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Sep 10 2024
News
Gen Z is pulling back from blue-collar work
While Gen Z has surpassed other generations in their preference for blue-collar work, a new report indicates they might be pulling back from the trades. In January, the blue-collar share of workers aged 20 to 24 was 18.6 percent, according to a new report from ADP Research Institute. That was 2.3 percentage points higher than the same age group in January 2019 and 2.5 percentage points more
Newsweek
Sep 12 2024
News
Trump Pledges No Taxes on Overtime in Pitch to Blue-Collar Vote
Republican Donald Trump pledged to eliminate taxes on overtime pay at a rally days after a shaky debate performance, as the presidential nominee looked to turn the page with a new populist tax cut proposal.
“We will end all taxes on overtime,” Trump said Thursday at a rally in Tucson, Arizona. “The people who work overtime are among the hardest working citizens in our country and for
Bloomberg
Sep 01 2024
News
Pay for new hires is falling in some blue-collar jobs
Some jobs just don't pay what they used to. Data from ZipRecruiter shows the wages employers are offering new hires in several blue-collar sectors of the labor market have declined this year from 2023, with retail wages falling the most by 55.9%, followed by agriculture (-24.5%), manufacturing (-17.3%) and transportation (-13.9%). "Average posted pay has risen since last year, both overall and
Fox Business
Sep 28 2023
News
Trump Tries to Court Blue-Collar Workers at a Nonunion Factory
Seeking more of the voters who paved his way to the White House in 2016, former President Donald J. Trump rallied at a Michigan auto parts factory on Wednesday night, vying for the support of blue-collar workers one day after President Biden appeared on a picket line with striking United Automobile Workers.
Mr. Biden on Tuesday affirmed his support for U.A.W. strikers’ demands for a 40
New York Times (News)
Sep 02 2024
News
Chasing blue-collar voters, Harris brings Biden to Pittsburgh on Labor Day
WASHINGTON— Seeking to shore up her support from blue-collar voters, Vice President Kamala Harris is hitting the campaign trail with President Joe Biden and wading into a fight over the ownership of one of America’s largest steel producers. Harris will visit Detroit on Monday afternoon before joining Biden in Pittsburgh, home of the manufacturing company U.S. Steel. In her Pittsburgh remarks,
"USA Today" Contributor
Sep 16 2024
News
One of Nashville's secret alt-rock weapons, BabyJake, talks 'Beautiful Blue Collar Boy'
Nashville artist BabyJake's new album "Beautiful Blue Collar Boy" shows, yet again, he is so much more than just the artist behind the viral "Cigarettes on Patios." The Florida-born alternative rock artist, né Jake Herring, wrote much of the new album in his home studio in Donelson, Tenn. A 10-track record that straddles indie rock, alternative pop, folk music and a classic singer-songwriter
The Tennessean
Sep 27 2023
News
Trump in Michigan seeks to win over UAW, blue-collar workers
Trump’s surprise 2016 win in Michigan was fueled by “blue-collar guys who feel that the world has shrunk around them,” said Theda Skocpol, Harvard sociology professor and co-author of “Rust Belt Union Blues: Why Working-Class Voters Are Turning Away from the Democratic Party,” told Bridge Michigan. It’s a group he continues to target as he focuses on expected job losses as the auto industry
Bridgemi.com
Aug 14 2020
Opinion
If you're a blue-collar worker, Trump is not your friend
It has long been confounding that President Donald Trump's strongest supporters are Whites with only a high school education. This is bewildering because the Trump administration has repeatedly and systematically hurt America's blue-collar workers and favored corporations over them.
Although Trump ran in 2016 as a champion of the working class, he has undermined them again and again.
CNN (Opinion)
Sep 02 2024
News
With Biden’s help, Harris courts blue-collar voters in Labor Day push in union strongholds
Vice President Kamala Harris called President Biden out of the bullpen Monday for their first joint campaign appearance since she became the Democratic Party’s nominee, marking a symbolic torch passing between the longtime union ally and his successor in blue-collar Pittsburgh. The Harris-Biden appearance came as the race heads into the post-Labor Day sprint, and polls show the contest is a
Washington Times