Sentences with phrase «undeserving poor»

I found the stories about the workhouses particularly compelling, putting an historical complexion on current debates about «the undeserving poor» and cultures of worklessness.

The principals are an untamed 6 - year - old motel inmate (the superb Brooklynn Prince), who is always up for mischief and adventure; the girl's scuffling single mother (Bria Vinaite), whose elaborate tattoos and hair of a color not seen in nature advertise the fun - loving, dirty - minded defiance of one of the undeserving poor; and the motel's put - upon manager (Willem Dafoe, living his role without a moment's self - regard), whose kindness somehow keeps overcoming his disgust.

And if they refuse, it's party time for that layer of DWP workers who get off on humiliating the undeserving poor.

The marginalisation of the undeserving poor will place one group outwith society entirely over time and leave them less able to make choices about their own lives and less able to participate.

Asked about the way people like George Osborne have been using the welfare uprating bill to depict Labour as the party of «shirking» benefit claimaints, Clegg said: «I don't think it helps at all to try and portray that decision [the decision to pass a bill capping benefit rises at 1 %] as one which divides one set of people off against another, the deserving or the undeserving poor, in work or out of work.»

With the debate over welfare savings likely to form one of the central political battlegrounds of 2013, the deputy prime minister, speaking at a joint press conference with David Cameron at Downing Street, said: «I don't think it helps at all to try and portray that decision as one that divides one set of people against another, the deserving and the undeserving poor, people in work and out of work.»

On welfare, Diane said the Tory attacks, and bringing back a Victorian era deserving and undeserving poor, was the road to the workhouse and must be defeated.

After all, they are the ones losing out the most with regressive budgets, tabloid witch - hunts and their restoration as the undeserving poor.

The Tories are, as with most of their proposed cuts, using the opportunity to portray the recipients of housing benefit as the undeserving poor, to be contrasted with and despised by the squeezed middle.

Page after page of the speech concentrated on what is, to all intents and purposes, his modern update of the undeserving poor - this army of people milking benefits.

God does not divide the world into the deserving rich and the undeserving poor.

The line between «deserving poor» and «undeserving poor» is very, very hard to draw, and one of the things about poverty, whether one has work or not (some jobs pay so little that the people who do them are still well within the poverty trap), is that it is depressing, and actually saps the energy and nerve and vitality in ways that people like me, who have never been out of work and never been truly poor, can only appreciate by being with and ministering to people who are genuinely and chronically poor.

The Undeserving Poor: From the War on Poverty to the War on Welfare by michael b. katz pantheon books, 293 pages, $ 22.95 In The Undeserving Poor, there are two Michael Katzes on view, the historian and the social commentator, and the former is much the more persuasive.

In The Undeserving Poor, there are two Michael Katzes on view, the historian and the social commentator, and the former is much the more persuasive.

The Undeserving Poor is the best intellectual history of antipoverty policy I know.

Its covert purpose seems to be to exclude the «undeserving poor» from «handouts,» for it is based on the implicit assumption that chronically unemployed people who are neither disabled nor aged are able to find work.

However, on Premier's News Hour, Natalie Williams, co-author of the books, «A Church For The Poor» and «The Myth Of The Undeserving Poor - A Christian Response to Poverty in Britain Today» said that some efforts of the church were going unrecognised stating:

Not exact matches

If what goes through our minds is that we look at the poor as lesser, lazy, undeserving or ungrateful for our charity, we are not being Christ - like.

Applications for public housing from the deserving poor plummeted, and the BHA found it increasingly difficult not to grant space to the undeserving sort of families it had once been able to reject handily.

They have convinced their following that the poor have only themselves to blame, are lazy and sinful, and are undeserving of our love and assitance.

Katz, who teaches history at the University of Pennsylvania, sets out to describe American debates about the «undeserving» (working - aged) poor since the early 1960s.

Research from Christian charity Jubilee + found that although TV networks are «increasingly preoccupied with the subject of benefits and poverty», the coverage often perpetuates the myth that poor people are «undeserving».

I can't imagine why we changed our attitude to this poor, undeserving (of criticism) man!

This might enhance the sense of the welfare state as a system into which we all put in and from which we all take out, rather than a system of stigmatised transfers to the («undeserving») poor.

The BBC's Graham Satchell reports from one of the most deprived parts of the UK, the Falinge estate in Rochdale, on whether its residents feel there are «deserving» and «undeserving» poor.

«I would conclude by stating categorically and without any equivocation that ANY link whatsoever with Mr. President, or any court case or cases, of my personal gift from my personal resources delivered to Justice Niyi Ademola by myself on that occasion or any suggestion whatsoever that it was anything but such a gift or that it ever came from Mr. President or at his instance or that I was acting, under any circumstances, on his behalf is most malicious, utterly ridiculous and in very poor and revolting taste and most undeserving of any further comments.»

If there are undeserving rich who need to be squeezed does that imply that there are deserving poor?

«I would conclude by stating categorically and without any equivocation that ANY link whatsoever with Mr. President, or any court case or cases, of my personal gift from my personal resources delivered to Justice Niyi Ademola by myself on that occasion or any suggestion whatsoever that it was anything but such a gift or that it ever came from Mr President or at his instance or that I was acting, under any circumstances, on his behalf is most malicious, utterly ridiculous and in very very poor and revolting taste and most undeserving of any further comments.»

the powerpoint is slide with definitions of the impotent / undeserving / deserving poor 1.

Meanwhile the Obama administration's decision to allow waiver states to ditch the 100 percent proficiency target (which is really 92 percent or so once all the legal exceptions are in place) with supposedly «ambitious» yet «achievable» goals, has led many states to set Plessy v. Ferguson - like proficiency targets that essentially declare that poor and minority kids are undeserving of high - quality teaching and curricula.