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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Long-term unemployment is a factor in that. Many members of the underclass come from the ranks of the 1,061,000 workers who are listed as "discouraged" because they have given up even looking for jobs. To that number can be added the entrenched welfare mothers: at least 2.4...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The American Underclass | 8/29/1977 | See Source »

(5 of 10) Donald Williams, 29, an ex-junkie, scuffs the streets of New York City as a panhandler. A former student at North Carolina Central University, he says that he was thrown out because he took part in a student demonstration. Williams' lament: "My values are gone. You're...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The American Underclass | 8/29/1977 | See Source »

Arledge goes first-class. Given a big news budget (ABC is no longer the cheapo among network news operations), he has recently hired such good people as Av Westin, Cassie Mackin, Sander Vanocur. Impatient with all the "back to New York" cues between items, Arledge is setting up what he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEWSWATCH by Thomas Griffith: Revving Up the Television News | 8/22/1977 | See Source »

Blacks, whites, men and women: all fall before Pryor's humor, which can sometimes be, Cohen notwithstanding, about as compassionate as a firing squad. As the Rev. James L. White, dressed in silver sequins and high-heeled silver boots, he takes on all black TV and radio preachers. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: A New Black Superstar | 8/22/1977 | See Source »

When he talks about whites, Pryor possessed by Richard Pryor-can be almost as lethal as "Big Daddy." In the U.S., he says, "they give niggers time as if they were giving lunch. You go [to court] looking for justice, and that's just what you find -just us...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: A New Black Superstar | 8/22/1977 | See Source »

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