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Lauren E. Moynihan WELFARE REFORM AND THE MEANING OF MEMBERSHIP: CONSTITUTIONAL CHALLENGES AND STATE REACTIONS 12 Georgetown Immigration Law Journal 657 (Summer, 1998) In August of 1996, Congress passed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (the Welfare Act) which radically altered the structure of means-tested public benefits for low-income citizens and aliens. This act came in the wake of an increasingly anti-welfare, xenophobic sentiment in the United States, and resulted in a... 1998 Relevant (Poverty)
Joel F. Handler WELFARE-TO-WORK: REFORM OR RHETORIC? 50 Administrative Law Review 635 (Summer, 1998) C1-4Table of Contents L1-4 L1-3,T3Introduction 635 I. The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996. 637 II. The Work Requirements. 641 III. The Experience of Work Programs. 642 IV. What Accounts for the Decline in Welfare Rolls?. 647 V. The Impact of the Welfare Reforms. 650 VI. The Future. 654 VII. What Can Be Done?.... 1998 Relevant (Poverty)
Sharon Dietrich , Maurice Emsellem, Catherine Ruckelshaus WORK REFORM: THE OTHER SIDE OF WELFARE REFORM 9 Stanford Law and Policy Review 53 (Winter, 1998) The policy of moving welfare recipients into paid employment is clearly the centerpiece of the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program enacted by Congress last year. In addition to its explicit statutory purpose of end[ing] the dependence of needy parents on government benefits by promoting job preparation, work and marriage,... 1998 Relevant (Poverty)
Veronica L. Spicer SEGREGATION IN FEDERALLY SUBSIDIZED LOW-INCOME HOUSING IN THE UNITED STATES, MODIBO COULIBALY, RODNEY D. GREEN, AND DAVID M. JAMES; TABLES, TABLE OF CONTENTS, APPENDIX, INDEX; 153 PAGES; HARDBACK. 30 Urban Lawyer 1106 (Fall, 1998) Segregation in Federally Subsidized Low-Income Housing in the United States provides in-depth, statistical analysis proving the dirty secret of income and race segregation in public housing. The myth of public housing, its role as a social safety net for the deserving poor, is exposed. The authors show the goal of public housing projects has... 1998  
Sonya Michel A TALE OF TWO STATES: RACE, GENDER, AND PUBLIC/PRIVATE WELFARE PROVISION IN POSTWAR AMERICA 9 Yale Journal of Law & Feminism 123 (1997) The simultaneous expansion of employer-sponsored fringe benefits and of government welfare programs in the post-World War II period created what might be termed a public-private welfare state in the United States. These developments were continuous with the public-private partnership that had characterized American welfare provision since the... 1997 Most Relevant
F.H. Buckley , Margaret F. Brinig WELFARE MAGNETS: THE RACE FOR THE TOP 5 Supreme Court Economic Review 141 (1997) Strong arguments may be made for the devolution of welfare responsibilities to the states. Given state misincentives, however, the federal government might reasonably prescribe spending ceilings, to prevent state overspending on welfare. Arguments for federally-prescribed minimum payouts are less persuasive. The most promising such argument claims... 1997 Most Relevant
Amy E. Pizzutillo A PERRY, PERRY POOR POLICY PROMOTING PREJUDICE REBUKED BY THE REALITY OF THE ROMER RULING: THOMASSON v. PERRY 42 Villanova Law Review 1293 (1997) The concept of banning homosexuals from the military is not a novel one. The policy that exists today is very similar to the unwritten policy that the U.S. armed forces have used for decades. Since the imposition of the policy, the military and Congress have revised it from one that expressly prohibited sodomy to one that prohibits homosexuals from... 1997 Relevant (Poverty)
Stefanie Paige Underwood C.K. v. NEW JERSEY DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES: THE WAR ON WELFARE MOTHERS 18 Women's Rights Law Reporter 343 (Spring 1997) As always, blame the victims--for the profoundest myth of all is that which makes poor, young, unmarried mothers responsible for drug abuse, slums, poverty, stagnation, the falling rate of profit, [and] America's declining role in the world economy. In 1962, Michael Harrington sparked what became known as the War on Poverty. The War on Poverty... 1997 Relevant (Poverty)
