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Shilesh Muralidhara DEFICIENCIES OF THE LOW-INCOME HOUSING TAX CREDIT IN TARGETING THE LOWEST-INCOME HOUSEHOLDS AND IN PROMOTING CONCENTRATED POVERTY AND SEGREGATION 24 Law & Inequality: A Journal of Theory and Practice 353 (Summer 2006) Affordable public housing has been an issue at the forefront of public policy in the United States since the Great Depression era. The social, political, and economic benefit of adequate housing for citizens at all income-levels has long been recognized. Nevertheless, despite almost seventy years worth of effort to remedy the dearth of affordable... 2006 Relevant (Poverty)
Debra Lyn Bassett DISTANCING RURAL POVERTY 13 Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy 3 (Spring, 2006) In fall 2005, the televised horrors of Hurricane Katrina's aftermath frightened, mostly African-American survivors huddling on rooftops awaiting rescue, without food or water, abandoned for five desperate days, herded into the Superdome with an astonishing lack of planning that left the survivors surrounded by dead bodies, sewage, stench, and... 2006 Relevant (Poverty)
Charles M. A. Clark ECONOMIC JUSTICE AND WELFARE REFORM: WAS WELFARE REFORM AN EXAMPLE OF PRUDENTIAL JUDGMENT IN PUBLIC POLICY? 4 University of Saint Thomas Law Journal 1 (Summer 2006) After extensive discussion and debate, President Bill Clinton signed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act, replacing AFDC (Aid to Families with Dependant Children) with TANF (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families). The push to end welfare as we know it was fueled by a desire to reduce the costs of welfare programs... 2006 Relevant (Poverty)
Xavier de Souza Briggs ENTRENCHED POVERTY, SOCIAL MIXING, AND THE "GEOGRAPHY OF OPPORTUNITY": LESSONS FOR POLICY AND UNANSWERED QUESTIONS 13 Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy 403 (Fall, 2006) How does place shape the human experience and the well-being and life prospects of children and families, including the poor? And how should policies in housing and other arenas respond to these place effects, reducing ghetto segregationnow a worldwide phenomenaand persistent poverty, which is one of segregation's terrible social costs?... 2006 Relevant (Poverty)
Rebekah J. Smith FAMILY CAPS IN WELFARE REFORM: THEIR COERCIVE EFFECTS AND DAMAGING CONSEQUENCES 29 Harvard Journal of Law & Gender 151 (Winter, 2006) Welfare reform is a political force that has held American family policy in its grip for the past decade. A particularly problematic component of such reform efforts is the policy of establishing family caps or child exclusions. Family caps end the traditional system of welfare benefits that increase with family size and instead freeze the... 2006 Relevant (Poverty)
Seema Ramesh Shah HAVING LOW INCOME HOUSING TAX CREDIT QUALIFIED ALLOCATION PLANS TAKE INTO ACCOUNT THE QUALITY OF SCHOOLS AT PROPOSED FAMILY HOUSING SITES: A PARTIAL ANSWER TO THE RESIDENTIAL SEGREGATION DILEMMA? 39 Indiana Law Review 691 (2006) Is it possible that the largest federal subsidy program in the nation is being administered in such a way as to perpetuate racial and ethnic segregation in urban and suburban America? State housing agencies that administer the Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) program, the largest federal subsidy program for constructing and rehabilitating... 2006 Relevant (Poverty)
John R. Edwards KATRINA'S LESSONS: MOVING FORWARD IN THE FIGHT AGAINST POVERTY: AN OVERVIEW OF PANEL FIVE 10 Employee Rights and Employment Policy Journal 151 (2006) The last of our poverty summit panels considered a topic that in many ways symbolizes our nation's struggles with poverty. Hurricane Katrina is a disaster that is unparalleled in our nation's history. In practically destroying New Orleans, one of our true national treasures, and in ripping through the coastline, towns, and countryside throughout... 2006 Relevant (Poverty)
