underclass in English

noun
1
the lowest social stratum in a country or community, consisting of the poor and unemployed.
No city has succeeded when it has two spatially segregated underclasses .

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1. An inconspicuous urban underclass lives in squalor.

2. 16 An inconspicuous urban underclass lives in squalor.

3. The long - term unemployed now constitute a sort of underclass.

4. The long-term unemployed are becoming a new underclass.

5. Here he was a punter, a champagne Charlie, dossing with the underclass.

6. The underclass in Dahrendorf's account is not simply the product of unemployment.

7. Such exclusion from citizenship is again the mark of the underclass.

8. The definition of underclass has been disputed over the past two decades.

9. But they vehemently oppose the kind of expenditure that helps the underclass.

10. Here he was a punter, a champagne Charlie,[Sentencedict.com] dossing with the underclass.

11. The basic problems of the inner-city underclass are inadequate housing and lack of jobs.

12. This underclass has been isolated further by a crucial change in the political climate.

13. A growing underclass of disenfranchised Aboriginal citizens would come at a significant cost to us all.

14. Without a strong State, this underclass will erupt into fragmented resistance, indicated in social disorder.

15. There is here, somewhat exceptionally, a clear legal perception of the role of the underclass.

16. A blockage in the movement upward and out of the underclass will not be accepted.

17. They prevent most of the underclass from being able to free themselves from welfare dependency.

18. He believes that unemployment is socially divisive and is leading to the creation of an underclass.

19. The underclass has therefore become separated, both in terms of income, life chances and political aspirations.

20. The government has created an underclass who do not feel they have any rights in society.

21. Sir Keith Joseph, the right's standard-bearer, blew it with an injudicious speech about the underclass.

22. 5 Sir Keith Joseph, the right's standard-bearer, blew it with an injudicious speech about the underclass.

23. The greater part of the underclass consists of members of minority groups, blacks or people of Hispanic origin.

24. This does not mean that the younger members of the underclass pose no threat to public order.

25. Accompanying the exclusion from the labour market has been a policy of disenfranchising the underclass from full welfare citizenship.

26. Unemployment has played a crucial role both in bringing the underclass into existence and to locking it in place.

27. More importantly, this interaction is now playing a crucial part in excluding the underclass from the mainstream of society.

28. Much of the problem of the underclass, we continue to believe, arises from perverse incentives rooted in misguided paternalism.

29. The black population, thus, effectively constitutes an underclass, placed in a structurally different location from the white working class.

30. Yet at the same time he offers the black underclass, and its more urgent needs, little more than benign neglect.

31. 13 Accompanying the exclusion from the labour market has been a policy of disenfranchising the underclass from full welfare citizenship.

32. A few fear that the outcome could be harmful; they foresee a new underclass, unable to get jobs or insurance.

33. On the one hand, he bemoans the development of a political underclass as demonstrated by poll-tax refuseniks and Los Angeles rioters.

34. Both sets of inquiries pointed to the existence of a degenerate underclass of the population which formed a residual pool of infection.

35. It is the loss of a comprehensive approach to citizenship that makes it appropriate to talk in terms of an emerging underclass.

36. 12 On the one hand, he bemoans the development of a political underclass as demonstrated by poll-tax refuseniks and Los Angeles rioters.

37. And in giving such people "a chance to be themselves, " he saw himself as a champion of the South's hardscrabble underclass, both black and white.