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Victorian workhouses were built on the assumption that indigence was a moral failing rather than a consequence of collapsing wages.
History
Dickens wrote about indigence from memory, having watched the family furniture carried out of the house door by door.
Literature
The clinic's charter waived every fee in cases of indigence, which is why its waiting room was full by six.
Medicine
Economists distinguish low income from indigence, the state in which a family cannot cover food and shelter at all.
Economics
Defendants who prove indigence are assigned a lawyer at public expense, though the paperwork takes weeks.
Law
The reform promised to end indigence among the elderly by guaranteeing a pension to anyone over seventy.
Politics
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