... that for these unfortunate people state intervention was required. With this proposition the State quickly were bombarded with evidence against Individualism. When the Great Depression struck the number of unemployed was incredible. With competing countries such as Germany and the USA, those employed were made to work harder and so faced even worse conditions and hardships then they ever did before. Those who could not find jobs were left with the bitter thought that self-help theory was a fraud. The high number of unemployed clearly needed, support from the state. This was a considerable strain on the government as they tried to find ways of funding the necessary means of helping these people. In the last quarter of the nineteenth century poverty received more publicity than ever before. Such series of reports went to explode the myth that poverty was a self-inflicted wound. Such reports from the recruiting of ...

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