Sentences with phrase «rising underclass»

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.

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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.

In my own view, the Labour Party have actually managed in the last eleven years to create, in ascending order of wealth (i) a working underclass that is actually poverty - stricken (ii) a large benefit - sustained, inactive element that is now economically better off than most of those who work (iii) the working middle - classes, who are being hammered into submission by rising taxes and prices and over-regulation (iv) the rich who are either exempt from or indifferent to taxation or regulation.

She was responding to a recent editorial in another journal in which «[t] he authors described the concern of some scientists about the rise of an underclass of «research parasites» who exploit data sets that are collected and curated by others.»

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.