What the Working Class Is Still Trying to Tell Us And how we can make a difference in their lives.

We build a broken system and then ask people to try to fit into the system instead of tailoring a system around people’s actual needs.

We in the college-educated sliver have built a culture, an economy and a political system that are all about ourselves. It’s time to pass labor market reforms that will make life decent for everybody.

By David Brooks

Opinion Columnist