Word: underclass
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About 6 percent of America's 33.1 million poor, however, make up a permanent "underclass" in minority-dominated inner city ghettoes, said Loury, who is considered an expert in the field...
...decades ago it was fashionable to say: 'to hold people responsible for their own behavior is to blame the victim. "That line is just not tenable," said Loury. He said the present welfare system had fostered behavior among the poor that perpetuated their role as an underclass...
...aged young and offers life-support systems only to those who can afford them. That would be the Owners, an elite who inhabit high-rise fortresses in Manhattan. The armed towers keep out the "aliens," variously known as Starkies, Skells, Trolls and Roaches. They are part of a vast underclass, disinherited by global economic collapse and lingering radioactive wastes. The O-Zone itself is the result of a nuclear-dump accident in the Ozarks, "a place that had once been wooded and parklike and settled, and was now a prohibited area, dangerous and empty, with burst-open roads and fallen...
...promote hideous realities. The worst is a pornography of violence practiced by a private police force known as Godseye. They roam Manhattan's abandoned neighborhoods in murderous gunships looking for excuses to "burn" the Starkies, Skells or whatever other name they can devise to distance themselves from the underclass...
During a decade of tremendous growth, Sunbelt cities attracted millions of people from the depressed urban centers of the North. All the ills of urban ghettos went with the newcomers, and many Southern cities, with their underclass populations suddenly exploding, became ripe environments for gangs to develop and flourish...