The working class, a large majority of the workforce and its most racially and ethnically diverse group, faces low pay and higher unemployment. Many policymakers today claim to speak for the struggles ...
The famous “I Have a Dream” speech, arguably the best-known public statement by Martin Luther King Jr., was given at the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. In it, King urged the nation on ...
The 2024 election is going to come down to swing voters in six or seven swing states. As they always are, the results are going to be extremely tight. A combination of factors will determine the ...
Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s top team contains more lawmakers from poor backgrounds, and fewer from elite schools, than any in recent memory. Voters haven’t noticed. By Stephen Castle Reporting from ...
The reasons for the erosion of Democratic Party support within the American working class is a topic on which seemingly everyone has an opinion. It has renewed the debate between the left and the ...
As the 2026 midterm elections approach, the question of why Democrats have increasingly struggled with working-class voters — ...
Reconnecting the Democratic Party to the working class is an electoral and a moral imperative, and it will be my mission for the rest of my life. In late fall, I was in a break room with 10 or so ...
As the 2024 presidential race enters its final week, media coverage has increasingly focused on the candidates’ efforts to win over a supposedly crucial swing group: working-class voters. We think ...
The Republican Party‘s transition to the preferred party of the working class has given it an enormous opportunity to cement itself as the nation’s majority party and keep control of the federal ...
A new report shows there is absolutely a winning constituency for economic and social progress. But Democrats aren’t pursuing it. Ad Policy Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) speaks to a full auditorium as ...
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has the most working-class support of any GOP candidate in 40 years, a new poll shows. Enten said Trump is also currently polling ahead of Harris by 31 ...
Tim Bale has previously received funding for research on the Conservative Party and party members from the Leverhulme Trust and from the Economic and Social Research Council. Martin Farr and and Mark ...