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Close to half of American black families have advanced to the middle class, but their rise has only increased the frustration of an underclass that sees no way up. Says Harvard Social Psychologist Robert Bales: "When economic conditions get better, those who are left behind get angrier." Before their eyes dance television programs and commercials that show everybody enjoying a cornucopia of consumer goods-as if everybody should have them as a natural right. They feel no stake in a society that seems to deny them the opportunity to acquire those goods. Northwestern Political Scientist Ted Gurr, co-author...
...narcotics smuggling. Last week in New York City, an illegal Panamanian immigrant shot two policemen when they tried to arrest him in the course of a drug sale; one was killed. Says Charles Knapp, a troubleshooter for the U.S. Labor Department: "We're setting up a whole new underclass of people who are essentially outside...
...social therapy, and like personal therapy it is not easy." Kenneth Tollett, director of Washington's Institute for the Study of Education Policy, calls for busing to undergo "almost a cost-benefit analysis" to determine its worth. He notes further: "The difference is not blacks v. whites but underclass v. middle class...
...zone operates its own courts, hospital, schools and even postal service, but few of the 15,000 Panamanians who work there share in the luxury. They remain largely an underclass; of 214 Canal pilots, for example, only two are Panamanian, the rest U.S. citizens. Outside the zone, per capita income averages about $1,000 annually, dropping to $123 for the lowest fifth of the population. Inside the zone, it approximates the U.S. middle class norm. Until recently, even the zone's water fountains were segregated-some for Zonians only, others for the Panamanians...
...injustices that a capitalist society could perfectly well remedy?while remaining capitalist. The greatest need is to improve the lot of the poor, and for that purpose nothing can replace a resumption of noninflationary growth. But special help, more than they get now, will be needed by the underclass of citizens who cannot find a secure place in the market economy: reservation Indians and welfare mothers, among others. For them, society should provide some form of guaranteed income, an idea endorsed in the past by such conservatives as Richard Nixon and Milton Friedman. Conservatives note that it is better...