Sentences with phrase «underclass of»

Native to the criminal and impoverished underclass of the Isles as well, being Billie Lurk felt like a more natural fit for navigating Karnaca's seedy underbelly than a disgraced noble.

Even worse, he discovered an underclass of lawyer who would help complete the necessary forms, but wanted half the cost of the ticket in order to do so.

They're letting employers keep their Temporary Foreign Workers for a longer period of time and they're blocking paths to citizenship that could eliminate the underclass of exploitable guest workers that has been distorting the Canadian labour market.

We simply can not tolerate the continued existence of a federal program that has facilitated the creation of a two - tiered labour market in which unscrupulous employers are allowed to use a vulnerable underclass of precarious workers to drive down wages, displace Canadians and avoid their responsibilities related to training.

Hence you are a target of the underclass of climate scientists.

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.

But Brian's life is about to change as he finds himself forced away from his friends into an underclass of local gangs, raves, police corruption and ram - raiding he didn't know existed.

And if bookstores fall, Jon, America will be inundated with a wandering, snarky underclass of unemployable purveyors of useless and arcane esoterica.

In other words, Adamowski created an underclass of future broompushers based exclusively on race and ethnicity.

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.

Violent bits and difficult to understand dialogue at times from the underclass of America.

An underclass of the Factionless runs around, too, short on amenities - and tempers.

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.»

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

It has also created an underclass of people whose parents didn't buy those genetic advantages for their children.

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.

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.»

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

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

(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).

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.

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

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....

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.»

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.