Sentences with phrase «of white working class»

Why are Sooo many of the white working class (of which I consider myself one) Soooo slow to understand the Climate Problems?

A black painting by Frank Stella appears with scenes of white working class America by Charles Demuth, Elsie Driggs, Margaret Bourke - White, and Dorothea Lange because, among other reasons, Stella applied house paint.

A free school to open in Barnsley aims to raise the aspirations of white working class children - identified as the lowest - achieving group.

Mr Wood was giving evidence to the Commons education committee, which is investigating how to improve the performance of white working class children in primary and secondary schools.

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».

One tweet read: «70 % of white working class boys from grammars go to uni vs 54 % from comprehensives.

We could have talked more about the J.D. Vance's of the world — the far too rare children of the white working class who make it to and through college, and what might be done to dramatically boost their numbers.

The schools most likely to have low attainment, low gain, and low closing - the - gap scores were schools with high percentages of white working class males.

It is, in my view, a perfectly rational reaction by a growing proportion of the white working class who feel marginalised by a political elite that would rather ignore them.

They were talking about what Labour could do to win back the support of the white working class.

Labour under Ed Miliband found this out to its detriment, despite the efforts of the so - called «Blue Labour» advisers who sought to address concerns of the white working class — a former Labour core constituency who feel abandoned by their old party and politicians.

This was at a time when Little Britain's Vicky Pollard and Catherine Tate's Lauren Cooper were on our screens - characters that, in 2006, a survey found that 70 % of TV industry professionals believed were an accurate reflection of white working class young people.

John Mann told a meeting at Labour party conference that the party was losing the support of the white working class who were concerned about issues such as immigration.

Meanwhile, just 28 % of white working class boys who receive free school meals achieve five GCSEs at grade C or above.

members of the white working class who had found their wages undercut and their access to housing, education, medical care, and other facilities diminished by competition with rising numbers of immigrants;

He has a good record on immigration and you don't get the sense he's likely to emulate Ukip on it in a bid to bandage the flow of white working class voters to the party.

But they also, along with the likes of Phil Woolas and Gillian Duffy, demonstrate that Labour is in danger of becoming a party of the white working class.

This certainly doesn't look like a simple case of the white working class supporting UKIP.

A provocative new report from Sentier Research gives us insight into what might be the key factor in the Trump phenomenon: A secular decline in the financial well - being of white working class males and what we can infer as the resulting anger directed at the political powers that be.

Not exact matches

Cornell's mother suffered from heart disease through much of her life, and the two of them lived very modestly off her disability check in working - class White - stone, Queens.

One of the biggest miscalculations among Democrats has to do with the level of suffering among disaffected working class and middle white folks.

Warren is expected to try tugging her party toward more progressive policies, while some more moderate Democrats are emphasizing the need to appeal to the type of working - class white voters who helped Trump win Midwestern states carried in recent elections by Democrats.

It's that millennials and African - Americans and a lot of social justice - oriented white people and a lot of white people who are working class really were progressive and they really were open to a message that was things like «no death penalty,» «put the money back in schools,» «mass incarceration,» and «stop taking people's property unjustifiably.»

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.

This report compares the retirement assets of top CEOs with those of all African - American, Latino, female - headed, and white working class households.

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.

Trump articulated the anger of the rust - belt, white working class.

It is the work of a bear market to reduce the prices of the white elephants until they are cheap enough to interest a new class of buyers.

It's not meant to be an attack on men, or white men, or white middle class men, but an attempt to open our eyes to perhaps perceive a little bit how we might have an advantage based on these markers, such as higher wages than women in the same line of work.

Henry Olsen has written a fascinating and important article about the voting habits and worldview of the white working - class.

Now Oxycodone has joined shuttered factories and Donald Trump as a symbol of white working - class desperation and fecklessness.

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.

But, as Vale shows, this success and popularity rested on sustaining the projects as the home to a very narrow spectrum of the Boston poor, those deemed both deserving and respectable: two - parent, mostly white, single - earner, low - income, working - class families of good character in need of a temporary leg up — a stratum «below the bulk of blue - collar employees but above that of the unemployed, the irregularly employed, and the welfare - dependent.»

The real Fishtown is a white working - class neighborhood in northeastern Philadelphia that has been the subject of a number of sociological studies over the past fifty years.

Prime - age white working - class males have increasingly dropped out of the full - time work force, and the same males are dramatically more likely to be in prison now than in 1960.

The New Yorker Book of Kids» Cartoons (2001) features only three cartoons with families of more than two children — one a family of fish, another of cats, and a third an obviously poor, white, working - class family.

The election cycle happily fading into the rear - view mirror brought the sorry condition of many white working - class communities to national attention; no one tells the story of one part of that world, its strengths and its pathologies, better than J.D. Vance in Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Harper)-- a tough and occasionally hilarious book that also suggests, inadvertently, an enormous evangelical failure on the part of both Protestants and Catholics.

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.

The implicit old - line mark of a work of God is birth into a white middle - class Protestant family.

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 strategy largely writes off the non-evangelical white working - class in the hopes of winning over nonwhite voters and it aligns Republican policy even more closely with the policy preferences of the Washington business lobbies.

Looking back, many of us who stand in the tradition of process thought must recognize that quite unconsciously our work has largely expressed our position as white, middle - class, North American males.

We can choose now to retreat once again into those echo chambers or begin to listen more attentively to one another — to love our neighbors by learning about them and their needs and perspectives whether black, white, Asian, or Latino / a; whether Christian, Muslim, or none; whether upper, middle, or working class; whether voter or one of the nearly half of eligible voters that sat out this election.

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

And yes, it's also true that many of us (at least those of us who are white and middle - class) are a bit self - absorbed or extremely focused on our careers (we're the «third waver» feminists, and many of us from Day One saw our lives as defined by our work.

Kelly Hogaboom: Cisgendered working - class white woman, wife and mother; two children, one husband, four cats (that's officially a «clowder» of cats), five laying hens.

I would be Alf Tupper from The Tough of the Track - he is a working class hero who ate fi sh and chips on the way to the White City where he took on and beat the world.

The findings were reported in the Open Society Foundation's «Europe's White Working Class Community: Manchester», with research conducted by Amina Lone and Daniel Silver of the Social Action and Research Foundation (SARF)-- a social enterprise that produces policies to combat poverty.