Peter Pitegoff, Lauren Breen CHILD CARE POLICY AND THE WELFARE REFORM ACT 6-WTR Journal of Affordable Housing & Community Development Law 113 (Winter, 1997) Fueled by election-year politics, federal welfare reform finally arrived. On August 22, 1996, President Clinton signed into law the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, making good on his promise four years earlier to end welfare as we know it. This article sketches the Act's major changes to welfare law with... 1997 Relevant (Poverty)
William R. O'Neill, S.J. COMMONWEAL OR WOE? THE ETHICS OF WELFARE REFORM 11 Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy 487 (1997) Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Martin Luther King In Robert Bolt's play, A Man for All Seasons, the aging Cardinal Wolsey admonishes Sir Thomas More: You're a constant regret to me, Thomas. If you could just see the facts flat on,... 1997 Relevant (Poverty)
Scott A. Bollens CONCENTRATED POVERTY AND METROPOLITAN EQUITY STRATEGIES 8 Stanford Law and Policy Review 11 (Summer, 1997) Concentrated poverty and racial segregation have become indelible parts of the American metropolitan landscape. In 1990, about 2800 census tracts (out of 45,000 total) had poverty rates in excess of forty percent of the tract population, compared to about 1000 in 1970. Eight and one-half million people live in these areas of concentrated poverty,... 1997 Relevant (Poverty)
Sylvia A. Law ENDING WELFARE AS WE KNOW IT 49 Stanford Law Review 471 (January, 1997) In this review essay, Professor Law discusses the disparity between the rhetoric surrounding the recently passed welfare reform legislation and the actual lifestyles of welfare recipients. Drawing on the five books under review, Professor Law debunks the welfare myths that allowed politicians to claim the recent legislation ended welfare as we... 1997 Relevant (Poverty)
Michelle L. VanWiggeren EXPERIMENTING WITH BLOCK GRANTS AND TEMPORARY ASSISTANCE: THE ATTEMPT TO TRANSFORM WELFARE BY ALTERING FEDERAL-STATE RELATIONS AND RECIPIENTS' DUE PROCESS RIGHTS 46 Emory Law Journal 1327 (Summer, 1997) After intense debate and compromise, Congress passed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRAWORA or the Act), which was signed by President Clinton on August 22, 1996. Spurred on by alarming statistics about welfare dependency, politicians promised that this welfare reform legislation would finally end... 1997 Relevant (Poverty)
Roger Wilkins FAMILY VALUES, THE WELFARE ACT AND MY UNCLE SAM 5 Georgetown Journal on Fighting Poverty 51 (Winter, 1997) I had a friend, the late Sam Proctor. Sam was a black minister, who for seventeen years pastored a huge Baptist church in Harlem. It is the church that Adam Clayton Powell, Sr., and later his son, Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., the renowned and sometimes infamous congressman from Harlem, pastored. After his seventeen years, from the late 1960s to the... 1997 Relevant (Poverty)
Ann Marie Rotondo HELPING FAMILIES HELP THEMSELVES: USING CHILD SUPPORT ENFORCEMENT TO REFORM OUR WELFARE SYSTEM 33 California Western Law Review 281 (Spring 1997) The audience grows silent as a modestly dressed woman takes her place behind the podium. Looking around the room she begins, I would not need to come before you today as a recipient of public assistance if someone, somewhere would assist me in getting the $341 a month in child support that rightfully belongs to my two children. Because I receive... 1997 Relevant (Poverty)
Christina Victoria Tusan HOMELESS FAMILIES FROM 1980-1996: CASUALTIES OF DECLINING SUPPORT FOR THE WAR ON POVERTY 70 Southern California Law Review 1141 (May, 1997) I. INTRODUCTION. 1142 II. A PORTRAIT OF HOMELESS FAMILIES: DISPELLING THE MYTHS. 1146 A. Mental Illness. 1148 B. Substance Abuse. 1153 C. Marital Status. 1157 D. History of Work and History of Dependence on Welfare. 1162 E. Criminal Activity. 1165 III. FACTORS CONTRIBUTING TO HOMELESSNESS. 1166 A. Declining Income Levels. 1167 B. Decreases in... 1997 Relevant (Poverty)
Sheryl L. Howell HOW WILL BATTERED WOMEN FARE UNDER THE NEW WELFARE REFORM? 12 Berkeley Women's Law Journal 140 (1997) On August 22, 1996 President Bill Clinton fulfilled his promise to end welfare as we know it by signing into law the euphemistically entitled Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (Welfare Act). This historic pen stroke followed an outcry of concern from victims' advocate groups who fear harsh and unanticipated... 1997 Relevant (Poverty)
