underclass
a social stratum consisting of impoverished persons with very low social status.
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How to use underclass in a sentence
I call it, uh, Digitally Invisible, how the internet is creating the new underclass.
Tremendous advances in solar power have made this shift possible, and an android underclass provides maintenance labor.
Politics and the pandemic have changed how we imagine cities | Joanne McNeil | April 28, 2021 | MIT Technology ReviewReactions to both events are driven by ignorance, disregard, and dehumanization of an underclass of people of color.
Dig down, and we know why our dark and twisted fantasies of a suffering, angry American underclass have finally come true.
It was music from the underclass, the language of rent parties and cotton fields.
The Stacks: How Leonard Chess Helped Make Muddy Waters | Alex Belth | August 2, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
Squaring the needs and aspirations of an ossifying underclass, however, is the more difficult lift.
Supreme Court on Gay Marriage, Voting Rights, and More | Lloyd Green | June 23, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTMy family were no longer working class, but effectively underclass, living on benefits.
The goal of building the middle class and shrinking the underclass is also why I believe that you should raise the minimum wage.
It is not large enough to accommodate all of the students, and the underclass men attend mass elsewhere.
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British Dictionary definitions for underclass
/ (ˈʌndəˌklɑːs) /
a class beneath the usual social scale consisting of the most disadvantaged people, such as the unemployed in inner cities
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