Poverty does not make you break the law; but nor is it enough to heap contempt on looters as if they were a pariah underclass. If previous inquires into riots in Britain and America are any guide ...

That's a criticism that has been made, too, of the phrase 'troubled families' the expression currently favoured by UK policymakers to talk about Britain's underclass. The coalition government's ...

"Underclass" is a supposedly nonracial term ... like Margaret Thatcher's coalition in Britain--acknowledge that it would be worse in the short term, and stress the overriding historical importance ...

As Britain became an increasingly industrial ... Those with no money at all might fall into a life of crime and join the so-called 'underclass'. Pip begins the novel as a poor blacksmith's ...

Robert Walker, Department of Social Policy and Intervention, University of Oxford Over the last three decades, Britain has witnessed an unprecedented rise in the number of people receiving welfare ...