From healthcare to education policy, the language of affordability is everywhere.
As the 2020 presidential race gets underway, we can expect phrases like “affordable access” to be at least as ubiquitous as references to the middle class or vague refrains about how there's more that unites people than divides them, particularly from Democrats. The word “affordable” appeared some thirty-one times in the 2016 Democratic Party platform, in reference to policy areas ranging from housing and college tuition to childcare and finance (for comparison, “middle class,” that hallowed floating signifier, appeared only sixteen times).
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