Synonyms for working-class
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1. labor, labour, working class, proletariatadjective

   a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages

   "there is a shortage of skilled labor in this field"

   Synonyms:
   labour, labor movement, confinement, parturiency, working class, undertaking, labor, trade union movement, childbed, task, toil, proletariat, travail, lying-in, project

   Antonyms:
   upper-class, white-collar, middle-class

2. propertyless, wage-earning, working-class, blue-collaradjective

   of those who work for wages especially manual or industrial laborers

   "party of the propertyless proletariat"- G.B.Shaw

   Synonyms:
   blue-collar, propertyless, wage-earning

   Antonyms:
   upper-class, middle-class, white-collar

3. wage-earning, working-classadjective

   working for hourly wages rather than fixed (e.g. annual) salaries

   "working-class occupations include manual as well as industrial labor"

   Synonyms:
   blue-collar, propertyless, wage-earning

   Antonyms:
   white-collar, upper-class, middle-class

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1. Abby Finkenauer:

   Yeah, they laughed. They thought,' Okay she's paying off student loans, comes from a working class family, no money of her own to put into this,'.

2. Joan Walsh:

   But you know what’s also sad to me is that this cohort, I wrote about my Irish Catholic working class family, this cohort used to be so patriotic, and so much America—love it or leave it, things that I didn’t like about it, but that was just so stirred by this country’s—what they perceived as its values and much of the same cohort is with Donald Trump—dismissing the Russia allegations, doing nothing to support the people who are trying to get answers, and I find this kind of relative, this relativity about well, you know, if my guy doesn’t think it’s important or if my guy might even be threatened by it, then I don’t care either, that is not patriotism. That is something else entirely.

3. Joe Biden:

   It's a MAGA agenda all right. Let me tell you about this ultra-MAGA agenda -- it's extreme, as most MAGA things are, under this new plan, this tax plan, the ultra-MAGA agenda, while big corporations and billionaires are going to pay nothing more, the working class folks will pay a hell of a lot more.

4. Alek Skarlatos:

   Being the poorest congressional district in the state, we can afford inflation, and we can afford gas prices the least of any other part of the state of Oregon, and particularly just about any other part of the West Coast. I mean, this is a very blue collar, working class district and people are not getting more for their money. They're getting significantly less.

5. Horace Cooper:

   While it's more centrist than the nation at large, increasingly there is a working-class Black vote, a Black male vote (reflecting a growing gender-gap) and a Black evangelical vote.These subsets are increasingly acting and voting the way that their white counterparts do, when combined with the centrism of Blacks, the monolith of 90% of Blacks voting the same way that we saw in 2008 is over. In fact, every year since then the vote has split more and more. This change is largely a function of the disdain that Blacks have for the progressive agenda.