Sentences with phrase «for white working class»

«I get the sense that Staten Island is kind of a stand - in for the white working class for him.»

This is, of course, pure Labour spin, with Blears, under orders, going for the white working class vote.

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But, one thing you feel in Reading is that there are these middle class and working class white folks who feel very angry and are pointing to the Latino population for all their woes.

«The president is going to continue to look for partners on Capitol Hill, Democrats or Republicans, who are willing to work with him on policies that benefit middle - class families,» White House spokesman Josh Earnest said on Tuesday.

A lot of people like the book for its insights into what the white working class sees in Donald Trump and his promises to restore American greatness in the face of malevolent outsiders.

Obama cited statistics released the same day in the White House's new report from his Council of Economic Advisers which show that conflicts likely lead, on average, to 1 percentage point lower annual returns on retirement savings as well as $ 17 billion of losses every year for working and middle - class families.

For instance, George Washington University political scientist John Sides found that the white working - class voters who had first backed Barack Obama only to vote for Trump in 2016 were already moving toward the Republican Party before the campaign got underwFor instance, George Washington University political scientist John Sides found that the white working - class voters who had first backed Barack Obama only to vote for Trump in 2016 were already moving toward the Republican Party before the campaign got underwfor Trump in 2016 were already moving toward the Republican Party before the campaign got underway.

I grew up in Detroit, among urban, working - class blacks while my white mother sent me to a suburban, lily white, private Christian school and a large, white Baptist Church who denied me baptism in 1987 for being «half - black.»

For example, comparing the experience of someone who is black, middle class and female with someone who is white, working class and male.

There is this tendency within certain sectors of Christianity to assume that if our theology «works» for relatively privileged (often for white, upper - middle - class American men), then it should work well enough for everyone else, and everyone else should conform to it.

Sir Michael, the head of education watchdog, Ofsted has also claimed poverty is too often used as an excuse for educational failure among white working - class families.

One of the themes that emerges from Shattered (a chronicle of the Clinton campaign) is that the Clinton operation didn't want to make a strong play for working - class white voters in swing states.

This is a conclusion she has every right to argue for; but then she might better have subtitled the book The Betrayal of the Working - to - Middle Class (Mostly White) American Man — which, I grant, does not make for a very good sound bite.

this window has just finished i am already thinking about who we will get for the january window we might try for khedira on a really low offer as he is free agent almost would help boost numbers in midfield in the new year as we will no doubt need to filling the numbers about then also i will hold my hands up and say i was wrong this morning for giving wenger stick and saying welbeck is rubbish i have been out in the cold light of day and had a chance to reevaluate the situation and realized that this could be a canny shrew transfer on wenger behalf actually if wenger can turn the clock back and work his magic on welbeck and get him scoring goals and improve his game then we could have a great underrated signing on our hands its wengers absolute trust in him that might be what makes him a great player as this is something that he never had at old mordor if anybody can make him a world beater wenger can he loves this little pet projects improving players against the odds welbeck has the skillset to be high class player upfornt he just needs to work very hard on his finishing i think once he gets a few goals under his belt he will settle in fine and he is a team player you could put him on the left against man city to shore up that side and he will put in a great shift without a complaint that could be his biggest asset to us or on the right whenever we need him there ithinkwenger might start himon the left against city to protect the left back against navas and i bet you if he does a great job we will take a shine to him quickly i am hopeing he will be one of those wenger gems that he finds and polishes up to a high finish i must admit i was annoyed as some other gunners were at not signing d / m and c / h but if wenger does win the league with this lot it will be his greatest win yet and what might play in to our hands is the unpredictable nature of the league in the last few seasons if we get on a good run at the right time we might be hard to stop look at city they should have never lost to stoke but the result is there in black and white for all to see and i think chelsea will hit the skids after a while to just because cesc and costa are doing well now thats there main threat but teams will work out how to stop them as the season goes on and chelsea will become predictable i think we might just do well this season after all

Whether it was the people of the North East rejecting politicians plundering their earnings to pay for white elephant vanity projects, working class voters rejecting apparently over-generous welfare arrangements for EU migrants, or left leaning Labour voters rejecting the supposed excesses of the capitalist system, fairness lies at the heart of British anger.