Daniel A. Crane MIXED BUNDLING, PROFIT SACRIFICE, AND CONSUMER WELFARE 55 Emory Law Journal 423 (2006) Introduction. 425 I. A Taxonomy of Explanations for Mixed Bundling. 428 A. Procompetitive and Competition-Neutral Explanations. 430 1. Cost Efficiencies. 430 2. Instilling Customer Loyalty. 433 3. Eliminating Double Marginalization. 434 4. Price Discrimination. 436 5. Playing Behavioral Games. 438 6. Exploiting Fragmented Customer Decision-Making.... 2006 Relevant (Poverty)
Jacob Press POOR LAW: THE DEFICIT REDUCTION ACT'S CITIZENSHIP DOCUMENTATION REQUIREMENT FOR MEDICAID ELIGIBILITY 8 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law 1033 (September 1, 2006) On February 8, 2006, President George W. Bush signed the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 (the DRA). Included in the DRA is a new requirement that federal Medicaid funding must be denied to individuals who claim U.S. citizenship but are unable to produce acceptable documentation. Entitled Improved Enforcement of Documentation Requirements, the... 2006 Relevant (Poverty)
Juliet M. Brodie POST-WELFARE LAWYERING: CLINICAL LEGAL EDUCATION AND A NEW POVERTY LAW AGENDA 20 Washington University Journal of Law and Policy 201 (2006) Russell Franklin called the law school clinic from the county jail, where he was serving a nine-month sentence. He claimed his boss owed him two weeks' wages, so a law student went to the jail to interview him. Mr. Franklin had been working full-time at an auto transmission repair shop under the jail's work release program. When he quit, his boss... 2006 Relevant (Poverty)
Leslie Book PREVENTING THE HYBRID FROM BACKFIRING: DELIVERY OF BENEFITS TO THE WORKING POOR THROUGH THE TAX SYSTEM 2006 Wisconsin Law Review 1103 (2006) I. Introduction. 1104 A. The Earned Income Tax Credit: Participation, Costs, and Errors. 1104 B. The Potential Backfire Risk. 1107 II. The EITC: The Basics, the Noncompliance Problem, and the Use of Commercial Preparers. 1110 A. Summary of the EITC. 1110 B. The Overclaim Problem. 1111 1. What We Know. 1111 2. What We Do Not Know. 1113 3. The Role... 2006 Relevant (Poverty)
Lisa A. Gennetian , Cindy Redcross, Cynthia Miller, MDRC REGIONAL DIFFERENCES IN THE EFFECTS OF WELFARE REFORM: EVIDENCE FROM AN EXPERIMENTAL PROGRAM IN RURAL AND URBAN MINNESOTA 13 Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy 119 (Spring, 2006) Though issues of poverty affect families and children in both urban and rural areas of the United States, the plight of the urban poor rings nearer for many researchers and policymakers. In fact, child and adult poverty rates vary considerably across regions, highest in central cities and nonmetropolitan areas and lowest in the suburbs. A number of... 2006 Relevant (Poverty)
William P. Quigley REVOLUTIONARY LAWYERING: ADDRESSING THE ROOT CAUSES OF POVERTY AND WEALTH 20 Washington University Journal of Law and Policy 101 (2006) I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. We must rapidly begin the shift from a thing-oriented society to a person-oriented society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the... 2006 Relevant (Poverty)
Jonathon B. Tingley STEALING FROM THE POOR TO GIVE TO THE RICH: WHY NEW YORK SHOULD ABANDON ATTEMPTS TO COLLECT FUEL TAXES ON RESERVATIONS 69 Albany Law Review 357 (2005-2006) Midsummer 1992 was a volatile period in New York State history. The State had attempted to impose and collect sales and excise taxes on fuel sold by Indian reservation businesses to non-Indian buyers. The tension that erupted between the Indians and the state government was reminiscent of the tension that existed centuries before. The tension,... 2006 Relevant (Poverty)
