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. Ro Khanna:

   Our primary responsibility is how do we bring the cost down for working class Americans, this is something that people are upset about. We need to address that concern.

2. Michael Ahrens:

   His campaign will only force Democrats into embracing more extreme policies, like a carbon tax, which would kill jobs, raise energy prices and disproportionately hurt working-class Americans.

3. Bernie Sanders:

   Ilhan is a leader of strength and courage, she will not back down from a fight with billionaires and the world's most powerful corporations to transform our country so it works for all of us. I'm proud of what we've done in Congress, and together we will build a multiracial working class coalition to win the White House.

4. Judy Lubin:

   When you see white working-class Americans saying that I'm benefiting and my family is getting help from the Affordable Care Act, you start to hear 'repair' not 'repeal,' whites standing up in support of a policy changes the dynamics of the conversation.

5. Paul Ryan:

   We better get our act together or we will cease being a national party, we are going to be a regional party that fails to get into the majority and fails to do things on behalf of those working-class people that were the back of the Democratic Party for so long.