Word: hardships
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...headlines. Why? Swissair Flight 111 crashed. For a few days, no one was interested in the President's extra-marital affairs. For a few days, the news was about important world events. What did it take for this to happen? Certainly not the economic troubles of Russia. The economic hardship of millions of people was not news enough to make us forget about Monica...
...There are people who works at night and sleep during the day or work at home and for them it's real hardship," Crystal said...
...attribute their own unemployment to minorities, welfare recipients, women entering the workforce--almost anything but de-industrialization. And it sometimes seems as though the authors intentionally put an asymetric focus on more ignorant, sensationalized interviewees. What is distressing is the litany of men who especially blame women for economic hardship. As one Buffalo resident named Larry reflects, "I still think that the meaning of maleness is go out, earn a living, support a family." His friend, Mike, also chimes, "Exactly...like it was in `Leave it to Beaver' times when the man went out and the woman stayed home." Incredibly...
Although Fine and Weis are careful to point out the flaws of scapegoating, they too jump on the blame band wagon. Ostensibly, a cause for this economic hardship is required in their analysis; they attribute it as "demonic" legislation passed by congress. But an egregious analytical flaw creeps in. The authors never explicitly detail the legislation or explore how it splintered the inner city. As a result, it becomes unsatisfying to read hundreds of pages of inner city problems and receive only casual reference to what caused them...
...painful to go through that," he says. "I had got so immersed that while I was still connected to my family on one level, I left them behind. So when I came back to the real world, there were some problems I began to see... That hardship was devastating...