Rather, his appeal is to those whom he calls "the most alienated and poorest of our people" - underpaid workers, debt-ridden farmers and politically active students.

He called "dancers and garbage collectors among the most underpaid workers" in society.

Eliot Spitzer, the attorney general of New York, campaigned aggressively for wages owed to underpaid immigrant workers.

While in St. Louis, Smith had been awakened to the woes of the poor, including underpaid workers.

At 13th Street, the marchers staged a wrestling match between characters representing an underpaid worker and a sweatshop boss.

During the 1984-85 harvest, for example, the guerrillas added to their "war tax" demand a threat to attack any plantation they thought underpaid workers.

Growing up amid that lack of affluence gave young George a lifelong sympathy for underpaid workers and struggling farmers.

The union said the settlement was "a step in the right direction for fair pay for some of the nation's most underpaid workers."

The high turnover of underpaid workers at voluntary human services agencies in New York City is producing a "growing crisis" that threatens to impair social services for the needy, according to a study by an independent research group.

Kermit the Frog as Bob Cratchit: An underpaid worker of Ebenezer Scrooge.