The phrase "less fortunate citizens" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to refer to people who lack access to essential resources due to their economic situation. For example, "Many less fortunate citizens are unable to access basic healthcare due to poverty."
Compassion is hardly part of the city's cold image, but caring for its less fortunate citizens has been a major theme of its modern history.
Or are our less fortunate citizens further trapped into not receiving a living wage because illegals will work for rock bottom (tax-free?) wages?
But are we missing the larger protest against corruption, a police force that is tone-deaf to popular needs and an elitist government that ignores many of its less fortunate citizens?
But what about the less fortunate citizens, the ones who will need to live on their Social Security checks but who may not know the difference between a stock and a bond?
It is not just 1960's architecture that is out of style, but also the 1960's ethos that government has a responsibility to provide for its less fortunate citizens.
And if a state is worried about aesthetics, then maybe it can set the groundwork for supporting its less fortunate citizens – like implementing income tax.
If the government requires one citizen, Betty, to pay taxes that will in turn be used to assist a less fortunate citizen, Alf, as part of the process of enacting a social minimum, then the government intentionally coerces Betty and, therefore, reduces her freedom.
The second, advanced by David Miller, asserts that states need to be mononational in order to achieve distributive justice, because distributive justice requires significant redistribution of wealth among citizens and the better off will only be willing share their wealth with their less fortunate fellow citizens if they see them as co-nationals.
Ugliness from the meritocrats, who are remarkably dismissive of their less fortunate fellow citizens (of all the myths about America, the myth that it is not a class-conscious society is perhaps the most risible).
Were it not for this fellow feeling among compatriots, far fewer would be motivated to invest their personal energy in the democratic process or to give up a portion of their wealth in order to assist less fortunate fellow citizens.
The well-off activists who took to the streets in the wake of rigged 2011 elections show little interest in the regions, or in their less fortunate co-citizens.
