Word: underclass
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...problems tearing apart America's inner-cities. In the face of rampant crime, drug use and teen pregnancy, many Black leaders simply turn up the rhetoric and make excuses for these social diseases and--most recently--for Marion Barry. In doing so, they seem intent upon driving the Black underclass into further turmoil...
Conventional government intervention has largely failed, notably in the chaotic and counterproductive welfare system, which is at once too lax and too rigid. We have been more successful than is often realized in ending or alleviating certain kinds of poverty. The underclass, with its devastated family life, its single mothers and routine teenage pregnancies (among black teenagers, nearly 90% of babies are born out of wedlock), is a nightmare reproach to America. But it is also a relatively isolated phenomenon -- far more so than the poverty that festered behind the proud facades of Victorian England, for example. It requires separate...
...dedicated man, Hookes and the civil rights lobby are fast becoming irrelevant to the growing underclass--composed largely of Blacks--who live in constant fear of crime, attend delapidated schools, and possess few of the minimal qualifications (such as literacy) necessary for advancement...
...well-known liberal sociologist William Julius Wilson (who is Black) has observed, race-conscious policies "benefit the relatively advantaged segments of the designated groups" while the underclass remains "severely underrepresented among those who have actually benefited from such programs...
...quickly defining the focus of his section. "Our job is to address the two biggest issues facing the U.S.: how America redefines its role in the post-cold war world, and how we will deal with a host of unsolved domestic problems, from the growth of the urban underclass to rebuilding the infrastructure," says White...