I come from this blue collar place and blue collar upbringing.
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We grew up a blue-collar family in a blue-collar neighborhood.
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The best blue collar job performance since the mid-1980s and also the best blue collar wage performance.
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And so my dad had what I would call a light-blue-collar wage for a blue-collar job.
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" There are once again blue-collar jobs, in a largely blue-collar area, he said, "part of a first wave of industry coming back.
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Blue-collar voters oppose international trade deals that pro-business Republicans support; the pro-business wing opposes immigration restrictions that blue-collar Republicans support.
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As I argued in my 2014 book Blue Collar Conservatives, for too long, policymakers have overlooked the unique needs of America's blue-collar, working-class families.
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And along the way, we have had record increases in blue collar employment and blue collar by the way -- their wages are rising faster than the white collars.
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John, the thing is, is I think that there are people now, these blue-collar Democrats — my dad was a blue-collar Democrat — the Democratic Party has left them.
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"Brown was the plainspoken political outsider who resonated with blue-collar folks, but more specifically the kind of disaffected, white, blue-collar groups Trump has brought along," Franck said.
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His book is called "Blue-Collar Gold: How to Build a Service Business from the Dirt Up" and he hopes it will inspire others to start their own blue collar business.
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"Because I live in a blue-collar community today, the same community, I can really bring, I think, a pretty authentic voice to the challenges of blue-collar America," he said.
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I'm proud that I've always treated the blue-collar worker -- and I consider myself in a certain way to be a blue-collar worker -- that make this country run with tremendous respect.
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Trump's Tariff Plan Leaves Blue-Collar Winners and Losers President Trump's announcement that he planned to impose steep tariffs on imported steel and aluminum delighted some blue-collar industries he had championed.
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A young, blue collar kid from Brockton was taking notice.
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But blue collar jobs aren't the only ones at risk.
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It was hard," says Bunny on CNBC's "Blue Collar Millionaires.
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Just kidding, but we did buy him a blue collar.
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It's happening across all sectors — blue collar, white collar, everything.
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"Blue Collar Boys" feels like a Home Depot marketing PowerPoint.
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Time flies compared to my prior white & blue collar jobs.
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Blue collar Democrats elected him by fewer than 85033,000 votes.
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Who is more blue collar if you think about it?
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There's another possibility — that those blue-collar voters are gone.
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Many blue collar jobs in oilfield equipment production have disappeared.
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But that kind of religious ideological and economic belief just isn't going to fly with a Trump administration that has so many blue-collar voters and blue-collar states to thank for its election victory.
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Nonetheless, Trump supporters tend to be blue-collar and less educated: On the other hand, Rothwell also finds that Trump supporters are more likely to work in blue-collar fields and to have less education.
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Brockton, Massachusetts is the dictionary definition of a blue collar city.
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Sherrod Brown, who also has proven blue-collar and progressive credentials.
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But blue-collar energy jobs have not materialised in large numbers.
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Blue-collar wage growth is outstripping the rest of the economy.
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America leads the way in the number of blue-collar capitalists.
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"This is a blue-collar product that everybody needs," he said.
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Generations have grown up on coal in this blue-collar county.
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"We're not having trouble interviewing blue-collar people," Republican Ulm said.
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By most accounts, he also listens to his blue-collar employees.
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Maybe some of them wanted to reward a blue collar player.
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Blue-collar voters who saw the ad, particularly men, liked it.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio — Hillary Clinton has a problem with blue-collar voters.
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The blue-collar hustler who made good in a shady way?
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"Even his blue collar regional base is not happy," Rojansky noted.
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He's rich but says he identifies more with blue-collar workers.
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Democratic members of Congress have already created a Blue Collar Caucus.
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"This is blue-collar work, too, but it's awesome," he said.
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Williams: White blue-collar guys are very judgmental about the poor.
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The Republican Party is a party that is increasingly blue-collar.
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Now he stressed his upbringing, which he described as blue-collar.
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Engineers, accountants, blue-collar workers and entire families are emigrating daily.
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Lawyers, nurses, construction workers, blue-collar workers, and everything in between.
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Did backdrop painting function as a more blue collar art form?
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Lake said she couldn't imagine Bloomberg appealing to blue collar Democrats.
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"He was just a blue collar kind of guy," Murray said.
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The blue-collar mentality, just like Biden, is in my blood.
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But similar blue-collar work could be created without trade wars.
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It's a tattooed, blue-collar, Latino city of nearly one million.
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There are affordable versions being propped up in blue-collar neighborhoods.
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But worries about the plight of blue-collar workers unite them. ■
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I was doing blue-collar workers, and guys who didn't work.
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They have decent, not overly demanding jobs, blue collar and white.
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I come from a blue-collar background in New Bedford, Mass.
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My parents were blue collar (machinist, sawmill operator, seamstress, cafeteria cook).
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Trump reaped narrower gains among Hispanics and blue-collar white women.
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Typically, maintenance is a blue-collar occupation: mechanic, plumber, janitor, electrician.
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"Blue-collar workers see immigrants as competitors for jobs," Bannon said.
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"Jeremy Renner is the blue-collar face in the crowd," Boston.
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Goodbye to credible outreach to blue-collar factory workers and miners.
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His new book, "Trump, the Blue-Collar President," hits store shelves.
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But Germany's blue-collar workforce clearly does not fear free trade.
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But after years of harassment, blue-collar workers are speaking out.
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"Kearny's often referred to as a blue-collar town, and it still has its blue-collar roots," said Tim Bixler, who runs the Bixler Group, a fifth-generation realty company in Kearny, with his twin brother, Scott.
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CNN Key Races: Strong fundraising shifts several House races in Democrats' favor The third are the "blue-collar blues": mostly blue-collar, non-urban seats in blue states, where Trump almost without exception improved on Romney's performance.
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Trump has said more plants will lead to more blue-collar jobs.
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Imagine a future where robots do all of the blue collar jobs.
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I was nearly a broke," Baucom says on CNBC's "Blue Collar Millionaires.
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His bad knees mean that most blue-collar work will be difficult.
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Few Saudis are willing to take entry-level or blue-collar jobs.
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They represent an innovative, free-market approach to a blue-collar problem.
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"Most of my career, I worked with blue-collar workers," she said.
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Most Republican plans are shockingly regressive, despite Mr Trump's blue-collar base.
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That should please some of Mr Trump's blue-collar supporters (see article).
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"I'm a blue collar guy," he says, confusing which season he's on.
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Mr Jones is a former federal prosecutor from a blue-collar background.
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In some cases, blue-collar pay growth now exceeds 289% (see chart).
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He came up huge in big moments for a blue-collar school.
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It also would highlight Clinton's continued problems with white blue-collar workers.
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Blue-collar workers pay a heavy price for their lack of opportunities.
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And then of course, as we've discussed on this show, blue collar.
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The party still is struggling to connect with blue-collar, white voters.
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White blue-collar men have been, and continue to be, Trump's base.
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Trump talked up blue collar jobs during his campaign not tech jobs.
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Male blue-collar workers in rich countries have seen their earnings stagnate.
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But they have fallen for blue-collar workers, according to one study.
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"Y'all honest, blue-collar, hard-working people, and suffering," the rapper said.
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When he wants to rouse his blue-collar base, Trump lashes out.
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Tensions rose in the historically blue-collar, majority-white town, Somerville, Mass.
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Don Jr. calls his dad the "blue-collar billionaire," and he's right.
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Trump has made blue-collar growth a priority of his economic agenda.
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Blunt talk also plays well with blue collar voters in the Rustbelt.
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It's all blue-collar, long hours, and they never see the kids.
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"When we started, we were mostly in blue-collar towns," says Farid.
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The archetypal blue-collar role model, he's a "man's man" on paper.
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European companies would not steal blue-collar jobs from the United States.
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Latin American immigrants, mainly from Mexico, dominate the blue-collar work force.
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Ricky Turner (Kris Hitchen) has done blue-collar labor all his life.
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This marks the first confirmed case among Amazon's US blue-collar workforce.
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" Pennsylvania, he added, "was a much more blue-collar, working-class district.
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Sechin was born into a blue-collar family in Leningrad in 1960.
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He has repeatedly hailed the tariffs as reviving iconic blue-collar industries.
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But the decline has been less rapid than for blue-collar workers.
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"Democrats have a big problem with white blue-collar workers," he said.
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It portrays the fictional blue-collar Conner family, who live in Illinois.
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Biden met with the "Blue Collar Caucus" for close to an hour.
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The blue-collar voters there represent the forces powering Ms. Le Pen.
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The president emphasized a "blue collar" boom in his speech to Congress.
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"Blue-collar" is now an attitude, a lifestyle, a brand, a hashtag.
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The real victims are blue-collar, low and middle-income, everyday Americans.
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Many of those jobs offer relatively high-pay for blue-collar workers.
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The blue-collar district has typically been considered safe for Republican candidates.
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The plight of blue-collar workers has drawn much less attention, however.
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Frequently, men have struggled to land even modest-paying blue collar jobs.
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The collection somehow managed to honor our blue-collar history, our white-collar ambitions, our folk roots, and our cultural flexibility, but also our blue-collar future, our white-collar cynicism, our dying folk values, and our political inflexibility.
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The SPD lost blue-collar support and has not led a government since.
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It's not just administrative or "blue-collar-type" jobs that are being affected.
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You could say Mark wrote the book on being a blue collar entrepreneur.
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"There's a lot of blue-collar hard workers in this area," she said.
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The infrastructure plan Trump promised business and blue-collar supporters has not materialized.
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The next slate of states are heavy on blue-collar anti-establishment Republicans.
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There was some factory work and it was a blue collar, rural town.
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Tim Ryan of Ohio said Democrats needed to appeal to blue-collar voters.
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Coming from a blue-collar family, I understood the necessity of hard work.
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But the blue-collar wing of his party, especially near Racine, is keen.
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He might make amends for Hillary Clinton's failure to excite blue-collar supporters.
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READ: Michigan's white, blue collar workers helped put Trump in the White House.
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And the Blue Collar wages are rising faster than the White Collar wages.
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No longer are apprenticeships limited to blue-collar professions like manufacturing or plumbing.
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Best kid on the block Donnie Wahlberg's never forgotten his blue-collar roots.
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I've played them before, and I know the crowd is more blue collar.
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Mr Trump may seem to be a champion of disaffected blue-collar whites.
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Quentin Gérard was raised in an old mining town by blue collar parents.
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Blue-collar and white-collar career paths are getting disrupted and phased out.
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Broadly, while the blue-collar workers oppose the tax, service workers support it.
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He's a "blue-collar billionaire" motivated by a desire to help cab drivers.
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For the most part, Staten Island takes pride in its blue-collar bravado.
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READ: Michigan's white, blue-collar workers helped put Trump in the White House.
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Trump would garner that white, blue-collar "Reagan Democrat" vote almost by default.
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This time, benefits at risk include those largely benefitting blue-collar whites themselves.
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Carranza was born and raised in Chicago and had a blue-collar upbringing.
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They are less concentrated in blue collar industries like manufacturing, transportation and construction.
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The voice of the average, blue-collar American isn't necessarily represented in Hollywood.
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For decades, blue-collar voters helped form the backbone of the Democratic Party.
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Donald Trump won by appealing to the cultural anxieties of blue-collar whites.
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Mr. Weiner was raised in an immigrant, blue-collar family in East Harlem.