Steven H. Hobbs , Shenavia Baity TENDING TO THE SPIRIT: A PROPOSAL FOR HEALING THE HEARTS OF BLACK CHILDREN IN POVERTY 26 Boston College Third World Law Journal 107 (Winter, 2006) This article describes the public and private responses necessary to develop skills for low-income children to succeed. In order to fully comprehend the challenges facing these children, the article begins by explaining the statistics behind childhood poverty, including that children raised in poverty perform well below average in school... 2006 Relevant (Poverty)
Mark R. Rank TOWARD A NEW UNDERSTANDING OF AMERICAN POVERTY 20 Washington University Journal of Law and Policy 17 (2006) The United States currently has among the highest rates of poverty in the Western world. Whether one looks at the overall rate of poverty or rates for particular groups, whether one uses an absolute or a relative measure of poverty, whether one examines individual years or averages over time, the story is much the same. Poverty in America is... 2006 Relevant (Poverty)
Barak Y. Orbach UNWELCOME BENEFITS: WHY WELFARE BENEFICIARIES REJECT GOVERNMENT AID 24 Law & Inequality: A Journal of Theory and Practice 107 (Winter 2006) Introduction. 108 I. Welfare Bureaucracies and Participation Disincentives. 115 A. Screening Mechanisms and Private Costs. 115 1. The Problem of Asymmetric Information. 115 2. Direct Screening Mechanisms. 116 3. Self-Selection Screening Mechanisms. 123 B. The Costs of Discretionary Eligibility Criteria. 126 C. Deliberate Deterrence of Potentially... 2006 Relevant (Poverty)
Matthew D. Adler WELFARE POLLS: A SYNTHESIS 81 New York University Law Review 1875 (December, 2006) Welfare polls are survey instruments that seek to quantify the determinants of human well-being. Currently, three welfare polling formats are dominant: contingent valuation (CV) surveys, quality-adjusted life year (QALY) surveys, and happiness surveys. Each format has generated a large, specialized, scholarly literature, but no comprehensive... 2006 Relevant (Poverty)
Noah Zatz WELFARE TO WHAT? 57 Hastings Law Journal 1131 (June, 2006) Ten years ago, President Clinton fulfilled his campaign pledge to end welfare as we know it by signing sweeping federal welfare reform legislation. The replacement of Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) with Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) marked an important transformation in the character of the American welfare state.... 2006 Relevant (Poverty)
Noah D. Zatz WHAT WELFARE REQUIRES FROM WORK 54 UCLA Law Review 373 (December, 2006) Work is central to much of life and to many areas of law, including recent transformations in the American welfare state. Despite this pervasive importance, work is notoriously difficult to define. Yet doing so is essential to the design and functioning of a work-based welfare system. This Article provides the first comprehensive analysis of how to... 2006 Relevant (Poverty)
Vicki Lens WORK SANCTIONS UNDER WELFARE REFORM: ARE THEY HELPING WOMEN ACHIEVE SELF-SUFFICIENCY? 13 Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy 255 (Spring 2006) The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity and Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) of 1996 radically reshaped the landscape of welfare for women. The changes transformed a program designed to meet the material needs of poor women and their families into one primarily focused on preventing dependency through promoting work. PRWORA includes an array of... 2006 Relevant (Poverty)
Xavier de Souza Briggs, Margery Austin Turner ASSISTED HOUSING MOBILITY AND THE SUCCESS OF LOW-INCOME MINORITY FAMILIES: LESSONS FOR POLICY, PRACTICE, AND FUTURE RESEARCH 1 Northwestern Journal of Law & Social Policy 25 (Summer, 2006) In the social policy field, where complex goals and seemingly intractable problems often make it hard to generate useful answers about what works, there is an understandable tendency to label demonstration programs either successes or failures. In the context of assisted housing mobility initiatives, such as the court-ordered Gautreaux... 2006  
