Parts of the North Staffordshire Royal Infirmary in Stoke were built in the 1860s under the Poor Laws.
England's poor laws, which paid a pittance to the destitute out of taxes, earned David Ricardo's condemnation in the early 19th century.
In Smith's time, the poor laws made parishes responsible for those who could not work but who had legally settled in the parish.
What's worse, many firms just don't pay, especially where poor bankruptcy laws and corruptible courts prevent the seizure of debtors' assets.
Despite his poor record Laws is confident he will take charge of the club in the Championship next season and that they will be well placed to bounce back.
Nevertheless, the laws are a poor way to start building a society in Northern Ireland based on respect for the rule of law.
Existing federal laws already cover the poor, the elderly, and the roughly 60% of Americans who get their insurance through their employers.
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As if these distractions were not enough, Indonesian businesses are afflicted by a muddled legal system, multiple layers of corrupt bureaucrats, poor infrastructure, and restrictive labour laws.
Poor basic education and restrictive labour laws will make it hard for many to find jobs in manufacturing, and there is a limit to how many can work in services.
Jonathan Heath, a private economic consultant, notes that poor documentation of loans, along with laws that make it virtually impossible to seize property, may make the recovery rate even lower.
Of course scarce land, red tape, poor education and infrastructure, and onerous labour laws partly offset this.
Much of the failure can be ascribed to an old-fashioned lack of informants and poor collation of existing information, though restrictive laws on wiretapping and other surveillance methods cannot have helped.
Even in Britain, where anti-discrimination laws are relatively stringent, Muslims tend to be poor.
It also engendered safety and child labor laws, after reformers documented the lives of the poor in a way painters never could.
And if the poor thing can't hold the universe together and mess with the laws of physics at the same time, then so be it.
Many of those laws are being challenged by groups that say they disproportionately hurt the poor, elderly and minorities.
Nowadays the laws protecting tenants make landlords much less keen to let rooms cheaply to poor strangers.
Other agreements to revise laws on land reform and water rights, to reduce their cost to the poor, are unlikely to be fulfilled within the promised 90 days.
Deutsche Bank produced poor returns in 2001, although a move to American accounting and a change in German tax laws fogs comparison.
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