Word: underclass
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...others see an injustice here: a fixation with the violence that rarely befalls members of rich or famous families--the JonBenets or Ennis Cosbys of the world--and a glossing over of the more pervasive violence sweeping through the lives of the poor. "No one is surprised when an underclass kid is raped or killed," says Patrick Murphy, the Cook County Public Guardian. "I think we expect these kids to get killed. It's not that people don't care. It's that they yawn. Whereas if it's a blond-haired, blue-eyed kid, they all go crazy...
With that, the liberal Senator vowed to travel coast-to-coast to champion the causes of the underclass, as Robert F. Kennedy '48 and Eleanor Roosevelt did before...
Warning: Intended for seniors. Underclass students may not understand...
...presidency to empower progressive social movements. The organizing drive of labor's [John] Sweeney is vital as the voice of the worker. Civil rights leaders like [Kweisi] Mfume at the N.A.A.C.P. deserve Clinton's help to focus on the problems of the inner cities and the permanent underclass. Young people should be empowered by the President to get into public service, teaching and combatting poverty and discrimination...
Unlike such other recent works on the underclass conundrum as William Julius Wilson's When Work Disappears, Rosa Lee proffers neither theories nor proposals. Instead, Dash allows Cunningham's life story to speak for itself in all its depressing complexity. Cunningham's case was extreme even by the standards of the underclass, but it speaks volumes about the devastating combination of circumstance and personal flaws that condemns them to misery. By refusing to be judgmental, Dash illuminates the simplistic limitations on the far ends of the welfare debate. It is a problem, he strongly implies, for which neither side...