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You know, Donald Trump Jr called his father the blue-collar billionaire. Yeah.
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So the rich kid said the rich kid was a blue-collar billionaire.
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Here is a fact, not an alternative fact: Blue-collar workers speak English.
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South Park, one of Seattle's dwindling blue-collar pockets, is on the rise.
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Now, instead, they can pay Pursuit to retrain their own blue-collar workers.
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The road ahead for blue-collar workers in Indianapolis certainly won't be easy.
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Current membership includes "doctors and lawyers, and also blue-collar types," he said.
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It's neighbors with dependable blue-collar jobs in auto plants and coal mines.
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Students in his blue-collar district near O'Hare International Airport faced similar struggles.
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Growing up, Grohl worked blue collar jobs and played music on the side.
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Trump's hardcore Republican base among blue-collar voters hasn't been nearly as excited.
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Trump reflects the decades-long surge of blue-collar populism within the GOP.
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Sanders has spent his whole career building a message for blue-collar workers.
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If only those blue-collar defectors of 483 can be persuaded to listen.
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Congresswoman Mary Gay Scanlon represents a mostly blue-collar district west of Philadelphia.
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Ronald Reagan brought blue-collar Democrats into the Republican Party by emphasising traditional values.
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But his studied everyman persona may have helped clinch blue-collar votes in Queensland.
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"I love blue-collar workers," said Trump, who was born into a wealthy family.
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Someone who&aposs successful, wealthy, a celebrity, but who is still considered blue collar.
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He was hated by many on the left but popular among blue-collar Dutch.
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West Point, decorated in combat, solid blue collar conservative from Steel town in WPA.
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The move is aimed squarely at separating Trump's blue-collar supporters from congressional Republicans.
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The Blue Collar Millionaires crew were covering their noses from the stench while filming.
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During the campaign, Trump promised to bring back blue-collar jobs, particularly in mining.
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Educated people may be doing just fine, but blue-collar workers are often struggling.
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Many blue-collar workers helped propel him to his unexpected election victory on Nov.
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"Somehow we've made him into a blue-collar underdog billionaire," said Betras, of Youngstown.
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He made friends with artists who were making a living as blue-collar workers.
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The "blue collar boom" ushered in by Trump is causing income inequality to narrow.
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The blue-collar strategy was responsible for the biggest mess-up of the campaign.
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" -- In New Hampshire's poorest city, there are few indications of Trump's "blue-collar boom.
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Automation means there will be no renaissance of blue-collar jobs in the West.
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Stewart said he plans to campaign like Trump and appeal to blue collar voters.
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Dan Kildee (D-Mich.), whose represents a nearby blue-collar district that includes Flint.
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But there is a hidden killer nestled inside this idyllic, blue-collar beach town.
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It shows my ability perhaps to reassemble that Reagan coalition -- those blue collar Democrats.
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The coalition between business, evangelicals, defence hawks and blue-collar voters has broken apart.
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That should make Ohio fertile ground for Trump's core appeal to blue-collar whites.
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Union protections, predictable schedules and benefits vanished for vast numbers of blue-collar workers.
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Casey Affleck and Michelle Williams are devastating in Kenneth Lonergan's blue-collar family drama.
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As in the campaign, Trump will continue to be the blue-collar billionaire president.
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But this part of Mount Airy is largely blue-collar and black, not white.
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However, most of the focus has been on the loss of blue collar jobs.
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"Chicago fits the unique balance of fashion and sophistication and blue collar," said Shapiro.
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Trump campaigned as the rescuer who would bring back those blue-collar factory jobs.
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What's more, the trade agenda has produced real collateral damage in blue-collar America.
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Tim Ryan, who represents the blue-collar strongholds of Youngstown and Akron in Ohio.
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"Blue-collar workers particularly want to rewrite the way the economy works," Podhorzer said.
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Ryan campaigns as a blue-collar guy but there's a softer side to him.
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Whatley described Anthony Thomas, a single father of 10, as a blue-collar guy.
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"He has crossover appeal with some blue-collar working-class Democrats," Mr. Rendell said.
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It will be blue-collar, white men who have not voted in recent elections.
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Among whites, millionaires decisively rejected their fellow millionaire, while blue-collar voters embraced him.
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I also don't know what the phrase "blue-collar, upper-middle-class exurb" means.
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Camouflaging a primitive online robot as a blue collar worker from Wisconsin is trivial.
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"People often describe us as being blue collar, which I find problematic," says Cameron.
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Mr. Trump aims to swell the blue-collar backing that powered his primary victories.
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Doug Jones, a friend of Biden, citing his strength appealing to blue collar workers.
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I like to think of my style as real elegant meets blue collar. 2.
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Sanders' democratic socialist policies are a turnoff to moderates, including some blue-collar Democrats.
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So began Cuarón's life as a "blue collar" worker in the Mexican film industry.
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They're pretty sandwiches, belying their blue-collar origins in New Orleans's 1929 streetcar strike.
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On each episode of "Blue Collar Backers," which premieres May 18 at 10 p.m.
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"We are the blue-collar workers who make the country go around," she said.
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To achieve that, the party is widening its blue-collar base and targeting unions.
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I think he's brought that to us, that blue-collar mentality in the clubhouse.
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Silicone compounds have been described as the blue-collar mainstays of the chemical industry.
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He was an aspiring draftsman who also played piano and worked blue-collar jobs.
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Amid the shrinking pool of blue-collar workers, there's a growing demand for them.
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When Democrats want to show strength with blue-collar voters, they often head here.
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His personal life is not unlike that of many sons of blue-collar families.
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The non-evangelical blue-collar whites display mixed instincts on racial and cultural issues.
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Almost all surveys show continued cracks in his standing with these blue-collar women.
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Blue collar workers and coalminers obviously think this sort of burden sharing is unfair.
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And yet somehow, it was the blue collar that bought his bill of goods.
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It ushered in a golden age of stability and security for blue-collar workers.
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There were very few major stories in 2017 about blue collar women speaking out.
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"The Ontario clubs had a lot of working-class, blue-collar guys," he says.
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Democrats' blue-collar bellwether And from CNN Chief National Correspondent John King: A lot has changed since my first presidential election 30-plus years ago, but Tuesday features one reliable constant: Macomb County, Michigan, is a great testing ground of blue-collar sentiment.
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Opinion Like Ronald Reagan, Donald Trump racked up the support of millions of blue-collar white voters in Midwestern swing states, and like Mr. Reagan, the 403th president is pushing to nail down more blue-collar support to ensure a lasting Republican majority.
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She is the favourite among blue-collar workers; he draws disproportionate support from university graduates.
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This blue collar town has given unwavering passion, love, and support to its beloved Eagles.
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Trump's Cabinet selections thus far may also not endear him to his blue-collar loyalists.
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But today, they're all blue-collar millionaires – and they're ready to share what they've learned.
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Programming Note: "Blue Collar Millionaires" season two consists of 10 all-new half-hour episodes.
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The other, and potentially more worrisome, half lies in the blue-collar technicians of ISIS.
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Because proponents see this as a blue-collar climate policy -- one for the Trump era.
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If they fight too hard, they&aposre going to offend the blue-collar working class.
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Democrats, meanwhile, argued Trump's plan sold out his blue-collar base by reducing social spending.
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"I consider myself in a certain way to be a blue-collar worker," he said.
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The policy would be seen as a realistic compromise blue collar Democrats could get behind.
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The blue-collar boom has helped launch America into the hottest economy in modern history.
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But most-- the most rapid increase in wages has been among blue collar working Americans.
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Its bayside area was once a blue-collar district crowded with chemical factories and shipyards.
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For their storyline to work, the world has to feel lived-in and blue-collar.
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When they're arguing about being socialists, they've left — they have lost those blue-collar Democrats.
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He is seen as populist, with a blue-collar tinge despite his Yale bachelor's degree.
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Before deregulation in the 1980s, trucking was a blue-collar route to the middle class.
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"Blue-collar sectors drove these gains...Manufacturing is now outpacing the economy overall," he said.
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The state is a fairly white, with a blue collar streak and an open primary.
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Labor shortages have afflicted a broad swath of blue-collar industries, including the transportation sector.
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Although not a rust belt state, Trump won big in heavily blue collar, union cities.
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Part of the message is that this isn't the blue-collar work of years past.
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They were all fighting for Wall Street bankers, not Main Street and blue-collar workers.
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The work has allowed the former truck driver to return to his blue-collar roots.
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But has it had an effect in construction, one of the most blue-collar fields?
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His appeal, particularly in the west, to traditional blue-collar union Democrats is still strong.
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Mr. Clinton's more emotive style appears to resonate with blue-collar voters in ways Mrs.
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Mr. Trump is counting on his appeal to blue-collar workers in the Rust Belt.
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In general, nuclear power plants are found in red states and blue collar communities, i.e.
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Anybody who's drooled over a sexy-firemen calendar knows that: Blue-collar dudes are hot.
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Today a plethora of things help blue-collar, average American families obtain responsible mortgage loans.
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The demise of NAFTA will disproportionately hurt the blue-collar workers who back Mr Trump.
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Mr. Trump is winning their heartland, Macomb County, in the blue-collar suburbs of Detroit.
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These included such blue-collar Trump strongholds as Youngstown, Ohio; Erie, Pennsylvania; and Roanoke, Virginia.
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Globalization and automation have hollowed out manufacturing, eliminating millions of middle-income blue-collar jobs.
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A study published in the Journal of Psychology and Health followed 87 blue-collar employees.
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The majority of guns sold in America are made in America by blue-collar employees.
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True to form, he recalled his blue-collar roots while campaigning in Traverse City, Mich.
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"Making photos takes me out of the blue collar mindset surrounding my area," he says.
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Many economists believe there aren't enough mid-skilled jobs for blue-collar workers out there.
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Then there are the undecided, conflicted blue-collar Democrat-leaners and well-educated Republican-leaners.
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"No one is having an easy time hiring blue-collar workers today," Mr. Peterson said.
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Of course, Trump's reactionary politics do little or nothing for his white blue-collar constituency.
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Ask Women at Ford Read: The #MeToo Moment: Blue-Collar Women Ask, 'What About Us?
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It plans to offer help to janitors, nurses, hotel staff and other blue-collar workers.
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He's talking like your uncle would at a family party, an average blue-collar man.
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Biden will need to win back blue-collar voters who aided Trump's victory in 2016.
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Blue-collar workers, for instance, are still facing challenges in availing some basic banking services.
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" Detroit's proposal suggested that Amazon would further help the city shed "the blue-collar stereotype.
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These admonitions align with a larger cultural prejudice against manual labor and blue-collar work.
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And those in blue-collar areas like Monroe, one of the party's top takeover targets.
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Chinese blue-collar wages have surged as much as eightfold in the past dozen years.
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And it is not only blue-collar men who recoil at taking traditionally female jobs.
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Sanders once won over blue-collar Vermonters with help from a moderate position on guns.
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But not everyone was ready to return to the blue-collar squalor of Lanford, Illinois.
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Biden has a clear blue-collar appeal, in contrast to Clinton, the New York insider.
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But at Princeton University, portraits of blue-collar campus workers are now taking center stage.
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It's a white, blue-collar region that has overwhelmingly backed Republicans in recent presidential elections.
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As its economy soured, blue-collar workers turned to Republicans, a pattern that's repeating nationwide.
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The blue-collar white voters in Trump's base feel the same way – even more strongly.
