poorest

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The largely informal opposition had consisted mainly of local cities that warned another sales tax would disproportionately burden the poorest residents and force shoppers across the county border in hopes of finding lower costs.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026

Among teens from the poorest families, earning under $30,000, only about a quarter did.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026

But his supporters credited him with a tough crackdown on violent insurgencies and implementation of social programmes to help some of the country's poorest.

From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026

Or, to put it another way, out of a random group of 1,000 Americans, the richest single person owns about six times as much as the poorest 500 put together.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 5, 2026

We wound through the poorest streets at first, a black image of sorrow, then turned into Seventh Avenue and down and over to Lenox.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison