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Record 1 2024-02-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Social Organization
CONT

The media often stigmatize the lower class as "the underclass," inaccurately characterizing poor people as welfare mothers who abuse the system by having more and more babies, welfare fathers who are able to work but do not, drug abusers, criminals, and societal "trash."

Key term(s)
  • under class
  • under-class
  • lower lower class

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organisation sociale
Key term(s)
  • classe inférieure inférieure

Spanish

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