breadwinner

“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

Advice for a burned-out breadwinner: A letter writer who’s outwardly successful by all measures—a wife, kids, a well-paying job—can’t stop dreaming about leaving it all behind.

From Slate ● Aug. 20, 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

He had a job he had to keep because he was the breadwinner in the household.

From "Ugly" by Robert Hoge

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

They are typically mid-career and are often primary breadwinners.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 17, 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

Many were - and still are - the main breadwinners in their families.

From BBC ● Feb. 1, 2026

To the great mass of boys and girls the school can barely give the tools with which to get an education before they are forced to begin their life work as breadwinners.

From Why do we need a public library? Material for a library campaign by Various