How To Use Underclass In A Sentence

Accompanying the exclusion from the labour market has been a policy of disenfranchising the underclass from full welfare citizenship.
I think the real target oftentimes is not the underclass so much as it is college students.
Even then, John was a seasoned veteran of local politics; for the last quarter century, he has championed the rights and the needs of the homeless and low-income tenants, the forgotten underclasses of a city that hates the poor.
Community and self respect must be returned to the underclass or there will never be enough social workers to prevent this underside of Britain festering. Archive 2007-11-18
There will be no deferments; seniors will be allowed to finish the year, and underclassmen will only be allowed to finish the semester.

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Her writings reflect her commitment to the underclass whose lives are often portrayed inaccurately in American literature.
At least one top NBA scout has been telling college underclassmen who might be borderline first-round picks this June that it's better to wait for the 2005 draft.
Thomas Maier, author of a well documented history of the clan, called him, ‘a tribune for the underclass’, and he was that.
Society is creating an underclass without standards, principles or decency, but nobody seems to recognise this, let alone be doing anything about it.
We have four black belts and as many 'underclassmen'. JujitsuBlog.com
He added: ‘There is a risk of developing an uninsurable underclass, who will not be able to get affordable cover or perhaps even get it at all, unless we can be sure that no one will feel under pressure to reveal their genetic data.’
Such exclusion from citizenship is again the mark of the underclass.
New levels were added to cover the underclass of people who have never worked and the long-term unemployed.
Is it any wonder that there are groups among the economic underclass who reckon that what's good for the goose is good for the gander?
This does not mean that the younger members of the underclass pose no threat to public order.
It is the loss of a comprehensive approach to citizenship that makes it appropriate to talk in terms of an emerging underclass.
The long - term unemployed now constitute a sort of underclass.
A closer look at the top defensive backs in this year's draft (school, height and weight listed; * indicates underclassman). Draft stock: Defensive backs offer deep class of solid performers
This year was also different because - although there was a pretty talented senior class - the gems of the camp were underclassmen.
It will simply swell the criminal underclass that the government seeks to eradicate.
Further, African American vernacular is * not* only spoken by an urban underclass, and suggesting it is is insulting. Matthew Yglesias » Harry Reid’s WTF Moment
In one sense, campaigns often help foster a permanent underclass in politics.
Generation after generation of families of families, systematically marginalised by their supposed betters and tranquillised by welfare and drugs, are doomed to the underclass.
The greater part of the underclass consists of members of minority groups, blacks or people of Hispanic origin.
“The regime may not have eradicated poverty nor appreciatively narrowed the gap between rich and poor but it has provided the underclass with a safety net,” writes Abrahamian. Let the Swords Encircle Me
They chain-smoked and pushed around skinny underclassmen for laughs.
The upper class has a welfare dependency problem as well as the underclass. Times, Sunday Times
The couples variously consider the underclass shirkers or victims, but the savviest view the poor with fear. Times, Sunday Times
And it is because New Zealand has such a large underclass that its social statistics are so bad. Times, Sunday Times
The greater part of the underclass consists of members of minority groups, blacks or people of Hispanic origin.
Should we be devoting more public resources to the young or the old, the business class or the underclass?
Will screening create a new underclass of the uninsurable and the unemployable?
Certainly, the sociological landscape is familiar - a nation in which an educated, privileged elite suppresses a servile, but restless underclass, giving rise to a growing insurrection.
But what about the inrushing permanent underclass from the south, and the outrushing middle class, headed inland away from the high taxes, racial tension, and cultural chaos? Matthew Yglesias » Enforcement
To Brenda's humiliation, most of the students riding the bus were underclassmen; she was one of the few seniors who hadn't been able to secure a vehicle of her own.
“The number of underclassmen is about the same as it’s been, but the quality of the underclassmen is a lot higher. KansasCity.com: Front Page
Whatever, let's just play, I don't want to have to deal with immature underclassmen.
By that, I don't mean the beer they drank or the feces they threw at the underclassmen; I mean the mentality.
It almost feels normal sitting in English class, except that there are the underclassmen who look in the doorway to look at me.
Her advice to underclassmen is to "work really hard, and it will pay off. Morning Sentinel News
It is the loss of a comprehensive approach to citizenship that makes it appropriate to talk in terms of an emerging underclass.
