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Example sentences for: underclass

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

The existence of a largely black, welfare-dependent "underclass"--and the way it reinforces stereotypes about all blacks and poisons race relations--has been America's greatest social problem.
How do you get from a declining welfare population to "the ending of the underclass"?
Unmaking the underclass would answer white fears while giving lower-class blacks a chance they are now largely denied: that of assimilating into the mainstream of an integrated society.
Can we say the underclass is "ending"?
A smaller portion of blacks on welfare means not only a smaller underclass; it means more working and middle-class role models.