Award-winning journalist Rick Levin made a drastic career change six years ago, trading reporting at Eugene Weekly for bus driving in Eugene. During the first three years on the new job, Levin wrote ...

You could argue that the history of humankind is the history of work. In order to thrive, not just survive, people learned to specialize in a wide range of crafts. However, in this day and age, with ...

The 2024 US election returns revealed that a significant portion of the working class including black people, Latinos and women had voted for Donald Trump for President of the United States. Liberal ...

The debate over whether Graham Platner is “working class” comes at a time when more and more people are at risk of falling into it.

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 ...

A new crop of candidates has turned away from the aspirational “American dream” message of campaigns past and is leaning into how difficult life can be for working people — including them. By Annie ...

Washington D.C. — A new Center for American Progress analysis of data from the 2024 election and review of pre-election surveys finds that working-class voters and college-educated voters want similar ...

President Donald Trump speaks during a swearing-in ceremony for new U.S. Ambassador to China David Perdue in the Oval Office at the White House on May 07, 2025 in Washington, DC. Perdue, a former ...

New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani at the Caribbean Day Parade, September 1, 2025. Credit: Andrea Renault/STAR MAX/IPx 2025 A number of progressive groups close to the Democratic Party and ...