The working class have jobs, but they’re surviving, not thriving. Just under half, around 47%, of employed workers in the U.S. are women but they are the majority of low-paid workers.

The more working-class voters hear about these plans, the more their support grows. Vice President Kamala Harris walks the walk, as far as these high-opportunity voters are concerned.

The problem with having such a vague — or in some cases broad — definition of “working class” is that it becomes politically meaningless to talk about the working-class vote.

A new report commissioned by a labor-backed group is examining a problem many Democrats might rather ignore: the exodus of working-class voters from the party they used to call home.

The criticism that Democrats left America’s working class behind surged after the 2024 election. Here’s why the term is so hard to define — and why that matters.

Working- and middle-class Americans take pride in their work. If Democrats want to win their votes, they need to acknowledge and appeal to that pride, not dismiss or patronize it.

With inflation easing, the wages of working-class Americans are finally moving into the plus column. Average hourly pay for production and nonsupervisory workers — who make up four-fifths of ...