Word: underclass
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hypothesis has it that today's middle-and upper-middle-class youth are romantically willing themselves into an underclass, thus perhaps opening opportunities for the rising and ambitious children of blue-collar workers. Anyone who reads the latest report of Harvard College's Office for Graduate and Career Plans must at least entertain the possibility...
...education generally, with emphasis on remedial and preventive programs like Head Start, was designed to help their children. Finally, programs like VISTA aimed at enlisting other Americans in the war. Michael Harrington, whose 1962 book The Other America did much to focus affluent America's attention on its underclass, charges that federal statistics claiming advances amount to no more than the celebration of "paper triumphs." The evidence is with Harrington. While innovative, a number of the programs were excessively costly, poorly administered and subject to failure because of the inability of federal, state and local officials to unite effectively. Even...
...could not, states Williams, relate to the black underclass or understand its impatience with a system that refused to recognize its legitimate demands. Because of this lack of understanding, the angry Williams charges, King did what no black leader can afford to do if he is really to influence white society: he compromised. Says Williams: "Compromises that seem to favor black people have always turned out to be defeats for them. 'Political expediency' is nonexistent for Negroes. The demands made must be stood...