Example sentences for: underclass

How can you use “underclass” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • My answer is: "Underclass" doesn't mean people who are poor, or even people who are poor and live in neighborhoods with other poor people.

  • (If every able-bodied, unemployed man and woman in the black underclass tried to get a job back in 1993 when Magnet's book came out, could the labor market have readily absorbed them all?

  • In Dream , Magnet is talking about the black "underclass"--not, as Press implied, black society in general.

  • In Losing Ground (1984), the work that made him famous, he contended that government anti-poverty programs had done much to create the underclass.

  • While satellite technology has increased the sport's reach, U.S. domination of its every aspect has increased basketball's appeal among the capitalist underclass, the have-nots who see and crave the trappings.


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