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Opinion | The Best Way for Democrats to Win Working-Class Voters
Keywords: Working Class, Middle Class, Upward Mobility,
Working America, an arm of the U.S. trade union the AFL-CIO, conducted conversations with 350,000 voters in 17 U.S. states. Here a representative of Working America, says the overwhelming response to the question "does it make a difference whether Democrats or Republicans are in power for my well being," is reflected in one of the responses- "does it even matter?"
The suggested approach here is for Democrats in particular who have represented working class voters in the past, to start with a fresh approach by creating new conversations with working class Americans.
A debate on upward economic mobility after wage stagnation under Republican and Democratic presidents 2002-2015
08/01/2015
Hillary Clinton, Jeb Bush and Rick Perry present different proposals to address the lack of upward mobility in the U.S. since 2002, under Republican and Democratic administrations. This could be the reason for the popularity of fringe candidates in both parties Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump, with increasing public discontent with mainstream politicians.
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The Economist on corporate profits in America and the smaller share of output going to workers- a public debate in the U.S. presidential election of 2016
03/24/2016
Most of the candidates in the 2016 presidential election have emphasized the problems of sluggish wages and lack of upward mobility in the U.S. Here the Economist looks at the situation with a small number of firms reaping the benefits of high profits and a lagging working class. Rising disparities in income and inequality are creating social discontent and voter dissatisfaction with the establishment candidates.
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Economist 03/24/2016
Apple should repay Ireland 13bn euros, European Commission rules - BBC News
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Apple must now pay its taxes. This is a vindication of protest | Owen Jones
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U.S. Household Incomes Surged 5.2% in 2015, First Gain Since 2007
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The New York Times 09/16/2016
Struggling to Serve at the Nation’s Richest University
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Reviving the use of the term "working class" in America as opposed to middle class- why this is important
11/12/2015
Cherlin, a professor at John Hopkins University, who has written about the decline of the working class family, once portrayed in television shows such as "All in the Family," says the term was seen as derogatory and avoided in recent times. Archie Bunker in that show was seen as bigoted and behind the times. He points out that Obama in his speeches has used middle class frequently but rarely used the term "working class." Yet he points out the Americans with a diploma at most but no bachelors degree, comprise 54 percent of the American people, and are quite different in lifestyle and educational opportunities than the middle class better educated Americans. They also face a different set of problems and obstacles to upward mobility and social mobility. It is right to revive the use of the term "working class" says Cherlin, so that one can wrap ones hands around the problem facing so many Americans. A combination of forces have trampled the future prospects of these Americans, many arising out of forces beyond the control of policy such as automation and global manufacturing, and some such as the problems created by the 2008 financial crisis which were the result of bad decisions by business have only worsened the situation.
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It’s the American Dream, Stupid
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Voices From Donald Trump’s Rallies, Uncensored
The New York Times 08/03/2016
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The Republican party candidates for the 2016 presidential election and the struggling working class in America
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The GOP’s working-class problem - The Washington Post
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Here’s what a conservative policy agenda should look like in the Trump era - The Washington Post
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How Both Parties Lost the White Middle Class
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Donald Trump positions himself as the voice of ‘the forgotten men and women’
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Two Political Conventions, Two Distinct World Views
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Voices From Donald Trump’s Rallies, Uncensored
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Donald Trump positions himself as the voice of ‘the forgotten men and women’
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The New York Times 08/03/2016
Globalization and the white working class in Europe and the U.S. in 2016- job losses, regional disparities, growing inequality with declining incomes
07/13/2016
Sanders, Trump, in the U.S., Marie Le Pen in France, and Brexiters in England appeal to white working class which has not benefitted from trade agreements and globalization. Globalization has produced very different outcomes for different industries and regions, benefitting some and hurting others. Leaders of existing political parties have failed to grasp and respond to these changes leaving room for others to take up the cause of the white working class. TPP trade agreement for instance benefits the information technology industry and hurts the automobile industry in the U.S., producing unequal outcomes that come after years of job losses and hollowing out in some industries- making it unpopular, and raising questions about the wisdom of such policies when most of the gains in free trade are already behind us according to Krugman and other experts.
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Rebublican 2016 presidential candidate Donald Trump and the core support from the white working class, many 55-64 years without a high school education
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A PRRI and Brookings Institution survey shows 55% of Donald Trump's support comes from the white working class who see immigrants in a negative light and are critical of large corporate interests. This group also sees political correctness as being a problem.
