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Politicians From the Working Class Are Very Rare

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“The 2026 elections are shaping up to be another terrible year for working-class representation in Congress,” Bloomberg reports. “Of the 919 candidates running as major-party nominees for the U.S. House and Senate this November, only seven had a working-class job when they got into politics. That’s less than 1%, despite working-class jobs making up about […]

First report: Why Politicians From the Working Class Are Rare Around the World — bloomberg.com, 2d