Sentence examples similar to granted working class from inspiring English sources

In 1929, the Scottish Labour MP, and future secretary of state for health, Tom Johnston, claimed that the Poor Law Act of 1845 had granted the Scottish working class a legal right to state welfare, but this was explicitly denied to "able-bodied persons out of employment" and the Scottish poor law system continued to rely heavily on voluntary effort.

The Grants are working class and ambitious, and lead singer and songwriter Chris Grant is reminding me more and more of a young Noel Gallagher.

Poor black South Africans have benefited from social grants, the working class from the party's pro-labour stance and the power of the unions, and the middle and upper classes from its policy of "black economic empowerment".Thus the most important check on the ANC comes from outside party politics.

The Democrats lost seats, in part thanks to a group of constituents many had taken for granted: working-class, pro-union, Northern whites who remained loyal to the New Deal but suspected that Great Society programs weren't meant to help them — were, in fact, coming at their expense.

HENRY OLSEN, a shrewd analyst at the American Enterprise Institute, has been arguing for a while that the Republicans are taking the votes of the white working class for granted as 2012 approaches.

The American middle class was once a roaring success- but its rewards were granted disproportionately to the white working class.

"The problem is we took the working class vote for granted.

By the 1830s, however, a pattern emerged: those most strongly in favor of granting voting rights to the white working class were also the most strongly in favor of the disenfranchisement of minorities.

In response, the government abandoned many aspects of orthodox apartheid: African trade unions were recognized, the pass laws were abolished, and attempts were made to co-opt the African middle and skilled working class (through the granting of limited urban and welfare rights) and to enhance the status of Indians and Coloureds (through constitutional change).

Auburn is a land-grant university: it became one in 1872 under a federal program geared toward helping the working class obtain practical college educations.

In education, aspirations and social status many of them are closer to the European working class of a century ago: no longer starving, but still short of many things the Western middle class of today takes for granted.