Disadvantaged
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Template:Cleanup-date "The disadvantaged" refers to people without power, money, or other means of influence. They are similarly called "the poor", "the disenfranchised", etc.
Although in some cultures their upward mobility gives people hope to change their futures, statistically a person born into poverty is likely to die there and have children who live powerless as well. This is sometimes thought to be unless they do something about their situation, and it has been shown that often such is not the case.
The current economy in the United States is one that has divided the rich and the poor, with the rich taking the bulk of the gains in productivity of the last several decades. According to Paul Krugman in a recent article titled For Richer in the New York Times about the distribution of wealth, there is even more of a divide between the classes today than in the 1920s, meaning that the disadvantaged are becoming more so (and the middle class may be headed that way as well).
The majority of the most truly disadvantaged people live in the developing world with no or insufficient readily available running water, electricity or sanitation.
A current problem for the richest nations is the fact that many terrorists come from parts of the world where they have limited opportunities for advancement.