The first is the political and cultural invisibility of the American underclass.
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We've got a lot of practice in this country subduing large masses of underclass.
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It is about 13% of the total population of which about 6% are in the underclass.
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These women were to be model citizens, unlike the working underclass in England.
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Forgetting them has contributed to a growing underclass and bloated government.
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Three years later, she came face-to-face with the plight of India's underclass.
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The District's large underclass has been another impediment, city officials said.
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Without opportunities to learn English, they would become a permanent underclass.
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Among them, the uprising is an obvious power grab by a jihad-pumped underclass.
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Lower class: the social class lowest in the social hierarchy
Underclass(a): belonging to the lowest and least privileged social stratum; "underclass mothers and children"
The term underclass is a coinage which functions as a morally neutral equivalent for what was known in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as the "undeserving poor". The earliest significant exponent of the term was the American sociologist and anthropologist Oscar Lewis in 1961. ...
A term used to describe those in poverty.
A term similar in use to Marx's concept of Lumpenproletariat. A group that is not in a regular economic or social relationship with the rest of the community. Refers to the chronically unemployed, those who live on the proceeds of petty crime, panhandlers, or bag ladies. ...
The new urban poor who are often ill, unemployed, homeless, unqualified, and with health problems.
The poorest and most disadvantaged in society. Often linked with the culture of poverty explanation. Also used to denote the growing numbers of the poor and the changing character of poverty. See social polarization.
A small group of people for whom poverty persists year after year and across generations (pg.129)
What inner-city residents are frequently referred to because they are trapped in an unending cycle of economic and social problems.