of the U.S. working class are women.

From Salon • Jun. 25, 2026

It asked 2,000 Americans what economic class they consider themselves to be part of—upper class, upper-middle class, middle class, working class or lower class—and then about their economic lives.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 19, 2026

She was a child of the working class who, through ill-considered choices and circumstance, slipped into the welfare class and had to fight her way out.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times