Angela Rayner's clumsy interview blamed a race and equality agenda for failing white working class boys - but it's government, not minorities, who are to blame

For an excellent discussion of this factor, see the article on the white working - class in the latest issue of the New Yorker.

During his three terms as governor, the former minor league baseball player from Queens championed the working class, reproached Ronald Reagan and flirted — repeatedly — with a run for the White House.

If you look at the demographics, at where we need to be at the next election, we need more people in the north voting for us, more of what they call here «blue collar» workers and I call the white working class.

For some of Labour's core white working class supporters, a defence of an outward - looking Britain would be seen as precisely the metropolitan elitism Farage is so adept at criticising.

Bassetlaw MP John Mann said that white working class voters and trade unionists had already deserted the party for Ukip, because of Labour's support for immigration.

The action of the play takes place in The Albion pub in London's east end, which, as well as playing host to a karaoke five nights a week, is also the centre of operations for the EPA's leader Paul — a man who thinks his country has changed so much that white, working - class men like him are now a voiceless minority.

Speaking on Tuesday evening, Mann argued that Labour would be «out of office for a long generation» if it did not work out how to win back the white working classes.

Speaking from the Midlands, where the Tories became the biggest party in Walsall and made gains in Dudley, Jess Phillips, the MP for Birmingham Yardley, said the party has to address issues of concern for white working - class voters in industrial areas who appear to have switched from Ukip to the Tories.

«I've got white working - class constituents who've always voted Labour, but they won't be voting for Miliband but for Ukip, because they feel he couldn't care less about them,» a backbencher said.

Backbencher Jess Phillips said the party had to look at what had gone wrong in white working class areas in northern England, while Chuka Umunna called for an internal inquiry into the party's campaign, to look at why expected gains hadn't materialised.

Backbencher Jess Phillips said the party had to look at what had gone wrong in white working class areas in northern England while Chuka Umunna called for an election «post-mortem» to look at why expected gains hadn't materialised.

We have become so hooked in this country on bending over backwards for every ethnic minority - a community centre here, an acceptance of a reluctance to learn English there — that we have forgotten the group that is struggling the most — the white working class.

I wrote a piece, «Why it is perfectly rational for the ignored white working class to vote BNP», for this site back in July 2008, a year before the BNP's success in the European elections.

Like Sandberg's breakout work, which has been criticized for minimizing the barriers women in the workforce face — especially women of races, classes and sexualities that differ from its wealthy, white, cis author — the tips provided do seem to be geared towards «employable,» educated women.

As they begin to convert their modest Long Island home into a white statue - laden mansion, the first order of business is to construct a haunted house for Halloween to impress their working - class neighbors, who are portrayed by movie stars and comedians in cameo roles.

