…Mercer to disabuse the reader of any conception that a Trump administration would be pro-blue-collar worker and, to borrow from Bernie Sanders, anti-the-billionaire class. A purpose of the post was…

…how dangerous Trump would be. So here’s the deal: Union workers (past or present) and other blue-collar workers in Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin and Iowa could actually grasp the concept of…

…would be his puppeteers during a Trump administration are not exactly pushing change of the Rust Belt blue-collar-worker sort. Well, they are, but the change they want is in the…

…you have been—you’re aware of the news events of the last 48 hours. And of the reaction to them among, say, blue-collar whites in Toledo. The reactions are three-fold: that…

…with gray hair. I had thought, although it was only wishful thinking, that Clinton and her campaign actually finally recognized that millennials, Rust Belt blue collar voters, and middle-class suburbanites…

…drunk and belligerent. The reason tor the contingencies is because it happens. (In the post describing that, I contrasted with my own white collar world, where in twenty years I…

…campaign organize its White House picks. Culvahouse declined a request for an interview. None of the lawyers in the political law practice at Jones Day returned POLITICO’S calls. Culvahouse has…

…Photo caption in THE FRIDAY COVER: What Trump Voters Want Now The blue-collar workers who put Donald Trump in the White House are ready for him to deliver. How much…

…got paid. The study is based on the company’s internal data so it skews heavily white collar. I found the first two tables to be pretty eye opening. Your thoughts?…

…blue-collar, non-managerial workers (mid-wage workers) by a factor of 6. Figure 1 That wedge between productivity and middle-class wage growth has become one of the more important developments in political…