Word: underclasses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some gutted. I see vacant lots and weeds," says Congressman Louis Stokes of Cleveland. "I see these guys standing around doing nothing. I feel so helpless, so hopeless. We're passing from one generation to another a group of people who are hopelessly locked into a permanent underclass...
...wealth and variety of things they could and would buy were a wonderment: boats, Winnebagos, hair transplants, facelifts, sensitivity training, hot tubs, snowmobiles, automatic garage doors, video-tape recorders, sound systems, breast implants, tennis ball servers, openly sold pornography targeted to the most elaborate perversions. If an underclass was being left behind in the South Bronx (and the fire in the civil rights movement guttered out), most American consumers lived in a world of far greater opulence, variety and mobility than any generation in history. The economy, a $1.4 trillion-a-year wonder, pumped out enough goods to make...