Sentences with phrase «underclass with»

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.

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.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

Combining all that wordpower with his humble roots as an Essex drug addict, he's a perfect spokesperson for what he's described as a disengaged «underclass».

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.

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

It is not enough to provide individuals with an exit from this underclass.

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.

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!»

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.

To that degree, we deny to ourselves the possibility of some structural solutions to deep - seated problems: poverty, a badly educated populace, some 80 million citizens with little or no health care insurance, and the disturbing growth of an 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.

Business people continue to believe, mutatis mutandis, that «what is good for General Motors is good for America»; the new middle - class professionals, no doubt with equal sincerity, believe that the «reordering of national priorities» that guarantees their privileges benefits the poor, the underclass or whatever other morally acceptable beneficiary can be plausibly cited.

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 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.

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.

And so we continue, with Bridget Phillipson getting Boris to agree with the description of a «feral underclass».

well done documentary with interwoven stories illuminating crime and corruption in sao paulo, where someone is kidnapped every day; the rich travel with bodyguards in armored cars and heliocopters, while a huge underclass struggles for survival and certain politicians are no better than gangsters.

Both deal with class — particularly the underclass — a topic that has been running through prestige films a lot recently, as it did at Cannes this year.

Filled with silly caricatures of the fame - worshipping underclass, it's clear that the director Prynoski as well as the screenwriter Andrew Kevin Walker hate just about every person in this world.

That's meant literally, since the film is adapted from a megahit ballad of roughly the same name: Legāio Urbana's nine - minute barn - burner of calamity, bloodshed, love, and redemption spoke to something in the Brazilian psyche in 1987, charting João de Santo Christo's fatal misadventures with the corrupt forces that kept a boot on the underclass.

The presence of Marx himself as a character, representing both persecuted Jewry and the proletariat, ensures that there is a solid ideological scaffold from which to hang the film's social concern with the overlooked underclass.

Van Sant understands how Walt's presumptuous come - ons — offering Johnny $ 15 for a night's fuck — are wound up in the destructiveness of the gay underclass, and so his story moves with the cyclical motions of a bad night (mala noche) or, more appropriately, a bad dream.

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.»

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.

With a striking intensity and relevance to us today, Victor Hugo's novel is testimony to the struggles of France's underclass and how far they must go to survive.

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.

The Politics and Practice of School Accountability (co-editor with Martin R. West) The Future of School Choice (editor) Our Schools and our Future (editor) City Limits The Urban Underclass (co-edited with Christopher Jencks) Price of Federalism Welfare Magnets (with Mark C. Rom) The New American Democracy (with Morris P. Fiorina, Bertram Johnson, and William G. Mayer) Four of his books have received major awards from the American Political Science Association.

With the risk of another generation of high school dropouts being relegated to a permanent economic underclass, the call to provide equitable, high - quality learning for all students is greater than ever.

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

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.

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