Sentences with phrase «growing underclass»

Today's challenges are real — record rates for high school drop outs, a lack of college graduates, increasing rates of obesity and chronic diseases, rising crime and a growing underclass.

The government must promote the benefits of marriage to tackle a «growing underclass» in Britain, a Conservative policy group has argued.

Work and pensions secretary's conference speech highlights «growing underclass» dependent on welfare

Perhaps one such issue might be the growing underclass that is the product of the globalization of the economy.

«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.

Not exact matches

The gap between rich and poor has increased, the number of homeless is growing, the nation has come to accept 7 per cent unemployment as economic success, and the existence of a trapped underclass is perceived as normal.

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.

The widely held belief that children born to cocaine - using mothers are forming a permanently damaged» «biological underclass» may be largely a myth, according to a growing number of researchers in the field.