Author | Title | Citation | Summary | Year | Relevancy |
Kinara Flagg |
MENDING THE SAFETY NET THROUGH SOURCE OF INCOME PROTECTIONS: THE NEXUS BETWEEN ANTIDISCRIMINATION AND SOCIAL WELFARE LAW |
20 Columbia Journal of Gender and Law 201 (2011) |
Nina is an African American woman and a single mother with five children living in New York City. One of her children is severely disabled. Last year, after a long wait, Nina became eligible for a housing voucher through the federal Housing Choice Voucher Program (also known as Section 8). In spite of the promise of rental assistance, Nina and her... |
2011 |
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Jordan C. Budd |
PLEDGE YOUR BODY FOR YOUR BREAD: WELFARE, DRUG TESTING, AND THE INFERIOR FOURTH AMENDMENT |
19 William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal 751 (March, 2011) |
Proposals to subject welfare recipients to periodic drug testing have emerged over the last three years as a significant legislative trend across the United States. Since 2007, over half of the states have considered bills requiring aid recipients to submit to invasive extraction procedures as an ongoing condition of public assistance. The vast... |
2011 |
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Raj Bhala |
POVERTY, ISLAMIST EXTREMISM, AND THE DEBACLE OF DOHA ROUND COUNTER-TERRORISM: PART ONE OF A TRILOGY--AGRICULTURAL TARIFFS AND SUBSIDIES |
9 University of Saint Thomas Law Journal 5 (Fall 2011) |
I. Argument of the Trilogy: Trade as Counter-Terrorism. 8 II. Trade Liberalization, Poverty Alleviation, and Islamist Extremism. 13 A. Is There Really a Link?. 13 B. Nevermind the Regressions. 21 C. Did They Know of the Link?. 23 D. The World Has Not Changed. 30 III. Texts and Documents. 31 A. The December 2008 Draft Modalities Texts. 31 B. The... |
2011 |
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Catherine Donnelly |
PRIVATIZATION AND WELFARE: A COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE |
5 Law & Ethics of Human Rights 336 (October, 2011) |
This Article adopts a comparative perspective on the use of privatization by governments in the welfare context. It begins by reviewing the extent of welfare privatization in the US, the UK, and Ireland, considering notable examples such as privatized welfare-to-work schemes and residential care. For example, the question of privatized welfare... |
2011 |
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Patricia A. Broussard |
REACTION TO: WEALTH, POVERTY, AND THE EQUAL PROTECTION CLAUSE |
3 Georgetown Journal of Law & Modern Critical Race Perspectives 199 (Fall, 2011) |
In his Article titled, The Fourteenth Amendment Isn't Broke: Why Wealth Should Be a Suspect Classification under the Equal Protection Clause, Shayan H. Modarres strikes at the heart of the myth of a so-called post-racial America by effectively arguing that poverty has become a proxy for race; thereby creating a de facto economic racism that... |
2011 |
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Paige Taylor |
REACTION TO: WEALTH, POVERTY, AND THE EQUAL PROTECTION CLAUSE |
3 Georgetown Journal of Law & Modern Critical Race Perspectives 201 (Fall, 2011) |
While Modarres makes clear that the courts have failed to recognize wealth as a suspect classification, he has based his thesis on the convergence of race and poverty, which ha[s] made it a virtual impossibility to consider poverty in a race-neutral manner. Therefore, he argues mostly about racial dynamics rather than proving a factual basis to... |
2011 |
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David J. MacIsaac |
REACTION TO: WEALTH, POVERTY, AND THE EQUAL PROTECTION CLAUSE |
3 Georgetown Journal of Law & Modern Critical Race Perspectives 197 (Fall, 2011) |
An ardent supporter of judicial discretion, Justice Benjamin Cardozo once stated that when judges are called upon to say how far existing rules are to be extended or restricted, they must let the welfare of society fix the path, its direction and its distance. In this Article, Shayan Modarres explores the issue of wealth discrimination, providing... |
2011 |
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Eloise Pasachoff |
SPECIAL EDUCATION, POVERTY, AND THE LIMITS OF PRIVATE ENFORCEMENT |
