"Economic desperation" refers to a situation where people or communities face extreme financial hardship and feel desperate or trapped due to a lack of resources or opportunities to improve their economic condition.
Sentences with «economic desperation»
Just like that, director David Mackenzie establishes, first, the idea that the men in that blue Camaro are up to no good; second, the current of economic desperation driving screenwriter Taylor Sheridan's story; and third, the religious posturing that offers an alternative to existential despair, with roadside churches, TV evangelists, and Christian radio offering a relentless white - noise stream of piety on demand to an American underclass with nowhere left to turn. (filmfreakcentral.net)
Partitioning our state into frack and no - frack zones base on economic desperation is a shameful idea. (treehugger.com)
When O'Neil first started to see Olympic medals showing up at coin shows, she didn't know it at the time but it was a byproduct of Soviet bloc economic desperation. (cnbc.com)