Politicians From the Working Class Are Very Rare

“The 2026 elections are shaping up to be another terrible year for working-class representation in Congress,” Bloomberg reports.

“Of the 919 candidates running as major-party nominees for the U.S. House and Senate this November, only seven had a working-class job when they got into politics. That’s less than 1%, despite working-class jobs making up about half of the U.S. labor force.”