bread-and-butter issues
Basic practical matters
Bread-and-butter issues are the fundamental practical concerns of everyday life—jobs, wages, housing, healthcare, education.
Politicians speak of bread-and-butter issues to signal attention to ordinary people's material needs rather than abstract or ideological matters: The campaign focused on bread-and-butter issues like the cost of groceries and childcare.
- kitchen tableFurniture for home meals
- pensionsOngoing payments after employment
- fundamentalsCore elements of something
- employmentPaid occupation status
- wagesPayment for work
minimum wage · economy · inflation · job security · working class · cost of living · gas prices · affordable housing · staples · making ends meet · paycheck to paycheck · taxation · healthcare · welfare · essentials · basics · crime · insurance
bread-and-butter issuesphilosophical questions
Inquiries about existence and meaning
philosophical debates · identity politics · wedge issues · foreign policy · constitutional debates
bread-and-butter issueschampagne problems
Trivial grievances of affluence
pet projects · first-world problems · insider baseball · nice-to-haves
bread-and-butter issuesgeopolitical strategy
Planning for international power
foreign policy · grand strategy · existential threats · international relations
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