Sentences with phrase «at underclass»

Previously, of course, they had fired him from being the corch of the Dillon Panthers and sent him to the seemingly impossible task of coaching the new team at underclass East Dillon.

Not exact matches

«A growing underclass scrambling to make ends meet at the whim of increasingly picky and erratic employers, that number could balloon to 65 million within 10 years, or about half of the domestic workforce, warns Steven Hill in his troubling new book, Raw Deal.

Today, most participants in the debate about welfare reform» at least those outside the realms of the ACLU and the Children's Defense Fund» agree with Olasky that the government has not and can not offer this kind of effective compassion, and that consequently we must enlarge the role private charities play in the lives of the underclass.

He asserts that the social pathologies noticeable in the underclass are there because «there are no ethics at the top of society.»

For instance, says Kaus, Loury wants blacks to accept responsibility for their lives as individuals and not as members of a racial tribe, while he at the same time calls on middle - class blacks to act as though they are responsible for the tribe, especially those members of the tribe who are in the urban underclass.

Indeed such underclass states seem inevitably to attract the worst exponents both of capitalism at its most unscrupulous and socialism at its most destructive.

Only in a setting where the poor and the alien have a right to the produce of the fields and where laws regarding land and family» were designed to prevent the rise of a pertnanent underclass could Ruth's initiative have been exercised with any effect at all.

This seems at one and the same time to exclude truly revolutionary praxis, the action of the underclass, and to demand that the impulse to the betterment of the world be placed in the hands of the cognoscenti.

The first is an underclass of the pre-affluent consisting of blacks and other racial minorities, the poor, and others at the margins of the socio - economic order.

Before abandoning fundamental values and institutions, we must pause and take stock of our present social order: millions of drug abusers; rampant child abuse; a rising underclass without marketable job skills; children roaming the streets; children with only one parent or no parent at all; and children growing up with no one to guide them in developing any set of values.

BAWS Underclass will take place at beautiful Baggett Stadium on the campus of Cal Poly in scenic San Luis Obispo, July 19 - 21.

Giving a speech at the Durand academy in south London, the education secretary said an «educational underclass» had developed which thousands of children were joining every year.

«At their worst, they will exclude students who make teaching too much of a challenge and who are traditionally excluded, thus perpetuating established inequalities and resigning us to a permanent underclass that is regarded as a worthless burden on the state.»

Both deal with class — particularly the underclass — a topic that has been running through prestige films a lot recently, as it did at Cannes this year.

This isn't just a fictional conceit; we live in a world where the rich and powerful use the media to keep the poor and underclass at each others» throats, divided by false racial lines or cultural boundaries.

Violent bits and difficult to understand dialogue at times from the underclass of America.

A remarkable snapshot of underclass life, love, humor and despair, Position Among the Stars, which picked up the Special World Cinema Documentary Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, and recently played at the Los Angeles Film Festival, is an utterly absorbing and strikingly humane nonfiction film that, in non-judgmental nor holier - than - thou fashion, locates the universality of human struggle in charting the tumultuous ups and downs of an extended Indonesian family trying to work their way out of the slums.

A sociology major at Harvard, he took what would have been his senior year off, returning to work at the Sue Duncan Center and to research his thesis, titled The Values, Aspirations and Opportunities of the Urban Underclass.

The significant narrowing comes after decades of a widening gap that caused education advocates to fear the United States was at risk of producing a permanent underclass.

At this moment, education traditionalists, including Ravitch, defend a failed, enslaving vision of American public education under which far too many young and women will become members of a permanent economic underclass.

Until we commit ourselves to ensuring that the underclass is given justice and opportunity, we will continue to perpetuate the anger and violence that tears at the soul of this nation.

Now twenty - seven, Ludo works for a vacuous «communications company» that markets unwanted, unaffordable products aimed at the very underclass into which he was born and from which he escaped.

Helbig is currently participating in the exhibition «Underclass Atavism» at Gentili Projects, Prato, curated by Veit Loers.

Made at bus stops throughout the city, the large - scale black and white photographs capture the isolation of the urban metropolis through formally composed and carefully detailed views of desolate boulevards disappearing into the horizon, peopled only by the Los Angeles underclass waiting for the next bus.

At the London, Ont., office of Lerners LLP, managing partner Ian Dantzer seems aware of the potential underclass described by Harper, bristling at the term «two - tier» to describe the firm's partnership structurAt the London, Ont., office of Lerners LLP, managing partner Ian Dantzer seems aware of the potential underclass described by Harper, bristling at the term «two - tier» to describe the firm's partnership structurat the term «two - tier» to describe the firm's partnership structure.