Sentences with phrase «underclass in»

By helping to create a hybrid rickshaw, Enviu «saw a huge opportunity to improve the environment and also to improve the life of the rickshaw drivers,» he said, who are often an underclass in many cities.

The first play by Tracy Letts (author of «August: Osage County») is set among the underclass in Dallas, where the depraved Smith family has hired a low - rent hit man to murder the matriarch for the insurance money.

Nothing wrong with a guy promoting his beliefs, but these whiny attempts to play the victim, as if atheism seriously represents some sort of downtrodden, oppressed underclass in an age when the nation has never been more secularized, are especially comical when performed beneath a giant banner proclaiming «REASON!»

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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.

«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 appleIn «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 applein 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....

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Most worries about eventual turmoil in this country have centered on the emergence of a permanent underclass, not the temporary underclass of newly arrived immigrants but a permanent «internal proletariat.»

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.

This seems at one and the same time to exclude truly revolutionary praxis, the action of the underclass, and to demand that the impulse to the betterment of the world be placed in the hands of the cognoscenti.

The Urban Underclass edited by Christopher Jencks and Paul E. Peterson Brookings Institution Publications, 490 pages, $ 34.95 Inner - City Poverty in the United States edited by Lawrence E. Lynn, Jr. and Michael H. McGeary National Academy Press, 280 pages, $ 29.95 The presence of entrenched poverty....

I suspected when I first heard this claim that the Committee on the Status of Black Americans, loaded as it was with social scientists, had demolished a straw man, a bloodless construct so rigidly defined as to be meaningless in terms of the actual lives of the humans who inhabit the nation's ghettos and who, for the most part, make up what has come to be called the 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.

In these pages I argued that the real problem of «aliens» among us is represented not by immigrants but by the urban underclass and the intellectual overclass, both of whom are profoundly alienated from the rights and responsibilities of the American experience (see «The Aliens Among Us,» The Public Square, August / September 1993).

The once almighty middle class sends a few upward into the meritocracy, while most sink down toward the dysfunctions of the underclass, as David and Amber Lapp's «Alone in America» narrates in painful detail.

The rubble of broken dreams, the stark terror of broken lives in the urban underclass.

For this and other reasons, in South Africa AIDS remains almost exclusively a disease of the underclass.

D'Souza's conclusion is that there are three possible explanations for the sad state of so many black Americans, especially the millions in the urban underclass.

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

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.

I think if people in the underclass felt like their future would be derailed by the pregnancy, they would be more circumspect.»

After a junior year in which he team - best 37 RBI for the Cougars, he was named First Team All - State Underclass and was selected to the Oakland A's Area Code Games roster.

BAWS Underclass will take place at beautiful Baggett Stadium on the campus of Cal Poly in scenic San Luis Obispo, July 19 - 21.

A second major BAWS event will debut later in the summer, BAWS Underclass.

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.

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

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.

Social mobility is actually a left - safe way of talking about opportunity whereas in its heart the left wants equality of outcome If there is opportunity the argument for state control becomes weaker and the role of the left disappears and that is why it is commuited to maintaining poverty by rewarding idleness and creating an underclass

The government must promote the benefits of marriage to tackle a «growing underclass» in Britain, a Conservative policy group has argued.

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 regulatioIn 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 regulatioin 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 regulatioin 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.

We now have seven women faculty members (none in the underclass of instructors or sessionals) and, as of this year, five mathematical biologists.

FROM feckless fathers and teenaged mothers to so - called feral kids, the media seems to take a voyeuristic pleasure in documenting the lives of the «underclass».

We are relegated to an ambiguous underclass status in which we often are ineligible for the benefits extended to all other employees of an institution.