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It's a recipe for a permanent underclass.

Jennifer Gordon

Al Gore inherited a fighting streak for the underclass from his father. If you were a poor factory worker with a backyard satellite dish in rural Tennessee as your only real link to the world and big cable companies were telling you to shove it, then Al Gore was your guy.

Roy Neel

It's a shared culture of the underclass who, both white and black, are sensing this need to be distinctively different and unique.

Adin Davis

We have a large underclass in Britain, and a fairly low standard of education. Our best universities are extremely good, but a very significant proportion of the British population that comes out of compulsory schooling with very low standards of education.

Nigel Short

We've been telling people around the world how to run a democracy and civil society. And now we have the bloody guts of our own society- its suffering underclass - revealed to the world, many of them hardly literate, and it's another terrible blow to our reputation.

Philip Gordon

But I also think what you see is a larger segment of society excluded from the mainstream, in effect, an underclass.

Hugo Young

If you want to create a permanent underclass, this is the way to do it.

Cecilia Munoz

Large areas of America are descending into a Third World status. There's a rising underclass of people.

Phil Kent

The underclass, if there is one, is quite small and most people who fall into a position of disadvantage overcome their problems and get back on their feet, ... It's bloody hard but the message is: we shouldn't give up on people. The evidence, at the moment, is that most people who become poor don't stay poor for long, so let's not write them off.

Bruce Headey