| Author | Title | Citation | Summary | Year | Key Terms in Title or Summary |
| 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 |
Yes |
| 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 |
Yes |
| 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 |
Yes |
| 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 |
Yes |
| 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 |
Yes |
| 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 |
Yes |
| 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 |
Yes |
| 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 |
Yes |
| 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 |
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| 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 |
Yes |
| 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 |
Yes |
| 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 |
Yes |
| 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 |
Yes |
| 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 |
Yes |
| 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 |
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| 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 |
Yes |
| 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 |
Yes |
| 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 |
Yes |
| 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 |
Yes |
| 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 |
Yes |
| 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 |
Yes |
| 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 |
Yes |
| Jennifer Moore |
COLLECTIVE SECURITY WITH A HUMAN FACE: AN INTERNATIONAL LEGAL FRAMEWORK FOR COORDINATED ACTION TO ALLEVIATE VIOLENCE AND POVERTY |
33 Denver Journal of International Law and Policy 43 (Winter 2004) |
The inter-dependence of strategic security, human rights, and social security has been recognized on a theoretical or rhetorical level since the founding of the United Nations. Nevertheless, in the current counter-insurgency campaigns being waged in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere, the potentially negative impacts of armed intervention on... |
2004 |
Yes |
| Jon Michaels |
DEFORMING WELFARE: HOW THE DOMINANT NARRATIVES OF DEVOLUTION AND PRIVATIZATION SUBVERTED FEDERAL WELFARE REFORM |
34 Seton Hall Law Review 573 (2004) |
I. Introduction. 575 II. A Tale of Two Narratives: The Buildup to Welfare Reform. 581 A. Clamoring for Reform. 582 1. Substantive Reform: Combating Dependency. 583 2. Procedural Reform: The Devolution and Privatization Revolution. 586 B. Coalescing Around Welfare Reform: Systems and Processes. 591 C. The Nuts and Bolts of PRWORA. 595 III. Welfare... |
2004 |
Yes |
| Emilie Cooper |
EMBEDDED IMMIGRANT EXCEPTIONALISM: AN EXAMINATION OF CALIFORNIA'S PROPOSITION 187, THE 1996 WELFARE REFORMS AND THE ANTI-IMMIGRANT SENTIMENT EXPRESSED THEREIN |
18 Georgetown Immigration Law Journal 345 (Winter, 2004) |
Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door! While the Statue of Liberty claims to welcome the tired, the poor and the homeless to the United States of America, it has become increasingly... |
2004 |
Yes |
| James R. Hackney, Jr. |
IDEOLOGICAL CONFLICT, AFRICAN AMERICAN REPARATIONS, TORT CAUSATION AND THE CASE FOR SOCIAL WELFARE TRANSFORMATION |
84 Boston University Law Review 1193 (December, 2004) |
Introduction. 1193 I. The Mass Tort Analogy and the Case For and Against African American Reparations. 1194 II. Implications: Social Welfare Transformation?. 1201 Conclusion. 1206 |
2004 |
Yes |
| Timothy K. Kuhner |
INTERNATIONAL POVERTY LAW: A RESPONSE TO ECONOMIC GLOBALIZATION |
22 Buffalo Public Interest Law Journal 75 (2003-2004) |
This paper addresses the relationship between economic globalization and the theory and practice of poverty law in the United States. It suggests that poverty law must be internationalized in order to scrutinize poverty in today's conditions. The degree to which redistributionist and transformative social agendas are viable absent such... |
2004 |
Yes |
| Judith E. Koons |
MOTHERHOOD, MARRIAGE, AND MORALITY: THE PRO-MARRIAGE MORAL DISCOURSE OF AMERICAN WELFARE POLICY |
19 Wisconsin Women's Law Journal 1 (Spring 2004) |
[A] mutually faithful monogamous relationship in context of marriage is the expected standard of human sexual activity. Woman was created to be a wife and a mother; that is her destiny. . . . She has all the qualities that fit her to be a help-meet of man, to be the mother of his children, . . . but as an independent existence, free to follow... |
2004 |
Yes |
| Marni M. Hussong |
PROTECTING EXEMPT STATUS IN LOW-INCOME HOUSING TAX CREDIT PARTNERSHIPS |
31 Real Estate Taxation 75 (First Quarter, 2004) |
Participation with for-profit partners must not violate the requirements of an exempt purpose and no private benefit. The low-income housing tax credit (LIHTC) of Section 42 provides federal tax incentives to encourage private investors to contribute funding for developing housing for low-income households. Since its inception in 1986, the program... |
2004 |
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| Robert Kaestner |
PUBLICLY PROVIDED HEALTH INSURANCE FOR THE NONELDERLY POOR: CAN WE SAVE MONEY SAFELY? |
2004 University of Illinois Law Review 91 (2004) |
