bread-and-butter issue

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bread-and-butter issue - an issue whose settlement will affect financial resources

pocketbook issue

issue - an important question that is in dispute and must be settled; "the issue could be settled by requiring public education for everyone"; "politicians never discuss the real issues"

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``With a bill such as highways, where there is a lot at stake, it's a bread-and-butter issue,'' said Shervin Boloorian, a legislative analyst for the California Institute, a nonprofit advocacy organization in Washington.

LIGHT SUDDENLY TURNS GREEN FOR SLIGHTED TRANSIT PROJECTS by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)

But an even greater impetus for opposing PeaceHealth's expansion plan centers on a bread-and-butter issue for McKenzie-Willamette: emergency room care.

Hospital tiff lands in ER by The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)

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