Editorial: Countless reports and celebrities have called for greater working-class representation, so why has nothing changed?

In an interview at the weekend, the actor Stephen Graham said that British television misrepresents what it’s like to be ...

The escape from working-class life has good narrative pedigree, a classic form—beginning with the idea of escape itself. It’s something like a sharpened bildungsroman. The child is nudged forward by ...

Mr. Edsall contributes a weekly column from Washington, D.C., on politics, demographics and inequality. There have been endless laments for the white working-class voters the Democratic Party lost ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Outside of literal language development and nonverbal communication — both of which tend to be influenced by poverty and income level, according to a study from the University of Michigan — there are ...