Sentences with phrase «working class struggle»
He may have masterfully exploited the despair of the precariat to his own advantage, yet it is the precariat, the working class struggling with chronic and manifold precarity, that is using him as a weapon against the invisible oppressive hand of neoliberalism that has ravaged the middle class since the late 1970s.
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Lee's plans are not silver bullets, but they can be part of an economic agenda that can appeal to persuadable Hispanics and African Americans (who — due to residency patterns — are more likely to live near people who are economically struggling) and working - class whites.
But one reason Romney lost is that too many struggling, working - class Americans thought he — to cut the taxes of really rich guys — wanted that too.
If we are going to avoid single - payer, we will need a plan that liberalizes (and cheapens) access to routine healthcare while offering affordable catastrophic health insurance to the struggling working class.
These working - class Trump voters were not poor, and their own lives were not a mess, but they were the neighbors, siblings, parents, and grandparents of those who were struggling to form families.
Foreign - born workers are going to have American - born children and those children will face the struggles common throughout the struggling American working - class.
Not only its aesthetic value, which is apparent in the power of its expression, in the depth of its sensitivity, and in its monumental structure; but also its content — the bold and colossal struggle with the ancient, and at the same time always new, human problem of the meaning of suffering — all this puts the work, in its universal significance, in a class with Dante's Divine Comedy and Goethe's Faust.8
In other words, they saw clearly that along with the struggle for justice for the industrial working class, we must simultaneously go forward with the liberation of dalits, tribals and women if we have to realize an Indian socialism.
The struggling working class and disintegrating middle class yearn for a stable place to stand, not greater economic freedom.
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But above all, it includes the countless ordinary citizens, who knew nothing of Locke or Burke or Thomas or Aristotle, who've struggled and worked and fought and died so that they might live under a government responsible to their will, and constrained to regard them as free men and women rather than as members of a class, church, guild, tribe, town, or race.
We started out with the proposition that the ideal of a fraternal organization of society will remain powerless if it is supported by idealists only; that it needs the firm support of a solid class whose economic future is staked on the success of that ideal; and that the industrial working class is consciously or unconsciously committed to the struggle for the realization of that principle.
Recognizing that wining over working - class swing voters (or non-working-class voters with many struggling people in their social networks) requires, at minimum, addressing the everyday concerns of those voters — and recognizing that the fates of American working - class voters of all races and ethnicities are linked.
Karl Marx (1818 - 83) too was critical of religion, which obscured the struggle for power of the working classes.
While many students struggle with wasting time, others plunge into classes and work, believing constant busyness equals purposeful living.
However one would get a rather different impression of the state reading Karen Tumulty's piece in the Washington Post on West Virginia's economic struggles, the plight of working class whites, and their changing....
It is an article of faith with every devout Communist that the working out of the class struggle will eventually bring the Communist Party to power in every part of the world.
At the start of the season I said to my work colleagues that I feared relegation could be Wengers final destination and even they non Arsenal fans could not see it happening, I still fear it if Wenger honours his contract, we have become a below average team struggling for confidence and form, lacking guile and class and truly world class players because sorry Mesut is not showing he is for me.
From what he could see, the parents taking their seats in the auditorium were the ones he had hoped to attract: typical Harlem residents, mostly African American, some Hispanic, almost all poor or working class, all struggling to one degree or another with the challenges of raising and educating children in one of New York City's most impoverished neighborhoods.
IS 318 was in South Williamsburg, near the border of Bedford - Stuyvesant — its most famous graduate was the rapper Jay - Z, who grew up in the nearby Marcy housing project — and the team reflected the student body; the students» families were mostly from the struggling working class, and the majority of their parents were employed but not college educated.
He embodied the American Dream, a nobody who became a somebody, an everyday, struggling, working class American who became a hero.
She also teaches prenatal breastfeeding and childbirth classes in the hospital setting, is working on her second book, and goes around the world speaking to other breastfeeding professionals about how to support new families through their breastfeeding struggles.
She also teaches prenatal breastfeeding classes, is working on her second book, and goes around the world speaking to other breastfeeding professionals about how to support new families through their breastfeeding struggles.
It's the working class she will struggle with.