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Trump Rides a Blue-Collar Wave
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Obama blasts Trump as a phony champion of the working class
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Big government is the new West Coast craze
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Stories of America's working class in 2016-2017
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Opinion | The Best Way for Democrats to Win Working-Class Voters
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It’s the Middle Class, Hillary
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Meyerson, Cherlin and Dionne in the Washington Post on the severe problems facing America's white working class by 2015
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Meyerson, Cherlin and Dionne describes the severe problems facing the white working class in America by 2015, as incomes and educational opportunities decline, and social structures disintegrate. Upward and social mobility in the U.S. is severely affected by this situation.
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German lessons on power-sharing - The Washington Post
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Fragility of social cohesion in the U.S. with unemployment concentrated in the lower middle and working classes.
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Figures from the Center of Labor Market Studies of Northeastern University in Boston showing unemployment of 9% in the $40,000 to $50,000 annual household income group and going up to 31% at the lowest income group. Higher inequality as differences in education between lower income and higher income Americans grows. The problem of the long term unemployed is a serious one.
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OECD report cites rising income inequality - The Washington Post
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U.S. Schools Chief Arne Duncan Labors to Straddle Political Divide
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The Great Stagnation in American Education
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Donald Trump positions himself as the voice of ‘the forgotten men and women’
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Two Political Conventions, Two Distinct World Views
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Voices From Donald Trump’s Rallies, Uncensored
The New York Times 08/03/2016
America and a sense of white identity being shut out by 2016- frustration and protest against political correctness among white working class people and students
07/13/2016
White working class people and students on campus are expressing strong protest that white identity is being shut out with the demographic and social changes underway in America by 2016. What was essentially white and European being replaced by something different, with assimilation and melting pot precedent being replaced by something with which they are not familiar.
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Donald Trump positions himself as the voice of ‘the forgotten men and women’
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Voices From Donald Trump’s Rallies, Uncensored
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The New York Times 08/26/2016
Young working class Americans in Lowell, Massachusetts, Richmond, Virginia, and other U.S. cities- 2008-2015
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New York Times 06/22/2013
America’s white working class is a dying breed - The Washington Post
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The New York Times 08/03/2016
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The New York Times 08/26/2016
Apple should repay Ireland 13bn euros, European Commission rules - BBC News
BBC News 08/30/2016
2016 U.S. presidential election- matching programs and slogans for improving the life of the middle and working class
08/04/2016
Ultimately politicians have to deliver and you need well planned programs, specifics for action, to build infrastructure, to create jobs, and to increase wages and incomes for people working in the service economy and in manufacturing industries- how this happens as anger is being vented through slogans and the wall itself becomes a metaphor for those left out in the last 2 decades of tech based prosperity, is itself a question in the 2016 U.S. presidential elction.
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Voices From Donald Trump’s Rallies, Uncensored
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The New York Times 08/12/2016
Trump a Working-Class Hero? A Blue-Collar Town Debates His Credentials
The New York Times 08/26/2016
Apple should repay Ireland 13bn euros, European Commission rules - BBC News
BBC News 08/30/2016
Social and economic mobility for the middle class emerging as the central issue in the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign
09/13/2015
Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton in the Demcratic Party, and Jeb Bush in the Republican Party, are making social and economic mobility for the middle and working class a central issue in the 2016 presidential campaign. In Britain Corbyn's election to the leadership of the Labor Party with all other candidates doing poorly, is also creating a focus on economic issues and better access to education and jobs.
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Sanders, Corbyn and the coming debate inside the Democratic Party - The Washington Post
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New York Times 09/14/2015
Wall Street Journal 09/17/2015
Not There Yet on Equal Opportunity
Wall Street Journal 10/21/2015
America’s white working class is a dying breed - The Washington Post
Washington Post 11/12/2015
The missing working class - The Washington Post
Washington Post 11/12/2015
The poor, less educated, working class voters, in Britain, France, and the U.S. by 2016-2017
06/30/2016
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The New York Times 07/07/2016
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SPIEGEL ONLINE 07/06/2016
Donald Trump positions himself as the voice of ‘the forgotten men and women’
Washington Post 07/22/2016
Two Political Conventions, Two Distinct World Views
WSJ 07/28/2016
Voices From Donald Trump’s Rallies, Uncensored
The New York Times 08/03/2016
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