86 Notre Dame Law Review 1413 (August, 2011) |
This Article examines the appropriate balance between public and private enforcement of statutes seeking to distribute resources or social services to a socioeconomically diverse set of beneficiaries through a case study of the federal special education law, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). It focuses particularly on the... |
2011 |
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India Geronimo |
SYSTEMIC FAILURE: THE SCHOOL-TO-PRISON PIPELINE AND DISCRIMINATION AGAINST POOR MINORITY STUDENTS |
13 Journal of Law in Society 281 (Fall, 2011) |
C1-2Table of Contents I. Introduction. 281 II. The School to Prison Pipeline. 284 III. Institutional Entrenchment of the School to Prison Pipeline. 286 A. Inter-Institutional Entrenchment: Concentrated Poverty. 286 B. Intra-Institutional Entrenchment: School Administrator Decision-Making. 292 C. Interpersonal Entrenchment: Racialized Expectations... |
2011 |
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James C. N. Paul , Roktim Kaushik |
URBAN POVERTY AND THE RIGHT TO A DECENT HABITAT AS ESTABLISHED BY INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS LAW |
63 Rutgers Law Review 905 (Spring 2011) |
John Payne's contribution to the development of a right to affordable housing in New Jersey, and his broader interest in creating legal strategies to alleviate urban poverty, are among the enduring legacies which he bequeathed to the legal profession. We think this paper would have been of interest to him. It is offered now as a tribute to his... |
2011 |
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Christopher Dinkel |
WELFARE FAMILY CAPS AND THE ZERO-GRANT SITUATION |
96 Cornell Law Review 365 (January, 2011) |
Introduction. 366 I. Welfare in the United States. 370 A. History of Welfare. 370 B. Welfare Reform and the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996. 371 II. Welfare Family Caps. 372 A. History of Family Caps. 372 B. The Maximum Family Grant (MFG) Rule. 374 1. Operation of the MFG Rule. 374 2. Zero-Grant Situation... |
2011 |
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Rachel J. Gallagher |
WELFARE REFORM'S INADEQUATE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE FAMILY VIOLENCE OPTION: EXPLORING THE DUAL OPPRESSION OF POOR DOMESTIC VIOLENCE VICTIMS |
19 American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy and the Law 987 (2011) |
I. Introduction. 988 II. The History of Welfare--Punitive, Sexist, and Racist Roots. 989 A. Mothers' Pension State Initiatives. 989 B. The Aid to Dependent Children Program (ADC) & Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC). 990 C. Contemporary Welfare Policy--Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF). 993 III. The Correlation of Welfare... |
2011 |
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Chava Schwebel |
WELFARE RIGHTS IN CANADIAN AND GERMAN CONSTITUTIONAL LAW |
12 German Law Journal 1901 (November 1, 2011) |
According to liberal political theorists, such as John Locke and Adam Smith, liberty and equality are competing values. In Canadian constitutional law, the commitment to liberal individualism has pushed questions of socio-economic rights from the constitutional sphere into the political one. This is not the case in Germany, where the Federal... |
2011 |
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David Linhart |
EMINENT DOMAIN CONVERSION OF VACANT LUXURY CONDOMINIUMS INTO LOW-INCOME HOUSING |
21 Boston University Public Interest Law Journal 129 (Fall 2011) |
I. Introduction. 129 II. Background. 133 A. Takings Clause in the Fifth Amendment as applied in Midkiff and Kelo. 133 B. Housing imbalance in New York City in the wake of overdriven gentrification. 138 III. Argument. 144 A. RTTC-NYC findings and proposal. 144 B. Privatized low-income housing is valid public purpose. 147 IV. Conclusion. 150 |
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Allison M. Blackman |
MANUFACTURED HOME DISPLACEMENT AND ITS DISPARATE IMPACT ON LOW-INCOME FEMALES: A VIOLATION OF THE FAIR HOUSING ACT IN BOISE, IDAHO? |
4 the crit: a Critical Studies Journal 67 (Winter, 2011) |
