poor law
Indigent relief statute
Poor law refers to legislation providing public assistance to the impoverished.
Historically associated with English statutes from the 16th through 19th centuries that established local responsibility for the destitute, often through workhouses.
The term now applies broadly to any government welfare system for the poor: The debate over poor law reform dominated Parliament for decades.
Confined facility resident
- pauperPerson in extreme poverty
- masterAuthority or controller
- matronFemale institutional supervisor
- gruelThin watery porridge
hard labor · dormitory · infirmary · segregation · uniform · dietary · treadmill · bone crushing
Of late 1500s England
- TudorSixteenth-century English ruling family
- ParishLocal ecclesiastical district
- Royal CommissionCrown-appointed investigative panel
- BenthamUtilitarian ethics founder
Easing of distress
- assistanceSupport or aid given
- aidSupport given freely
- parish reliefChurch-administered assistance for indigent
- doleState benefit payments
settlement · removal · bastardy · apprenticeship · maintenance · allowance · irremovability · pension
Condition of being destitute
- destitutionExtreme poverty, lacking necessities
- indigenceExtreme poverty, total want
- penuryExtreme lack of money
- privationLack of necessities
hardship · impoverishment · want · begging · vagabondage · vagrancy · relief · dole
Generous giving for others
- charityVoluntary aid for others
- humanitarianismPromoting welfare through compassion
- social reformOrganized push for societal betterment
- progressivismPhilosophy advocating societal reform
abolition · amendment · Royal Commission · Booth · Rowntree · Lloyd George · welfare state · social security
inmate
Confined facility resident
gruel · hard labor · dormitory · infirmary · segregation · uniform · dietary · treadmill · bone crushing · inspection
Elizabethan
Of late 1500s England
- TudorSixteenth-century English ruling family
- ParishLocal ecclesiastical district
- Royal CommissionCrown-appointed investigative panel
relief
Easing of distress
- assistanceSupport or aid given
- aidSupport given freely
- parish reliefChurch-administered assistance for indigent
dole · settlement · removal · bastardy · apprenticeship · maintenance · allowance · irremovability · pension · benefit
pauperism
Condition of being destitute
- destitutionExtreme poverty, lacking necessities
- indigenceExtreme poverty, total want
- penuryExtreme lack of money
privation · hardship · impoverishment · want · begging · vagabondage · vagrancy · relief · dole · alms
philanthropy
Generous giving for others
- charityVoluntary aid for others
- humanitarianismPromoting welfare through compassion
- social reformOrganized push for societal betterment
progressivism · abolition · amendment · Royal Commission · Booth · Rowntree · Lloyd George · welfare state · social security · reformer
- Victorian reformpoorhouse, temperance movement, abolitionists, child labor, factory conditions
- welfarewelfare, welfare reform, welfare system, SNAP benefits, public assistance
- charitiesRed Cross, food bank, food banks, homeless shelter, homeless shelters
- genealogyfamily trees, family history, descendants, ancestors, ancestry tracing
- English historyNorman Conquest, Domesday Book, Magna Carta, King Alfred, Henry VIII
- medical historyHippocrates, germ theory, bloodletting, Galen, four humors
poor lawwelfare state
Government-funded citizen support system
social security · universal basic income · social insurance · entitlement programs · National Health Service
poor lawNew Deal
Depression-era reform agenda
Great Society · Social Security Act · Medicare · Affordable Care Act · welfare reform
poor lawsocialism
Communal economic control
social democracy · democratic socialism · progressive taxation · wealth redistribution · Keynesianism
poor, law, poorer, poorest, poorly, poorness, impoverish, impoverished, poverty