Ani B. Satz WOULD ROSA PARKS WEAR FUR? TOWARD A NONDISCRIMINATION APPROACH TO ANIMAL WELFARE 1 Journal of Animal Law & Ethics 139 (May, 2006) On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks, a young African American woman, tired from a long day's work, refused to give her seat on a bus to a white man. In writing about this fateful day, Ms. Parks states, [o]ur mistreatment was just not right, and I was tired of it. The mistreatment of which Ms. Parks speaks was segregation and other racial... 2006  
Risa E. Kaufman BRIDGING THE FEDERALISM GAP: PROCEDURAL DUE PROCESS AND RACE DISCRIMINATION IN A DEVOLVED WELFARE SYSTEM 3 Hastings Race and Poverty Law Journal 1 (Fall, 2005) What does the current federalism mean for poor and low-income people of color? Recent Supreme Court decisions limit the power of the federal government to legislate and the federal courts to provide redress, particularly in the area of civil rights. For example, the Court has invalidated federal legislation allowing individuals to seek monetary... 2005 Most Relevant
Adrien Katherine Wing EXAMINING THE CORRELATION BETWEEN DISABILITY AND POVERTY: A COMMENT FROM A CRITICAL RACE FEMINIST PERSPECTIVE--HELPING THE JONESES TO KEEP UP! 8 Journal of Gender, Race and Justice 655 (Winter 2005) The Symposium on Justice for All? Exploring Gender, Race and Sexual Orientation within Disability Law sponsored by the University of Iowa College of Law Journal of Gender, Race & Justice delved into cutting edge issues in the field. Panels on the Intersection of Race and Disability from the Post Civil War Period to the Present, Disability and... 2005 Most Relevant
Myron Orfield RACIAL INTEGRATION AND COMMUNITY REVITALIZATION: APPLYING THE FAIR HOUSING ACT TO THE LOW INCOME HOUSING TAX CREDIT 58 Vanderbilt Law Review 1747 (November 1, 2005) I. Introduction. 1749 II. The Regional Problem of Segregation and Concentrated Poverty. 1754 A. Housing Discrimination and Concentrated Poverty. 1754 B. Resegregation and Racial Change. 1757 C. Harms of Residential Segregation and Concentrated Poverty. 1759 D. Benefits of Racial and Socioeconomic Integration. 1761 III. History and Interpretation of... 2005 Most Relevant
Vicki Lens BUREAUCRATIC DISENTITLEMENT AFTER WELFARE REFORM: ARE FAIR HEARINGS THE CURE? 12 Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy 13 (Spring, 2005) Over thirty years ago, the Supreme Court in Goldberg v. Kelly granted welfare clients the right to a pre-termination hearing. Much has changed about the welfare system since. Welfare is no longer considered an entitlement. It is temporary and work-based. Sanctions are applied to clients who fail to comply with work requirements. As the welfare... 2005 Relevant (Poverty)
Rose Cuison Villazor COMMUNITY LAWYERING: AN APPROACH TO ADDRESSING INEQUALITIES IN ACCESS TO HEALTH CARE FOR POOR, OF COLOR AND IMMIGRANT COMMUNITIES 8 NYU Journal of Legislation and Public Policy 35 (2004-2005) Luchando, creando poder popular! shouted Yorelis Vidal outside of Wyckoff Heights Medical Center (Wyckoff Hospital), a private hospital in Brooklyn, New York. On February 28, 2002, Ms. Vidal led members and supporters of Make the Road by Walking (Make the Road), a community-based organization in the Bushwick area of Brooklyn, in protesting... 2005 Relevant (Poverty)
