underclass

Noun

1. The poorest class of people in a given society.
   • The two are immediately caught up in a terrorist plot to rid the earth of its underclass, and this gives Nobby the chance to live out a James Bond fantasy of Englishness, with his own lager-swilling twist. - 2016...
   • Still, among New York’s creative underclass — cash poor but culturally potent — it feels like everything but socialism is now irrelevant. - 2019 March 3, Simon van Zuylen-Wood, “When Did Everyone Become a Socialist?”,...
   • While there are reasons to be optimistic about this trend, there is also something queasy about the emergence of a new underclass of urban servants. - 2019 August 12, Derek Thompson, “America's Hot New Job Is Being a...