The most prominent characters include Haven Hamilton (Henry Gibson), a socially conservative, arrogant country music star; Linnea Reese (Lily Tomlin), a gospel singer and mother of two deaf children; Del Reese (Ned Beatty), her lawyer husband and Hamilton's legal representative, who works as the local political organizer for the Tea Party - like Hal Philip Walker Presidential campaign; Opal (Geraldine Chaplin), an insufferably garrulous and pretentious BBC Radio reporter on assignment in Nashville, or so she claims; talented but self - involved sex - addict Tom Frank (Keith Carradine), one - third of a moderately successful folk trio who's anxious to launch a solo career; John Triplette (Michael Murphy), the duplicitous campaign consultant who condescendingly tries to secure top Nashville stars to perform at a nationally - syndicated campaign rally; Barbara Jean (Ronee Blakley), the emotionally - fragile, beloved Loretta Lynn - like country star recovering from a burn accident; Barnett (Allen Garfield), Barbara Jean's overwhelmed manager - husband; Mr. Green (Keenan Wynn), whose never - seen ailing wife is on the same hospital ward as Barbara Jean; groupie Martha (Shelley Duvall), Green's niece, ostensibly there to visit her ailing aunt but so personally irresponsible that she instead spends all her time picking up men; Pfc. Glenn Kelly (Scott Glenn), who claims his mother saved Barbara Jean's life but who mostly seems obsessed with the country music star; Sueleen Gay (Gwen Welles), a waitress longing for country music fame, despite her vacuous talent; Bill and Mary (Allan F. Nicholls and Cristina Raines), the other two - thirds of Tom's folk act, whose ambition overrides constant personal rancor; Winifred (Barbara Harris), another would - be singer - songwriter, fleeing to Nashville from her working - class husband, Star (Bert Remsen); Kenny Frasier (David Hayward), a loner who rents a room from Mr. Green and carries around a violin case; Bud Hamilton (Dave Peel), the gentle, loyal son of the abrasive Hamilton; Connie White (Karen Black), a glamorous country star who is a last - minute substitute for Barbara Jean at the Grand Old Opry; Wade Cooley (Robert DoQui), a cook at the airport restaurant where Sueleen works as a waitress and who tries unsuccessfully to convince her that she has no talent; and the eccentric Tricycle Man (Jeff Goldblum), who rides around in a three - wheel motorcycle, occasionally interacting with the other characters, showing off his amateur magic tricks, but who has no dialogue.

Derailed is the quintessential white - man's fantasy: lower class black men working for you to kill French people (and their working - class black men) while you get away with, literally, murder.

The way she holds a spoon as she eats cereal with such white - knuckled intensity you'd think it was her last meal; the angle of her jaw when she steps onto the ice, facing judges she knows loathe the transparency of her working - class background; and the tender hurt in her eyes when she confronts a judge in the parking lot about her score, and learns that no matter her skill, her inability to live up to the proper, soft standard for women in figure skating would bar her from the adoration she yearned for.

In light of this analysis, the Sutton Trust is calling for a renewed effort to close the attainment gap, recommending that: - Schools implement targeted improvement programmes for those students at particular risk of falling behind, including white working class children.

Today's research tells us two new things: that underrepresentation is significantly higher for white and black working class children than it is for those from Chinese and other Asian communities.

In short, in the 1990s, in working class neighborhoods with leftist backgrounds, the cruising white Renault cars [used by plainclothes cops], disappearing people, unresolved assassinations, incidents like those at Gazi and 1 Mayıs neighborhoods in 1995 where shots were fired at residents resulting in deaths, led to a renewed blow on the rekindling hope for the future.

If children who are experiencing success in schools or for whom schools generally «work» (that is, white, middle - class, nondisabled children) don't participate in the assessment, their parents lose valuable information.

The issues it highlighted included the labelling of «working class boys», as the DfE does not collect information on pupils» socio - economic status and the statistics quoted were actually about white make students who were eligible for free school meals in year 11.

Created for mixed age SEN class of children with autism, roughly following Y3 white rose scheme of work.

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That's far from conclusive, precisely because few choice programs have been designed for — or located in — the kinds of white working - class communities that Charles Murray dubbed «Fishtown.»

Both the underperformance of white working class boys in university admissions and the helping hand into the top professions provided by a private education were issues she insisted must be addressed in the fight «to make Britain a country that works for everyone».

The government statistics watchdog has criticised a tweet from the Department for Education that claimed «white working class boys» performed better in grammar schools than in comprehensives.

Elements primary, which plans to open in September 2015, will serve an area of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, with a «predominantly white working class community», where more than half the pupils will be expected to be eligible for free school meals.

The government's pupil premium scheme, which gives more money to schools for each child on free school meals, should also be more focused on aiding white working class children, he added.

This was a middle - class to working - class suburban Detroit district, virtually all white, in the era shortly before busing was first considered as a remedy for de facto segregation.

Ninety per cent of pupils are white and working class, with 59 per cent eligible for pupil premium funding.

Sir Michael said poverty was all too often used as an excuse for failure by white working - class families.

«Today's research tells us two new things: that under - representation is significantly higher for white and black working class children than it is for those from Chinese and other Asian communities.