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Majority of Americans Now Identify as Working Class

A new Pew study finds 60% of U.S. adults identify as working class, with half of top earners adopting the label amid an affordability crisis.

2 publishers · 2 articles · first seen 14 Sept 2026 · updated 2h ago

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  1. Working-class Americans aren’t running for office. It’s changing our politics. Washington Post ·
  2. Even Americans earning more than $155,000 now call themselves ‘working class’—a sign of how far the affordability crisis has spread Fortune

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