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poor laws
poor laws Legislation that was designed to relieve poverty in England. In 1601, the Poor Law Act required individual parishes to provide for the local poor via the levying of property rates. Three categories of poor were identified: vagabonds and beggars, the infirm and the ‘deserving’ unemployed. In 1795, the Speenhamland system provided levels of poor relief based on the price of bread and the size of families. In 1834, the Poor Law Amendment Act forbade the giving of assistance to the impoverished outside of the workhouse. In the 20th century, the poor laws were finally abolished by social security legislation and the creation of the
welfare state.
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Poor Americans Speak Out About Poverty; National Poll Reveals What It Means to be Poor in the United States
Newspaper article from: U.S. Newswire; 9/3/2002; 700+ words
; ...to organizations that help the poor (17 percent). Respondents...than three-quarters of the poor Americans surveyed said they...in ten had problems with the law. In a follow-up question...poverty since September 11. Of the poor responding, only about a quarter...
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Containing the Poor: The Mexico City Poor House, 1774-1871. (Reviews).
Magazine article from: Journal of Social History; 9/22/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...assumptions about the role of the poor in a modernizing society" (p...reveals a surprising activism in poor relief. Many icons of Mexico...properties mandated by the 1856 Lerdo Law brought financial ruin on the Poor House. Close textual examination...
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The poor need a vacation, too
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 8/3/1986; ; 700+ words
; ...ourselves with travel for the poor? With "social tourism"? In...right? Yet in an America no law protects the right to a paid...of the railways, to provide poor persons with a free or drastically...reach of a great many of the poor, yet at no cost to their railroads...
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Poor governance contributes heavily to Asia's poverty.
M2 Presswire; 4/27/2000; 700+ words
; ...PRESSWIRE-27 April 2000-ADB: Poor governance contributes heavily...contributor to Asia's poverty is poor governance, manifested in corruption...violence, absence of the rule of law, and ineffective government...attentive to the needs of the poor. This explains why some of the...
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Ask the poor
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post; 3/10/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...Wealth doesn't follow the laws of gravity - it doesn't trickle...at the top. Listening to the poor, recognizing that fully one- fifth of the Israeli public is poor, we would have to realize that...isn't a genetic defect. The poor are no more defective or stupid...
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POOR IN AMERICA: A 27-YEAR HIGH
Newspaper article from: Post-Tribune (IN); 9/4/1992; 700+ words
; ...government counts people as poor if their income falls below...four earning $13,924 was poor. So was an individual earning...Working Americans are becoming poorer because George Bush is doing...them." Your chances of being poor increased if you: Were black...Laurel Weir of the National Law ...
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Containing the Poor: The Mexico City Poor House, 1774-1871
Magazine article from: Journal of Third World Studies; 10/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...reformers created the Poor House in 1774, in conjunction with anti-begging laws, to confine, assist...vagrants and beggars. The Poor House's creation coincided...about the treatment of the poor, and active and passive...persons targeted by the laws. Periodic reversals of...
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Poor relief and the dangerous and criminal insane in Scotland, c. 1740-1840.
Magazine article from: Journal of Social History; 12/22/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...Johnson. Their writings on poor relief tend to conform to dichotomies...particularly the changes in law and practice during the 1800s and 1810s, for the law both shaped and reflected attitudes...in practice. (7) Scottish Poor Relief Royal Commissioners...report on lunatic asylums and the ...
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The poor laws by a modern Tory name Lorie Charlesworth finds disturbing echoes of the past in Peter Lilley' s ideas for a localised benefit system
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 1/19/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...of the Tudor and Stuart poor laws, and thereby managed...interest in those poor laws a matter of urgent contemporary...beyond. The 1601 Poor Law Act made each parish responsible...selective application of these laws. For example, a manufacturing town might pay poor ...
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The poor laws by a modern Tory name
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 1/19/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...of the Tudor and Stuart poor laws, and thereby managed...interest in those poor laws a matter of urgent contemporary...beyond. The 1601 Poor Law Act made each parish responsible...selective application of these laws. For example, a manufacturing town might pay poor ...
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poor laws
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History
poor laws During the Middle Ages, canon law required each member of the parish...earlier system continued, but the law was amended to allow Poor Law authorities to attempt novel...persisted in some places until the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834. By the...
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poor law
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Irish History
poor law. The Irish poor law (1838) was modelled...staffed by qualified medical officers. Poor law boards also became responsible for administering...government now rivalled that of grand juries . Poor law expenditure rose from around £0...
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poor
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
...is recorded from the early 17th century. Poor Law a law relating to the support of the poor...group. See also poor as a church mouse , poor as Job , one law for the rich and another for the poor , the rich man gets his ice in the summer...
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poor relief
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Irish History
poor relief. There was no organized system of poor relief in Ireland until the 19th century. The Elizabethan English poor law, which established parochial responsibility for the care of...
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Poor, Charles Lane
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...BIBLIOGRAPHY I. Original Works. Poor ’ s works on comets...x201C; Relativity and the Law of Gravitation, ”...Literature. Brief obituaries of Poor are S. A. Mitchell, in Monthly...Tribune (28 Sept. 1951), 22. Poor ’ s work is mentioned...
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