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He has a real-appeal to blue-collar voters, real appeal in Pennsylvania and Ohio.
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Democrats hope the plain-spoken Biden can appeal to blue-collar voters in the district.
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And blue-collar workers are not the only members of the middle class being squeezed.
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Both wings of the party have dismissed concerns of blue-collar populists for even longer.
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In the wake of #MeToo, blue collar workers started a hashtag of their own: #whataboutus.
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Clinton, it's because he manages to run up the score with blue-collar white voters.
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They look glamorous, but all of the Chaps, Mr. Howell said, had blue-collar jobs.
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The common misconception is that "blue collar" jobs are unfulfilling, for people who lack ambition.
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White-collar professionals will still get to set the minimum wage for blue-collar workers.
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Buttigieg knows his sexual preference may be a barrier to winning some blue-collar voters.
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Automation likely played an even bigger role than globalization in destroying blue-collar American jobs.
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BLUE-COLLAR VOTE Trump's emphasis on trade and "putting American workers first" helped him woo blue-collar voters in the 2016 election, including in places like Michigan where he crucially won a state that had not voted for a Republican presidential candidate in decades.
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"I consider myself, in a certain way, to be a blue collar worker," he reportedly said.
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I am a blue-collar guy, so you throw me into TV, and it's like, Wow.
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As wages stagnated, more and more blue-collar men felt themselves working hard and going nowhere.
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There was one thing I found interesting about Donald Trump's appeal to blue-collar men, though.
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But he has taken over the Republican Party by channelling blue-collar anger against all elites.
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Rather than oppose the Vietnam War, Mr. Brennan rallied blue-collar union workers to support it.
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Blue-collar women have also left the Republicans since 2016, but by a much smaller margin.
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It is meant to attract up to 345,000 blue-collar workers to Japan over five years.
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Such disheartened Social Democrats, many of them blue-collar workers, now feel energised by Mr Schulz.
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Mr Timothy in particular is obsessed with refashioning the Tories as a more blue-collar party.
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An attempt to cater to blue-collar workers at an even lower price didn't work out.
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In 2000, 37% of German voters were in blue-collar work; today the figure is 19%.
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It's decidedly blue collar — and his matter-of-fact way of speaking belies his extraordinary success.
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The most popular blue-collar sitcom family from the '90s is looking to get back together.
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Three years ago his party failed to fire up blue-collar workers, especially in the Midwest.
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Cracking down on China over trade represented a core 2016 appeal to his blue-collar base.
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Blaming 'blue collar' Americans as the main opponents to bold climate policy is gas lobbyist 101.
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His wife, who comes from a blue-collar, Democratic-voting clan, is not watching the relaunch.
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Were there a lot of blue-collar jobs being destroyed and when, and things like that.
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Trump has shown he's deeply concerned that blue-collar workers see him as fighting for them.
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Sanders and Biden both say they can win blue-collar workers that Clinton lost to Trump.
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Of the 40 Tea Partiers I studied intensively, most had grown up in blue-collar homes.
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A racial component Flint is a relatively poor, blue-collar city of just under 100,000 people.
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Nonetheless, it is true that Clinton lost white, blue-collar men to Trump — by a lot.
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"We've got a lot of blue-collar jobs, roustabouts and people who work offshore," Moller said.
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Archie Bunker was a fictional conservative blue-collar worker on a television comedy in the 1970s.
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Powered by his strong appeal to blue-collar voters, Trump actually defeated Cruz among conservative Christians.
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She also leaned hard into a message aimed at blue-collar workers worried about manufacturing jobs.
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Blue-collar champion"Hipster fries $16"The Trump International Hotel in Washington, DC, opened this week.
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"If you are a blue-collar worker, you saw manufacturing head out to China," he said.
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The first is that white, blue-collar workers aren't the only rural Americans who need assistance.
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Part of his reasoning is that this will improve the job market for blue-collar workers.
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In an earlier generation, they might have found jobs in factories or other blue-collar occupations.
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Using data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, we found 30 high-paying blue-collar jobs.
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And the only power for blue collar and service workers is through solidarity in a union.
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That crisis began, and continues to rage, in rural areas and especially among blue-collar whites.
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It was the sort of high-quality, blue-collar job that many lament no longer exists.
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For the blue-collar worker and coal miner, the climate movement has declared war on them.
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The same general pattern was evident even among blue-collar whites, the most consistently conservative group.
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From 1991 to 2015, the U.S. lost about 1.3 million blue collar jobs, the report shows.
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His impending nomination seems at odds with Trump's populist campaign rhetoric for downtrodden blue-collar workers.
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But streaming services have made inroads with blue collar workers and modest income Americans as well.
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That helped create Trump's personal branding as a "blue-collar billionaire," Trump biographer Michael D'Antonio says.
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Mr. Trump's policies, Mr. Kolko said, probably have little to do with the blue-collar rebound.
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Biden, seen as a champion of blue-collar workers, wants security for coal miner health programs.
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DAVE BRACKMAN, VIA FACEBOOK Too bad blue collar is now identified with Trump and low class.
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Blue-collar workers are putting in more hours, data show, while overall labor productivity is increasing.
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Orner writes frequently about blue-collar men and women and lives that didn't quite pan out.
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He promised more factory output in the United States and more jobs for blue-collar workers.
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Truck driving is still a big blue-collar occupation, though it is also threatened by automation.
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Is his blue-collar and Middle American appeal still an implicit affirmation of white racial privilege?
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Elizabeth Warren struck a blue-collar note by cracking a beer upon announcing her presidential bid.
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For all the focus on blue-collar whites, Clinton also missed Obama's benchmarks with black voters.
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Partly it's about blue-collar voters, who still imagine that Trump can bring back coal jobs.
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My mother and stepfather are blue-collar, no-nonsense forces of nature — hardworking, blunt and unbending.
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It groups three or as many as ten blue-collar workers and gives them a loan.
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An advanced global economy has radically revalued the contributions of blue-collar labor and technological skills.
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"He's just kind of a blue-collar, lunch pail type of player," Manager Aaron Boone said.
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"It has all but vanished from kitchens, even in the working, blue-collar South," he explains.
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So were some blue-collar and service workers, whose industries got a bump from Chinese arrivals.
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Baby Boomers — a big part of the blue-collar workforce — are exiting the workforce in droves.
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"What one man might call junk, I call treasure," he says on CNBC's Blue Collar Millionaires.
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Some of its members also belong to the Blue Dog Coalition and the Blue Collar Caucus.
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That blue-collar slowdown is driving the deceleration of job growth across the United States economy.
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They met him in the Rose Garden and gave him a red, white, and blue collar.
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Vahan, a Y Combinator-backed startup, uses WhatsApp to help delivery startups find blue-collar workers.
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That would prevent China from exploiting loopholes in Nafta, playing well to a blue-collar base.
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President Nixon and the American cause in Indochina were strongly supported by many blue-collar workers.
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So, the guy is not a trust-funder after all, just a smart, blue-collar worker.
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It is all about the bourgeois and has absolutely nothing to do with the blue collar.
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Mr. Trump's senior strategist, Stephen K. Bannon, boasts of his "blue-collar, Irish Catholic" family background.
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The party, he said, does not need to choose between progressive ideals and blue-collar values.
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He connects as easily with blue-collar white guys as he does with black female churchgoers.
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He grew up in a blue collar neighborhood in Philadelphia and says he was an underachiever.
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We asked women in blue-collar jobs to share their stories of sexual harassment and abuse.
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I understood very early on that this mostly blue-collar African-American audience was feeling inspired.
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Blaming "blue collar" Americans as the main opponents to bold climate policy is gas lobbyist 101.
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These workers have a political profile much closer to tech workers than conventional blue-collar workers.
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Trump won the 2016 presidential contest with strong support from those farmers and blue-collar voters.
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He likes old-fashioned superhero stories where the superhero is just some ordinary blue-collar American.
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It then updates its assumptions for similar areas that haven't counted votes yet — assuming that if it underestimated turnout for the Democrat in one rural blue-collar precinct, for example, it's probably underestimated turnout for the Democrat in other rural blue-collar areas of the state.
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Also plausible is basically the opposite conclusion: These are relatively well-off less-educated blue collar workers who see poorer blue collar whites who are suffering (as indicated by low mobility and poor health in the region) and view them as undeserving recipients of government aid.
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"My dad was a blue-collar guy," he tells me—and in many ways, Devon is too.
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Chicago is a very cold city for most of the year, and it's a blue-collar town.
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He&aposs very well liked, he has a very interesting personal story, has a blue collar background.
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Their success just hasn't resulted in large number of high-paying jobs for Trump's blue collar base.
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With lots of blue collar voters and Trump Democrats, the open seat being vacated by retiring Rep.
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This is great news for blue-collar workers at Amazon, but it's also a necessary business decision.
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Further, they primarily see the industry's careers as unstable, blue-collar, difficult, dangerous and harmful to society.
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Another theory is that Sanders's populist, anti-corporate message is resonating with young and blue-collar voters.
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The targeted bill falls in line with President Donald Trump's blue-collar appeal and "America first" promises.
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Blue-collar workers are cock-a-hoop at his willingness to bully firms into saving their jobs.
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African-Americans, however, didn't get a fair share of the blue-collar prosperity of the postwar period.
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I grew up in Michigan, in a blue-collar, predominantly Caucasian community with very few ethnic influences.
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Finally, the show takes place in a blue-collar town in Pennsylvania, just like where Volpe taught.
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Just as Democrats ponder how to win back blue-collar voters, they find themselves defending transgender rights.
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The blue-collar worker in the United States has been hurt badly in the last seven years.
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Given Trump's strong appeal right now to blue collar workers, that might have been a strategic mistake.
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For hundreds of years, blue-collar workers, white, black, or whatever, had no social respect, no protections.
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With the latest entry, your empire's blue collar buddy has a new name and set of skills.
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There is a perception that Trump helps among blue collar voters - but could alienate white collar voters.
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" Be smart: "The demise of NAFTA will disproportionately hurt the blue-collar workers who back Mr Trump.
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Its potential to add blue-collar jobs while benefiting the environment adds to its bipartisan political appeal.
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Blue-collar voters, the forgotten men and women of America that the president talked so much about.
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But whatever the intentions, the effect has been a double whammy for blue collar, middle class Americans.
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France has broadly welcomed the deal, on condition it guarantees Renault's domestic blue-collar jobs and plants.
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Mark Cuban believes automation is inevitable, but that doesn't mean that blue collar jobs are going away.
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For weeks, polls have indicated that Clinton trails Trump particularly with one demographic: white, blue-collar men.
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"For me, it shows how much Hollywood is disconnected from the blue-collar, mainstream America," he said.
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Today, these technologies for hourly and blue-collar workers are finally proliferating and coming into their own.
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It has nothing to do with whether you are working-class, middle-class, blue-collar, white-collar.
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Maybe I should have, because VR is basically the ultimate way to experience blue-collar work simulators.
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McGovern did better with working women than men and better with professionals than with blue-collar workers.
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After closing the gap with blue-collar white voters in parts of the Northeast last week, Mrs.
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But Republicans can't successfully compete at the national level if it only represents white, blue collar workers.
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The chefs on the line were mostly blue-collar white guys, though there were a few women.
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The lack of independent unions or genuine collective bargaining leaves China's blue-collar workers vulnerable and grumpy.
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Communist Party officials instinctively respond more fiercely to aggrieved blue-collar workers than to white-collar ones.