J. Peter Byrne CONDEMNATION OF LOW INCOME RESIDENTIAL COMMUNITIES UNDER THE TAKINGS CLAUSE 23 UCLA Journal of Environmental Law & Policy 131 (2005) Many and varied voices today are calling for narrowing the scope of public use in the Takings Clause. In doing so, they primarily seek to limit, in varying degrees, the constitutional authority of government to use eminent domain for urban redevelopment. For critics, found both on the right and on the left, easy recourse to condemnation unduly... 2005 Relevant (Poverty)
Ralph Henry DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND THE FAILURES OF WELFARE REFORM: THE ROLE FOR WORK LEAVE LEGISLATION 20 Wisconsin Women's Law Journal 67 (Spring 2005) Amy's husband occasionally beat her so badly that she was unable to go to work. And when she was on the job, he harassed her with up to thirty telephone calls per day. Amy often wore long-sleeved clothing and dark glasses to conceal the bruises. She was afraid to get help because of what her husband might do to her or their three young children.... 2005 Relevant (Poverty)
Gillian K. Hadfield FEMINISM, FAIRNESS, AND WELFARE: AN INVITATION TO FEMINIST LAW AND ECONOMICS 1 Annual Review of Law and Social Science 285 (2005) Key Words welfare economics, care, justice, efficiency, normative, ethics Abstract In recent years there has been a renewed effort to ground conventional law and economics methodology, with its exclusive focus on efficiency and income redistribution through the tax system, in modern welfare economics (Kaplow & Shavell 1994, 2001). This effort... 2005 Relevant (Poverty)
Jane C. Murphy LEGAL IMAGES OF FATHERHOOD: WELFARE REFORM, CHILD SUPPORT ENFORCEMENT, AND FATHERLESS CHILDREN 81 Notre Dame Law Review 325 (November, 2005) Introduction. 326 I. Historical Definitions of Fatherhood. 331 A. Fathers as Husbands: The Marital Presumption. 331 B. Unmarried and De Facto Fathers: Adding Biology and Caretaking as Alternative Bases for Fatherhood. 333 II. Fatherhood as Biology and Economic Support: The Impact of Child Support Enforcement and Welfare Reform on Fatherhood. 344... 2005 Relevant (Poverty)
Julia M. Fisher MARRIAGE PROMOTION POLICIES AND THE WORKING POOR: A MATCH MADE IN HEAVEN? 25 Boston College Third World Law Journal 475 (Spring, 2005) THE WORKING POOR. By David Shipler. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004. David Shipler's book, The Working Poor explores the lives and troubles of the working poor in post-welfare-reform America. While Shipler concludes that programs such as universal health care and equity in public school funding would greatly assist the working poor, the... 2005 Relevant (Poverty)
Cara C. Orr MARRIED TO A MYTH: HOW WELFARE REFORM VIOLATES THE CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS OF POOR SINGLE MOTHERS 34 Capital University Law Review 211 (Fall, 2005) A prominent welfare rights activist once said, [Welfare] is like a supersexist marriage. You trade in a man for the man. Now, after the passage of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) of 1996, also known as the Welfare Reform Act, the tide has turned. By offering economic incentives that compel poor... 2005 Relevant (Poverty)
Christie N. Love NOT IN OUR COUNTRY? A CRITIQUE OF THE UNITED STATES WELFARE SYSTEM THROUGH THE LENS OF CHINA'S ONE-CHILD LAW 14 Columbia Journal of Gender and Law 142 (2005) The United States has not shied away from speaking out about human right abuses that take place across the globe. However, in assuming the role of human rights crusader globally, the United States has neglected human rights violations that take place in its own backyard. Women and the poor have a long history of having their rights violated in this... 2005 Relevant (Poverty)
Melissa Felder NOT QUITE "FAMILY FRIENDLY": AMENDING THE FAIR LABOR STANDARDS ACT TO PROVIDE COMP TIME MAY HURT WELFARE LEAVERS AND THEIR FAMILIES 12 Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy 273 (Summer, 2005) Since the mid-1990's, Congressional Republicans have unsuccessfully sought to amend the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) to make it more family friendly for private sector workers. They claim that the FLSA does not provide parents with flexibility to balance work and family. In 2004, President George W. Bush joined these Republicans and called... 2005 Relevant (Poverty)
