To Working-Class Voters, Affordability Isn't Just About Costs

Democrats’ obsession with “affordability” is right on target, given that American workers’ share of GDP is near the lowest ever recorded. Today, 61% of Americans are skimping at the grocery store, and housing and childcare are unaffordable even for many college grads. So it’s not surprising that “affordable basics” are the top priority of both key groups Democrats need to win in the midterms: liberal college grads and the working class, as we found in a poll of 5,770 adults conducted earlier thi