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Working class communities, like the one I grew up in, have long felt the disproportionate and cumulative impacts of pollution.

Alex Padilla

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Alex Padilla
American - Politician
Born: March 22, 1973

We don't have enough folks who grew up in working class rural communities.

Tucker Carlson

Children in working-class communities - like the one I grew up in - face higher rates of asthma and respiratory issues, which have a direct impact on their ability to learn.

Alex Padilla

I don't like to play the macho card, but I grew up in a working-class family and a working-class culture.

Tom Brokaw

The COVID-19 pandemic has taken an incredible toll on our country. Every state has been impacted. Every community has suffered. Especially working-class communities of color, like the neighborhoods Attorney General Becerra and I grew up in.

Alex Padilla

Racism was a big part of our community. I'm not going to revisit history, and I'm not going to call out those communities, but the communities we grew up around, we were treated like second- or third-class citizens.

Kelvin Sampson

My parents grew up working class, but in that way that working class families do, they spent a fortune on education to better me.

Graham Norton

I grew up with Jilly and Tamsin driving Volvos. But I wasn't one of them... I always felt more comfortable with Cockney and working-class people. My heroes were the Beatles and people like Michael Caine.

Tracey Ullman

'Sons' was about working class white guys. And even though I didn't grow up in a motorcycle club, I grew up in a working-class, white-guy neighborhood.

Kurt Sutter

I grew up on the south side of Chicago in a working class community. There were no miracles in my life, there's nothing miraculous about how I grew up, and I want people to know when they look at me, to be clear that they see what an investment in public education can look like.

Michelle Obama

I grew up in a working class neighborhood in Sweden, which, during my teens, gentrified and is now completely middle class and even upper middle class.

Joel Kinnaman

I'm not part of a middle-class establishment. I'm working class, and I grew up in a council house.

Sharon Maguire

I grew up in the suburbs, a calm suburb, without tension, with working-class and middle-class people mixed together.

White working-class voters or working-class voters have felt abandoned, have felt, in many senses, disparaged by the political leadership of America.

Mark Shields

I've always felt like a lot of people's misconceptions of me have to do with how I grew up. I grew up poor, and I grew up rich.

Dale Earnhardt Jr.

People like me who grew up in a working-class town, who don't have a college education, you don't usually hear from us.

Michael Moore

I grew up in the working class suburbs in the 80s so I do love Hollywood movies but what I don't like is when they take something that's successful and they recycle it.

Justin Lin

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