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Ultimately, she knows, blue-collar workers are not the only ones who may need such economic assistance.
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As you can see, mesothelioma does not only affect older, blue-collar men — it affects all Americans.
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In February 2016, after the episode of "Blue Collar Millionaires " aired, Long was diagnosed with colon cancer.
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And a portion of the 13,000 blue-collar jobs promised will now go to Taiwanese workers instead.
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But a solid 55% majority of blue-collar white women who are not evangelicals opposed the wall.
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Like Trumpism, Hefnerian values have prospered in the blue-collar vacuum created by religion's retreat, community's unraveling.
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Eventually, most blue-collar workers find the wear and tear on their bodies too draining to continue.
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The number of well-paid, blue collar jobs that don't require a four-year degree has decreased.
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The old robots were blue-collar workers, burly and clunky, the machines that rusted the Rust Belt.
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As the "Czar of Cars" discusses on CNBC's "Blue Collar Millionaires, " Gill grew up in Fresno, Calif.
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These aren't blue collar or white collar jobs, they're "new collar" roles that prioritize capabilities over credentials.
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Jared Golden, a Marine Corps veteran, in this rural, blue-collar district that includes Lewiston and Bangor.
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Indeed, more than 60% of U.S. workers and even more globally fall into these "blue collar" industries.
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Researchers have attributed the rise in suicides in part to the deterioration of good blue-collar jobs.
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This year, Clinton will need to win back young people and the blue-collar bloc from Sanders.
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In recent years, he transitioned to suits, but in this special, he emphasizes his blue-collar beginnings.
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Many blue-collar whites still think that the poor are lazy and prefer to live off welfare.
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Discontent has steadily risen among blue-collar workers and others who feel he represents an urban "elite".
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His father, Louis, was a blue-collar worker, and his mother, Florence (Zeitlin) Friedman, was a homemaker.
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Relatively blue collar, many of our parents worked in the few local industries in and around town.
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Five years of compromising with Ms. Merkel has hurt the Social Democrats among their blue-collar base.
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The blue-collar jobs that once formed the backbone of the black community in Baltimore have evaporated.
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They insist, à la Mr. Trump, that the state can once again produce good blue-collar jobs.
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"Philly's known for being blue-collar — like, work hard and people appreciate that," Kershaw said on Monday.
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His loyal, blue-collar base has stood firmly behind him throughout, seemingly unfazed by his imminent trial.
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"The myth of Joe Biden's blue collar appeal will be exposed if he's the nominee," Murtaugh said.
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TIM MILLER: --appeal to Hillary at all, with, you know, this kind of blue-collar Trump voter.
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Growing up in Detroit, he remembers his own father working blue-collar jobs to provide for him.
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A cross-dresser with blue-collar roots, he grew up loving James Bond novels and military toys.
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"This is a blue-collar boom," Mr. Trump said on Tuesday in a speech in Davos, Switzerland.
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After decades as a blue-collar pastime, boxing has been repurposed for the fitness-obsessed young professional.
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Yet the public attitude belies harsher truths: Economic improvement has slowed in blue-collar, "middle-wage" sectors.
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It's particularly apparent in northeastern Pennsylvania — home to traditionally Democratic and blue-collar Scranton and Wilkes-Barre.
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He grew up in a family of four in Medford, Massachusetts, a blue-collar suburb of Boston.
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Some union members challenge his skepticism that Mr. Trump will be a friend of blue-collar workers.
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The rumpled, gravelly voiced Brown seemed almost custom-made to puncture Trump's phony "blue collar billionaire" myth.
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Blue-collar women are concerned Working-class white women may be even more important to Trump's fate.
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Apprenticeships have built upon their blue-collar base and are expanding to other parts of the economy.
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From birth until junior high school I lived in Waukegan, Illinois, a blue-collar town near Chicago.
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President Trump genuinely believes that his steel and aluminum tariffs will save thousands of blue collar jobs.
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But the election showed that they were far outnumbered by blue-collar defections from Labour farther north.
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Most of my customers are blue collar workers with pain, PTSD, sleeping problems, cancer, and so on.
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But there has been less attention paid to women who labor in blue-collar or service jobs.
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Last summer, he bought a 1,500-square foot home in a blue-collar suburb outside the city.
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Moreover, even if you keep your blue-collar manufacturing jobs, under what conditions do you keep them?
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Trump has promised to advance the interests of the coal industry to support blue-collar energy jobs.
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The blue-collar district, dotted with manufacturing facilities and closed coal mines, is about 93 percent white.
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Most of his patients work (or have worked) in blue-collar, labor-intensive jobs like coal mining.
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"Garry Marshall had a feel for Everyman, blue-collar comedy that matched exactly the young, blue-collar audience that made up the base of ABC's appeal," Bill Carter, the former longtime television reporter for The New York Times and now a commentator for CNN, said in an email.
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"While a lot of the narrative in the past tended to focus on men in blue collar work in factories, there are a lot of women in blue collar or service work that are also being displaced – and that trend is starting to become more marked," she said.
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It's also about how neighborhoods in Altoona and similar blue-collar places changed over the past 403 years.
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Labor unions were stronger then, factory jobs more plentiful, blue-collar white workers more inclined to vote Democratic.
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But manufacturing automation remains an obstacle to Trump's hopes of a renaissance in high-paying blue collar jobs.
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Automation is likely to make the wealth gap more severe as robots replace blue-collar, low-skilled workers.
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Starting a small business is no easy task – that's why the Blue Collar Backers are here to help.
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Choe Chang Ho's portrait, "A Worker" (2014), supports Muhn's thought with realistic depiction of a blue-collar worker.
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Hillary Clinton made the same mistake, which cost her blue collar votes in Pennsylvania and the Upper Midwest.
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Clinton's stark and direct statement haunted her throughout pockets of blue collar America, including here in Sandy Hook.
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In the aftermath of the stunning result, statistical analysts homed in on blue-collar whites as never before.
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Marine Le Pen of the National Front is appealing to blue-collar voters worried by globalisation and immigration.
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It understood whom it needed to court in order to achieve its goals — blue-collar workers, the proletariat.
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"We're all right but we're just a blue collar family and we work to live comfortably," he said.
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But Hillary Clinton is an unpopular opponent and Trump could attract enough blue-collar Democrats to beat her.
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And by grabbing hold of a populist pro-blue collar message, he defused a traditional Democratic Party weapon.
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Brian, meanwhile, comes from a blue-collar family in Minnesota and works in construction, living paycheck-to-paycheck.
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Safe to say, the race to be the go-to mobile app for blue-collar jobs is on.
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Trump appealed to many blue-collar voters by saying those deals cost Americans jobs and depressed their wages.
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Yes, it taps into the gnawing sense of economic and cultural dispossession felt by many blue-collar workers.
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"I heard he was a hard-nosed, blue-collar type of player that didn't scare easily," Mackanin said.
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Democrats also reclaimed a handful of blue-collar districts carried by both former President Barack Obama and Trump.
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Trump has performed well in the Rust Belt states, where he has support from blue collar, white voters.
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It's important to point out that tools for workers in the field aren't limited to blue-collar industries.
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In Pennsylvania, as well as in many other states, Trump's core support comes from white blue-collar workers.
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Throughout the years the owners, coaches, and players have consistently recognized this and embraced this blue-collar nature.
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McDonnell's world view is shaped by his upbringing, he was born in the blue-collar city of Liverpool.
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They needed a reticent white guy to project all their blue-collar values onto and now he's gone.
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That "country club" name is tongue-in-cheek, a blue-collar east Houston mockery of snooty west Houston.
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What's new: Now, there's evidence that wages are up — and for blue-collar workers, not white-collar workers.
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"Yes, the media and Chris Pratt believe only white people are blue collar," one person on Twitter wrote.
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The senator, 66, has long catered to some of the blue-collar voters Trump appealed to in 2016.
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Indeed, more than 60 percent of U.S. workers — and even more globally — fall into these "blue-collar" industries.
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While Iowa has large agricultural and blue-collar economies, it has plentiful options for high quality suits.4.
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The victims are the blue-collar workers who find their jobs exported as a matter of government policy.
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For her big day, Leonore dressed in a blue collar dress with matching ribbon bow in her hair.
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" At a speech today in PA, Trump said he considers himself "a blue collar worker, in a way.
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The voters who are most out there figuring out what to do are not the blue-collar Democrats.
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Certain cities like Chicago and Pittsburgh abound with blue-collar Catholics, and the West coast is...what exactly?
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The Washington Post reported that some blue collar workers are now getting signing bonuses of up to $25,000.
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I think that James Baldwin knows the complexities of African-American men, especially these blue-collar, hardworking men.
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"Blaming 'blue collar' Americans as the main opponents to bold climate policy is gas lobbyist 101," she continued.
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Many Americans blame low trade barriers for the loss of blue-collar jobs, but there is competing evidence.
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Blue-collar and low-pay service workers, as one might expect, have experienced the lowest share of teleworking.
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The Carhartt overall became a staple for blue collar workers, and Carhartt expanded to clothe the US military.
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He attributes it to blue-collar voters like himself, working and retired, who fear for their economic security.
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It provides a range of jobs, from blue collar to executive, and pays very well with excellent benefits.
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"Blue-collar retirees are committed to their fields," says Robert Eckardt, executive vice president at the Cleveland Foundation.
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Studs Terkel, in his oral history of working life, didn't smooth over the struggles of blue-collar workers.
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Both are white, male baby boomers who fancy themselves to be defenders of working-class, blue-collar Democrats.
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At the same time, across regions where blue-collar jobs in manufacturing and other sectors have evaporated, Mrs.
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Finally, Google's data omits those who use Bing (more blue-collar, older) or Yahoo (yes, it still exists).
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The district is also home to a number of professionals and blue-collar workers with comparatively lower pay.
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Women have moved into historically male jobs much more in white-collar fields than in blue-collar ones.
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Topics include the opioid crisis, guns in the home, and medical-care problems faced by blue collar families.
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Their singer, Batman, would challenge the often blue collar crowd with everything from cross-dressing to aggressive behavior.
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Trump promised blue-collar manufacturing workers across the country that he'd revitalize their industries and create new jobs.
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In 2008, Obama had to win over older Democratic voters, women and blue-collar workers who backed Clinton.
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Driverless cars, for instance, could eliminate trucking as we know it, a refuge for many blue-collar men.
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Building all of these would create lots of blue-collar jobs when the economy may need them most.
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It's about a blue-collar president ... You're talking about one of the richest kids ... It's a working title.
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After all, over the generations, the American economy has periodically generated massive employment increases for blue-collar workers.
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Penny Marshall, best known as Laverne from ABC's blue-collar duo "Laverne & Shirley," died Monday at age 75.
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" The only students left back in my blue-collar Bronx neighborhood would today be described as "learning disabled.
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While most Democrats were getting thumped in Ohio this year, his blue-collar style helped him win comfortably.
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And on the West Coast, Senator Maria Cantwell, a Democrat, couldn't win coastal, blue-collar Grays Harbor, Wash.
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Discovery Channel is in production on a new TV series, "Blue Collar Backers," Business Insider has learned exclusively.
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It's a Midwestern state with a large blue-collar population, which Sanders has targeted with his populist message.
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He took several blue-collar jobs, in which he tried to stir up revolutionary fervor among his colleagues.