Connie Chang IMMIGRANTS UNDER THE NEW WELFARE LAW: A CALL FOR UNIFORMITY, A CALL FOR JUSTICE 45 UCLA Law Review 205 (October, 1997) Introduction. 206 I. Supplemental Security Income. 218 A. Changes. 218 B. Impact. 226 II. Alienage Discrimination in the Distribution of Welfare Benefits. 236 A. Graham v. Richardson. 236 B. Mathews v. Diaz. 241 III. Challenging the New Welfare Law. 247 A. The Limits of Plenary Power. 253 1. The Alien Rights Cases. 253 2. The Preemption Cases. 258... 1997 Relevant (Poverty)
Howard F. Chang LIBERALIZED IMMIGRATION AS FREE TRADE: ECONOMIC WELFARE AND THE OPTIMAL IMMIGRATION POLICY 145 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 1147 (May, 1997) Introduction. 1148 I. National Economic Welfare. 1157 A. Effects of Immigration Through the Labor Market. 1158 B. External Effects of Immigration. 1163 C. The Optimal Tariff on Unskilled Immigrants. 1166 D. The Optimal Tariff on Skilled Immigrants. 1168 E. Immigration of Nuclear Families. 1172 F. Future Generations. 1172 G. Avoiding External Costs.... 1997 Relevant (Poverty)
Larry Catá Backer LOS FINGIDOS Y VAGABUNDOS: ON THE ORIGINS OF PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY AND THE WELFARE STATE IN EARLY MODERN SPAIN AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR THE WELFARE REFORM IN THE UNITED STATES 3 Loyola Poverty Law Journal 1 (Spring 1997) I intend to dispel three myths of American welfare. The first is that it derived solely from English secular legislation of the 17th century. The second is that this English legislation is a product of a singular, if not unique, intellectual history. The third is that the English legislation we inherited has been subject to unique development in... 1997 Relevant (Poverty)
Russell Engler OUT OF SIGHT AND OUT OF LINE: THE NEED FOR REGULATION OF LAWYERS' NEGOTIATIONS WITH UNREPRESENTED POOR PERSONS 85 California Law Review 79 (January, 1997) In a variety of civil legal settings, negotiations between lawyers and unrepresented parties are common. Despite this fact, the ethical rules governing lawyers, as well as most ethics textbooks, fail to address such negotiations in any specific way. The ethical rules do, however, prohibit the giving of advice to unrepresented parties. Through an... 1997 Relevant (Poverty)
Cheryl P. Derricotte POVERTY AND PROPERTY IN THE UNITED STATES: A PRIMER ON THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF HOUSING DISCRIMINATION AND THE IMPORTANCE OF A U.S. RIGHT TO HOUSING 40 Howard Law Journal 689 (Spring 1997) This essay is dedicated to our collective memory of those who thrived, fought, died and in all too few instances survived, (places like) Rosewood, FL. With a view to the creation of conditions of stability and well-being which are necessary for peaceful and friendly relations among nations based on respect for the principle of equal rights and... 1997 Relevant (Poverty)
Robert J. Brent PROFITS, POVERTY, AND HEALTH CARE: AN EXAMINATION OF THE ETHICAL BASE OF ECONOMICS 24 Fordham Urban Law Journal 667 (Summer 1997) Economics involves the allocation of scarce resources to competing ends. The main way by which resources are allocated in economies is through private markets. Markets perform their allocative function by highlighting where scarcity exists. Prices will be high when shortages exist. High prices indicate that profits can be earned by producing more... 1997 Relevant (Poverty)
David Ehrenfest Steinglass REBUILDING THE INNER CITY: A HISTORY OF NEIGHBORHOOD INITIATIVES TO ADDRESS POVERTY IN THE UNITED STATES. 22 New York University Review of Law and Social Change 839 (1996-1997) With their horror stories of violence, public incompetence and waste, ghettos are used to provide moral justification for privately managed programs of redevelopment. Under the leadership of churches, community organizations, private developers and recent immigrants, such ghettos have kicked out most of the dependent poor and have refused to admit... 1997 Relevant (Poverty)
Alicia Ely Yamin REFLECTIONS ON DEFINING, UNDERSTANDING, AND MEASURING POVERTY IN TERMS OF VIOLATIONS OF ECONOMIC SOCIAL RIGHTS-UNDER INTERNATIONAL LAW 4 Georgetown Journal on Fighting Poverty 273 (Spring, 1997) When it is not accompanied by a sigh of resignation at the end of a discussion about the decline of the work ethic, poverty is increasingly treated by politicians, international lending institutions, and academics alike as arising out of issues of productivity rather than from distributions in the economic and social structure of society. This... 1997 Relevant (Poverty)
