Word: underclasses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Most people in prisons are repent offenders, in part because there in hardly enough room in the nation's prisons for first time criminals, but also because our society is developing an underclass of common criminally. The National Coalition for Jail Reform reports that, of the 500,000 women who spent time in jail during 1984, 58 percent had lived on less that $3000 a year and 92 percent had lived on less than $10,000 a year. Clearly, prostitution, drug use, mugging and petty crimes are associated with lack of economic opportunity and of social infrastructure. Without services like...
...that the home team gets to suspend Rule 1 whenever it wants to flaunt its self- assurance. Cynthia Pickles, local ice princess and founder of Overview ("a journal of opinion for all sides"), coolly sleeps with Teeters, accepts his nuptial propositions but marries smooth, rich Jerry Chirouble. Pickles' underclass equivalent is Toby Snapper, a waitress whose services to Teeters include imitations of a pliant Cockney maid...
Harvard Liberalism, A healthy regard for toleration, diversity, and the rights and interests of the underclass. Galbraith, Schlesinger, the Kennedys. That's the model that draws us here, but how much of it is real? How much of what is asserted in the name of liberalism on this campus is merely enlightened self-interest that disappears when out own lives are at stake? Does principled opposition to the death penalty evaporate when the victim is one of us? The evidence does not support the answer we like to hear...
...Ground points out what a disaster those programs have been in terms of decreasing labor force participation among low income families, declining school attendance, family break-ups, etc. The bottom line, as he notes, is that poverty stopped declining as the programs went into effect, and a new dependent underclass has been unintentionally nurtured. However, budget cuts in this area would seem to require a greater role for the private sector in providing jobs, perhaps subsidized by government. Unless the business community gets involved, and recognizes that a reduced role for government requires an expanded commitment from the private sector...
Central American nations rely on the U.S. to absorb much of their overflow population through legal and illegal immigration. If our Government continues to oblige these countries, our standard of living will be reduced and a new poverty-stricken underclass will come into being. Central America will not begin serious birth control programs until it knows that expansion to the north will be limited...