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In a particularly hopeful sign for Democrats, Biden is outperforming Clinton among white, blue collar and rural voters.
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He has written for the Comedy Central show Delco Proper, which is about blue collar workers in Philly.
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He likened the group's followers to the blue-collar Democrats in the United States who supported President Trump.
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A traditional, blue-collar stronghold of largely religious immigrants and their descendants, it leans heavily to the right.
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Rural and blue-collar industrial counties in Iowa have been hurt by the administration's trade war with China.
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President Trump, a champion of blue-collar jobs and tax cuts for the rich, is a prominent example.
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Manufacturing -- the object of his pledge to end the "carnage" afflicting blue-collar workers -- has fallen into recession.
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I grew up in a blue-collar Ohio town where bread comes in two flavors: white and brown.
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Kennedy used to tag along with Mr. Hamill to blue-collar bars in Brooklyn to talk to constituents.
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Blue-collar environments often operate under the myth that crude and lewd behavior just comes with the territory.
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In seeking to dismiss her case, the company argued that such behavior was typical in blue-collar environments.
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"Donald Trump will get some of the disaffected blue-collar white Democrats, no question," acknowledged former Pennsylvania Gov.
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Globalization silenced the historic looms of Calais; blue-collar voters there represent the forces powering the far right.
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It's one of the finest books I know about blue-collar work in America, its rewards and frustrations.
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President Trump has made lifting the fortunes of blue-collar and rural Americans a centerpiece of his administration.
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But while the blue-collar terrain remains rocky, Democratic opportunities seem to be expanding in white-collar seats.
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A former vice president, Joe Biden, known for his centrist politics and blue-collar affect, leads the field.
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Not a million miles from blue-collar heartland Democrats migrating to Trump the millionaire and America First demagogy.
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He pitted the interests of immigrant "dreamers" against the "forgotten" blue-collar whites he championed in his campaign.
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"The I.L.W.U. is one of the few blue-collar unions that have really maintained themselves," Professor Lichtenstein said.
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In fact, the already-stagnant wages of blue-collar workers have barely changed since the law was passed.
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The business owners say this will help blue-collar workers ascend to middle-skill jobs that pay more.
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Compared to his vote in 2016, Trump's approval rating among those blue-collar white women has conspicuously declined.
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"There's no denying this generation-long surge in low-skilled immigration has hurt blue-collar wages," he said.
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Many of those voters don't think college is a ticket to prosperity, and many prefer blue-collar jobs.
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But Mr. Trump's weak response is maddening, or at least it should be to his blue-collar base.
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In 2019, white- and blue-collar workers at big tech firms stood up for what they believed in.
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"He's a blue-collar worker and a million dollars would have ruined him for life," Held told CNN.
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At the depths of the Great Recession that followed, blue-collar white men experienced the most job losses.
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If parties court blue-collar voters more intensively next time around, would that hurt women vying to run?
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Donald Trump did it by talking about trade and Medicare as if he were a blue-collar Democrat.
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Once a stronghold of blue-collar Democratic support, its voters became the original Reagan Democrats of the 1980s.
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The party establishment's strategy risks backfiring by further energizing Trump's supporters, many of them white, blue-collar voters.
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While clues like the pufferfish and a literal blue collar have convinced the panel that Hootie and the Blowfish's Darius Rucker or a Blue Collar Comedy star like Jeff Foxworthy is the Banana, I believe his true identity is fellow musician and lead singer of rock band Poison, Bret Michaels.
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George H.W. Bush used the "three Gs"—God, guns and gays—to strengthen his hold on blue-collar voters.
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Living in the blue-collar Chicago suburb of Gary, Indiana, Joe Jackson and his wife, Katherine, had 10 children.
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If veteran political analyst Ronald Brownstein is right , blue-collar white women in the upper Midwest elected Mr. Trump.
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In the camaraderie of blue-collar workers, bikers, outlaws, and town drunks, everyone had a story of their own.
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The effort also prompted many northern, blue-collar whites to abandon the Democratic Party whose leaders had supported busing.
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My parents are Vietnamese immigrants who fled communism and then mostly worked blue-collar manufacturing jobs until they retired.
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Biden has highlighted his longstanding support for trade unions and his appeal to blue-collar workers across the country.
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Growing up in a blue-collar Portuguese family in Lowell, Massachusetts, he'd been conditioned to peel his fava beans.
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Their use of WhatsApp is a great fit for reaching the blue-collar audience and their traction proves it.
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What that blue-collar base will get from Trump's protectionist approach is higher prices on consumer goods and food.
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Tim Ryan, whose northeast Ohio district encompasses blue-collar Youngstown, is challenging veteran leader Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco.
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For Warren to ultimately succeed in 2020, she'll need to start winning over some of those blue collar voters.
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But when she seeks out her father at his blue-collar job near Pimitamon, it feels extraneous and inauthentic.
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And mourners, some dressed in their finest and some in the clothing of blue-collar workers, paid final respects.
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Most of them are like, wait a second, who is looking out for the blue-collar workers before Trump?
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Baker believes returning the carbon tax proceeds in checks to families would have appeal with Trump's blue collar base.
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Left-wing parties are divided between open-border liberals and blue-collar workers fearful of migrants undercutting their wages.
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She is pursuing a strategy of cultivating blue-collar workers in the industrial towns of eastern and northern France.
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Sanders' win was widely seen as an upset and raised questions about Clinton's ability to win blue-collar Democrats.
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Manufacturing employment continues to look flat, despite all the efforts to expand exports and add good blue collar jobs.
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" In the following months, gang violence in blue-collar towns like Brentwood put a face to Trump's "bad hombres.
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Roseanne centered on a blue-collar, conservative family; Murphy Brown was about a liberal single WASP helming a newsroom.
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Trump starts with a significant disadvantage, but he has sought to capitalize on his appeal among blue-collar voters.
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"We really want to be the one-stop shop for blue collar work and high rotation jobs," he adds.
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Blue collar and construction-related jobs skew heavily male, heavily white and heavily Hispanic and pay around median wage.
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That not only helps the blue-collar workers who have been hit disproportionately hard by technological change and globalisation.
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From the start, Trump perceived the potential to remake a Republican Party around blue collar and middle class Americans.
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What's more Democrats seem to be missing the point that some of Trump's strongest supporters are blue-collar Democrats.
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They're mostly white, male, middle class, and many grew up in blue collar households or worked in the field.
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Nor does it make much sense for Democrats to compete with Trump in pushing blue-collar America's hot buttons.
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But as a centrist, with no obvious appeal yet to African-Americans or blue-collar voters, she might struggle.
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No, and especially not to the blue collar workers, formerly reliable Democrat voters, who defected to elect President Trump.
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Shortages of skilled and unskilled labor in manual and blue-collar work have been well-documented in recent years.
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The Buffalo fan base is very blue collar: hard working, beer drinking, and chicken-wing-eating-kind of people.
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They must better appeal to independents and blue-collar workers who have become turned off and isolated by progressivism.
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The technical trainee program is widely known as a back door for blue-collar labour in immigration-shy Japan.
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Robots are no longer limited to traditional blue-collar jobs, fully automated assembly lines and high-frequency trading algorithms.
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What he lacks in volume, however, could be made up for with his blue collar appeal, his supporters argue.
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The decline in the economic power of blue collar voters thus led to a decline in their political power.
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While critics ridiculed his speeches as incoherent demagoguery, he was successfully stoking the anger of conservative, blue-collar workers.
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On the campaign trail Kasich often speaks of his blue collar upbringing in McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania, outside of Pittsburgh.
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The lesson from Findlay is that there are no short-cut solutions to the anger of blue-collar workers.
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Moreover, the new methane rules will put a big damper on a vital source of blue collar job growth.
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Trade schools have touted the high wages blue-collar work can yield, including six-figures for heavy-equipment technicians.
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But the Trump-loving blue collar worker doesn't represent rural America, which is composed of a collection of communities.
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Every kind of man: rich and poor, blue collar and white collar, men of all races, religions and ethnicities.
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Ironically, Trump's economic policies thus far have actually betrayed the majority of his blue-collar, non-college-educated base.
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But when she gets amnesia, the blue-collar guy gets revenge by convincing her that they're husband and wife.
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His tax cut does far more for the wealthiest Americans than the blue collar voters he vowed to help.
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There has also been a decline in blue-collar skills, like welding on a pipeline, that often require moving.
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And both parties are bracing for another sharp divergence between white- and blue-collar women in Alabama next week.
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To some extent, it determines whether they will become blue-collar or white-collar workers later in their lives.
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It also found that three-fifths of blue-collar white men who are not evangelical Christians supported the barrier.
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Mr. Springsteen's father was a frequently unemployed bus driver, among other blue-collar jobs; his mother a legal secretary.
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Historically, western Pennsylvania is very patriotic, very blue collar and has a hometown feel no matter where you go.
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For so many people — white collar, blue collar, sweat collar — work is a matter of identity, not just income.
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His message resonated with white blue-collar workers, who saw their government helping other countries while leaving them behind.
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That misplaced energy, Buttigieg said, hurt the party's relationship with those in blue-collar workers and red-state voters.
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DRINKS In a nod to blue-collar nostalgia, drink prices are displayed on a backlit sign above the bar.
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He thrills young people, appeals to independents and attracts blue-collar workers who might otherwise be tempted by Trump.
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And that was largely because blue-collar voters like these chose him and his promise to revive American manufacturing.
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"In Donald Trump they see someone who's actually quite good on economic message," she said of blue-collar voters.
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One of us — Professor Balay — is a former long-haul trucker who does ethnographic research on blue-collar workers.
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In his victory speech in Nevada, the former reality TV show host courted his base of blue-collar workers.
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I always had blue-collar jobs and I had to be mobile, so I just started wearing a brace.
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They've argued that Hardiman better matches the blue collar, outsider, western Pennsylvania coalition that helped elect Trump in 2016.
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Many of its Hispanic residents live in Waukegan, a blue-collar city toward the northern end of the district.
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Clinton and the Democratic Party have lost considerable ground with a constituency they used to own, blue-collar men.
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He was nonetheless the "blue-collar billionaire," to quote the oxymoron that some of his surrogates took to using.
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The Obama administration's single-minded devotion to the environmental left has meant a blunt clubbing of blue collar jobs.
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"The myth of Joe Biden's blue collar appeal will be exposed if he is the Democratic nominee," Murtaugh said.
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Children from upscale neighborhoods of Santa Rosa and Sonoma snapped together donated puzzles with kids from blue-collar enclaves.
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What Thursday's hearing drove home, however, was that white male rage isn't restricted to blue-collar guys in diners.
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He never went back, a tragedy that he is sure sealed his fate as a lifelong blue-collar worker.
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Gun owners tended to be cut from the same blue-collar cloth that held together Mr. Trump's core constituency.
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President Trump's tariffs against steel and aluminum imports, designed to protect blue-collar workers, could instead undermine their livelihood.
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Former industrial hubs like Cleveland and St. Louis still offer some blue-collar jobs that pay a decent wage.
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Not so long ago, blue-collar tenants had paid a very modest $6 per square foot for space there.
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His middle-class sensibilities should appeal to those blue-collar voters who fell for the Trump con in 2016.
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It harks back to his humble upbringing in Brooklyn and his father, a blue-collar worker and WWII veteran.
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In other words, it could punish many of the blue-collar voters that helped Trump win the White House.
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Clinton could even tout a connection with blue-collar whites, who powered her 2008 run for the Democratic nomination.
