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 ● Sep. 4, 2026
"It is about respecting work, backing our communities and giving working people real power over the future, not asking them simply to live with decisions made elsewhere."
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
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
Still, I believe that this book as a whole truthfully portrays Fannie Sellins’s life and her commitment to working people.
From "Fannie Never Flinched" by Mary Cronk Farrell
