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For male subjects, “we found that the cash alone—which is quite a lot of money given their destitution—barely improves psychosocial well-being,” she says.

Some of the densest clusters of destitution, home to what Booth uncharitably described as “vicious and semi-criminal” classes, are in the north of Lambeth, where modern studio flats cost north of a million pounds.

Traditionally, this “instant divorce,” as it is often called, could banish women to a life of destitution, given many women’s struggles to own property in their own name or to find profitable work.

Many of those factories are in low-wage countries around Asia where workers may live on the brink of destitution.

As he notes, these benefits are key to countless families who would otherwise fall into destitution.

Now she just wants the neo homeless to get back under a roof before they become acclimated to destitution.

Artemis Stefanoudaki, a 38-year-old photographer, lives on the razor-thin margin between poverty and destitution.

The new forces controlled by mankind have been powerless as yet to remove want and destitution, hard work and social discontent.

Although bordering on the lowest state of destitution—and that is a remarkably low state in London!

From every rank in society they had gravitated—but all were stamped with the same brand—destitution!

All that was pitiable and miserable in the land, sunken alike by ignorance and destitution.

An interesting feature of this case is the vagueness of the term "in need of relief," instead of "destitution."