C1-3TABLE OF CONTENTS I. Introduction 68 II. The History Of Manufactured Home Displacement In Boise, Idaho 73 III. Potential Legal Frameworks 77 A. Non-Existence Of Constitutional Remedies 77 B. Other Federal Frameworks 79 1. The Fair Housing Act 79 2. Disparate Impact Theory 82 C. Problematic Idaho Law 86 IV. The Violations 87 A. HUD's Own... |
2011 |
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Elizabeth Pierson Hernandez |
TWICE UPROOTED: HOW GOVERNMENT POLICIES EXACERBATE INJURY TO LOW-INCOME AMERICANS FOLLOWING NATURAL DISASTERS |
14 Scholar: St. Mary's Law Review on Minority Issues 219 (Fall 2011) |
I. Introduction. 220 II. Legal Background. 223 A. A Vague FEMA Policy Shortchanged Thousands of Hurricane Dolly Victims. 223 B. Federal Agencies Have Historically Left Low-Income Disaster Victims Stranded. 226 C. Federal Agencies Discriminate Despite Congressional Direction to the Contrary. 227 III. Analysis. 229 A. FEMA's Policy is Too Vague to be... |
2011 |
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Monica Teixeira de Sousa |
A RACE TO THE BOTTOM? PRESIDENT OBAMA'S INCOMPLETE AND CONSERVATIVE STRATEGY FOR REFORMING EDUCATION IN STRUGGLING SCHOOLS OR THE PERILS OF IGNORING POVERTY |
39 Stetson Law Review 629 (Spring 2010) |
The Race to the Top Fund (Fund), a competitive federal grant fund designed to spur educational reform at the state level, exposes the major deficit in President Barack Obama's plan for reforming this country's persistently lowest-achieving schools: a reluctance to acknowledge explicitly the relationship between struggling schools and concentrated... |
2010 |
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Bridgette Baldwin |
STRATIFICATION OF THE WELFARE POOR: INTERSECTIONS OF GENDER, RACE, & "WORTHINESS" IN POVERTY DISCOURSE AND POLICY |
6 Modern American 4 (Spring, 2010) |
On average, we black women have bigger, better problems than any other women alive. We bear the burden of being seen as pretenders to the thrones of both femininity and masculinity, endlessly mocked by the ambiguously gendered crown-of-thorns imagery of queen Madame Queen, snap queen, welfare queen, quota queen, Queenie Queen, Queen Queen Queen.... |
2010 |
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Khiara M. Bridges |
TOWARDS A THEORY OF STATE VISIBILITY: RACE, POVERTY, AND EQUAL PROTECTION |
19 Columbia Journal of Gender and Law 965 (2010) |
In the state of New York, uninsured pregnant women with incomes falling below 200% of the federal poverty line are eligible to enroll in the Prenatal Care Assistance Program (PCAP), a Medicaid program that pays the prenatal healthcare expenses of women who meet the program's qualifications. The aims of PCAP/Medicaid are laudable; it was passed in... |
2010 |
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Leslie Prentice |
"AT RISK FOR INCARCERATION" : WOMEN IN POVERTY, POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER, AND MEDICAID |
32 Women's Rights Law Reporter 81 (Fall, 2010) |
Amy Bishop, a neurobiology professor seeking tenure at the University of Alabama, shot six colleagues at a faculty meeting, killing three of them. The media coverage surrounding the incident emphasized the unlikely nature of the crime and the players. For example, the Boston Herald published one article describing Bishop as an oddball and another... |
2010 |
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Jordan C. Budd |
A FOURTH AMENDMENT FOR THE POOR ALONE: SUBCONSTITUTIONAL STATUS AND THE MYTH OF THE INVIOLATE HOME |
85 Indiana Law Journal 355 (Spring, 2010) |
For much of our nation's history, the poor have faced pervasive discrimination in the exercise of fundamental rights. Nowhere has the impairment been more severe than in the area of privacy. This Article considers the enduring legacy of this tradition with respect to the Fourth Amendment right to domestic privacy. Far from a matter of receding... |
2010 |
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Nekima Levy-Pounds |
CAN THESE BONES LIVE? A LOOK AT THE IMPACTS OF THE WAR ON DRUGS ON POOR AFRICAN-AMERICAN CHILDREN AND FAMILIES |
7 Hastings Race and Poverty Law Journal 353 (Summer 2010) |
It is no secret that there is currently an incarceration crisis in America. A Pew Report issued in February of 2008 proved one of our worst fears: The United States now has the highest rate of incarceration in the world. In fact, according to the report, one in every one hundred adult Americans is presently incarcerated. One has to look no further... |
