The median hourly wage of today’s working class is $15.75—a full $1.44 less than in 1980, after adjusting for inflation. 15 Today more than one-third of full-time workers earn less than $15 an hour, ...

For working-class Americans, attaining the American Dream is out of reach, says Newsweek Opinion Editor Batya Ungar-Sargon in her new book, Second Class: How the Elites Betrayed America's Men and ...

The working class is looking for a place at the table. Arguments about offshoring labor often feel like telling them they will not need — or even that they do not deserve — one.

So we’re finally seeing a genuine, bottom-up, working-class revolution. In Canada, and increasingly in the United States, truckers and others are refusing to follow government orders.

The working-class voters who dislike both parties and their respective presidential candidates—the so-called double haters—are clearly going to be up for grabs.

Opinion editor explains how political, media elites are 'deplatforming' working class in new book. Newsweek opinion editor Batya Ungar-Sargon claims there is not really a right-left divide in this ...

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.

For half a century, the working class has been growing more racially and ethnically diverse, and today, workers of color make up 45 percent of it, while non-Hispanic white workers make up the ...

Both Democrats and the Trump-informed Republican Party claim to champion workers, but working-class families nationwide still lack real, consistent representation in the halls of power.

Rep. Jim Banks, R-Ind., here in 2017, is pushing his party to focus on working-class voters as a way to win back the House of Representatives in the 2022 midterms and the White House in 2024.

Dustin Guastella is a research associate at the Center for Working Class Politics and the director of operations for Teamsters Local 623 in Philadelphia. Democrats are struggling to win over ...

Working-class American men are getting lonelier and sicker, and their lives are getting shorter. It’s not just a sad state of affairs; it’s a full-blown crisis that demands policy solutions.