Underclass is not a new term, just a newly respectable one. It was adopted early on by Reagan-era conservatives, who found it a handy vehicle for dismissive generalizations about the poor. Now ...

The saying 'data is the new oil' has already become a banality. But as corporations capitalize on the value contained in our personal information, the benefits of digital innovation remain unevenly ...

As the 1980s came to an end, the Sunday Times asked me to come to England and look at the country’s social problems through the eyes of an American who had been writing about the American underclass.

Attempts to minimize the pandemic began almost at the beginning. In March 2020, Chris Cuomo—then the anchor of a CNN news program—put a challenge to Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about emerging employment structures, policy and law. Taxi Driver was one of a number of movies in the 1970s that ...

This country`s black middle class is approaching a fork in the road, and the path it takes may determine the fate of that jobless, disaffected and dispirited group known as the black underclass.

A Republican operative who has clerked for Justice Neil Gorsuch and helped the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee usher through the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court ...

Watching the courage of ordinary low-income people as they deal with the aftermath of Katrina and Rita, it is hard to decide which politicians are more contemptible–Democrats who are rediscovering ...

Jason Perlow wrote a great piece this afternoon asking if the digital revolution, particularly as it relates to books and libraries, was creating a "Digital Underclass". When the printed media on ...

When George Floyd died in May 2020, the cause was murder. A white Minneapolis police officer kneeled on Floyd’s neck for nearly nine minutes while the 46-year-old Black man gasped for breath. But ...