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Historically in Chicago, parent fundraising has been a story of have versus have-not schools, a dynamic threatening to drive deeper inequity in a segregated district.—
Mila Koumpilova,
Chicago Tribune,
22 June 2026 Trepidation over what the IPOs will do to affordability in the region is quickly making San Francisco a tale of two cities--one of the stocks-haves and have-nots.—
Martine Paris,
Forbes.com,
12 June 2026 Often, football is described as a game of haves and have-nots.—
Sebastian Stafford-Bloor,
New York Times,
11 June 2026 Because once a workforce splits into AI haves and have-nots, rebuilding organizational trust becomes far harder than deploying technology in the first place.—
Matt Rosenbaum,
Fortune,
29 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for have-not