Abstract
Historians view the national depression in the 1890s as changing the perception of the cause of poverty from one of individual fault to one that recognized social factors and, therefore, as altering poor relief practices and policies. An examination of the characteristics of the poor, public relief practice and policy, and private charities in a small Indiana city during this period found that, although the poor continued to be misperceived, responses of public and private relief agencies did change to allow minimal assistance for the involuntarily unemployed, but only if they were local residents.
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