William P. Quigley RELUCTANT CHARITY: POOR LAWS IN THE ORIGINAL THIRTEEN STATES 31 University of Richmond Law Review 111 (January, 1997) The poor laws of the original thirteen states can best be described as reluctant public charity. Assistance was provided to some of the poor but, when provided, was strictly rationed to those local residents considered worthy of help. Visitors, strangers and nonresident poor people were not helped and were legally run out of town. Poor relief for... 1997 Relevant (Poverty)
Helen Hershkoff RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS UNDER THE STATE CONSTITUTION: A NEW DEAL FOR WELFARE RIGHTS 13 Touro Law Review 631 (Spring, 1997) Editor's Note: On March 1, 1996, the Government Law Center r of Albany Law School and the Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center co-sponsored a Symposium on State Constitutional Law: Adjudication and Reform. The Touro Law Review published a transcript of the Symposium's proceedings in an earlier issue, see Rights and Freedoms Under the State... 1997 Relevant (Poverty)
Maria L. Imperial SELF-SUFFICIENCY AND SAFETY: WELFARE REFORM FOR VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE 5 Georgetown Journal on Fighting Poverty 3 (Winter, 1997) I think if they are talking about reforming welfare, they should be talking about helping us build a foundation and keeping us safe ... Felicia, a resident at an emergency domestic violence shelter The problem of domestic violence has recently received increased national attention. The federal government's response to the problem-strengthening... 1997 Relevant (Poverty)
Benjamin L. Weiss SINGLE MOTHERS' EQUAL RIGHT TO PARENT: A FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT DEFENSE AGAINST FORCED-LABOR WELFARE "REFORM" 15 Law & Inequality: A Journal of Theory and Practice 215 (Winter 1997) My name is not Lazy, Dependent Welfare Mother. If the unwaged work of parenting, homemaking and community building was factored into the Gross National Product, My work would have untold value. In a dramatic shift of values from the original goals of Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) , the latest wave of federal welfare reform... 1997 Relevant (Poverty)
Allison B. Smith THE BREAKDOWN OF THE AMERICAN FAMILY: WHY WELFARE REFORM IS NOT THE ANSWER 11 Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy 761 (1997) In May of 1992, former Vice President Dan Quayle gave perhaps the most famous speech of his career to a civic group in Washington, D.C. In his speech, Quayle targeted the deterioration of the traditional nuclear family as the underlying cause of many of the nation's most serious problems, and in the process opened himself up to the censure and... 1997 Relevant (Poverty)
Mark A. Graber THE CLINTONIFICATION OF AMERICAN LAW: ABORTION, WELFARE, AND LIBERAL CONSTITUTIONAL THEORY 58 Ohio State Law Journal 731 (1997) President Clinton's policy priorities, particularly his commitment to abortion rights and neglect of rights to basic welfare, are becoming entrenched in the American legal system. These priorities are mirrored by the past twenty-five years of Supreme Court precedent and increasingly shared by liberal constitutional theorists. Whereas Clinton's... 1997 Relevant (Poverty)
Risa E. Kaufman THE CULTURAL MEANING OF THE "WELFARE QUEEN": USING STATE CONSTITUTIONS TO CHALLENGE CHILD EXCLUSION PROVISIONS 23 New York University Review of Law and Social Change 301 (1997) I. The Race Discrimination Underlying Child Exclusion Provisions. 304 A. The Welfare System's History of Discrimination Against African American Women. 305 B. Images of the Welfare Queen'. 308 C. Illumination of History and Representation via the Cultural Meaning Test. 312 II. The Insufficiency of Equal Protection Doctrine in Eliminating Race... 1997 Relevant (Poverty)
Larry Catá Backer THE MANY FACES OF HEGEMONY: PATRIARCHY AND WELFARE AS A WOMAN'S ISSUE 92 Northwestern University Law Review 327 (Fall 1997) In Under Attack, Fighting Back, Professor Mimi Abramovitz distills a long and formidable life of work for the dignity of women generally, and poor women in particular, within our culture. She succinctly details the feminization of poverty in modern times in the United States, offers a theoretical basis for this state of affairs, and then melds... 1997 Relevant (Poverty)
