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Though most of the membership is drawn from the impoverished underclass, an increasing number of recruits from middle-class families have been lured by the promise of quick financial rewards. Taylor also discovered that female gangs, once considered relatively harmless adjuncts to male crews, have become dangerous, independent groups. In an interview with Taylor's research team, one female gang member bragged of ousting unwanted guests who tried to "bum rush" a party. The guests fled, she said, after "I cut loose on their fake asses with that...
...record of the largest Asian ethnic group in the U.S. is ambivalent, with success stories alternating with tales of the underclass. Numbering nearly 1 million in California alone, Filipinos have found their situation complicated by the practice of pressing the Philippine immigration level -- currently close to 50,000 a year -- to the fullest in order to bring along as many relatives as possible, including those who have little education and work experience...
...liberalism safe for Democrats again, has instead made them boring. If a liberal is someone with his feet firmly planted in the air, a neo-liberal is the deadweight tethering him to the ground. Problems liberals were accused of throwing money at -- like poverty, homelessness, urban decay and the underclass -- have given way to two-hour symposiums on "New Strategies for Economic Security: Developing America's Human Capital...
...record 22,508 last year, as ever younger children worked ever longer hours at jobs no one else would take for the pay. Though the majority of underage workers are middle-class teens supplementing their allowances, many are undocumented immigrants or impoverished members of the urban underclass...
What needs to be done is not to bolster the courage of sheltered Harvard students so that they can look a homeless person in the eye, but to question the system that lets people fall through the cracks into an underclass from which there is very little hope of return. Housing is a right, not a luxury. Attitudes like Smith's encourage the denial of basic rights of citizens in a country that prides itself on democracy and justice...