Word: underclass
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...injustices that a capitalist society could perfectly well remedy?while remaining capitalist. The greatest need is to improve the lot of the poor, and for that purpose nothing can replace a resumption of noninflationary growth. But special help, more than they get now, will be needed by the underclass of citizens who cannot find a secure place in the market economy: reservation Indians and welfare mothers, among others. For them, society should provide some form of guaranteed income, an idea endorsed in the past by such conservatives as Richard Nixon and Milton Friedman. Conservatives note that it is better...
...TIME has done a cover story on blacks [June 17] that gives an underclass black reader the enlightening facts about our brothers and sisters who are together, educated and successful. Your reporters should be congratulated...
...semiskilled, and need for them is declining as technology advances. Less than 40% of the U.S. labor force holds such jobs today; more than 25% of all jobs are professional and managerial. This means there are great opportunities for educated, middle-class blacks, but severely narrow options for the underclass...
...train unskilled blacks and other hard-core unemployed had mixed results, and these efforts have been cut back. Six years ago, almost half of the people enrolled in the programs were black; today only one-third of the trainees are black. One reason is that many in the underclass have become discouraged with the programs. The Labor Department reports that 160,000 blacks are no longer even bothering to look for work because of what it calls "discouragement over job prospects." Says Robert S. Browne, director of the Black Economic Research Center based in Harlem: "I look out my window...
...black underclass has scored some surprising gains in housing. The Department of Housing and Urban Development reports sharp declines since 1960 in both overcrowding in black ghetto housing and in the number of houses and apartments without complete plumbing...