Michele Estrin Gilman POVERTY AND COMMUNITARIANISM: TOWARD A COMMUNITY-BASED WELFARE SYSTEM 66 University of Pittsburgh Law Review 721 (Summer, 2005) This Article analyzes how communitarian political theory addresses poverty and impacts American social welfare programs. For several decades, communitarian and liberal philosophers have debated over how best to achieve justice through their competing notions of personhood. Whereas liberal theorists stress the values of individual autonomy and state... 2005 Relevant (Poverty)
Nathalie Martin POVERTY, CULTURE AND THE BANKRUPTCY CODE: NARRATIVES FROM THE MONEY LAW CLINIC 12 Clinical Law Review 203 (Fall 2005) In this article, Professor Nathalie Martin shares her experiences attempting to teach clinical law, after many years of experience teaching in the doctrinal classroom. She describes the culture shock she and her students experienced while trying to provide bankruptcy, consumer, and business law assistance to people who came from backgrounds so... 2005 Relevant (Poverty)
Christine N. Cimini PRINCIPLES OF NON-ARBITRARINESS: LAWLESSNESS IN THE ADMINISTRATION OF WELFARE 57 Rutgers Law Review 451 (Winter 2005) I. Introduction. 452 II. The Historical Concepts of Non-Arbitrariness. 463 A. The Magna Carta. 463 B. Other Historic Documents and Events. 469 III. Principles Underlying the Regulation of Arbitrary Action. 470 A. Modern Jurisprudential Concepts of Arbitrariness. 472 1. The Due Process Clause. 472 a. Substantive Due Process. 472 b. The Vagueness... 2005 Relevant (Poverty)
Philip Kretsedemas RECONSIDERING IMMIGRANT WELFARE RESTRICTIONS: A CRITICAL REVIEW OF POST-KEYNESIAN WELFARE POLICY 16 Stanford Law and Policy Review 463 (2005) INTRODUCTION. 463 I. THE POLICY CONTEXT FOR IMMIGRANT SERVICE RESTRICTIONS. 464 II. IMMIGRANT SERVICE USE AFTER THE 1996 REFORM LAWS. 468 A. Language Barriers & Immigrant Welfare Recipients. 470 B. Immigrant Medicaid Enrollments After Welfare Reform. 472 C. Immigration Enforcement, Labor Markets & Welfare Policy. 474 CONCLUSION. 477 2005 Relevant (Poverty)
Amy Mulzer THE DOORKEEPER AND THE GRAND INQUISITOR: THE CENTRAL ROLE OF VERIFICATION PROCEDURES IN MEANS-TESTED WELFARE PROGRAMS 36 Columbia Human Rights Law Review 663 (Summer 2005) All means-tested social welfare programs in the United States are made up of three primary elements: eligibility restrictions, benefit levels, and application procedures. Both eligibility restrictions and benefit levels have been persistent subjects of debate in this country. During the Reagan administration, disagreements over the importance of... 2005 Relevant (Poverty)
Elena Christine Acevedo THE LATINA PARADOX: CULTURAL BARRIERS TO THE EQUITABLE RECEIPT OF WELFARE SERVICES UNDER MODERN WELFARE REFORM 20 Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law & Justice 199 (2005) Salias del templo un dia, Llorona Cuando al pasar, yo te ví Hermoso huipil llevabas, Llorona, Como La Virgen, te creí Ay, de mi Llorona, Llorona, Llorona, deazul celeste No dejaré de quererte aunque la vida me cueste Todos me dicen el Negro, Llorona, Negro pero cariñoso Yo soy como el chile verde Llorona, picante, pero sabroso Tapame con tu rebozo,... 2005 Relevant (Poverty)
Angela Onwuachi-Willig THE RETURN OF THE RING: WELFARE REFORM'S MARRIAGE CURE AS THE REVIVAL OF POST-BELLUM CONTROL 93 California Law Review 1647 (December, 2005) Table of Contents Introduction 1649 I. Marriage as Colonization in Post-Bellum America. 1653 II. The Modern Marriage Cure for Poverty. 1663 A. The Rise of the Black Welfare Queen. 1665 1. The Racialization of the Welfare System. 1665 2. The Racial Politics of Black Motherhood and Welfare. 1670 B. Encouraging Marriage as Welfare Reform. 1673 1.... 2005 Relevant (Poverty)
