Synonyms and related words :
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