I am the product of a working-class upbringing.
The dean, who had a working-class upbringing himself, put his job on the line.
He came from a working-class upbringing in Scranton, Pa., and he still commutes every night from Washington to his home in Delaware.
In some respects, her story is reminiscent of that of Schools Chancellor Harold O. Levy, who followed a similar path from a working-class upbringing to a public life where many hours are spent in the back of a chauffeur-driven luxury car.
But when it comes to an appreciation of price, he prefers the hardscrabble lessons of the racetrack and, he said, "the value of a working-class upbringing in England".
At the time, several White House officials noted the similarities between Sotomayor's life story and that of Michelle Obama, who also had a working-class upbringing in an inner city and graduated from Princeton, nine years after Sotomayor.
In this reimagining of the Canterbury Tales, with boozy rugby fans replacing pilgrims, Matthews called on his working-class upbringing to play Eric the Prologue.
That steel came from his working-class upbringing.
He courted Sarah's nan despite her parents' disapproval of his working-class upbringing.
His working-class upbringing with Cuban parents could endear him to Hispanic voters, and make it hard for Democrats to paint him as a pawn of the rich, as they did with Mitt Romney in 2012.
Her campaign, however, is already emphasising her working-class upbringing over her educational pedigree, as a means of connecting her personal story to the activist government policies she supports.
