Dickens' works are full of morality tales about caring for the poor, the plight of child labor, the pitfalls of greed, and the importance of neighborly love.
It's hard to sleep while the mind races over the poor fellow's plight.
The unseen — or, more precisely, the poor, to whose plight we repeatedly blind ourselves — is also the subject of Wallace Shawn's ninety-minute political meditation "The Fever" (in revival at the Acorn, under the direction of Scott Elliott).
They prefer to blame America's undernourished poor for their plight, ignoring the fact that food stamps are the main safety net for a record 15 percent of the population.
Moreover, the IFS said there is evidence that the government's measures so far have helped the "richest half" of the poor and the plight of the hardcore of deprived families left behind has worsened.
Johnson, who is seeking re-election on 3 May, made the confident prediction in an online chat with parenting website Mumsnet, as he fielded questions on a range of issues, from the gap between London's rich and poor to the plight of those facing benefit cuts as a result of the welfare shakeup – and the taxing issue of the state of his hair.
And yet, Adam's still obsessing about poor Julia's plight.
If we live in a time and place when many blame the poor for their plight, we also see the same heartless and dishonest people using foreigners as scapegoats for every social problem.
The poor and their plight simply don't register -- except insofar as the right-wing war on the poor continues unabated, including with Republicans trying to block any and all government efforts to help the poor through this horrible economic time.
The second season, along with its ongoing examination of the drug problem and its effect on the urban poor, examines the plight of the blue-collar urban working class as exemplified by stevedores in the city port, as some of them get caught up in smuggling drugs and other contraband inside the shipping containers that pass through their port.