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They see it as fundamentally a question of dignity for families that have worked blue-collar jobs for generations.
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Blue-collar jobs now make up less than 14 percent of total employment, down from 31 percent in 1970.
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And after the late-afternoon news, when blue-collar listeners were getting off work, he'd go with the blues.
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"I'm going to be sensitive when it starts hitting blue-collar individuals in the pocket and mainstream businesses," Sen.
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In some ways, the situation is a metaphor for blue-collar work and life in the United States today.
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I work at a blue-collar job, and I am one of four women in a crew of 40.
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Our article takes a close look at Nick Klamer and Chase Thistle, two friends in rural, blue-collar Wisconsin.
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It was a blue-collar place where working and sleeping and raising a family were more valued than socializing.
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On what she calls "the blue-collar boom": "Wages are rising the fastest in the bottom quintile," Trump said.
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Whether it was a person of color or a blue collar voter, both Dukakis and Kerry failed to connect.
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"We're very focused on creating local businesses, with local factories, with local jobs, with local blue collar," he said.
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Property prices have soared to the highest levels in the world, pricing out blue-collar and middle-class families.
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"This is a blue collar boom," Mr. Trump said in the State of the Union address on Tuesday evening.
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"This is a blue collar boom," Mr. Trump said in the State of the Union address on Tuesday evening.
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They may provide an insight into who could do well among blue-collar voters in key Midwestern swing states.
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But it's awesome — and says a lot about what is and isn't behind the decline of blue-collar wages.
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What has happened to the job since the days when it was among the best-paying blue-collar jobs?
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I think the blue-collar job of today and maybe for the next 10 to 20 years is programming.
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They were blue-collar people who believed in hard work but not necessarily the hard work of higher education.
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One early test will be March's special election in the heavily blue-collar southwestern Pennsylvania district that Republican Rep.
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It's more likely that Democrats will continue to enjoy bigger opportunities this fall in white- than blue-collar communities.
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Is he still the blue-collar kid from Yonkers, who knows what it's like to struggle making ends meet?
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Mr. Trump and his advisers know that his "America First" message resonates with autoworkers and other blue-collar workers.
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By contrast, the party's opportunities in blue-collar and small-town districts appear to be stalled or even receding.
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But in 2018, the resistance of blue-collar whites remains a constraint on possible Democratic gains in the House.
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Those experiences, in many ways, have obscured Delaney's blue-collar roots, making him appear more Brooks Brothers than Carhartt.
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Mr. Trump's populist economic message electrified blue-collar workers in ways that those of previous Republican candidates had not.
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For the most part, one thing is agreed on: Blue-collar workers who perform repetitive work are most exposed.
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Vahan, another Y Combinator-backed startup, is using WhatsApp to help blue-collar workers find jobs with logistics companies.
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White blue-collar workers: Often called "Reagan Democrats," the Sanders form of populism has great appeal to this group.
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I probably have been in touch with more blue-collar workers and workers without high school education than Andrew.
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Blue collar wages have soared in the last two years, growing even faster than those for professionals and managers.
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There's a strange disconnect between two of the big narratives about the American blue-collar work force right now.
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Growing up in a blue collar, single-parent family in Lowell, Massachusetts, I learned the value of hard work.
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"Fences," based on August Wilson's award-winning stage play about blue-collar African-Americans, claimed two major acting awards.
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Hanging out in movie theaters and blue-collar pubs, the two develop a credible chemistry that renders age irrelevant.
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Sanders' message of economic populism resonated especially among blue-collar voters in the poor, rural corners of West Virginia.
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Many of these communities, including once solidly Democratic-voting, union-heavy, blue collar strongholds, flipped to Trump in 19703.
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"A lot of these blue-collar women, they suffer in silence," said Megan Block, an employment attorney in Pittsburgh.
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A Boy Scout leader willing to cross party lines to revive his blue-collar town in Northampton County, Pennsylvania.
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The technical trainee program is widely known as a back door for blue-collar labor in immigration-shy Japan.
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What this means is blue collar workers in automotive factories won't be the only ones whose jobs are threatened.
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There will be a push to expand the Democratic message beyond the identity politics that has increasingly defined the party in recent years—to welcome with open arms those blue-collar and middle-class whites who have been culturally alienated by newly assertive blue-collar and middle-class workers of brown skin.
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We formed the Blue Collar Caucus in the wake of the 2016 election to home in on the economic frustrations that led working Americans to take a chance on Donald Trump and reconnect Democrats in Congress with the blue-collar Americans who had been the backbone of our party for so long.
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Like his home borough, he embraced the blue collar and the idea of a melting pot of hard-working immigrants.
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There was a five-year era where we lived in a Toronto suburb called Oshawa—a blue-collar type place.
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RILEY: I think it will divide the Democrats, especially those Democrats who think we&aposre losing white blue-collar workers.
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Think about it – ABC's highest rated program attracted a huge audience of gun-toting, flag-waving, blue collar Trump supporters.
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All the while, blue-collar and minimum-wage workers have been pushed out — or, in some cases, driven into homelessness.
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The groom was from a blue collar family, and the father of the bride was not a fan of him.
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That is especially the case for the white, blue-collar Americans that came out in droves to vote for Trump.
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Biden's supporters, however, argue that he is an ideal candidate to win back blue-collar voters from President Donald Trump.
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Indeed, Sanders campaign strategists spent much of the past year fretting that Biden would cut into their blue-collar base.
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It's a distinct blue collar/white collar dynamic: a hard-working, earnest, street-smart hero getting disrespected by establishment powerbrokers.
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But what Biden has got to – before he starts going around and blowing smoke up, talking to blue collar workers.
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A former naval officer from a blue-collar family in Virginia, he spent years studying theories of how societies collapse.
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But in small-town, blue-collar and overwhelmingly white places like Eveleth and Hibbing, her high profile makes some uneasy.
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It's worth noting that this is not exactly a "blue collar boom," as Trump called it in his address, though.
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He predicted that the North American Free Trade Agreement would be good for corporations but bad for blue-collar workers.
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It might exact a price in terms of local shocks: some groups of workers (particularly blue-collar workers) would suffer.
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First Elizabeth Taylor marries a construction worker, and now TV's heartthrob of the hour brags about his blue-collar gigs.
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The sitting vice president, "Middle-Class Joe" Biden, appealed to the blue-collar white voters who have rallied behind Trump.
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He's hoping to win enough blue-collar Democrats in Pennsylvania or Michigan to win at least one of those states.
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Its arch-villain is Google, a company as far removed from a blue-collar production line as can be imagined.
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Grushow said the candidate's remaining supporters — blue collar conservative and rural counties — aren't exactly an in-demand audience for brands.
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Were Joe Biden to run, he could draw support of many blue-collar Midwesterners unexcited by Hillary Clinton in 2016.
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Industries and places where blue-collar employment has been in a decades-long decline are unlikely to stage a recovery.
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Authorities say Ostrem walked into the Walmart Wednesday evening in the largely blue-collar suburb of Thornton and opened fire.
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Local-currency bonds sit as awkwardly among "safe" Treasuries or Bunds as Sumner Sloan in a blue-collar Boston bar.
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He's vowed to stop the outward flow of blue-collar jobs to Mexico and reverse the trade deficit with China.
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McKim told BuzzFeed that stereotypical influencers didn't fit his company's "brand," but a "a hard-worker, blue-collar guy" would.
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Maybe it's because he's lived here all his life, and can still remember Flint as a thriving blue-collar town.
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That's in line with the coalition Trump appeals to: white, blue-collar voters who are working class and middle class.
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Robert Half specializes in accounting and finance, TrueBlue focuses on blue-collar work, while On Assignment specializes in tech jobs.
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The increasingly blue collar, older voters that now constitute the base of their party will never stand for such things.
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Speaking to supporters in Ambridge, Trump said he considers himself "in a certain way" to be a blue-collar worker.
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It's clear: Capitalism driven more by machines and robots poses new challenges for both white-collar and blue-collar workers.
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He also touted his blue-collar upbringing as the three battle for support ahead of the state's April 5 primary.
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And southern Indiana, a heavily blue-collar region full of Reagan Democrats, could turn into a rout for Mr. Trump.
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Once, in 1972, McGovern was giving a campaign speech in Ohio to a blue-collar audience at a rubber factory.
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In other words, they look like the blue-collar jobs our middle class was built on during the postwar years.
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However, Trump may be able to right some previous wrongs while also playing to his middle-America blue-collar base.
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Clinton's failure to address the concerns of blue-collar white voters in the industrial Midwest cost her vital electoral votes.
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"I'm a blue-collar man and I worked for my house and now my house might be gone," he said.
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In recent months as President Donald Trump has promised to promote blue-collar jobs, hiring in manufacturing has picked up.
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The dance moves from Scaramucci come just one day before his new book, "Trump, the Blue-Collar President" is released.
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For example, Erie County, a long-time Democratic stronghold, went to Trump with the support of white, blue-collar voters.
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They don't work in middle-class office buildings or go to blue-collar food festivals or outdoor country-western concerts.
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Trump spoke to blue-collar voters who felt left behind and pulled the Rust Belt, including Harley-Davidson's Wisconsin home.
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Droids may not conquer the world, but they will take over its work – white-collar as well as blue-collar.
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Blue-collar whites, alienated by Washington's inability to alleviate economic and cultural pressures, gave him two-thirds of their votes.
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Steele's family was middle class, but its roots were blue-collar: one of Steele's grandfathers was a Welsh coal miner.
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The blue-collar counties of western Pennsylvania have largely swung Republican as unions have grown weaker and evangelical churches stronger.
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Decades of flooding the labor force with low-skilled workers has caused blue collar wages to flat-line or decrease.
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In many cases, most notably construction, new low-skilled immigrants have replaced blue collar Americans, especially native born minority males.
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Trump won Michigan's GOP primary with 37 percent support, largely by tapping into blue-collar voters unhappy with the economy.
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That father, the third William Giraldi, lived the kind of "real American" stoic, blue-collar life so venerated by politicians.
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But much less attention has been focused on the plight of blue-collar workers, like those on Ford's factory floors.
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MORE embodied a historic candidacy, but he further alienated traditional blue-collar voters who were turned off by his radicalism.
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"It's a nonurban, blue-collar and now apparently quite angry population," said William Frey, a demographer at the Brookings Institution.
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Free trade or not, many of the blue collar jobs rural America has lost are now being done by robots.
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"We're very focused on creating local businesses, with local factories, with local jobs, with local blue collar," he told CNBC.
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Mixing the blue-collar themes of yesteryears with the cosmopolitan crowd of 2017 should be like mixing oil and water.
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That Democratic base is also much more energized than Trump's coalition of older, blue-collar, white supporters in rural America.
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The robot revolution has long been thought of as apocalyptic for blue-collar workers whose tasks are manual and repetitive.
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In the 1980s, Worthington was on its way to becoming a ghost town, like many other white, blue-collar communities.
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Along with my colleague, I first examined how the shift to daylight saving time affected workers in blue-collar settings.
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The populist message, the appeal to blue-collar workers and the enthusiasm are critical to winning in November, he said.
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"Barack Obama has shown he cannot get the votes Democrats need to win — blue-collar, working-class people," he said.
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And he had no patience for the "Rocky," blue-collar, underdog mind-set of Philadelphia's sports teams and their fans.
