bread-and-butter
issue
Ordinary people care about bread-and-butter issues - the general, everday well-being of people in society.
His critics say that he has spent too much time on foreign affairs and not enough on domestic bread-and-butter issues.
I want voters to think beyond the traditional bread-and-butter issues.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Politics - general words
anti-capitalism
anti-capitalist
anti-communism
anti-communist
anti-fascism
interpellate
interpellation
interventionist
lab
laissez-faire
Orwellian
overstep
parliament
party politics
personality cult
statesman
statesmanlike
stateswoman
subsidiarity
super-conservative