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Political strategists talk about "wedge issues," meaning issues that pry voters away from their traditional allegiances. Welfare is the classic wedge issue. Conservative welfare reformers may say their primary concern is to liberate the poor from the shackles of their underclass culture, and some of them may even believe it. But only the most naive or cynical among them would deny that the political potency of the welfare issue derives mostly from resentment of the poor as leeches on society, not from sympathy for their plight. This resentment may be justified or it may not, but encouraging and exploiting...
...cost could be larger still. The budget deficit is not only a grave problem in itself, a theft of resources from the next generation, but also one reason politicians feel too strapped for cash to earnestly confront the other leading contender for gravest problem: the existence of an urban underclass. This sort of predicament is what the Founders designed representative democracy to solve. "They saw the public interest as a transcendent thing that enlightened people would be able to see and promote. It wasn't just a question of adding up all the interests," says historian Gordon Wood, author...
...recently reinforced by the racist discourse found in The Bell Curve, by Charles A. Murray '65 and the late Harvard professor Richard J. Herrnstein), you should be formulating week-by-week and month-by-month numerous projects to assist that long-haul task of outfitting the Black poor and underclass youth to read adequately, to manage math, to replace vulgarity with beauty, to overcome hyper-macho, anarchic and anti-humanistic values and personal identities...
...should be formulating week-by-week and month-by-month numerous projects to assist that long-haul task of outfitting the Black poor and underclass youth to read adequately, to manage math, to replace vulgarity with beauty, to overcome hyper-macho, anarchic, and anti-humanistic values and personal identities," Kilson wrote...
...proud of Kennedy's role in the Senate as a champion of civil rights and women's equality. But those fights have largely been won and now the battle has moved to different fronts. Today, the pressing question is how to lift up the underclass. On this issue, Kennedy offers little that hasn't already been tried unsuccessfully...