Dominique R. Shelton, Esq. THE PREVALENT EXPOSURE OF LOW INCOME AND MINORITY COMMUNITIES TO HAZARDOUS MATERIALS: THE PROBLEM AND HOW TO FIX IT 32 Beverly Hills Bar Association Journal 1 (Summer/Fall, 1997) The presence of facilities that use or generate hazardous materials in low-income and minority communities has emerged as a disturbing national trend. While commentators differ on the causes of inequitable siting patterns, regardless of the cause most recognize that a serious problem exists. Rectifying this problem has become a goal of the... 1997 Relevant (Poverty)
Steven M. Dawson THE PROMISE OF OPPORTUNITY-AND VERY LITTLE MORE: AN ANALYSIS OF THE NEW WELFARE LAW'S DENIAL OF FEDERAL PUBLIC BENEFITS TO MOST LEGAL IMMIGRANTS 41 Saint Louis University Law Journal 1053 (Summer, 1997) Title IV of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 makes several major changes to the structure of the welfare system as it applies to legal immigrants. Under prior law, legal immigrants were, with some exceptions, eligible for most federal public benefits. Among the changes made by the Act is the unprecedented... 1997 Relevant (Poverty)
Todd Zubler THE RIGHT TO MIGRATE AND WELFARE REFORM: TIME FOR SHAPIRO v. THOMPSON TO TAKE A HIKE 31 Valparaiso University Law Review 893 (Summer 1997) This Article presents two basic arguments regarding the legacy of the Supreme Court's 1969 decision, Shapiro v. Thompson. The first argument is that modern right to travel jurisprudence is a doctrinal mess in need of both clarification and fundamental correction. In particular, Shapiro bears the blame for sending this area of jurisprudence down... 1997 Relevant (Poverty)
Nichola L. Marshall THE WELFARE REFORM ACT OF 1996: POLITICAL COMPROMISE OR PANACEA FOR WELFARE DEPENDENCY? 4 Georgetown Journal on Fighting Poverty 333 (Spring, 1997) President Clinton signed a sweeping welfare overhaul into law in August of 1996. While the drafters of the new policy predict that the law will multiply the worst symptoms of urban poverty, the reforms have not been in effect long enough for analysts to ascertain whether welfare recipients will be helped or harmed by the new reforms. The... 1997 Relevant (Poverty)
Greg J. Duncan, Gretchen Caspary WELFARE DYNAMICS AND THE 1996 WELFARE REFORM 11 Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy 605 (1997) On August 22, 1996, President Bill Clinton signed into law the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996. The Act was, in fact, the third welfare reform bill that the 104th Congress had passed and sent to the President for his signature. Clinton vetoed the first two proposals on the grounds that they were too harsh on... 1997 Relevant (Poverty)
Erik G. Luna WELFARE FRAUD AND THE FOURTH AMENDMENT 24 Pepperdine Law Review 1235 (1997) Welfare fraud is an epidemic. Although concentrated in the impoverished inner cities of America, this pathetic form of theft has been uncovered in uptown apartments and beach-front condos. Public assistance fraud can be perpetrated by individuals, families, and mom-and-pop grocery stores. In some cities, it can take on the characteristics of... 1997 Relevant (Poverty)
Cheryl Sullivan WELFARE IN AMERICA: WHAT IS BEING REFORMED? 11 Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy 633 (1997) In 1935, welfare was created as the Aid to Dependent Children (ADC) program under the Social Security Act as part of the New Deal by Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Originally a cash grant program for widowed mothers as a sustained income, the program was expanded for low income children whose parents are deceased, unemployed, absent from the home, or... 1997 Relevant (Poverty)
Peter W. Salsich, Jr. WELFARE REFORM: IS SELF SUFFICIENCY FEASIBLE WITHOUT AFFORDABLE HOUSING? 2 Michigan Law and Policy Review 43 (1997) Two presidential actions during the height of the 1996 election campaign dramatized the inevitable link between federal housing and welfare policies. Both involved the approval of major domestic legislation, but as Jason DeParle of The New York Times Magazine observed, one action was attended to with presidential flair, the other was hardly... 1997 Relevant (Poverty)
Rebecca Johnson WELFARE/SOCIAL JUSTICE: WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? 19 Western New England Law Review 41 (1997) My name is Rebecca Johnson and I am lead organizer at a small community-based organization in Boston, called Cooperative Economics for Women. We organize low-income women primarily and, almost exclusively, women of color. The vast majority of our members are immigrant and refugee women who come primarily from six countries: Cambodia, Ethiopia, Cape... 1997 Relevant (Poverty)
