breadwinner

If it were, then it would apply to all lower-income families equally, regardless of whether a breadwinner spouse is in the picture.

From Slate ● Sep. 14, 2026

“This particular division of private and public, housewife and breadwinner … was built on a flow of cheap fossil fuels and car culture,” she told The 19th.

From Salon ● Aug. 27, 2026

Williams’s older brother used the press to launch a modest job-printing business, but in 1861 he joined the Union Army, leaving the household without a breadwinner.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026

Gomez, who is the breadwinner of his family, says his monthly supply of medication costs $1,500 a bottle.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2026

Katherine was now the mother and father, the love and the discipline, the carrot and the stick, and the sole breadwinner.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly

Men in this generation may also have experienced financial strain differently because they were more likely to have been the primary breadwinners in this cohort born in 1946.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 2, 2026

Telephone poles covered in fundraising pleas for families whose breadwinners either rotted in faraway detention center or were sent back to their home countries.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2026

The welfare system attempted to replace family breadwinners, but it turned out that those breadwinners were providing more than money.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 24, 2026

The result: Most breadwinners still have jobs, and they are still spending.

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 10, 2026

Though the First Census did not classify the population by occupation it is certain that nine-tenths of the breadwinners worked more or less upon the soil.

From The Age of Invention : a chronicle of mechanical conquest by Holland Thompson