Word: underclass
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...your discussion of remedies for the awful problems of "The American Underclass" you seem to have left out the most necessary first step, perhaps the most important answer of all: birth control...
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...your debt for making visible and understandable the plight of America's underclass...
...sick and tired of hearing about the underclass. What about those of us who spend thousands of dollars and many years to better ourselves through education only to find there are no jobs for our skills? Let's stop concentrating on the underclass and start helping the educated; maybe then more jobs will open up for the poor. After all, where does the future of our country lie, with the educated, or with the poor, or with the poor educated...
...programs would work better if private business had a bigger voice in designing and managing them. Perhaps businessmen, who as a class are effective at solving problems and getting things done, could bid on projects to raze and rebuild sections of the underclass ghettos, providing shops, industries and services on a model?and ultimately profitmaking?basis. Business could also take over much of the job training now carried out in government centers under federal programs and probably do it better and cheaper and even profitably. Tax incentives, for example, could be designed to reward employers who hire the long-term...