As the current protest has grown, it has rekindled a desire for change amongst lower - working class citizens, as their daily struggle has finally returned to centre - stage of political debate.
While Trump may increase the white, working class Republican vote, Clinton may struggle to retain Obama's youth and non-white votes.
«Anyone who opposes this measure and truly believes we should go back to the old way of doing business is out of touch with reality and the struggles of working and middle class suburban families.»
«The IDC is going to make a positive change for New York's working - and middle - class families who struggle to send their children to college through our College Affordability for All plan, make sure our teenagers are treated as such by Raising the Age of criminal responsibility and create good - paying jobs through our Made by New Yorkers vision.»
This includes past struggles, victories and defeats which have been experienced by the party, trade union movement and working classes.
«I struggle with how the particular facts cited on eg working hours or racism can be «ahistorical», but look forward to finding out...» Perhaps you are labouring under the middle class leftwing relativism that believes that history is all just opinion, and that all facts are thereby historical.
A young woman juggling an entry - level administrative job and classes at a community college; a divorced dad working 40 hours a week as a custodian to help support his two kids; a veteran trying to make a living back home after serving our country overseas: They, and millions of other hard - working Americans, struggle to make ends meet because their jobs pay low wages.
His experience, ability to work well with others and thoughtful insight on many issues make him a fighter for the middle class and those struggling to make it.
«Labor Day is a day we celebrate the great American work ethic and those hardworking men and women who struggled to provide us with workers» rights and deliver us today's landmarks of middle class security, including the 40 - hour work week, child labor laws, pensions, a minimum wage, Social Security and Medicare.
Tony McNulty, the local MP, struggled to keep a straight face as he denied that Britain's struggling working class have a legitimate grievance against the Government and defended multi-culturalism.
Furthermore, it does not attempt to pay for health care on the backs of middle class working families by increasing taxes on the health care that families are already struggling to pay for», stated Hughes.
«When Poor and Working Class New Yorkers are struggling to attend SUNY schools because of rising tuition, I find it insulting that Governor Cuomo would propose a plan that gives tax breaks to wealthy corporations simply for their proximity to a SUNY campus.
«My priority and I think really the position of our members is let's make sure we're taking care of the hard - working members of the struggling middle class.»
Also in the book, Dagenham MP (and Labour policy co-coordinator) Jon Cruddas says Labour's «metropolitan squeamishness» meant it struggled to relate to English working - class voters in the run - up the election.
Middle class and working class New Yorkers feel it most, as do struggling small business owners and employees.
Paul Nuttall could struggle with his latest plans to win over working class voters (and a certain former leader).
I see the rich still living it up in the Hamptons and Park Avenue, while the working class still struggles to pay rent and the like, so don't tell me they cant afford it, they have lawyers and accountants that help them hide the money.
«I grew up working class and our family like many today struggled to make ends meet.»
«Closing the budget gap, getting New Yorkers back to work, and giving struggling Middle Class New Yorkers the support they need to survive is the challenge we all face.
A time when the middle class is shrinking and New York working families are struggling to get by.
«Given the damaging and destructive tax and budget policies coming out of Washington that seem to target poor and working class families, it's good to know that our state has some countermeasures in place that actually help struggling New Yorkers,» said Ron Deutsch of the Fiscal Policy Institute, a labor - backed group that lobbies for the working poor.
Asked why he wanted to run, Lyons said he'd like to stand up for middle class and working class families struggling right now against high taxes and government that doesn't work in their interest.
We have become so hooked in this country on bending over backwards for every ethnic minority - a community centre here, an acceptance of a reluctance to learn English there — that we have forgotten the group that is struggling the most — the white working class.
Sure, I still struggle with those bad body image days, but I always can go to gym class and see where I've improved and I know I am working on the best version of myself.
It's my last semester of college, and between the seven classes I'm taking in order to graduate, work, a side job (more on that later), job hunting, this blog, and trying to make the most out of my last semester with all of my friends here (some of whom I'm not sure when I'll see again after graduation), I'm struggling to stay sane.
Sure, Carver has lost his moral compass when it comes to shady dealings with struggling working - class folks, yet he's believable when relaying a speech about being forced into such bottom feeding when circumstances threatened his own livelihood.