indigent

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That means the system already profoundly disadvantages indigent asylum seekers — they can’t afford a lawyer, often don’t speak English and have no road map for navigating arcane immigration law.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 23, 2025

In it, he condemned “wealthy owners and all masters” who sought to profit off “the indigent and destitute.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 8, 2025

Circuit Court of Appeals has held that the Constitution prohibits the prosecution of indigent people who sleep in public places when there is no available shelter space.

From Slate • Apr. 22, 2024

“Most of those guys are indigent, the traffickers,” Gauen said.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 8, 2024

Telemarketing, one of the first refuges of the suddenly indigent, can be dismissed on grounds of personality.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich