unwelcome american

1. In 18th century America, no stable system of welfare existed to assist the poor who found themselves without any financial ability for their food, shelter, or medical care. The poor were provided the relief only by local taxes, and these funds were quickly run out. Finally, in order to manage this problem, New England towns established the ¡°warning out¡± system stemmed from English law. ¡°Warning out¡±, a welfare system to take care of the poor, only covered the town¡¯s legal inhabitant to abridge its financial aid; thus it was urgent for the town community to define whether the poor is a legal inhabitant or a transient. People, defined as a transient and forced to move from their town to the next, carried letters of introduction in order to establish themselves as legal residents of a new place. This system alleviated each town¡¯s expense and responsibility to take care of the poor living on the edge and placed the burdened on each town to look after its own....