As the name suggests - Alliance for a Republic of Equals - her party is a populist movement that would attack the mounting social problems with greater energy and deploy a safety net for the declassed and the underclass.
They have brought with them from the trade union covens the unreconstructed prejudices of an underclass.
Regardless, in coming years more and more of the league will be made up of foreigners, high-school seniors, and underclassmen.
Whatever happened to underclassmen's restriction from Senior Hall, she wondered, as she turned to face him.
From the outset, a dilapidated building - dark, dingy and dangerous - mirrors the standard of care for the agglomerated, forgotten Brazilian criminal underclass.
This underclass has been isolated further by a crucial change in the political climate.
In your final paragraph you suggest that the underclass is a stain on our society, which suggests we somehow create it.
the marginalization of the underclass
The upperclassmen have set a great example in their work ethic, and the underclassmen continue to impress with their improvement.
Having surveyed the underclass ‘dens’ more times than I care (or want) to remember or to blog about, I am sure Retired Sgt is right. What will the Magistrates do? « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
Over the past year, the families of several high-school seniors have contacted Vaccaro about the European option, he said, and he has identified eight underclassmen, some as young as freshmen, “who are interested when the time comes.” Million Dollar Basketball Babies
University of Dayton officials say they keep a close eye on underclassmen in dormitories where smoke alarms are connected to emergency dispatch centers, sprinkler systems are more common, and fire drills are performed. USATODAY.com - Alcohol and fire a deadly mix
The basic problems of the inner-city underclass are inadequate housing and lack of jobs.
The upper class has a welfare dependency problem as well as the underclass. Times, Sunday Times
More importantly, this interaction is now playing a crucial part in excluding the underclass from the mainstream of society.
This underclass has been isolated further by a crucial change in the political climate.
There is also the growing underclass of young unemployed people who have little prospect of moving upwards.
The most underclassmen to enter the draft (54) came in 2001 and 2003. Houston Chronicle
Did you think the word underclass refers to those left out of most privileges afforded by society?
The long - term unemployed now constitute a sort of underclass.
Together they exposed the plight of the elderly, the grinding poverty experienced by the urban underclass and the Dickensian horrors of the conditions in some mental hospitals. Times, Sunday Times
Yet, the nouveau riche are vastly outnumbered by a huge underclass of desperately poor people.
The travelling bluesman was the poet and entertainer of an underclass within the underclass.
The long-term unemployed are becoming a new underclass.
Money, fame and an apple-cheeked freshness were being taken down by the seething underclasses.
These boys were painted by the authorities as monsters, symbolic of everything from the collapse of family values to the rise of a feral underclass.
If our welfare and education systems had not created an underclass of feral youths, he and his friends would not have been the victims of mob violence.
Perhaps the talk would've been somewhat funny under another circumstance, but with the way she slurred her words, all of the underclassmen present were too worried to utter so much as a giggle.
Today's 'overclass' is as socially excluded as yesterday's underclass. Times, Sunday Times
It hadn't mattered to him that much until recently, when he heard an underclassmen refer to him as, ‘Bryans friend.’
Mostly, it was the underclasses that disappeared - the poor, the despised religious or ethnic minority.
It's sure not the black underclass he's talking about - just go on down to a majority-black underclass neighborhood some evening and see how much harmoniousness you experience. "Soldiers in Iraq Say Pullout Would Have Devastating Results."
Indeed, in this era of flexitime and homeworking, daytime pyjama-wearing can just as easily signify work hard, lonely, selfless work as lack of work – unless the humble homeworker is now considered to be part of the "underclass"? The camera does sometimes lie. Ask a female politician | Barbara Ellen
He lived among coal miners for a time to experience the wretched conditions of the underclass during that era.
It made it sound a little bit cooler to be down there to all the underclassmen and seniors not doing the dual-credit stuff.
Nor will this underclass disappear without the implementation of a series of policies aimed at re-establishing full citizenship.
He believes that unemployment is socially divisive and is leading to the creation of an underclass.
He believes that unemployment is socially divisive and is leading to the creation of an underclass.
Current and former midshipmen say synthetic marijuana appeared at the academy around March 2010 when a senior brought some to campus and began selling it to underclassmen. Synthetic marijuana widely used at Naval Academy, some midshipmen say
He believes that unemployment is socially divisive and is leading to the creation of an underclass.
