We're all poor these days, so he'd be better off standing with "people who work for a living."

"The poor" implies a gang of unwashed and helpless people mired in ignorance and hopelessness. Turn work back into something worth people's time and effort by making it pay a living wage,"the poor"will be hopeless no longer.

"A nation is judged not by how many billionaires and millionaires it has but by how it treats the most vulnerable people among us" --
Bernie Sanders

These are a growing portion of Americans who ARE the newly sliding middle class who are a few pay checks away FROM and indistinguishable FROM those living in squalor and sleeping under bridges. We are separated by degrees of stress.