Tudor governments did not really know what to do about the poor, because in many ways they did not understand the causes of poverty. It was widely assumed that many were just lazy and refused to work.

Life in the towns and cities of Elizabethan England is tough. There is great poverty and many people struggle to feed and house their families. While the Poor Laws go some way to improving this ...

The queen oversaw the nation’s first attempts at poverty relief: a gradual accumulation of rulings, like mandatory taxation, ...

A district court judge in Elbert County has declared the town of Elizabeth's curfew law unconstitutional after a Colorado family says they spent $12,000 fighting their son's $30 curfew ticket.