Sentences with phrase «underclass who»

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.

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 Dalits are the underclass who fall outside the Indian caste system and are assigned the most menial jobs in society.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.»

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.

Ybarra's own teammates this year include two others who were on the All - State Underclass team — junior catcher Terra McGowan and senior pitcher / first baseman Kyra Snyder.

«At their worst, they will exclude students who make teaching too much of a challenge and who are traditionally excluded, thus perpetuating established inequalities and resigning us to a permanent underclass that is regarded as a worthless burden on the state.»

Mr Duncan Smith, who when first an MP and then as leader was considered a right - wing Conservative, has won plaudits for «re-inventing» himself as a champion of the underclass and someone who puts forward solutions to try and heal broken Britain.

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.»

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.»

uuu Spike Lee plunges into the world of underclass crime, focusing on a small - time cocaine dealer who agonizes over his brother's arrest for murder.

Filmmaker Sean Baker's portrait of the Central Florida underclass focuses on a little girl named Moonee (Brooklynn Prince) who is living with her prostitute mother in a seedy, Orlando - area motel.

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.

Franks, a Democrat, said before the law was passed that he hopes to avoid the creation of a permanent underclass — struggling consumers who are unable to improve their financial situations.

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.

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.