2010 |
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Michael Correll |
GETTING FAT ON GOVERNMENT CHEESE: THE CONNECTION BETWEEN SOCIAL WELFARE PARTICIPATION, GENDER, AND OBESITY IN AMERICA |
18 Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy 45 (Fall 2010) |
The dramatic increase in obese and overweight Americans over the last two decades has produced enormous scholarly interest. New theories as to the causes, medical consequences, and legal implications of obesity abound. Despite this increase in obesity scholarship, medical, legal, and social science understandings of this topic largely remain... |
2010 |
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Michael S. Vastine |
GIVE ME YOUR TIRED, YOUR POOR . . . AND YOUR CONVICTED? TEACHING "JUSTICE" TO LAW STUDENTS BY DEFENDING CRIMINAL IMMIGRANTS IN REMOVAL PROCEEDINGS |
10 University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class 341 (Fall 2010) |
Why do you want to participate in the immigration clinic? I asked the student, the fifth of twelve interviews I was conducting that spring day, as my teaching fellow and I sought to choose the incoming class of eight students for the next academic year. I am just totally committed to human rights, she replied. Her earnestness did not leave any... |
2010 |
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Wendy A. Bach |
GOVERNANCE, ACCOUNTABILITY, AND THE NEW POVERTY AGENDA |
2010 Wisconsin Law Review 239 (2010) |
Across the country a new poverty agenda is emerging. These efforts are limited by the political consensus that has emerged since welfare reform, and the focus, as has always been the case, on the deserving--in today's iteration, primarily the working poor. Mirroring national and international trends, the means of governance of these new social... |
2010 |
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Matthew Shiers Sternman |
INTEGRATING THE SUBURBS: HARNESSING THE BENEFITS OF MIXED-INCOME HOUSING IN WESTCHESTER COUNTY AND OTHER LOW-POVERTY AREAS |
44 Columbia Journal of Law and Social Problems 1 (Fall, 2010) |
The opportunity for housing is the central goal of the Fair Housing Act. This can be enhanced through the creation of mixed-income housing developments, which increase the opportunity for integration and benefit those moving to a community, as well as those already there. In New Jersey, the decision in Southern Burlington County NAACP v. Mt. Laurel... |
2010 |
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Gary Stone, New York, NY |
KRIS SHEPARD, RATIONING JUSTICE: POVERTY LAWYERS AND POOR PEOPLE IN THE DEEP SOUTH, BATON ROUGE: LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2007. PP. 396. $55 (ISBN 978-0-8071-3207-1) |
28 Law and History Review 291 (February, 2010) |
Kris Shepard's Rationing Justice provides a detailed study of the provision of free legal services to the poor in civil cases in Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi. Such services were negligible until passage of the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964, which included monies for the creation of the nationwide Legal Services Program, which was superseded... |
2010 |
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Stephen B. Bright |
LEGAL REPRESENTATION FOR THE POOR: CAN SOCIETY AFFORD THIS MUCH INJUSTICE? |
75 Missouri Law Review 683 (Summer, 2010) |
A New Yorker cartoon depicts a lawyer facing his client, asking the critical question: You've got a pretty good case, how much justice can you afford? Of course, the promise is equal justice for all. But that is an aspiration, not reality. The poor person accused of a crime cannot afford any justice. So how much justice is society going to... |
2010 |
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Jasmin Sethi |
LESSONS FOR SOCIAL SCIENTISTS AND POLITICIANS: AN ANALYSIS OF WELFARE REFORM |
17 Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy 5 (Winter, 2010) |
C1-3Table of Contents I. Introduction. 5 II. Background. 9 III. The Relevance of Social Science. 12 IV. Welfare Recipients and the Culture of Poverty. 13 A. William Julius Wilson and Theories about Poverty. 13 B. Charles Murray and the Myth of the Welfare Queen. 15 V. Theories and Evidence about Employability: the Rational Actor and Expectancy... |
