poverty draft
n.— «“They’re not just going into the schools, they’re going into economically poorer schools,” he said of the recruiters. “This is what the anti-war movement refers to as the “poverty draft.’”» —“For group, rally was just a ‘peace train’ away” by Rebecca O’Halloran Newsday Mar. 20, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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