Sentences with phrase «pertnanent underclass»

Like any of number of fictional futures, from Metropolis to Altered Carbon, it is a society where the wealthy in live in glistening towers in the clouds, surrounded by technologies of luxury and convenience, looking down on an underclass that can not afford basic necessities.

Compare that to the «permanent underclass» theory of the Roman Empire's decline.

«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.

In «Merits,» the underclass lives inside a hopelessly artificial digital colony and spends all day biking to power said colony, in exchange for a digital currency called «merits» that can be exchanged for entry into reality shows, swag for your avatar, or prepackaged apples.

According to the Washington Post, Luis V. Gutierrez quoted Paul Ryan as saying ««You're a Catholic; I'm a Catholic; we can not have a permanent underclass of Americans exploited in America,» Ryan is absolutely right, which is why Gang of Eight - style immigration reform is....

He supports his argument with numerous persuasive anecdotes about individuals who have walked out of the underclass with the help of faith - based, grassroots groups that practice «hard - headed, soft - hearted» compassion.

That is still a large permanent underclass.

Consider not just the appalling record of the twentieth century; consider as well the sullenness of so many high school students today, the emptiness of their elders in college, the despair of the underclass, the desperate fun - seeking of the jet set, the divorce rate, the incidence of child abuse, and on and on.

Opposing the existence of «a permanent underclass of Americans exploited in America» should be our highest priority in immigration policy.

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.

The Senate immigration plan actually plans to create a brand new exploited underclass.

Anyone who reads The Catholic Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, however, must recognize that, far from being uncritical, Novak evinces an intense and well - informed sense about where the American experiment has gone wrong and is going wrong» from race relations, to the urban underclass, to crime, and the debasement of popular culture.

It is as though those shaping the domestic agenda of the government do not see the explicitly racial character of this problem, as if they do not understand the historical experiences that link, symbolically and sociologically, the current urban underclass to our long, painful legacy of racial trauma.

In any event, Utah is not a state in which the plight of the urban underclass is a pressing issue.

The moral case is focused on the plight of the disadvantaged, especially the urban underclass, mainly black and Latino, in our larger cities.

Driving the movement, too, is alarm over the explosion of illegitimate births in the urban underclass (now over 80 percent of births), as well as in the general population (around 30 percent of births).

Wallis in contrast, argues that «we have no right to be shocked» when underclass youth behave like violent, selfish materialists, because of the «moral pollution of rampant consumerism» the culture pumps into them.

And she navigates the multilayered policy discussion of «the underclass» as adroitly as she guides her lumbering Ford past the sootstained, monotonous yellow buildings.

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

Combining all that wordpower with his humble roots as an Essex drug addict, he's a perfect spokesperson for what he's described as a disengaged «underclass».

We have become insensitive to the suffering of the poor and ignore the existence of the underclass created by our economic policies.

Yes, of course, there was the poverty of the underclass - but the conventional wisdom of the time viewed that as a social rather than an economic problem.

On the other hand, more than 90 percent of the students in parochial schools, drawn from the same underclass population, go on to college or other advanced training.

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Times of dislocation are particularly apt to foster a permanent underclass.

Those who come to work hard and are eager to be part of the American mainstream should be welcomed; the best of intentions and behavior does not justify flouting the law; any self - respecting nation must be able to control its borders; an underclass of millions with no legal existence poses a serious security problem; the economy depends on those who do the work Americans will not do; and on and on.

We can only hope that the progressive secularization of moral reasoning will not work to the detriment of the world's underclasses.

It's being recognized, as Mitchell Sviridoff of the Local Initiatives Support Corporation puts it, that there is no «silver bullet» solution to the growth of the underclass.

It still leads to lack of sensitivity to the underclass and to peoples in other parts of the world, especially the poor.

I stand by my argument that saturating our labor markets and swelling our already ample underclass with third - world economic migrants is exhausting our capacity to aid the vaster numbers who are left behind, let alone the needy Americans who have nowhere else to go.

(And nowhere does it say it must be one man and several women — it can be the other way around and address your «concerns» about an underclass of men).

This raises the prospect of America becoming what Charles Murray calls a «custodial democracy,» in which the underclass is subsidized but walled off.

Besides, that «underclass» could just marry other men, right?

It leaves a permanent underclass of males who can not find wives.

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.

The overwhelming majority of Hispanics have been condemned, along with the majority of blacks, to be the permanent underclass of North American society.

Once again, this description of the plight of America's schools and urban underclass is not novel.

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.

Obviously, the idea that racial discrimination is the sole cause of the predicament of the black working poor and underclass is specious.

The new black conservatives have had their most salutary effect on public discourse by highlighting the breakdown of the moral fabric in the country and especially in black working poor and underclass communities.

The crisis of black liberalism and the emergence of the new black conservatives can best be understood in light of three fundamental events in American society and culture since 1973: the eclipse of U.S. economic and military predominance in the world; the structural transformation of the American economy; and the moral breakdown of communities throughout the country, especially among the black working poor and underclass.

But another reading seems equally plausible — that many sought to shore up their status as part of the «responsible middle - class» by underscoring the discrepancy between their own «fit» families and those of the 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.

It is not enough to provide individuals with an exit from this underclass.

It makes a permanent underclass a centerpiece of national policy, to be enforced by the Federal Reserve Board through its control of interest rates.

In many cases, the miseries of these underclass nations are envenomed by civil war and frontier disputes among themselves.

The Dalits are the underclass who fall outside the Indian caste system and are assigned the most menial jobs in society.

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Still, McFague in particular deserves credit for her analysis of God - concepts; they can be used to exploit an underclass, or they can be used to integrate the self.

He drew the children of the German and Scandinavian immigrant underclass to his mission with candy and pony rides, and he drew the adults through evening prayer meetings and English classes.