Harin J. Contractor

Jan 14, 2025 | yahoo.com | Rick Wartzman |Harin J. Contractor

In the wake of the 2024 election, pundits and politicos have had much to say about the battle for the American “working class,” with their commentary—whether from the left, the right, or the middle—invariably accompanied by the same image: guys wearing hard hats, toiling away at a construction site or on an assembly line. Such iconography isn’t surprising.

Jan 13, 2025 | fortune.com | Rick Wartzman |Harin J. Contractor

America's working class is largely found in service jobs, not wearing hard hats. effrey Greenberg/Universal Images Group via Getty Images