2010 |
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Tara J. Melish |
MAXIMUM FEASIBLE PARTICIPATION OF THE POOR: NEW GOVERNANCE, NEW ACCOUNTABILITY, AND A 21 CENTURY WAR ON THE SOURCES OF POVERTY |
13 Yale Human Rights and Development Law Journal 1 (2010) |
In 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson called for a Nationwide War on the Sources of Poverty to strike away the barriers to full participation in our society. Central to that war was an understanding that given poverty's complex and multi-layered causes, identifying, implementing, and monitoring solutions to it would require the maximum feasible... |
2010 |
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W. Lawson Konvalinka |
MORE THAN A POOR LAWYER: A STUDY IN POVERTY LAW |
89 Texas Law Review 449 (December, 2010) |
Unfortunately, law school teaches students to focus on money rather than on justice. This sentiment, though bold in proclamation, is keenly felt by students and faculty interested in poverty law. Every year, law schools receive thousands of applications from interested candidates avowing that their sole purpose in coming to law school is to seek... |
2010 |
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Eric V. Hull |
POISONING THE POOR FOR PROFIT: THE INJUSTICE OF EXPORTING ELECTRONIC WASTE TO DEVELOPING COUNTRIES |
21 Duke Environmental Law and Policy Forum 1 (Fall 2010) |
I think the economic logic behind dumping a load of toxic waste in the lowest wage country is impeccable and we should face up to that. Technological innovation coupled with planned product obsolescence has fostered a throwaway culture that has made electronic waste the fastest growing segment of the municipal waste stream in the United States.... |
2010 |
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Lisa R. Pruitt |
SPATIAL INEQUALITY AS CONSTITUTIONAL INFIRMITY: EQUAL PROTECTION, CHILD POVERTY AND PLACE |
71 Montana Law Review 1 (Winter 2010) |
This is the first in a series of articles that maps legal conceptions of (in)equality onto the socio-geographical concept of spatial inequality, with a view to generating legal remedies for those living in places marked by socioeconomic disadvantage. In particular, this article considers whether the funding and delivery of government services at... |
2010 |
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James A. Long |
THE LOW-INCOME HOUSING TAX CREDIT IN NEW JERSEY: NEW OPPORTUNITIES TO DECONCENTRATE POVERTY THROUGH THE DUTY TO AFFIRMATIVELY FURTHER FAIR HOUSING |
66 New York University Annual Survey of American Law 75 (2010) |
The federal Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) program has produced over one million rental housing units from 1995 to 2005, most of which are affordable to low-income tenants. Developers of low-income rental housing apply for federal income-tax credits to subsidize their affordable housing units through a competitive process administered by the... |
2010 |
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Henry Rose |
THE POOR AS A SUSPECT CLASS UNDER THE EQUAL PROTECTION CLAUSE: AN OPEN CONSTITUTIONAL QUESTION |
34 Nova Law Review 407 (Spring, 2010) |
Both judges and legal scholars assert that the United States Supreme Court has held that the poor are neither a quasi-suspect nor a suspect class under the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. They further assert that this issue was decided by the Supreme Court in San Antonio Independent School... |
2010 |
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Robert Hornstein |
THE RIGHT TO COUNSEL IN CIVIL CASES REVISITED: THE PROPER INFLUENCE OF POVERTY AND THE CASE FOR REVERSING LASSITER v. DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES |
59 Catholic University Law Review 1057 (Summer, 2010) |
I. Trouble So Hard: The Struggle to Establish a Right to Civil Gideon. 1065 II. Why Bad Facts Should Have Made Good Law: Revisiting the Lassiter Decision Through the Prism of the Undeserving Poor. 1072 III. A Matter of Policy over Precedent. 1089 IV. Twisting It Wrong to Make It Right: Justice Stewart's Due Process Analysis. 1092 V. A Return to... |
