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.”

   “Still, among New York’s creative underclass — cash poor but culturally potent — it feels like everything but socialism is now irrelevant.”

   “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.”