Word: hardships
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...EXTENT that this newfound solidarity is the common bond of hardship, it cannot be seen as a triumph of the civil rights movement, but rather a failure of American society at large to take equality to heart. The poverty level now stands at 15 percent--the highest since 1965 when President Johnson launched the War on Poverty. Amid the relative prosperity of the early 60s, primarily Blacks were relegated to this lowest income strata. The "equalizing" twist of the 80s is that under Reagan-styled economic Darwinism. Americans are now willing to sacrifice white families as well in order...
...clear that something undefinable but palpable had changed. Whether that was good news or bad was another question. The first trip produced the optimism and euphoria that led to the creation of Solidarity, but it would be difficult to dare hope this time that anything but more frustration, hardship and agony lay in store for the long-suffering Polish nation...
More seriously, the ugly side effects of economic hardship are still brewing throughout the country. The underlying hatred and prejudice which often plague race relations, and which are always exacerbated when groups fight over a limited pie, came out in especially bitter form in Chicago, where Democrat Harold Washington almost lost his party the mayoralty for the first time in five decades, simply because he was Black. And even the potential recovery on the horizon will not be for everyone, as the mass migration to the Sunbelt continues, while the cities of the industrial Northeast and Midwest are left...
Equality and simplicity are what our tax system desperately needs. The flat tax would be the solution. If the poor would suffer undue hardship under this system, their plight could be lightened with benefits such as Medicaid and food stamps...
...since they receive no state or local aid. Conservative estimates place current unemployment on reservations at about 40 percent: the figure may be high as 80 percent Clearly, the development projects begun by some tribes (such as tapping energy resources) cannot immediately or completely answer this pressing level of hardship. Calls for tribal self-sufficiency, in this light, become an Administration pretext for abandoning Native Americans...