pocketbook issue
Personal financial matter
A pocketbook issue is a political or social matter that directly affects people's personal finances—taxes, wages, healthcare costs, housing prices.
Politicians emphasize pocketbook issues because voters respond to what hits their wallets: Inflation is the pocketbook issue driving this election.
The term treats the pocketbook as a symbol of household economics.
- pocketbookWoman's small handbag
- bread and butterPrimary source of income
- kitchen tableFurniture for home meals
- economySystem of trade and production
- inflationSustained price level increase
rent prices · taxation · tax breaks · employment · job security · affordable housing · paycheck to paycheck · working families · middle class · cost of living · gas prices · economic mobility · healthcare · wealth inequality · income · wages · food security · minimum wage laws
pocketbook issueforeign policy
International relations strategy
foreign affairs · national security · international relations · defense policy · international affairs
pocketbook issuesocial issue
Problem affecting many people
wedge issue · identity politics · abstract principle · religious liberty · civil rights
pocketbook issuenational interest
Nation's collective welfare priorities
public good · collective welfare · civic duty · existential threat · institutional reform
pocket, book, pockets, pocketed, pocketing, books, booked, booking, bookish