"There ain't no difference dyin' in battle or
in the poorhouse. The thing is they're deado.
The Valley of the Moon
Eden was surprised to find that in the poorhouse "[w]heaten bread, apparently very good, is used." The resident children appeared healthy and were "kept very clean" (Eden 172).
After the Amendment Act was in place, someone elderly and infirm who applied for parish relief, like '"Poor old John'" Abdy in Emma (383), would have to leave his family and home to live in the poorhouse or get nothing.
Pride and Prejudice and poor laws
Similarly, Rockman's inclusion of pauper agency as the third force in the poorhouse dynamic adds an important perspective, but can only take us so far.
During her first four months in the poorhouse during fall and winter 1828, twenty-four-year-old Ruth Gurney was sent to solitary confinement twice for leaving without permission.
For whose benefit?: social control and the construction of Providence's Dexter Asylum
It's safe to assume that losing a deposit won't put you
in the poorhouse. You can avoid many mishaps simply by using reputable vendors; in addition, they may already have insurance that would reimburse you for losses.
Ask your advocate
To prevent her family from ending up
in the poorhouse, Dora takes over the business proving that she is more than just a housewife.
Belinda Starling: The Journal of Dora Damage
David Wagner challenges this common understanding
in The Poorhouse: America's Forgotten Institution.
David Wagner, The Poorhouse: America's Forgotten Institution
"That instilled in me at an early age: Don't end up
in the poorhouse. But the older I get, the less I worry about it."
It's peachy for Keene: musician's musician Tommy Keene releases a new CD of irresistible pop. And as a bonus, he comes out
Although Cleveland provided better economic opportunities than most other Northern cities, there were "far more blacks near the lower than the upper end of the economic spectrum." [8] A small number ended up
in the poorhouse, the Cleveland Infirmary.
INSTITUTIONALIZING INEQUALITIES: BLACK CHILDREN AND CHILD WELFARE IN CLEVELAND, 1859-1998
This coincidence in timing, however, should not lead one to conclude that per recipient costs were lower in the poorhouse. Indeed, as shown in Table 2, per recipient costs were always significantly higher in the poorhouse, and that difference would be even greater if the costs of building and maintaining the structures were known.(6)
It is possible that some of the difference between poorhouse and outdoor direct costs can be attributed to differences in average spell lengths and/or recipient characteristics.(7) Even if direct costs for equivalent full-year paupers were no higher in the poorhouse, however, per recipient administrative costs averaged almost four and a half times those for outdoor relief.
Shutting down welfare: two cases from America's past
(Family doctors aren't exactly
in the poorhouse. Median income is $93,000.) Considering that most med school students find themselves $50,000 in the hole the day they graduate, it's no wonder they feel they have little choice but to move into a high-paying sub-field.
Scalpel, please
Gavrilo Alekseev syn Solokin was eighty, and took shelter
in the poorhouse because of his age (za starostiiu).
The poor and disabled in early eighteenth-century Russian towns
Note the consistently higher proportion of the population
in the poorhouse in New York than in Brooklyn, and note also how small the proportions were.
Was there a nineteenth century welfare magnet in the United States?: Preliminary results from New York City and Brooklyn