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In New Jersey, we lost over 3,000 people in 2018 to drug overdoses, and not only from blue-collar families.
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The owner explained that his blue collar customers couldn't afford the higher prices necessary to offset the cost of $15.
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The going rate was steep: $35 for an adult, several days' wages for a blue-collar worker in this city.
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And in blue-collar Chartiers, where Trump thumped Clinton by about 25 percentage points, Lamb edged out Saccone, 51%-49%.
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And the president's numbers have also fallen among blue-collar white women who were important to his victory last November.
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The Communist Party wants to remold Xinjiang's minorities into loyal blue-collar workers to supply Chinese factories with cheap labor.
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CARAMANICA Another month in Nashville, another contribution to the ocean full of white-collar/blue-collar romantic square-off songs.
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The decision to unionize at Kickstarter follows a series of victories for union campaigns led by blue collar tech workers.
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Biden's blue collar credentials make him welcome in a race where Lamb has asked most national Democrats to stay away.
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More distantly, the Democrats are also eyeing a few Republican-held blue-collar seats in purple and Republican-leaning states.
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"This is not helping those blue-collar workers who voted for Trump," Kelley Blue Book senior analyst Rebecca Lindland said.
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That includes inferences and categorizations — Status Seeking Singles, Blue Collar Comfort, Tight Money — that some companies use to classify people.
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Dre and Bow try to accept that Jack may have a blue-collar future after he takes a career test.
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Even more egregious to Mr. Biden, some fellow Democrats had concluded that blue-collar whites were not even worth pursuing.
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"He relates well to blue-collar voters and to non-college voters," Jeff Link, a veteran Iowa Democratic strategist, said.
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Today's jobs — white collar, blue collar or no collar — require more education and interpersonal skills than those in the past.
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He championed the blue-collar whites he calls "the forgotten people," and also the more upscale GOP pro-business wing.
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MORE PEOPLE WORKING, NORE PEOPLE PROSPERING GOD FORBID BLUE COLLAR WORKERS GET A RAISE AFTER NOT HAVING ONE SINCE 291.
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As CNN discovered when it visited a Likud stronghold in Beersheva, that message resonated strongly with many blue-collar Israelis.
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The artist was a self-described "blue-collar anarchist," and cited Iggy Pop and Sun Ra among his primary influences.
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As well-versed as the Queens native was with blue-collar life in New York, he always did his homework.
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Brown should hold the blue-collar vote together in his reelection proving to be a reliable vote on their issues.
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Susan began researching the plight of blue-collar women in manufacturing industries that used to be the preserve of men.
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His project while at Princeton is to paint portraits of African-American blue-collar employees in facilities, dining services, etc.
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This includes not only white-collar positions, but also thousands of blue-collar jobs, such as janitors and security guards.
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The developer is also looking to relocate GAL nearby so the borough does not lose several hundred blue-collar jobs.
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The sexual harassment that's been uncovered in the world of entertainment, media, government and corporations affects blue-collar women, too.
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Later, Lila placed her stuffed dog with a brown-and-white face and a blue collar on her grandmother's stomach.
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John Kasich of Ohio, a 2016 Republican presidential candidate, pointing to Mr. Biden's ability to speak to blue-collar voters.
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This makes sense, because entrepreneurial professionals need a different role for government than a 9-to-5 blue-collar worker.
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Indeed, the show's one seemingly satisfied character is Ray (Shea Whigham), the blue-collar second husband of Gamby's ex-wife.
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Meanwhile, numbers of blue collar workers (think manufacturing and construction) — long the iconic image of American organized labor — have dropped rapidly.
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Germany is admired for a stable economy and holding on to blue-collar jobs but derided for its persistent trade surpluses.
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By 20163, blue-collar whites, in stark contrast, accounted for slightly less than 30% of the votes that Hillary Clinton won.
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Stewart said he plans to campaign in a Trump-like way that appeals to blue collar voters across the political spectrum.
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Some believe that the Democratic veteran could threaten the President's blue-collar appeal in swing states, such as Pennsylvania and Michigan.
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Blue-collar workers get the least help, specifically "people who work in farming, construction, retail and personal services," the Times reports.
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Biden could peel away a number of the blue-collar voters who put Trump in the White House in 0003. 2000.
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They also like companies geared toward consumer finance areas such as college students, video game players, blue-collar workers and farmers.
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If Mr Hamon wins, he will draw support mainly among blue-collar voters and others on the left of the party.
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Which is why we're seeing everywhere stories about robotics being applied to white collar jobs, not just to blue collar jobs.
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Like Darger, the fictional Dease had a troubled, traumatic past, and lived as a recluse while working a blue-collar job.
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"Our team has been able to put together a message that appeals to blue-collar, conservative Democrats and independents," Kasich said.
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With his outrageous skill, blue collar work ethic, and self-belief, the Chiefs could be on the cusp of a dynasty.
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In most cases, what we see are really utilitarian garments, used by blue collar workers on space ships or space stations.
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Strategists see Mr. Trump as a possible favorite in rural areas and parts of southeast Texas with heavy blue-collar populations.
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This trend risks increasingly polarizing the country between wealthy Qataris at the top and Asian blue-collar workers at the bottom.
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Amazon's white-collar workforce is concerned about the conditions of the company's blue-collar employees, according to a recent anonymous survey.
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In America, wages for blue-collar workers have been largely stagnant since the 1970s, whereas those for university graduates have soared.
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MARKETS WERE OPENED, OUR FARMERS BENEFITED, OUR BLUE COLLAR WORKERS BENEFITED, WE'RE GOING TO HAVE MORE DOMESTIC CONTENT AND SO FORTH.
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Leveraging his blue-collar bona fides, he argued Clinton is intimately familiar with the economic disenfranchisement that helped power Trump's rise.
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I don't want people who are working that 9-to-5 blue-collar job and barely getting by to feel bad.
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Stephen Crabb, the new work and pensions secretary, is the fifth candidate and is standing on a "blue-collar" Conservative ticket.
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Against Warren or Sanders, Harris would likely draw less support than Biden might among older, blue-collar and more moderate whites.
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Republicans retained their House seats in blue-collar and rural districts where President Donald Trump's aggressive talk on immigration played well.
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Over the last three decades, the real median hourly wage for white, blue-collar men has fallen by over 10 percent.
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He was a blue collar guy—he did a lot of things himself, like he and his brother would build things.
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He said, however, that he saw infrastructure spending as an important job creator for blue-collar constituents that Democrats should back.
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These moves clash with Trump's populist campaign promises, and hurt many of the blue-collar workers who voted him into office.
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Family Kasich has talked extensively during the presidential race about his blue-collar upbringing in McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania, just outside Pittsburgh.
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He did it by speaking conservatism in their own blue collar language in a way no Wall Street banker ever could.
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He grew up in a blue-collar Italian family in Philadelphia; as a teenager, he worked baking and delivering soft pretzels.
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This trend risks increasingly polarising the country between wealthy Qataris at the top and Asian blue-collar workers at the bottom.
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But outside the blue-collar core, among public sector workers, youth and the embryonic middle class, patriotic slogans appear less effective.
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But — in part because of the housing bubble — a whole bunch of blue-collar manufacturing workers could suddenly shift into construction.
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That policy is at odds with Trump's promise to help blue-collar workers and lower- and middle-income Americans, he wrote.
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We're pretty blue collar in our approach to work, and I value that; it's a huge part of our entire DNA.
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The Washington Post: Blue-collar jobs grow at fastest rate in 2023 years, fueling a hiring boom in pro-Trump enclaves.
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Even though she made about $35,000 a year in a blue-collar job, she had an encyclopedic knowledge of tax breaks.
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Clinton tries to court blue-collar voters in Michigan after a tour at design and manufacturing company Futuramic Tool and Engineering.
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For half a century, Democrats owned Dubuque, Iowa, where blue-collar union workers built middle-class lives along the Mississippi River.
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Added debt, in turn, heightens pressure for Congress and the administration to cut spending programs that benefit Trump's blue-collar supporters.
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A different picture in less affluent districts But the equation still looks very different for Democrats in more blue-collar districts.
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But here's the key — these tariffs are evidence that the government can actually do something targeted to help blue-collar workers.
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As a staunch Catholic with blue-collar roots, who grew up in Kansas City, Mo., he is likely to give Mrs.
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Saltsman argues that Trump will turn out blue-collar voters in November who might not otherwise show up to the polls.
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It's not the blue-collar civil servants in law enforcement or the working-class and poor communities, which are aggressively patrolled.
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Trump, pledging not to touch Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, galvanized "forgotten" blue-collar whites anxious about threats to their benefits.
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These voters, as well as many blue-collar independents and even Democrats understood that political correctness puts blinders on real solutions.
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They are emblematic of a Democratic Party struggling to connect with the blue-collar workers who once made up its core.
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As white voters in other corners of the country turned increasingly conservative, Midwestern blue-collar workers "defied demographic gravity," Podhorzer said.
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In October she invited a labor group that normally organizes blue-collar workers to teach Googlers more about protected concerted activity.
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Blue-collar workers in the fields can make in the six figures, which crushes Democrats' "fight for $15" minimum-wage campaign.
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Many Americans, especially in rural and blue-collar areas, are pessimistic about the future and nostalgic for a seemingly better past.
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Blue-collar employees used to say they "work at Ford's," and family members still talk of their close ties to workers.
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The Crowd Ridgewood freshmen in thrift-store jean jackets mix with blue-collar patrons who bring in food from street trucks.
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At the same time, Lake noted that Trump has made progress with blue-collar voters by pushing a populist trade agenda.
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A new Harris poll of blue-collar workers, conducted on behalf of Express Employment Professionals and released today, bears this out.
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With part-time assistants to take care of the more "blue-collar chores," Bradley maximizes his time to indulge his medium.
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It is practically synonymous with the sort of rugged, blue-collar white guys everyone (wrongly) imagines as the prototypical Trump supporter.
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Her works emphasize the physical perils of this line of blue-collar labor through the blue hue of the printed image.
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Many blue-collar workers helped propel him to his unexpected election victory in November and Trump wants to deliver for them.
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Clinton's visit to Commerce City, a blue-collar community outside Denver whose population is nearly 50 percent Hispanic, was strategically chosen.
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That's why blue-collar workers, like construction workers and paramedics, have higher rates of suicide and depression than the general population.
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He has promised to bring back many of the blue-collar jobs that were lost in the post-financial crisis recovery.
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Such deregulatory actions flagrantly contradict the administration's claims that they are actively trying to promote the interests of blue-collar workers.
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The former vice president has run more competitively with older blue-collar whites, but he's carried them only in South Carolina.
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On weekends, when white- and blue-collar workers fled the city, Ruscha's image watched over his patch of negative-space asphalt.
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What about labor union protections and blue collar workers, and What do you mean, the — oh, let's not get into this.
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There's been about 8,000 people who work, or used to work, at that plant, both white-collar and blue-collar people.
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I knew they lived in a very white, very blue-collar community and didn't have the benefit of a college education.
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But he fears that his party is abandoning its working-class roots, and that blue-collar Democrats are a vanishing breed.
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But he fears that his party is abandoning its working-class roots, and that blue-collar Democrats are a vanishing breed.
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Caiden Fratangelo, 26, grew up in a Republican, blue-collar, union family in Pittsburgh that debated politics at the dinner table.
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Unlike her, he may retain enough of an appeal to blue-collar whites and remain the most formidable challenger to Trump.