With many states and the federal government facing budget deficits, lawmakers across the country are looking to reduce government expenditures wherever feasible. In this article, Professor Kaestner examines the current state of publicly provided health insurance and makes several recommendations designed to reduce government spending with respect... |
2004 |
Yes |
| Mark Tushnet |
SOCIAL WELFARE RIGHTS AND THE FORMS OF JUDICIAL REVIEW |
82 Texas Law Review 1895 (June, 2004) |
The conventional wisdom among scholars of U.S. constitutional law is that the Constitution--and indeed constitutions more generally--should not recognize, or be interpreted to recognize, so-called second generation social welfare rights, such as a right to shelter or a right to a minimum subsistence. The argument against the recognition of social... |
2004 |
Yes |
| Jane B. Baron |
THE "NO PROPERTY" PROBLEM: UNDERSTANDING POVERTY BY UNDERSTANDING WEALTH |
102 Michigan Law Review 1000 (May, 2004) |
Reckoning with Homelessness. By Kim Hopper. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. 2003. Pp. x, 271. $19.95. Could it be that understanding homelessness and poverty is less a function of understanding the homeless and the poor than of understanding how the wealthy come to ignore and tolerate them? This is one of the more intriguing suggestions of... |
2004 |
Yes |
| Stephen D. Sugarman |
THE PROMISE OF SCHOOL CHOICE FOR IMPROVING THE EDUCATION OF LOW-INCOME MINORITY CHILDREN |
11 Asian Law Journal 284 (May, 2004) |
Elaine Jones, the executive director of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, has emphasized the plight of urban children from low-income families who are locked into those schools. She believes that it is essential for our society to improve those schools, and for that to happen, in her view, we need to provide our urban public schools with better... |
2004 |
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| Stephen D. Sugarman |
THE PROMISE OF SCHOOL CHOICE FOR IMPROVING THE EDUCATION OF LOW-INCOME MINORITY CHILDREN |
15 Berkeley La Raza Law Journal 75 (Spring 2004) |
Elaine Jones, the executive director of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, has emphasized the plight of urban children from low-income families who are locked into those schools. She believes that it is essential for our society to improve those schools, and for that to happen, in her view, we need to provide our urban public schools with better... |
2004 |
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| Stephen D. Sugarman |
THE PROMISE OF SCHOOL CHOICE FOR IMPROVING THE EDUCATION OF LOW-INCOME MINORITY CHILDREN |
19 Berkeley Women's Law Journal 403 (2004) |
Elaine Jones, the executive director of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, has emphasized the plight of urban children from low-income families who are locked into those schools. She believes that it is essential for our society to improve those schools, and for that to happen, in her view, we need to provide our urban public schools with better... |
2004 |
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| Stephen D. Sugarman |
THE PROMISE OF SCHOOL CHOICE FOR IMPROVING THE EDUCATION OF LOW-INCOME MINORITY CHILDREN |
6 African-American Law and Policy Report 202 (2004) |
Elaine Jones, the executive director of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, has emphasized the plight of urban children from low-income families who are locked into those schools. She believes that it is essential for our society to improve those schools, and for that to happen, in her view, we need to provide our urban public schools with better... |
2004 |
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| David A. Super |
THE QUIET "WELFARE" REVOLUTION: RESURRECTING THE FOOD STAMP ROGRAM IN THE WAKE OF THE 1996 WELFARE LAW |
79 New York University Law Review 1271 (October, 2004) |
Cash-assistance programs have long been a focus of both liberal and conservative efforts to make symbolic statements. In this regard, the 1996 dismantlement of federal entitlement to cash assistance was nothing new. Although the 1996 welfare law also made deep cuts to in-kind programs, such as food stamps, these programs had less symbolic... |
2004 |
Yes |
| Robyn Whipple Diaz |
UNEQUAL ACCESS: THE CRISIS OF HEALTH CARE INEQUALITY FOR LOW-INCOME AFRICAN-AMERICAN RESIDENTS OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA |
7 Journal of Health Care Law and Policy 120 (2004) |
There is a health care crisis in our city.when the life expectancy of our African-American men is 10 years less than the rest of America, and when this country's highest rates of infant mortality, diabetes, and HIV infection are in our own backyard, it is time to fix health care in Washington.Mayor Anthony A. Williams Of all forms of... |
2004 |
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| 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 |
Yes |
| Dorothy E. Roberts |
WELFARE REFORM AND ECONOMIC FREEDOM: LOW-INCOME MOTHERS' DECISIONS ABOUT WORK AT HOME AND IN THE MARKET |
44 Santa Clara Law Review 1029 (2004) |
In October 2003, the New York Times Magazine featured an article about high-powered women who have opted out of the workplace to become full-time moms. The cover showed a woman and toddler sitting on the ground together in front of a ladder reaching beyond the cover's frame. The caption read, Q: Why Don't More Women Get to the Top? A: They Choose... |
