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03077aam a2200409 i 4500 001 30EA5EDC49F311ED9CAF447533ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20221012010028 008 201216s2021 nyua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2020054630 020 $a 0197515436 020 $a 9780197515433 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d BDX $d OCLCF $d UKMGB $d GZO $d YDX $d OCLCO $d AAA $d RC9 $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a HV91 $b .L63 2021 082 00 $a 362.5/56097309034 $2 23 100 1 $a Loiacono, Gabriel, $e author. 245 10 $a How welfare worked in the early United States : $b five microhistories / $c Gabriel J. Loiacono. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Oxford University Press, $c [2021] 300 $a viii, 237 pages : $b illustratiions ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a "The year George Washington was finishing his first term as president, 1792, William Larned was beginning his first term as overseer of the poor for Providence, Rhode Island. Larned would be re-elected for another thirty-five one-year terms and arguably exercised more authority over locals than any president could. Larned's long career in this little-known but powerful local government position illustrates several aspects of early American poor laws. Overseers of the poor could be life-savers to locals in need. They could also upend lives, forcing families out of town. They controlled the largest portion of local tax dollars, which dwarfed state and federal tax levies from the individual taxpayer's perspective. Overseers used these tax dollars to provide food, housing, healthcare, and other necessaries to people in need. An ancillary benefit was that these dollars also buoyed the incomes of local government relief contractors"-- $c Provided by publisher. 505 0 $a Introduction: What can we learn from these five microhistories? -- Overseer of the poor: How William Larned spent public funds on the needy -- Warned out: How Cuff Roberts was banished by poor law officials -- Healthcare for the poor: How "One-Eyed" Sarah saved paupers' lives -- Hard-working single mother: Lydia Bates and poor relief in a small town -- Stuck in the poorhouse: William Fales and the experience of institutionalization -- Epilogue: What can we learn from these five lives? 650 0 $a Public welfare $z United States $x History. 650 0 $a Poor $z United States $x History. 650 0 $a Poor laws $z United States $x History. 650 7 $a Poor. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01071040 650 7 $a Poor laws. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01071211 650 7 $a Public welfare. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01083250 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 776 08 $i Online version: $a Loiacono, Gabriel, $t How welfare worked in the early united states $d New York : Oxford University Press, 2021. $z 9780197515457 $w (DLC) 2020054631 941 $a 1 952 $l UQAX771 $d 20221012010826.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=30EA5EDC49F311ED9CAF447533ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b JIDInitiate Another SILO Locator Search