The workhouses were feared and hated by the poor. They were meant to be as unpleasant as possible to deter poor people from asking the state for help. In workhouses in the mid-19th century you could not wear your own clothes. You had to wear a uniform. Husbands and wives were separated and children were separated from their parents.
In addition to the reduction in low-income housing, Kozol also argues that there was a severe shortage of employment positions that paid a living wage. He claims that since 1980 there had been a loss of two million jobs per year in the manufacturing
Poor DBQ Between 1450 and 1700, almost 50% of Europe was considered “poor”. During war time, or during a famine, that number was raising up to 80%. There were many attitudes and responses to the poor such as helping the poor, putting them to work, thinking they were lazy, and thinking what they did was immoral. In this time in Europe, many people wanted to help the poor. In document 1, the priest says that giving a penny to the poor for god will be worth 240 pennies after their death.
This may have also been due to mass inflation at the time: ‘By 1600 food cost on average five times as much as they had in 1500; the cost of living rose by over 35%’. This meant that more people became poor, as they could not afford to buy as much. Thirdly, the idea that, as the population
Jails were used to hold those awaiting trial or those who had been convicted and were waiting for their corporal or capital punishment to be carried out. These jails were in horrible condition and poor men, women, and children all lived together in filth, with little food or sanitary conditions. The fee system was an early bail system that was used by the rich; it prevented them from going to jail. During the 1700s John Howard, an English reformer made many changes to the way jails were operated. As a result of his efforts, the Penitentiary Act was passed in 1779.
Poor harvests played a big part in causing the French Revolution since people were already angry with the King spending too much on himself and not enough on the country and then extreme weather such as snow and rain comes and causes the people of France to get even more annoyed even though the poor harvest was not the King’s fault. The poor harvests later caused the price of bread to shoot up which in turn forced people (especially people in the third estate) to spend more on bread and less on luxuries such as shoes and hats. This in turn affected most factory owners as they would’ve had to fire workers or lower wages of the current factory workers. This put unemployment at a very high rate due to factories having to fire workers and the people who did get fired would have to starve most days because they were not earning any money. This whole incident wouldn’t have been so bad if the Three Estates system was fairer since having all three estates paying the same amount of tax would enable the third estate to spend more on food such as bread instead of having the third estate paying the most tax and the first and second paying close to nothing.
Persistently poor counties, or counties with poverty rates of 20 percent or more in each decennial census, have been mostly nonmetropolitan areas. Various factors, such as unemployment, underemployment or lack of sufficient education, have lead to individuals living impoverished lives. Many factors have been beyond their control. This paper serves to provide a more in depth look into the reasons why such is the case. The inquiry this paper serves to address is the causes for poverty remaining higher in rural areas.
Crop prices fell by over fifty %. People went hungry because so much food was produced that production became unprofitable. Others were unemployed because they had produced more than could be sold. Huge numbers of Americans had their lives upset by the Depression. Tens of thousands of migrant farm workers travelled the nation looking for employment.
The rate of population growth in most Sub-Saharan African countries was so high that domestic demand for food could not match the supply, this therefore led to widespread of hunger, decline in the exportation of agricultural produce and the fall of the market share of Africa’s major export (World Bank 1989). The statistics presented by the World Bank (2010) shows that the total agricultural export of Nigeria dropped from 445515000 to 228226000 from 1981 to 1990, leading to a 49 percent drop in exports while the export of other African countries like Niger also dropped by 29 percent from 86978000 to 61773000 within the same number of years. Nigeria experienced a period of oil boom in the 1970s where they depended on petroleum for most of their export earnings. This provided funds for the industrial take-off within the economy. Nigeria was over dependent on petroleum export and the over dependency became apparent in the 1980s when the oil boom of the 1970s turned into the oil doom.
Children are pushed into this act by the vicious circle of poverty, where they slog just to feed the empty stomach of their families and themselves. Another reason why child labor still remains as an invincible enemy is that the boycotts and laws made to eradicate poverty could lead to noxious consequences. After the Child Labor Deterrence Act, a bill that "prohibits the importation of products that have been produced by child labor, and included civil and criminal penalties for violators" was enforced in the U.S., an approximate 50,000 children lost jobs in Bangladesh’s garment industry. Many of them were compelled to work more dangerous jobs like stone