1851 to 2013 so what's changed? Something wrong somewhere!

From Suffolk in the nineteenth century by John Glyde, Junior 1856:
On pauperism:
. . . and, worst of all, the habits of industry having been gradually undermined, a large class of labourers are really insensible to the honest spirit of independence.

Something wrong then and now:
In 1832  a man and wife and 5 children, one of whom was over 14,  was paid 13s 6d in out door relief.
The hard working labourer earned 10s a week, and if he had a son aged over 14 he earned 2 shillings, and the family received 1s and 6d.

What,  in your opinion, are the causes of crime?
Rev. Robert Francis, Chaplain of Beccles House of Correction.
Difficulty of getting employment; low wages; love of idle company and public houses. Uncertainty of employment necessarily leads to idleness and crime, and low wages renders the mind discontented and leads to pilfering.

Colonel Bence: My opinion is that want of employment has done more to demoralise the labouring part of the community, especially the younger branches of it, than anything else.