It’s an election year, so politicos, pundits and reporters are once again trying to figure out how the white working class will vote. Many assume that they support Donald Trump, though Nate Silver argues that Trump’s backers have relatively high incomes. The white working class also isn’t quite ready for Hillary Clinton, in part because of her Wall Street ties but also because they associate her with her husband’s policies, like NAFTA, welfare reform and mandatory sentencing for drug offenses.
Along with political attention, a number of recent studies have documented rising rates of addiction and death, decreasing rates of marriage and what some have described as amoral decline among the white working class.
Americans once again recognize that class matters.
[For more of this story, written by Sherry Linkon, go to http://billmoyers.com/story/wo...-class-voters-books/]
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