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WHY TRUMP RESONATES WITH 'MIDDLE SKILL' WORKERS


These 38 million workers are not entirely blue or white collar, but they've seen their wages fall by more than anyone else -- and many of them live in areas where Trump has polled well at times this year. It's called the "middle skill" workforce -- people with some college experience or an associate's degree. "You find a lot of these workers in parts of the Midwest and the South that are at least leaning Trump right now," says Alan Berube, deputy director of the Metropolitan Policy Program at the Brookings Institution.

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