These struggling families are not easily stereotyped.
Most cities have large populations of these struggling "outsiders," as urban residents call them.
In hard times like these, struggling to transcend conventional boundaries can be a color-blind struggle.
Among these struggling residents the wisdom of spending $91 million on recreational facilities is sometimes elusive.
It is from these struggling New Yorkers that Judge Lippman demands over a week's unpaid labor.
You might think, with all these struggling actors, a comparison with Ricky Gervais's Extras would be appropriate.
By observing the earnest Barak and his snappish wife, she grew to feel deeply for these struggling humans, who, she says, overcome guilt and suffering to achieve contentment.
The firm said it had reduced its exposure to Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Irish and Greek debt by 16 percent, to £6 billion, adding that it also had cut back on lending to companies in these struggling countries.
Rather, Mr Tendulkar is in a sense the last of these struggling titans so radically has India's cricketing culture been transformed, like India itself, by the socioeconomic changes his career has straddled.
And these struggling workers embody Russia's work force: largely immobile, because the lack of affordable housing makes it impossible to seek employment elsewhere, and sadly inflexible, thanks to their overdependence on these paternalistic, enterprise-based social services, part of what President Medvedev has denounced as the "Soviet-style social sphere".
Somewhat surprisingly for outsiders looking in, these struggling women belong to the same country where a woman was twice voted prime minister and currently the youngest member of the cabinet of Pakistan is the female foreign minister – a position roughly parallel to secretary of state for the US.