2004 |
Yes |
| Jennifer E. Spreng |
WHEN "WELFARE" BECOMES "WORK SUPPORT": EXEMPTING EARNED INCOME TAX CREDIT PAYMENTS IN CONSUMER BANKRUPTCY |
78 American Bankruptcy Law Journal 279 (Summer, 2004) |
To put this case in perspective, one need only step back and note we are dealing here with poor, but honest debtors for whom the government has enacted laws intended to relieve their extreme poverty.. It is difficult to understand why more effort is not expended by other counsel, the trustees, and the courts to permit impoverished debtors to keep... |
2004 |
Yes |
| Karen Syma Czapanskiy |
WHY DOES IT MATTER WHERE I LIVE? WELFARE REFORM, EQUAL PROTECTION, AND THE MARYLAND CONSTITUTION |
63 Maryland Law Review 655 (2004) |
The policy agenda for welfare reform in 1996 included freeing states and localities from the demands of a uniform national program. Giving states and localities authority for program design can be a boon if the authority is used to create a program that meets the needs of families in a particular place and time. It can also mean that families with... |
2004 |
Yes |
| Mandara Meyers |
(UN)EQUAL PROTECTION FOR THE POOR: EXCLUSIONARY ZONING AND THE NEED FOR STRICTER SCRUTINY |
6 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law 349 (November, 2003) |
The possession of property, owned or leased, is more than an issue of shelter-- it is a defining element of our lives. Property ownership influences the way we feel about ourselves as well as how we are perceived by those around us. Even more significantly, how and where we live affects our ability to access other goods equally. In this way,... |
2003 |
Yes |
| Vincent D. Rougeau |
A CRISIS OF CARING: A CATHOLIC CRITIQUE OF AMERICAN WELFARE REFORM |
27 Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy 101 (Fall, 2003) |
The current deterioration of the American economy is bringing new attention to the problem of poverty in the United States. After falling over the last few years, the number of Americans living in poverty has begun to rise once again. Notwithstanding the achievements of recent welfare reforms, the American poor continue to be numerous by any... |
2003 |
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| Deborah J. Cantrell |
A SHORT HISTORY OF POVERTY LAWYERS IN THE UNITED STATES |
5 Loyola Journal of Public Interest Law 11 (Fall 2003) |
Since at least the late 1800s, lawyers in the United States have worked for the poor without charge. These lawyers have been known by many labels: legal aid lawyers, progressive lawyers, legal services lawyers, and poverty lawyers. This article uses the label poverty lawyer to include all lawyers, at any time, who have focused on using law, the... |
2003 |
Yes |
| Tom W. Bell |
AUTHORS' WELFARE: COPYRIGHT AS A STATUTORY MECHANISM FOR REDISTRIBUTING RIGHTS |
69 Brooklyn Law Review 229 (Fall 2003) |
Copyright exhibits means and ends remarkably similar to those of social welfare programs. Yet discussions about copyright do not tend to echo discussions about welfare. This paper examines that interesting contrast. It begins by comparing social welfare policy to copyright policy, uncovering several material parallels. Both welfare and copyright... |
2003 |
Yes |
| Naomi R. Cahn |
BATTERED WOMEN, CHILD MALTREATMENT, PRISON, AND POVERTY: ISSUES FOR THEORY AND PRACTICE |
11 American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy and the Law 355 (2003) |
I. Battered Women, Children, and Prison. 356 A. Post-Imprisonment Issues. 357 B. Prison and Battered Women. 358 II. Child Abuse, Battered Women, and Public Welfare. 362 III. Conclusion: Family Violence. 365 |
2003 |
Yes |
| Meghan E. O'Neill |
CORPORATE WELFARE?: STATE TAX INCENTIVES FOR AIR POLLUTION CONTROL |
35 Connecticut Law Review 1717 (Summer, 2003) |
Nuclear reactor containment structures, electronic truck scales, and boilers would not, at first glance, seem to fall into the category of air pollution control devices. Yet their owners have tried to characterize them in just that way in order to benefit from a tax exemption designed to encourage new, more productive methods of pollution control.... |
2003 |
Yes |
| LaShawn Jefferson |
DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN IN EMPLOYMENT AND PROPERTY RIGHTS: UNEXAMINED FACTORS IN THE FEMINIZATION OF POVERTY |
24 Women's Rights Law Reporter 167 (Summer/Fall 2003) |
I am here to talk, in part, about the widespread and widely accepted violations of women's human rights that contribute to the impoverishment of women. We look around the world and people throw around the term of feminization of poverty, and I am sure there is economic analyses about macro changes affecting woman. But this does not happen in a... |
2003 |
Yes |
| Martha T. McCluskey |
EFFICIENCY AND SOCIAL CITIZENSHIP: CHALLENGING THE NEOLIBERAL ATTACK ON THE WELFARE STATE |
78 Indiana Law Journal 783 (Summer, 2003) |
I. L2-5,T5AFDC 799 A. L3-5,T5Reconstructing the Economics of Redistribution 802 1. The Rise and Fall of Keynesianism. 802 2. The Triumph of the Neoliberal Double Bind. 805 B. L3-5,T5Neoliberal Citizenship and Welfare Reform 807 1. AFDC as Moral Hazard. 807 2. Double Standard of AFDC's Moral Hazard. 808 3. From Double Standard into Market Forces.... |
2003 |
Yes |