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A surge of blue-collar jobs has helped Germany avoid the working-class alienation that fed a right-wing surge elsewhere.
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But blue-collar strongholds, which helped fuel the backlash in the United States, are providing a bulwark for Chancellor Angela Merkel.
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Like Ms. Ocasio-Cortez, she boasted of blue-collar roots: she worked as a nanny, Ms. Ocasio-Cortez as a bartender.
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Many of his policies are off-center, and there is even evidence that his support is falling among blue collar women.
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So, it was just a little, hanging-on-by-a-thread, blue-collar beach town that happened to be our home.
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Truckers are not precisely the center of many entertainment options, and the back-breaking, blue-collar work they do isn't either.
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Colleagues admire his work ethic and the manner in which he has climbed from humble roots in blue-collar Hammond, Ind.
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The disparity in interest is surprising, given the extent of national hand-wringing over the plight of forgotten blue-collar Americans.
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Touting his blue-collar Minnesota upbringing, Pawlenty quit the race after a disappointing third-place finish in the Iowa Straw Poll.
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Blue-collar and low-wage jobs in industries like construction, manufacturing and fast-food often require being physically present at work.
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Employment in each of these three industries leans toward the blue-collar workers who have emerged as Trump's most reliable supporters.
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In southern Indiana, where the Manitowoc Foodservice factory will close next year, good-paying blue-collar jobs are just as rare.
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In response, progressives have groused that some blue-collar unions are willing to sell their souls for a few thousand jobs.
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A new left might then succeed in uniting the losers, both white-collar and blue-collar, in the new economic order.
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In 2016 Mr Trump won the presidency with votes from the Republican South and from blue-collar workers in swing states.
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Construction sector showing signs of a slowdown More funding for infrastructure could also boost blue-collar employment growth in the heartland.
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I heard from taxi and Uber drivers, the Verizon man, stay-at-home moms, college grads, professionals, blue-collar delivery workers.
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This has always been a blue-collar club, just one with a lavish, state-funded "sporting project" artificially imposed upon it.
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His performance ranged from urgent cris de coeur to languorous meditations, but he delivered both with the same blue-collar virtuosity.
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Elsewhere in the blue-collar and the retail sector, a labor shortage is also embroiling executives as unemployment hits record lows.
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It involves winning back blue collar Democrats, disenchanted Republicans, and independent voters, while holding onto support from African Americans and progressives.
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The school's athletic director, John Cohen, issued a statement praising Leach for, among other things, his "blue-collar approach" to football.
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At least two college football coaches have recently taken this a step further by actually dressing up as blue-collar workers.
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In this fraying, blue-collar city, where a quarter of the 95,000 residents are foreign born, word whipped across social media.
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Democrats still see some plausible opportunities in blue-collar and rural districts, including Finkenauer, the Maine seat now held by Rep.
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The officials said Mr. Jones feared that adding members in higher education would threaten his power base among blue-collar workers.
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The low-end service jobs there certainly pay less than those that lifted white blue-collar workers into the middle class.
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Veasey and Boyle established the Blue Collar Caucus following the 2016 presidential election to generate solutions that will protect American workers.
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Most of my friends were brown or poor like me, with some version of parents like mine -- blue-collar, hardworking immigrants.
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Born in a blue-collar Tokyo family whose small cardboard factory burned down in World War II, she grew up poor.
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Recent Republican presidents, on core economic questions, have sided with the GOP's pro-business wing over its blue-collar voting base.
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"You don't find a lot of blue-collar workers on LinkedIn," said Seth Harris, deputy labor secretary under President Barack Obama.
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White working class men are being squeezed by the loss of blue-collar jobs, stagnant wages and high levels of debt.
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These campaign stops are just the latest example of Democrats trying to outdo each other to win the blue-collar vote.
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Woo said three-quarters of Foxconn's eventual jobs will be in research and development and design, not blue-collar manufacturing jobs.
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But they were less likely to be laid off and their wages rose over time, while blue-collar wages were stagnant.
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The blue-collar shop, with rows of wooden chairs in the waiting area, is a favorite among immigrants in the city.
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Now, for the past two-thirds of a century, it has been the turn of blue-collar manufacturing jobs to vanish.
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The measure is meant to bolster blue-collar Trump supporters whose economic prospects have been shaken by the president's trade policies.
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Democrats acknowledge that the party was surprised by the depth of antipathy it saw from blue-collar white voters in 2016.
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While alcoholism is traditionally associated with low-income, working class people, blue collar jobs seem to actually protect women from alcoholism.
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The plan before the Diet aims to attract blue-collar workers in 14 industries, including construction, shipbuilding and caring for the elderly.
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They'll aim to make a case that Trump's Cabinet of millionaires and billionaires conflicts with the blue collar themes of his campaign.
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But at night it becomes a rowdy meeting place for blue collar locals who visit the bars and fondas around the marketplace.
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Perhaps this could be read as a knock against a neoliberal Democratic Party that took its white blue-collar support for granted.
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To be sure, many drivers from Uber are still earning more than they could get in other blue-collar jobs in India.
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Right. I think the broader issue is what's going to happen to the middle-class blue-collar worker over the long term?
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Along with Keene State College and Dartmouth University, Sanders also made a campaign stop in the blue-collar town of Claremont Sunday.
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Japan this month introduced a visa programme to let in more blue-collar workers, a big step in the immigration-shy country.
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Back then, seats were fairly uniform, their politics overwhelmingly a function of the ratio of white-collar workers to blue-collar ones.
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Jobs in rural areas are as hard to come by as they are in forgotten blue-collar sections of the Rust Belt.
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" What he's saying: "AI will increasingly replace repetitive jobs, not just for blue collar work, but a lot of white collar work.
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The new work, "Two Paths: America Divided or United", reflects Mr Kasich's image as a folksy blue-collar conservative with a conscience.
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I MEAN, ANYTHING THAT WORKS HAS GOT TO BE GOOD FOR OUR FARMERS AND RANCHERS AND BLUE COLLAR WORKERS AND SO FORTH.
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Pratt also recently apologized for suggesting that "the voice of the average, blue-collar American" wasn't represented in movies and TV shows.
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And it isn't because Ohio is a so-called "blue collar" state, because Ohio is harder to define in any singular way.
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Joe Manchin of West Virginia, a state with a large number of white, blue collar workers, was also added to the ranks.
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"When we talk about blue collar jobs, the Rust Belt states … we have to talk about how innovation is central," Pelosi said.
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A former reality TV star, Trump has won support particularly from white blue-collar workers who feel neglected by the political establishment.
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Decades ago, the working class was largely white and male — those blue-collar workers who heaved and hoisted America to unprecedented prosperity.
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It featured a blue-collar family, the Conners, with overweight parents struggling to get by in the fictional town of Lanford, Illinois.
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He did so by consistently and across the board valorizing manly blue-collar occupations — cops, soldiers, miners, firefighters, factory workers, and farmers.
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And data released after the election showed that blue-collar wages had in fact been growing at their strongest pace in years.
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As time goes on, it will strike hard at blue-collar millennials in cities and more rural parts of the country alike.
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The latest development—one that will be of particular interest to Mr Trump—is that blue-collar wages have begun to rocket.
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Ronald Reagan's disingenuous claim never to have left the Democratic Party ("It left me") helped him woo millions of blue-collar Democrats.
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Wagner, who grew up in the blue-collar town of Gary, Indiana, worked at a law firm before becoming an internet entrepreneur.
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By contrast, Republicans increasingly rely on blue-collar whites who see gun restrictions as hostile incursions on the culture of their communities.
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As the New York Times' Nate Cohn's analysis showed last week, the GOP frontrunner runs best with blue collar, rural registered Democrats.
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Just 29 percent of blue-collar youth turned out to vote in 343—about half the rate of those who'd attended college.
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"I know he's like blue collar and, super into representing New Jersey," she says of her pre-listen impression of the Boss.
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In today's smartphone-centric world, blue-collar software is now, in my opinion, a good value and potentially transformative for many companies.
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She faults Obama for not making infrastructure investment more of a priority during his tenure, which would have benefited blue-collar Americans.
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That was vintage Joe Johnson, a sterile evisceration carried out by means of long-bombs, plebian runners, and blue-collar ankle breaking.
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With him, she expects better jobs for blue-collar whites, lower taxes, fewer handouts, and a brave new culture of national pride.
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Insofar as Trump spearheaded a movement on behalf of blue-collar workers, it's a movement that reached out to that 68 percent.
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"This is all going to be revised up," he concluded, pointing to overall gains in employment for women and blue-collar workers.
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Host and applicant must register on the website, and members may only apply for blue-collar jobs such as maintenance or construction.
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The challenge, going forward, for the Republican Party and Donald Trump is to defend the interests of blue collar, Middle American voters.
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Sanders wants to show his economic message has greater blue-collar appeal and to show he can make inroads among African-Americans.
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The Republican base, independents, and blue-collar Democrats had enough of pragmatic line-walkers who read well-crafted scripts during campaign stops.
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Since 2009 the band has been bringing together rock and country influences to create a sound that reflects their blue collar surroundings.
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But ultimately there's something conventional about how these conversations are shaped around blue-collar communities, especially where it concerns racism and xenophobia.
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And Trump failed the first test of whether he could fully turn out his coalition of angry, blue collar, less-educated supporters.
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The new visa programme will let about 345,000 blue-collar workers enter Japan over five years in 14 sectors facing labour shortages.
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This coalition tends to be older, preponderantly white, religiously devout, strongest outside of major cities, and increasingly tilted toward blue-collar workers.
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Historically, it's mostly been women and blue-collar white men who enroll in for-profit colleges to obtain certificates for skilled labor.
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The development is pitting Trump between his ethanol allies in Iowa and blue-collar refinery jobs in Pennsylvania, another politically key state.
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Those blue-collar workers who defected to vote for Trump are also suspicious of trade deals such as NAFTA and the TPP.
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He has repeatedly told supporters and allies that the Democratic Party does not have to choose between liberal and blue-collar ideals.
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The blue-collar enthusiasm might yet be canceled out by losses for the GOP among college-educated voters in the Trump era.
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Aaron Sojourner and Nick Carnes have both shown that stronger unions increase the likelihood of blue-collar workers serving in state government.
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Stacy knew this show was a way out of her oppressively carpeted one-bedroom and the struggles of her blue-collar existence.
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At the same time, Republicans have grown dependent on older, blue-collar white conservatives aggrieved by declining economic prospects and cultural change.
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Historically, mesothelioma mostly affects older men exposed to toxic asbestos while they served in the military or worked certain blue-collar jobs.
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Today the GOP's reliance on blue-collar conservatives, which Trump exploited, threatens to repel more college-educated whites, minorities and young voters.
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Just as Mr. Trump has made inroads among Ohio's blue-collar workers by promising to revive their fortunes, Democrats are hoping Mrs.
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But relative to Clinton the exit polls showed Northam gaining only three percentage points among both blue-collar white women and men.
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That program covers health care, some opioid addiction treatment and nursing home expenses for millions of blue-collar workers and their parents.
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Knowledge work seems most sensitive to the economic realities of making humans smarter, but the same can apply to blue collar work.
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Trump's new economic message plainly rejected Mitt Romney's uninspired promise to protect "job creators" and instead focused on empowering blue collar workers.
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The jobs come from sectors like manufacturing, equipment maintenance and repair, and protective services that have traditionally been viewed as blue-collar.
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