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What were the causes of poverty during the Victorian times

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People believed that it was a person's own doing that they were impoverished. They believed that it was due to their own behaviour, laziness, alcoholism or wasting the money that they had.
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Failure to save money due to gambling, drinking, many people refused to work, low wage rates and underemployment, sickness and diseases
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