Describe Some of the Earliest Forms of Welfare to Help

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Essay

Describe some of the earliest forms of welfare to help the poor and discuss the differences between the "deserving" and "undeserving" poor and "indoor" and "outdoor" relief. Why have attempts by government to alleviate poverty been so controversial for much of American history? What event did the most to transform American attitudes toward poverty relief, and why?

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Definitions:

Percentiles

Values below which a certain percentage of data in a data set fall.

Quartiles

The 25th, 50th, and 75th percentiles, referred to as the first quartile, the second quartile (median), and third quartile, respectively. The quartiles can be used to divide a data set into four parts, with each part containing approximately 25% of the data.

Frequently Occurring

Refers to events or values that appear or happen often within a given dataset or timeframe.

Mode

A measure of location, defined as the value that occurs with greatest frequency.