Families that experience unemployment and poverty over several generations are the underclass.
These are the people who occupy the lowest classes and are frequently jobless and and or in poverty - this also denotes the families in question.
Albert Camus said this in his infamous Gospel of Absurdity
He gave that advice to someone who is currently facing the absurdity of postmoderism. He gave that advice specifically for the people that constantly had suicidal thought from the feeling of unable to fit in within the normal postmodern society.
When the New Netherlands sent Henry Hudson on an exploration trip, he claimed rich farmland along the Hudson River.