Why do many working-class voters back Trump over progressives? A new book offers a data-driven answer—and a way forward for ...

My Years as a Member of China’s Academic Underclass. A Chinese scholar shares what life is like for the country’s growing cohort of contract faculty. By Suzi Lin. Aug 03, 2021 #education. This article ...

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 ...

Neither a policy paper nor a career guide, Gary Roth’s The Educated Underclass: Students and the Promise of Social Mobility (Pluto Press) is, in the author’s words, “an examination of that edge of ...

There's an old joke about the farmer who responds to a driver's request for directions: 'I wouldn't start from here'. For women beating a path to a leading position in science, 'here' would ...

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 Other Underclass Most people think of inner-city poverty as a black phenomenon. But it is also alarmingly high among Puerto Ricans, the worst-off ethnic group in the country--even though ...