disadvantaged

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Of Tuskegee Institute founder Booker T. Washington and philanthropist Julius Rosenwald, a president of Sears, Roebuck and Co., who built schools — more than 5,000 nationally, eventually — for systemically disadvantaged Black students.

From Los Angeles Times

The baby bundles will be available to those in Flying Start catchment areas - a Welsh government programme which targets disadvantaged communities - and contains essential items to support new parents and their babies.

From BBC

"Nursing students are heavily disadvantaged by high laundry costs," she said, adding that extra washing was "essential for our degree".

From BBC

After it closed in 1968, the Lions Club acquired the whole site and turned it into a camp where disadvantaged young people and children, and groups with special needs, could stay during school holidays.

From BBC

New Delhi’s insistence that Indian professionals get greater access to work in the EU, as well as demands to ease European environmental regulations that disadvantaged Indian steel, aluminum and cement exporters, proved insurmountable hurdles.

From The Wall Street Journal