When liberal middle class voices shout for legalization they are talking about sly spliffs under the kitchen table rather than the collapse of underclass Britain in to a drug induced haze.
underclass mothers and children
The buppies (black urban professionals) generally condemn the B-boys (break boys, the rappers), individuals molded by the tragedies of underclass life.
If underclassmen had friends off campus, and upperclassmen had more friends on campus, everyone would mix more.
The number of underclassmen is about the same as it's been, but the quality of the underclassmen is a lot higher. KansasCity.com: Front Page
This has raised the spectre of an new underclass and highlights contentious issues of the class nature of the open-door policy in the country.
Both sets of inquiries pointed to the existence of a degenerate underclass of the population which formed a residual pool of infection.
UniversityChic.com writer Erin Cunningham is an underclassman at George Washington University. Christie Garton: Men Want Marriage More Than Women, Study Finds
Generation after generation of families of families, systematically marginalised by their supposed betters and tranquillised by welfare and drugs, are doomed to the underclass.
In previous history the middle classes have always kept one step a head of the hordes of working classes and its offshoots the underclass.
The NFL announced the 65 underclassmen who have been declared eligible for the 2012 draft, and there's a name missing from that list that will certainly have people interested: Chris Polk. The Seattle Times
From this perspective, the rioters are not a unique group but rather are comparable to others in the urban underclass.
The anti-social behaviour of male chavs seems to reflect their realisation that they are an underclass, not really needed any more, except when young for unskilled manual jobs.
No city has succeeded when it has two spatially segregated underclasses.
Suddenly they've got the precariousness of creatives, of the underclass, without that gleeful experience of decades spent living-it-up. January 2009
He likes one of the underclassmen, so he'd probably appreciate it a little more.
The recently urbanized underclasses are particularly susceptible to the messages of populist preachers.
From this perspective, the rioters are not a unique group but rather are comparable to others in the urban underclass.
One underclassman sprinted down the hall as though with an urgent question. Gordon Marino: The Fighter Comes to Chicago's Leo High School
Early reports listed the title heroine's name as "Maddy", a supposedly underclass name that has been changed, under protest to the crystalline "Tiana. Open Democracy News Analysis - Comments
Much of this goes for the underclass of whites too and it amuses me that behind much of the do-gooding is a latent racism so ingrained that it takes a Boris Johnson to detect it. Archive 2007-08-05
In 1970, he challenged the NBA's rule of not allowing underclassmen to join the NBA.
For her part, Emily hopes that ‘graduate-level pharmacy students won't be separated from the underclassmen’.
Band standing because you think bobby is overreaching his authority or stigmatizing others will not stop lawless underclass types “stickin it in” others on da streets. Knife Crime Spin. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
Pop music is a vehicle for the marginalised urban underclass. Times, Sunday Times
Still in my head and in my style of living I'm very much underclass, working class.
It throws more and more below the poverty line each year, thus increasing the ranks of the feared ‘underclass’ who might well explode into orgiastic criminality and expropriation at any moment.
We indicated that underclassmen rated that teacher higher than upperclassmen.
What most people seem to be missing, however, is that he's still not much more than a glorified landlord who crassly flaunts his wealth in front of the unwashed American underclasses.
It is the loss of a comprehensive approach to citizenship that makes it appropriate to talk in terms of an emerging underclass.
As high school seniors and college underclassmen enter the draft in increasing numbers, NBA teams are changing their approach.
Yet despite this hard-edged injustice, Indianapolis's black migrants didn't sit on their hands or become an underclass.
She could participate in either program, but we don't allow a double-major for underclassmen.
Second, the evidence refutes the notion that the underclass syndrome is ironclad.
Indeed, Mr. Perry learned during his college years that leadership often involves charm and charisma more than displays of dazzling intellect, and that surviving a trial by fire—in his case, the hazing underclassman endured in the corps—strengthens one's character. The Tao of Perry: Just Be an Aggie
At the time, the virtue of marriage as a civilizer of men was a major conservative theme in the debate about the underclass.
Rob, you will find that the general definition of underclass her is not the one you tried to stick on the debate “someone who behaves in a yobbish and violent manner.” What will the Magistrates do? « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
Will screening create a new underclass of the uninsurable and the unemployable?
This fiction is realistic, often portraying the lives of common people and the underclass in the face of adversity.
From this perspective, the rioters are not a unique group but rather are comparable to others in the urban underclass.
There is also the growing underclass of young unemployed people who have little prospect of moving upwards.
They are the cosmopolitan sophisticates who recoil in horror from the beery racism of the ignorant underclass.
It spoke of the hurt as well as the hopes and aspirations of an underclass.
The servants in Middleton's play represent an underclass that lives and thrives by irony, especially the irony of noble birth.
Time for what The Landed Underclass calls a "harrumph". Libertarian Blog Place
Never have we seen gathered in one place such a collection of underclasses, scoundrels, rogues, and slummocks, all indulging in acts of depravity and vile seediness.
Without a strong State, this underclass will erupt into fragmented resistance, indicated in social disorder.
Jonine ducked behind me, her chin bumping into my shoulder as a sudden stampede of underclassmen came pushing past from the other direction.
These were the truly homeless, I'd realized that: still members of that rootless, shadowy underclass, for all the roof over their heads. NIGHT SISTERS
The overclass travel much more than the underclass, but in a way that keeps their bubble intact. Times, Sunday Times
Instead of helping the underclass he is tarring the whole community with the same brush.
There is an aspirational underclass of runners, researchers, interns, and tea boys all chomping at the bit to get their words and ideas on the screen or the page - always aiming for the top.
Back then, an underclassman could declare for the draft without having to lose his eligibility. Arn Tellem: Oh, Henry!
The authors also intended the text to be used by underclassmen, that is, by freshmen or sophomores.
My advice to underclassmen is to work hard and give everything you can because then you'll be happy with the results," Parfitt said. Undefined
This is at least partly because polygynist cultures need to create and sustain an underclass of unmarried and undereducated men, since in order to sustain a system where a few men possess all the women, roughly half of boys must leave the community before adulthood. Polygamy: More Common Than You Think
They did not approach life from the perspective of the underclasses.
This "précariat" is a new sort of subproletariat that not only has "nothing to sell but its labor power" but that often has little prospect of even being able to sell that; a vast underclass trapped in a limbo of temporary minimum-wage jobs, temporary unemployment benefits, panhandling or prostitution or petty crime when the benefits run out, and from there to incarceration in the rapidly expanding prison-industrial complex, where the system provides its "final solution" to the unemployment problem: a revival of slave labor. Reflections on the Uprising in France; Lessons Learned
More importantly, this interaction is now playing a crucial part in excluding the underclass from the mainstream of society.
The rest of the team includes mostly underclassmen. Houston Chronicle
Inverse snobbery in some underclass households is quintessentially charver and I suspect the Sociofascists love this, as it breeds a new, larger ever-dependent lumpen mass who will vote for them. Fiona Millar on 'Segregational Selection'
So the cap was the headdress of the underclass, the turban of the landed gentry, and the pagri of the urban rich and of the maharajas.
The two sections of society most damaged by the growing paralysis in social mobility are the lower middle class and the underclass at the bottom of the heap.
There are two underclasses and both are causing problems in the city.
Unlike the underclass, the fathers in the overclass work. Times, Sunday Times
An urban underclass was growing rapidly. Christianity Today
In the cities, a disenfranchised underclass looked to the cinema to give them a voice.
More importantly, this interaction is now playing a crucial part in excluding the underclass from the mainstream of society.
A rioting, looting, feral underclass? Times, Sunday Times
That group mixes well with a strong set of underclassmen. Houston Chronicle
As i was saying, these are the first years, they will be the underclassmen, and i want you to treat them with the same respect you were treated with.
Nor will this underclass disappear without the implementation of a series of policies aimed at re-establishing full citizenship.
Unfair price fixing and unilateral policies cause financial hardships for members of the underclasses wishing to consume the product.
There's a growing upper class which can afford to be decadent, at the same time that the vast underclass would desperately like to possess something new, unscarred.
One beef I do have with radical history is that it often forces everything it touches into the same underclass versus overclass mould.
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The basic problems of the inner-city underclass are inadequate housing and lack of jobs.
Nor will this underclass disappear without the implementation of a series of policies aimed at re-establishing full citizenship.

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