Steven D. Schwinn TOWARD A MORE EXPANSIVE WELFARE DEVOLUTION DEBATE 9 Lewis & Clark Law Review 311 (Summer 2005) Leading up to and in the wake of national welfare reform, commentators, scholars, and advocates debated one of the key ingredients in the 1996 legislation: devolution of responsibility for the design and administration of welfare from the federal government to the states. Pro-devolutionists argued that devolution would create 50 state welfare... 2005 Relevant (Poverty)
Holly Teliska OBSTACLES TO ACCESS: HOW PHARMACIST REFUSAL CLAUSES UNDERMINE THE BASIC HEALTH CARE NEEDS OF RURAL AND LOW-INCOME WOMEN 20 Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law & Justice 229 (2005) On July 6, 2002, Amanda Renz went to the pharmacy at a K-Mart in Wisconsin to obtain a refill of her hormonal oral contraceptive. The only pharmacist on duty, Neil Noesen, asked Amanda if her prescription would be used as a contraceptive. When she replied affirmatively, Noesen refused to fill her prescription and would not transfer it to a... 2005  
Katie R. Aune THE DILEMMA FACING EXEMPT ORGANIZATIONS IN LOW-INCOME HOUSING PARTNERSHIPS 16 TAXATION OF EXEMPTS 219 (March/April, 2005) Specific guidance in this context is scarce and inconsistent. Over the last several decades, nonprofit organizations have played an increasingly large role in the development of affordable housing in the US. Furthermore, research suggests that the use of partnerships between nonprofit organizations and private, for-profit developers is also on the... 2005  
Peter Edelman WELFARE AND THE POLITICS OF RACE: SAME TUNE, NEW LYRICS? 11 Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy 389 (Fall, 2004) It is surely no secret that race is at the heart of America's attitudes toward welfare, and has been for a long time. What is relatively new, stemming only from the late 1960s, is the use of welfare as a high-profile, racialized political issue. Race and welfare have never been strangers to one another. African-American women and their children... 2004 Most Relevant
Sagit Leviner AFFORDABLE HOUSING AND THE ROLE OF THE LOW INCOME HOUSING TAX CREDIT PROGRAM: A CONTEMPORARY ASSESSMENT 57 Tax Lawyer 869 (Summer, 2004) A home is certainly more than a shelter. A home is the nexus of an individual and his family's life. It is the haven from which one goes forth to seek his fortune and to which he retreats from daily strife. Good housing is not a guarantor of good citizenship, success in life, or economic achievement. Yet good housing has valuable social and... 2004 Relevant (Poverty)
Frank Munger BEYOND WELFARE REFORM: CAN WE BUILD A LOCAL WELFARE STATE? 44 Santa Clara Law Review 999 (2004) In the twenty-first century, privatization of the American welfare state continues. Provision of welfare for workers and poor is increasingly left to the discretion of employers or charities. Reliance on public or private welfare by those who cannot make ends meet has always been stigmatized as dependency. Now, dependency is the point of attack on... 2004 Relevant (Poverty)
Robert Melchior Figueroa BIVALENT ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE AND THE CULTURE OF POVERTY 1 Rutgers Journal of Law and Urban Policy 27 (Fall, 2004) Like many other theorists, I believe recent justice theory is split into two general camps according to two distinct paradigms of justice: distributive justice and justice from the politics of recognition. The distributive justice camp focuses on the fair distribution and redistribution of material goods and burdens in a society. On this account,... 2004 Relevant (Poverty)
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