Business Spotlight Plus 1/2021: Hörverständnis

Icon or threat?

Known as “Sandy” to her friends, “Alex” to her colleagues, and “AOC” to most Americans, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is no ordinary politician. She has Puerto Rican parents and a working-class background. In 2018, at the age of 29, she became the youngest woman to be elected to U.S. Congress, to unseat sb.hier: jmds. Sitz gewinnenunseating a Democrat who had serve a termeine Amtszeit durchlaufenserved ten terms — and kept her New York seat in the House of Representatives in November’s election.
Ocasio-Cortez told Vanity Fair that it is hard to admit “that your mother was scrub sth.etw. scheuernscrubbing toilets, that our family was struggling to do basic things.” But she says these things have helped her to connect with voters. Although she now earns $174,000 (€147,000) a year, the millennial still finds it hard to fit in with her colleagues, many of whom are millionaires. “It’s legitimately hard being ... working class, trying to navigate a professional environment,” she said.
Ocasio-Cortez’s trademarkMarkenzeichentrademarks include the large gold hoopFassreifen; hier: großer runder Ohrringhoops and red lipstick (her “war paint”) she wears to work, in a in a nod to sth.als Verweis auf etw.nod to her Latina roots. Seen as a progressive icon by some and a threat by others, AOC supports universal healthcare and LGBTQ rights, and plans to push for anti-poverty and immigration reforms.