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Example sentences for: disadvantaged

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Families at the 20 th percentile--that is, poorer than 80 percent of the population--may not be legally poor (only about 12 percent of families are officially below the poverty line), but they are likely to regard themselves as very disadvantaged and unsuccessful.
Does that mean students who do not get such internships or their own planes are disadvantaged enough to need them given out by governmental or university administrative decree?
It seems to me this is a recipe for widening the gap between advantaged and disadvantaged students.
The urgent thrust of this year's Lawyers' Campaign for Equal Justice, now at full flood, is to have more private lawyers throw lifelines to the poor, elderly, disabled, unemployed and disadvantaged drowning in the legal surf.
Under Bush's proposal, states would be required to test their "disadvantaged" students on academic basics every year.