# working families (broad)

*Ordinarily means:* households that live on earnings from work, addressed as the main body of the public

A collective self that makes its boundary wider to every family whose income comes from jobs, so that acting for them reads as acting for most members.

- Computed level: L19 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: published  ·  Domain: agency

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [collective self](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-collective-self.shared), [boundary](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-boundary.limit), [in-group](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-in-group.inside), [jobs](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-jobs.employment), [income](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-income.financial), [make](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-make.verb), [wide](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-wide.spatial), [family](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-family.social), [come](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-come.arrive), [act](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-act.deed), [read](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-read.information), [member](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-member.social)

**Through:** A condition most members share is used as the edge of the in-group, so the boundary drawn is wide and a policy aimed inside it reads as aimed at nearly everyone.

**Novel properties:**
- an in-group drawn wide enough to read as the whole
- a condition of most members used as the edge

## Examples
- The Working Families Party was founded in New York State in 1998. *(politics)*

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