| 来源类型 | Article
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| 规范类型 | 评论
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| The working class is more upbeat than most 2020 candidates think |
| Ryan Streeter
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| 发表日期 | 2019-04-02
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| 出版年 | 2019
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | A seemingly infinite amount of commentary since the 2016 presidential election has focused on working class voters and their interests. The numerous 2020 Democratic presidential candidates are vying for the working class bona fides needed to win in the heartland. How well do they understand the working class people whose votes they seek?
Most commentary portray the working class in the United States as economically disenfranchised and alienated from the American dream, and that they are upset about it. A recent survey I conducted with my colleagues at the American Enterprise Institute paints a somewhat different picture. The survey asks a wide range of questions about the American dream, community life, civic engagement, and loneliness.
It turns out that working class Americans are as upbeat as their more affluent peers about the economy and pretty bullish on the American dream. They are more distrustful than upper middle class Americans but less pessimistic about the direction of the country and their communities than often reported. There are lessons in these findings for presidential candidates.
I refer to the working class as people with a high school degree but less than a four year college degree and earnings between the 20th and 50th income percentiles, a definition developed by an American Enterprise Institute, Brookings Institution, and Opportunity America working group in 2018. The working class is more economically optimistic than commonly reported. When asked if they expect to be financially better off, worse off, or about the same a year from now, three in 10 working class Americans say better off, only slightly less than people with higher incomes.
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Less than 10 percent expect to be worse off. Working class minorities are more bullish than whites, with 37 percent of minorities saying that they will be better off a year from now, compared to 27 percent of whites. By comparison, 31 percent of more affluent whites expect to be better off, meaning that a greater share of working class minorities are more optimistic about their financial future than richer whites. |
| 主题 | Politics and Public Opinion
; Society and Culture
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| 标签 | Public opinion polls
; Survey on Community and Society
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| URL | https://www.aei.org/articles/the-working-class-is-more-upbeat-than-most-2020-candidates-think/
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| 来源智库 | American Enterprise Institute (United States)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/265658
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