the undeserving poor

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undeserving
First, it reflected a tendency to view evacuees as socially unproductive and undeserving members of the polity.
If discrete endogenous and exogenous depression subtypes are confirmed, it does not imply that environmentally induced or influenced depressions are unimportant or undeserving of treatment.
The study also finds some housing association staff poorly trained in domestic violence and in operating policies to distinguish the deserving from the undeserving.
In the second half of the book, the focus moves from the ' deserving ' to the ' undeserving ' poor and to their betters.
Claiming the program threw money at the undeserving poor, conservatives played on the fact that the program assisted only non-working families.
Finally, the ethos of the recipient population eliminated the stigma of the undeserving, dependent poor.
Moreover, with benefits founded on the principle of status maintenance, isolating deserving recipients from undeserving ones does not naturally divide along programmatic lines.
Whereas the traditional distinction between deserving and undeserving relies on notions of industry and thrift, the current measures of social worth are open-ended and elusive.
This was in contrast to the view on the 'undeserving' poor, who were to be placed in workhouses under the harsher new rules of the poor relief system.
Stoker's working-class characters are, of course, stock comic representations of the undeserving poor, but they are no less ideologically situated for being so.
Dispossessed groups thus confronted a rhetoric of benevolence that marginalized them, while benefactors' moral character could become soured by fears of being tricked by shammers or the undeserving.
At the same time there were comments that pension allocations reflected perceptions of elders as ' undeserving ' and unquestionably able to adjust to a low standard of living.
Our heroine is a sort of innocent onlooker and her vision constitutes an effective criticism of a distorted system that can give an undeserving father absolute power over his children.
Ultimately, participants supported the view that the government should bear no responsibility for undeserving citizens, but believed deserving citizens should receive government-sponsored financial, social and medical supports in later life.
Precisely because industrial accidents received broad news coverage that tended to portray the victims as hardworking individuals, there was less suggestion that workers' compensation payments would go to the undeserving.
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