By the late 1990's, the inner city had become the home of a needy "nonworking class," where single-parent families had become the norm.
"I ask how they get my name, and it's always, 'My friend told me and her friend told her,' " said Ms. Weiss, 55, the Staten Island social work liaison for Connect to Care, an initiative of UJA-Federation of New York aimed at helping the newly needy middle class.
John Keith Blackman and Mary Etta Blackman Scholarship Established by the Will of Ruth B. Rodgers to provide scholarships to talented and needy upper-class law students.
The tone of simultaneously blase and needy middle-class American entitlement will be familiar to Transparent devotees.
When her father dies, he makes her an heiress, and this young woman who, in different circumstances, would have been someone else's property is now capable of conferring property of her own on a needy upper-class suitor.
In the schools that serve the neediest children, class sizes should be reduced to no more than 20.
Through the generosity of benefactors and the sacrifice of so many dedicated parents, Catholic schools have been able to help develop outstanding citizens, many from needy and working class families.
This was a particularly needy quarterback year matched with a less-than-impressive quarterback class.
But governments also need to start redirecting social programmes at the truly needy.Persuading middle-class voters to give up their perks will be extremely hard.
"This area of the middle-class needy has just exploded," said William E. Rapfogel, the chief executive of the Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty, which covers the New York area.
