Synonyms:
- chronic poor,
- chronic poverty area,
- depressed class,
- depressed population,
- outcasts,
- poverty subculture,
- slum-dwellers,
- the disadvantaged,
- the dispossessed,
- the distressed,
- the down-and-out,
- the forgotten man,
- the have-nots,
- the needy,
- the other America,
- the poor,
- the powerless,
- the underprivileged,
- the urban poor,
- underdeveloped nation,
- welfare rolls