Until recently, it has penetrated the official language and political terminology, and there is little argument that caused a passion like a lower class. Karl Marx proposed the proletariat's opinion of proletariat, but in modern times this concept was not occupied in the UK until 1989. Today, the discussion focuses on whether friction produces an unequal continuum, or whether there is a certain lower class. The question is whether "poor people" belong to another lower class. There will always be "poor people", but it does not matter if this automatically makes them a lower lower class.
In the 16th century England, "poor law" was passed to help "worth poor and unemployed". "Poor people deserving" are children, elderly people and sick people. By contrast, "worthless poor" is jealousy and crime, usually imprisoned. These laws also shaped the way of early American social welfare. In the 19th century, organizations like the Salvation Army believed that Christians should leave the church and go out into town to take care of the poor. At this time, the emergence of the social gospel movement was also seen in the United States, emphasizing the ideal of justice and equality in the Bible. Poverty is considered a social problem that requires comprehensive social and government response
Public opinion on poverty at the time did not help this situation. The poor are divided into two categories. It is worth and worthless. Causes are children, elderly people, disabled people. It is not worth while both healthy men and women can not find a job. Their attitude is that their poverty is their fault, so they are considered superior to criminals. It was not when the railroad appeared that things really started looking for civilians. The large amount of work required to build a railway alone provides work to many people. In addition, it is now cheaper to transport metals and other rugged raw materials to make goods. This not only lowers the price of the goods, it stimulates the industry greatly.
With this dichotomy between the poor and the innocent poor, people have a barrier to restrict access to aid, while maintaining the desire to help poor people and the poor (worthy poor) I will forgive you for the "worthy" poor). Consider how Britain's Prime Minister Theresa Mey talks about personal independent payment (AKA PIP which is the economic interest of disabled people in the UK). These statements are made in light of government policies that directly lead to clearly identifiable risks.