2010 |
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Ann M. Piccard |
THE UNITED STATES' FAILURE TO RATIFY THE INTERNATIONAL COVENANT ON ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS: MUST THE POOR BE ALWAYS WITH US? |
13 Scholar: St. Mary's Law Review on Minority Issues 231 (Winter 2010) |
I. Must the Poor be Always with Us?. 232 II. ICESCR: The Potential for Change. 234 III. U.S. Poverty Today: The Poor Are with Us. 237 A. Law, Poverty, and Litigation. 237 B. Economics, Law, and Poverty. 246 IV. Why ICESCR, and Why Now. 250 A. Internalization of International Norms. 250 B. Law, Morality, and Culture. 253 C. Progressive Realization... |
2010 |
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Rachel Cohen |
TWO STEPS FORWARD, ONE STEP BACK: EVALUATING THE HEALTHY MARRIAGE INITIATIVE IN LIGHT OF AMERICA'S WELFARE HISTORY |
17 Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy 145 (Winter, 2010) |
I Introduction. 145 II Marginalizing Black Men in Society since 1862. 147 III. Why We Think Marriage Works. 151 IV. The Reason Women Don't Marry. 152 A. Low-Income Women Still Value Marriage as an Institution. 152 B. Financial and Educational Disparities Between Men and Women Prevent Marriage. 153 V Turning the Tide: Addressing the Issue. 157 A.... |
2010 |
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John Bronsteen, Christopher Buccafusco, Jonathan S. Masur |
WELFARE AS HAPPINESS |
98 Georgetown Law Journal 1583 (August, 2010) |
C1-3Table of Contents L1-2Introduction . L31585 I. A Happiness-Based Approach to Well-Being. 1588 a. weak welfarism. 1589 b. happiness and the subjective experience of life. 1590 c welfare as happiness. 1591 d. feeling vs. evaluating and the choice of the time interval. 1592 1. Determining Worth by Aggregating Moments. 1593 2. Moment-by-Moment... |
2010 |
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J. William Callison |
ACHIEVING OUR COUNTRY: GEOGRAPHIC DESEGREGATION AND THE LOW-INCOME HOUSING TAX CREDIT |
19 Southern California Review of Law & Social Justice 213 (Spring 2010) |
In A Theory of Justice, John Rawls challenged the view that utilitarianism, which he described as a structure that would require a lesser life prospect [] for some simply for the sake of greater advantage for others, was the correct way to construct a just social order. Instead, Rawls established a construct based on a veil of ignorance.... |
2010 |
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Khiara M. Bridges |
QUASI-COLONIAL BODIES: AN ANALYSIS OF THE REPRODUCTIVE LIVES OF POOR BLACK AND RACIALLY SUBJUGATED WOMEN |
18 Columbia Journal of Gender and Law 609 (2009) |
This Article analyzes the relationship between the struggle for the recognition of Black women's reproductive rights in the United States and the fight for racial justice. Specifically, it argues that the problematization of poor Black women's fertility--evidenced by the depiction of single Black motherhood as a national crisis, the condemnation of... |
2009 |
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Kiran Nagulapalli |
STRICTLY FOR THE DOGS: A FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT ANALYSIS OF THE RACE BASED FORMATION AND ENFORCEMENT OF ANIMAL WELFARE LAWS |
11 Rutgers Race & the Law Review 217 (2009) |
Only when the most marginalized minorities are protected are we all safe. These words should echo in the minds of all; but instead fall upon deaf ears. Despite various safeguards constructed to ensure the equal protection of minorities, the United States of America is a land of majority rule, and the race of that majority is white.... |
2009 |
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Doris Marie Provine, Arizona State University |
THE PERILS OF FEDERALISM: RACE, POVERTY, AND THE POLITICS OF CRIME CONTROL. BY LISA L. MILLER. NEW YORK: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2008. PP. V+254. $39.95 CLOTH |
43 Law and Society Review 714 (September, 2009) |
This book explores the ever-timely topic of crime control from the perspective of communities that suffer high rates of criminal violence but tend to be marginalized by the political process. Miller's target is not racism or class prejudice per se, but the structure of contemporary American federalism, which advantages policy bureaucrats,... |
