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Richard Rathe Oct 18, 2024

Interesting!

Nice tie-in to this thread... "vagrants" = "naught-y" = having nought

"The Deserving Poor"

The idea that certain poor people deserve our help (and others do not) is at least five hundred years old. Elizabethan England tried to help certain groups such as orphans and the elderly. "Vagrants" were put into the stocks, fed only bread and water for three days, then released and told to never return. This included honest citizens who'd had the misfortune of losing their homes and livelihoods.

#language #etymology #words #history #poor #DeservingPoor #vagrants

Marsden Oct 1, 2023

"We’ve been talking a lot about the election and how bloody brutal it is on anyone who gets Government support. There’s also been a lot of talk about ‘the deserving poor’. Helen wrote about what it feels like to be the one who is being talked about, and the one whose life is at the mercy of political parties that loathe anyone who seeks Government aide."

#NZPol #DeservingPoor #PoliticalFootball #poverty #beneficiary #GovernmentSupport #EmilyWrites

https://emilywrites.substack.com/p/im-the-deserving-poor-and-you-could

I'm the 'deserving poor' and you could easily become me

When you're the political football....

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