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 Review
Reactions to both events are driven by ignorance, disregard, and dehumanization of an underclass of people of color.
Ferguson, Immigration, and ‘Us Vs. Them’|Gene Robinson|November 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Dig down, and we know why our dark and twisted fantasies of a suffering, angry American underclass have finally come true.
The Real Nightmare of Ferguson|James Poulos|August 15, 2014|DAILY BEAST
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|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|DAILY BEAST
My family were no longer working class, but effectively underclass, living on benefits.
The Margaret Thatcher, Rupert Murdoch Connection|Peter Jukes|April 9, 2013|DAILY BEAST
The goal of building the middle class and shrinking the underclass is also why I believe that you should raise the minimum wage.
Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to 2006|Various
It is not large enough to accommodate all of the students, and the underclass men attend mass elsewhere.
One Irish Summer|William Eleroy Curtis

British Dictionary definitions for underclass

underclass

/ (ˈʌndəˌklɑːs) /

noun

a class beneath the usual social scale consisting of the most disadvantaged people, such as the unemployed in inner cities

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