2009 |
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Peter B. Edelman |
CHANGING THE SUBJECT: FROM WELFARE TO POVERTY TO A LIVING INCOME |
4 Northwestern Journal of Law & Social Policy 14 (Winter, 2009) |
For nearly forty years, the dominant political discourse about poverty in the United States has focused on welfare rather than poverty itself, even as disparities between the wealthiest and those at the bottom widened spectacularly. With the new century and a new administration, public attention has returned to issues of poverty and inequality.... |
2009 |
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Marjorie E. Kornhauser |
COGNITIVE THEORY AND THE DELIVERY OF WELFARE BENEFITS |
40 Loyola University Chicago Law Journal 253 (Winter 2009) |
When it comes to the topic of wealth and income inequality, Americans seemingly agree on nothing other than its existence. They even differ as to whether the inequality is bad. Those who agree it is bad disagree about what, if anything, should be done about it. Those who agree something should be done disagree about whether the government should do... |
2009 |
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Nareissa Smith |
EATIN' GOOD? NOT IN THIS NEIGHBORHOOD A LEGAL ANALYSIS OF DISPARITIES IN FOOD AVAILABILITY AND QUALITY AT CHAIN SUPERMARKETS IN POVERTY-STRICKEN AREAS |
14 Michigan Journal of Race and Law 197 (Spring 2009) |
Many Americans--especially the poor--face severe hurdles in their attempts to secure the most basic of human needs--food. One reason for this struggle is the tendency of chain supermarkets to provide a limited selection of goods and a lower quality of goods to patrons in less affluent neighborhoods. Healthier items such as soy milks, fresh fish,... |
2009 |
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Kevin Outterson |
FOREWORD--WILL HPV VACCINES PREVENT CERVICAL CANCERS AMONG POOR WOMEN OF COLOR?: GLOBAL HEALTH POLICY AT THE INTERSECTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW |
35 American Journal of Law & Medicine 247 (2009) |
Cervical cancer is a disease of social inequality. Women with access to effective screening and treatment rarely die from cervical cancer. The burden of cervical cancer mortality falls most heavily among the poorer women of the world. Cervical cancer starkly illustrates global inequality across race, sex and class. Cervical cancer... |
2009 |
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Julie A. Nice |
FORTY YEARS OF WELFARE POLICY EXPERIMENTATION: NO ACRES, NO MULE, NO POLITICS, NO RIGHTS |
4 Northwestern Journal of Law & Social Policy 1 (Winter, 2009) |
Forty years ago, the tide turned against the War on Poverty, and poor people have never recovered. Many factors contributed to the demise of that historic effort to eliminate poverty. The urgent need to understand these factors has increased today as the nation appears to be facing an economic crisis of historic proportion. Surely one of the most... |
2009 |
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Felicia Kornbluh |
IS WORK THE ONLY THING THAT PAYS? THE GUARANTEED INCOME AND OTHER ALTERNATIVE ANTI-POVERTY POLICIES IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE |
4 Northwestern Journal of Law & Social Policy 61 (Winter, 2009) |
In the years since 1996, welfare has largely ceased to be an issue in mainstream national debate. Welfare reform, a goal of Democratic and Republican administrations and legislatures from the late 1960s to the middle 1990s, has likewise virtually ceased to exist as an object of political attention. In a sense, then, and to a degree that my... |
2009 |
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David Ray Papke |
KEEPING THE UNDERCLASS IN ITS PLACE: ZONING, THE POOR, AND RESIDENTIAL SEGREGATION |
41 Urban Lawyer 787 (Fall, 2009) |
It has become fashionable to argue that the preferences and choices of Americans living in metropolitan areas are changing. Contemporary middle and upper-class Americans, the argument goes, no longer want to live in suburban subdivisions, work in office parks, and shop in enclosed malls. One-third of all homeowners now express a preference for... |
2009 |
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