There is a gap in working-class jobs, but the workers who need those jobs most aren't equipped to do them.

工薪阶层的工作岗位中存在一一个缺口，但是最需要这些工作的工人却不具备相应的工作技能。

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Also while working on a group project in a sociology class she says she was given the cold shoulder: "they pretend to welcome you but they do not."

在社会学课的一个小组项目中工作时，她说她受到冷遇：“他们假装欢迎你但实际上不是这样。”

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Self employment can yield the middle class lifestyle but often requires years of working 60 or more hours a week to do so.

选择自营职业，你可能有机会体验中产阶级的生活方式，但是这往往需要人们为之工作每周60小时以上，也许很多年都将如此度过。

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Sociological explanations about the decline of the working class do not quite suffice: newspapers can reinvent themselves, as the Daily Mail did in the 1970s, when it turned itself into the middle-class women's paper.

ECONOMIST: Reflections on the Mirror

Working-class whites do not, however, warm to those who seem to encroach on their privileges.

ECONOMIST: Poor whites

Moreover, the 11 plus is biased against working class children whose families do not have the money to afford computers or tutoring or who cannot give them a quiet place to study.

BBC: Your views on selective education