Dianne Wilkerson WELFARE/SOCIAL JUSTICE: WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? 19 Western New England Law Review 47 (1997) Good afternoon everyone. My name is Dianne Wilkerson. I grew up in Springfield, so this was a return home for me today. I went to college here and left here in 1978 to go to Boston to attend law school. My plan was to be in Boston for three years and on the day that they put my diploma in my hand, I was going to be on a train, plane, roller skates,... 1997 Relevant (Poverty)
Michael Scaperlanda WHO IS MY NEIGHBOR?: AN ESSAY ON IMMIGRANTS, WELFARE REFORM, AND THE CONSTITUTION 29 Connecticut Law Review 1587 (Summer, 1997) When an alien resides with you in your land, do not molest him. You shall treat the alien who resides with you no differently than the native born among you .... I, the LORD, am your God. In this essay, I will use the recent Welfare Reform legislation to juxtapose two different readings of the Constitution. The first, and the more obvious reading,... 1997 Relevant (Poverty)
F. Willis Caruso , Mark Brennan PUBLIC HOUSING PRIVATIZATION USING SECTION 8 VOUCHERS AND I.R.C. SECTION 42 LOW-INCOME HOUSING TAX CREDITS IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OF LEASE TO PURCHASE OPTIONS 16 Saint Louis University Public Law Review 355 (1997) Since the enactment of the Tax Reform Act of 1986, the continued presence of high interest rates, the downsizing of the federal government, especially the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), and the cut back of all but a few of HUD's federal housing programs have made developing affordable housing more difficult in the 1990s. With... 1997  
Alice Gresham Bullock TAXES, SOCIAL POLICY AND PHILANTHROPY: THE UNTAPPED POTENTIAL OF MIDDLE- AND LOW-INCOME GENEROSITY 6 Cornell Journal of Law & Public Policy 325 (Winter 1997) He looked and saw rich people putting their gifts into the treasury; he also saw a poor widow put in two small copper coins. He said Truly I tell you, this widow has put in more than all of them; for all of them have contributed out of their abundance, but she out of her poverty has put in all she had to live on. In recent years, public attention... 1997  
Ann Southworth BUSINESS PLANNING FOR THE DESTITUTE? LAWYERS AS FACILITATORS IN IN CIVIL RIGHTS AND POVERTY PRACTICE 1996 Wisconsin Law Review 1121 (1996) (M)ost public interest law work is adversarial, and as compared with most other legal work, disproportionately litigious. Some public interest work is analogous to nonadversarial planning . . . but this is relatively rare. Most public interest law work consists of seeking to change the behavior of others (usually government officials) on behalf of... 1996 Most Relevant
April L. Cherry SOCIAL CONTRACT THEORY, WELFARE REFORM, RACE, AND THE MALE SEX-RIGHT 75 Oregon Law Review 1037 (Winter, 1996) In his 1994 State of the Union Address, President Clinton promised to end welfare as we know it. Many believe that he fulfilled this promise during his 1996 reelection campaign by signing into law a substantially Republican welfare reform bill that radically transforms the way in which government will address the needs of poor women and children.... 1996 Most Relevant
Meredith Blake WELFARE AND COERCED CONTRACEPTION: MORALITY IMPLICATIONS OF STATE SPONSORED REPRODUCTIVE CONTROL 34 University of Louisville Journal of Family Law 31 (1995-96) The history of this country is replete with incidents of state-sponsored control of individual reproductive freedoms. Attempts have also been made in the United States, both historically and recently, to condition the receipt of welfare on behavior modification. These two trends have recently combined to pose one of the most dangerous threats to... 1996 Most Relevant
Lisa A. Crooms AN "AGE OF IMPOSSIBILITY": RHETORIC, WELFARE REFORM, AND POVERTY 94 Michigan Law Review 1953 (May, 1996) [P]erhaps most important, we are gaining ground in restoring fundamental values. The crime rate, the welfare and food stamp rolls, the poverty rate and the teen pregnancy rate are all down. And as they go down, prospects for America's future go up. We live in an age of possibility. On January 23, 1996, President Bill Clinton so delivered his... 1996 Relevant (Poverty)
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