Few legislators are working class in US or elsewhere
Two scholars found that although about half of U.S. workers have working-class jobs, only 1.1% of U.S. legislators get elected soon after having that kind of occupation. They found similar patterns around the world when they studied data from 97 democracies.
A dual bar chart showing that the percentage of working-class people elected as legislators is much lower than the share of those people in the broader workforce.
