Sentences with word «underclass»

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 such a bad idea.

In seeking to place students where they might be most likely to succeed, districts can inadvertently create a permanent underclass of students.

Colson and Eckerd are surely right: far from «freeing» children and the urban underclass from the «oppressive» influence of religion, the «value - free» solutions mandated by our social engineers are robbing America of those transcendent values necessary for the cultivation of habits of responsibility, accountability, and personal achievement.

There was to be no permanent underclass in Israel.

Just like that, director David Mackenzie establishes, first, the idea that the men in that blue Camaro are up to no good; second, the current of economic desperation driving screenwriter Taylor Sheridan's story; and third, the religious posturing that offers an alternative to existential despair, with roadside churches, TV evangelists, and Christian radio offering a relentless white - noise stream of piety on demand to an American underclass with nowhere left to turn.

Colleges often target underclass students for these programs and use them as a device to spur involvement with the office.

Albert Hsiao (Leland - San Jose), Sr. — The Washington - bound Hsiao was named All - State Underclass by Cal - Hi Sports after batting.506 with eight HR and 29 RBI last season.

Also the author of The Green - Collar Economy, Jones is primarily targeting the economic underclass who have largely been left out of the environmental movement to date, suggesting disadvantaged kids might be better off dropping the handguns and raising the caulk gun, the underlying premise being there's millions to be made in the eco-technological transition.

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.

Duncan Smith was speaking on gang culture and told the meeting: «We have a growing underclass in the UK that is almost completely detached from society as many of the rest of us would understand it.

The dilemmas of the black underclass pose in stark terms the most pressing, unresolved problem of the social and moral sciences: how to reconcile individual and social responsibility.

In this body of work Ronay plays out scenes from an imagined resistance movement formed from a new underclass composed of people of all ages, races, and socioeconomic groups.

The political classes interpret this as a declining interest in politics, allied to the growth of an ignorant underclass who care for nothing except what is happening in the soaps or whether their lottery numbers have come up.

The venue, the weather, the city, and the cooperation of the Cal Poly coaching staff was outstanding, leading to BAWS Underclass which will feature 144 current freshmen and sophomores.

Giving a speech at the Durand academy in south London, the education secretary said an «educational underclass» had developed which thousands of children were joining every year.

Screenwriter Simon Beaufoy knows a thing or two about putting a cute spin on underclass travails: his script for the Full Monty happily obliged turning disenfranchisement into a cornball nude revue.

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

O'Guinn was one of those all - state underclass players.

Actor - turned - director Considine immediately stakes his claim to Ken Loach's British underclass miserablism, casting My Name Is Joe star Peter Mullan as the dog - stomper in question.

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.

As the only team in the state with four players selected to the annual Cal - Hi Sports All - State Underclass teams (30 on first team, 30 on second team), it became easy to anoint Buchanan as the preseason No. 1 team for California this season.

The Urban Underclass edited by Christopher Jencks and Paul E. Peterson Brookings Institution Publications, 490 pages, $ 34.95

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.

From 1973 to 1985, Chris Killip lived among and photographed working - class and underclass communities in the north of England whose livelihoods depended on traditional heavy...

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.

Casting simplistic assertions about a «feral underclass» as Ken Clarke has about those involved in riots is lazy.

Yet the poverty industries serving a mired underclass are doing fine.

After Del's ancient truck breaks down, cinematographer Magnus Nordenhof Jønck («A War») keeps us close to the sagebrush and flatlands of Eastern Oregon as the boy and his horse (to whom he confides his innermost thoughts) travel together on foot, coming into contact with both the hard working underclass of American society and the dregs who prey on the innocent and trusting.

Now twenty - seven, Ludo works for a vacuous «communications company» that markets unwanted, unaffordable products aimed at the very underclass into which he was born and from which he escaped.

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.

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.

At the London, Ont., office of Lerners LLP, managing partner Ian Dantzer seems aware of the potential underclass described by Harper, bristling at the term «two - tier» to describe the firm's partnership structure.

There's a fine line between accurately depicting underclass Southern life and descending to «rednexploitation,» and Jeff Nichols» debut feature, Shotgun Stories, dances precariously on that line.

There are those who stand to benefit from expanding underclasses.

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.

Indeed such underclass states seem inevitably to attract the worst exponents both of capitalism at its most unscrupulous and socialism at its most destructive.

And if trusteeship is a valid concept, worth discussing in the international context, is it, or something like it, a useful idea to mull over in the context of the intractable problem of the internal underclass?

When Islam's qua ran explicitly states it's goal of world domination and conversion of all to Islam or face death and the status of «dhimmi» (underclass subservient to Muslims it's a little hard to identify with you.

As the middle class continues to slide toward underclass levels of illegitimacy and family dysfunction, the fundamental egalitarianism of the biblical ethic of sex, marriage, and family will become evident.

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.

Roger Scruton seems to believe, as do most of those who deplore the welfare state, that «welfare policies may lead to the creation of a socially dysfunctional underclass.»

Society's leaders saw etiquette books as valuable management of an unruly underclass; its readers saw them as a valuable way to climb the social ladder.

It is little wonder that in 1874 Beecher could say, without embarrassment, «Our churches are largely for the mutual insurance of prosperous families, and not for the upbuilding of the great underclass of humanity.»

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.

What was freedom for Murphy Brown — single motherhood by choice — has proven a burden for working - class and underclass women.

In the United States, a ruling class has being established; along with it an assumed underclass.