"underclass" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2016 February 23, Robbie Collin, “Grimsby review: ' Sacha Baron Cohen's vital, venomous action movie'”, in The Daily Telegraph (London):",
          "text": "The two are immediately caught up in a terrorist plot to rid the earth of its underclass, and this gives Nobby the chance to live out a James Bond fantasy of Englishness, with his own lager-swilling twist.",
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          "ref": "2019 March 3, Simon van Zuylen-Wood, “When Did Everyone Become a Socialist?”, in New York Magazine:",
          "text": "Still, among New York’s creative underclass — cash poor but culturally potent — it feels like everything but socialism is now irrelevant.",
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          "ref": "2019 August 12, Derek Thompson, “America's Hot New Job Is Being a Rich Person's Servant”, in The Atlantic:",
          "text": "While there are reasons to be optimistic about this trend, there is also something queasy about the emergence of a new underclass of urban servants.",
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