Author: United States. Bureau of the Census
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 128

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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 74

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Category : South Dakota
Languages : en
Pages : 630

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Author: Gabriel J. Loiacono
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197515452
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 249

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What was American welfare like in George Washington's day? It was expensive, extensive, and run by local governments. Known as "poor relief," it included what we would now call welfare and social work. Unlike other aspects of government, poor relief remained consistent in structure between the establishment of the British colonies in the 1600s and the New Deal of the 1930s. In this book, Gabriel J. Loiacono follows the lives of five people in Rhode Island between the Revolutionary War and 1850: a long-serving overseer of the poor, a Continental Army veteran who was repeatedly banished from town, a nurse who was paid by the government to care for the poor, an unwed mother who cared for the elderly, and a paralyzed young man who attempted to become a Christian missionary from inside of a poorhouse. Of Native, African, and English descent, these five Rhode Islanders utilized poor relief in various ways. Tracing their involvement with these programs, Loiacono explains the importance of welfare through the first few generations of United States history. In Washington's day, poor relief was both generous and controlling. Two centuries ago, Americans paid for--and many relied on--an astonishing governmental system that provided food, housing, and medical care to those in need. This poor relief system also shaped American households and dictated where Americans could live and work. Recent generations have assumed that welfare is a new development in the United States. This book shows how old welfare is in the United States of America through five little-known, but compelling, life stories.

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Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 286

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Author: United States. Bureau of the Census
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 4

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Author: American Council of Learned Societies. Committee on Linguistic and National Stocks in the Population of the United States
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Category : Aliens
Languages : en
Pages : 362

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Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 888

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Author: Darlene Clark Hine
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0926019813
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 635

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Essays by 30 authors attempt to reclaim and to create heightened awareness about individuals, contributions, and struggles that have made African American women's survival and progress possible.

Author: Forrest McDonald
Publisher: Lawrence : University Press of Kansas
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 234

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'One of the most imaginative and suggestive works on the Washington years. McDonald has demonstrated in this work that presidential history can still be lively and compelling.'