The New Single-Issue Voters of the Working Class

The economy, the economy, the economy.

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“Inflation inequality is hitting the working class harder than at any other time on record,” opined MarketWatch way back in April.

It is an opinion universally shared by members of the working class, who can’t remember a time they felt this helpless to stop a downward economic spiral from upending every aspect of their lives.

Rents are up- substantially; but buying a house has become all but impossible for average working-class heroes who once routinely aspired to such heights.

Used cars have become unaffordable. New cars, which were merely unaffordable before 2022, have suddenly become luxury items as out-of-reach as a yacht or private jet.

Within the ranks of the working-class poor in America, the outlook is dimming substantially.

Back-to-school, always a period fraught with economic peril for working-class families living paycheck-to-paycheck, was even more difficult in 2022.

In households with caregivers who work full-time- and have throughout the pandemic- concerns over whether schools will stay open and the costs of childcare should they not, compound the distress.