Sentences with phrase «poor underclass»

On the other hand, they're basically banking on there always being a poor underclass.

In the space of three years, Dibb has seemingly gone from being the young Turk of the British film industry, concerned about the poor underclass, to becoming part of the old school network, making movies primarily appealing to the chattering classes.

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

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

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.

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.

He goes on to describe recent debates about the homeless and the underclass, meaning the most disordered of the urban poor.

Not only are more people classified as «poor» than ever before, but the underclass, composed largely of blacks and Hispanics, is locked into an intergenerational pattern of «dependency» that makes it almost certain that millions of people will never become self - supporting and law - abiding citizens.

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.

Business people continue to believe, mutatis mutandis, that «what is good for General Motors is good for America»; the new middle - class professionals, no doubt with equal sincerity, believe that the «reordering of national priorities» that guarantees their privileges benefits the poor, the underclass or whatever other morally acceptable beneficiary can be plausibly cited.

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.

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.

However bawdy the character, she plays Helene chiefly with an unapologetic self - involvement — the unblinking, under - educated victim of her own shattered childhood, who now knows no choices other than poor, self - indulgent or some combination thereof — and in doing so shines a light on the cyclical distress of America's underclass, heartbreakingly chalking an evidentiary mark for the latter grouping in the age - old nature - nurture debate.»

«Waiting for «Superman»» doesn't explore the deeper changes in American society that have led to this crisis: the widening gap between rich and poor, the loosening of the social contract, the coarsening of the culture and the despair of the underclass.

His short fiction, which often explores the lives of the urban underclass and «working poor,» has appeared in journals such as the Indiana Review, Kenyon Review, and Open City.

5) Personal Ethics — Societies that tolerate many children conceived out of wedlock, and no - fault divorce create an underclass of poor women with children, and the children are far less able to compete because they have no father figure.