| Author | Title | Citation | Summary | Year | Key Terms in Title or Summary |
| Peter Zamora |
IN RECOGNITION OF THE SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS OF LOW-INCOME FAMILIES?: IDEOLOGICAL DISCORD AND ITS EFFECTS UPON TITLE I OF THE ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION ACTS OF 1965 AND 2001 |
10 Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy 413 (Summer, 2003) |
Though nearly fifty years have passed since Brown v. Board of Education, which seemed to promise educational parity for all students, African American and other minority students currently perform at significantly lower levels than their white counterparts on standardized tests that measure academic achievement. The 2000 National Assessment of... |
2003 |
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| Frank Munger |
POVERTY, WELFARE, AND THE AFFIRMATIVE STATE |
37 Law and Society Review 659 (September, 2003) |
John Gilliom, Overseers of the Poor: Surveillance, Resistance, and the Limits of Privacy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. Michael B. Katz, The Price of Citizenship: Redefining the American Welfare State. New York: Metropolitan Books, 2001. Alice O'Connor, Poverty Knowledge: Social Science, Social Policy, and the Poor in... |
2003 |
Yes |
| Eric Helland, Alexander Tabarrok |
RACE, POVERTY, AND AMERICAN TORT AWARDS: EVIDENCE FROM THREE DATA SETS |
32 Journal of Legal Studies 27 (January, 2003) |
We investigate the impact of the race and income of the jury pool on trial awards. The average tort award increases as black and Hispanic county population rates increase and especially as black and Hispanic county poverty rates increase. An increase in the black county poverty rate of 1 percentage point tends to raise the average personal injury... |
2003 |
Yes |
| Vivian L. Gadsden , Stanton E. F. Wortham , Herbert M. Turner III |
SITUATED IDENTITIES OF YOUNG, AFRICAN AMERICAN FATHERS IN LOW-INCOME URBAN SETTINGS |
41 Family Court Review 381 (July, 2003) |
Young, low-income, African American fathers have been at the center of research, practice, and policy on families over the past decade. This article uses a voicing analytic technique to examine identities among young, low-income, African American fathers living in an urban setting; the intersections of these identities; and the fathers'... |
2003 |
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| James A. Kushner |
SMART GROWTH, NEW URBANISM AND DIVERSITY: PROGRESSIVE PLANNING MOVEMENTS IN AMERICA AND THEIR IMPACT ON POOR AND MINORITY ETHNIC POPULATIONS |
21 UCLA Journal of Environmental Law & Policy 45 (2002-2003) |
Smart Growth envisions a reduction in the extension of low-density suburban subdivisions as the predominant pattern of development. New Urbanism reflects a more pedestrian-oriented European style of urban life. Growth policies that target development toward urban infill and revitalization could result in the intensification of ethnic separation.... |
2003 |
Yes |
| Amy L. Wax |
SOCIAL WELFARE, HUMAN DIGNITY, AND THE PUZZLE OF WHAT WE OWE EACH OTHER |
27 Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy 121 (Fall, 2003) |
In a recent book about the American anti-poverty movement, Joel Schwartz argues that the moral improvement of the poor was a central goal of anti-poverty reformers in the 19 and early 20 centuries. Although moral reform was considered intrinsically valuable, it was also thought to be instrumental. The emphasis on the character and personal conduct... |
2003 |
Yes |
| Jianxia Du, Ph.D , James D. Anderson, Ph.D |
TECHNOLOGY AND QUALITY OF EDUCATION: DOES TECHNOLOGY HELP LOW-INCOME AND MINORITY STUDENTS IN THEIR ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENTS? |
2003 University of Illinois Journal of Law, Technology and Policy 1 (Spring, 2003) |
This study examines the equality of educational opportunities (EEO) as it relates to the availability and usage of technology. It is generally held that technology is the key to bridging the achievement gap between students from disadvantaged and advantaged socioeconomic or ethnic groups. This study utilized a database constructed from the... |
2003 |
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| Samuel R. Bagenstos |
THE AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT AS WELFARE REFORM |
44 William and Mary Law Review 921 (February, 2003) |
L1-4,T4Introduction 923 I. L2-4,T4The Critique: Betraying the Promises of the ADA? 930 A. L3-4,T4The Definition of Disability 930. B. L3-4,T4Judicial Estoppel Cases 936. 1. The Basic Problem. 936 2. The Cleveland Decision. 941 3. The Cleveland Aftermath. 943 4. The Critique. 948 C. L3-4,T4Reasonable Accommodation Cases 949. II. L2-4,T4The ADA and... |
2003 |
Yes |
| Rebekah J. Smith, Luisa S. Deprez, Sandra S. Butler |
THE MISEDUCATION OF WELFARE REFORM: DENYING THE PROMISE OF POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION |
55 Maine Law Review 211 (2003) |
I. L2-3Introduction II. L2-3Welfare Reform's Work-First Phenomenon: An Attack on Higher Education III. L2-3Denied Promise: The Value of Education for Low-Income Mothers A. The Proof that Education Matters B. Against the Tide: Maine's Parents as Scholars Program C. Positive Outcomes for Maine's Parents as Scholars Graduates IV. L2-3Hope for... |
2003 |
Yes |
| Christopher Slobogin |
THE POVERTY EXCEPTION TO THE FOURTH AMENDMENT |
55 Florida Law Review 391 (January, 2003) |
I. L2-3,T3Introduction 391. II. L2-3,T3The Illegal Alien Exception: Explicit and Dubious 392. III. L2-3,T3The Mexican Exception: Implicit and Barely Discernible 396. IV. L2-3,T3The Poverty Exception: Implicit but Real 399. A. Search Jurisprudence. 400 B. Seizure Jurisprudence. 404 V. L2-3,T3Conclusion 406. L1-3,T3Postscript: Poverty and the Fourth... |
2003 |
Yes |
| Peter B. Edelman |
THE WELFARE DEBATE: GETTING PAST THE BUMPER STICKERS |
27 Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy 93 (Fall, 2003) |
Welfare reform has been the recurrent subject of heated debate in the United States, culminating in far-reaching legislation in 1996. Taking the measure of that legislation requires attention both to the broader context of which welfare policy is a part and to the merits of the 1996 law itself. Welfare policy, cash assistance for families with... |
2003 |
Yes |
| Matt Boucher |
TURNING A BLIND (WHITE) EYE IN LEGISLATING MENTAL HEALTH PARITY: THE UNMET, OVERLOOKED NEEDS OF THE WORKING POOR IN RACIAL AND ETHNIC MINORITY COMMUNITIES |
19 Journal of Contemporary Health Law and Policy 465 (Spring, 2003) |
There is an eternal dispute between those who imagine the world to suit their policy, and those who correct their policy to suit the realities of the world. Albert Sorel In terms of public awareness, 1999 was a banner year for mental health in the United States. That year, then-Surgeon General David Satcher, M.D., released the first-ever... |
2003 |
Yes |
| Shelby A.D. Moore |
UNDERSTANDING THE CONNECTION BETWEEN DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, CRIME, AND POVERTY: HOW WELFARE REFORM MAY KEEP BATTERED WOMEN FROM LEAVING ABUSIVE RELATIONSHIPS |
12 Texas Journal of Women and the Law 451 (Spring 2003) |
I. Introduction. 452 II. Facing Reality: Women in Abusive Relationships Commit Crimes Other than Homicide. 457 A. Child-Related Crimes. 458 B. Drug Offenses and Family Violence. 465 C. Property Crimes and Domestic Violence. 467 III. Battered Women: Why They Stay or the Impediments to Leaving. 470 A. Why Battered Women Cannot Leave. 471 B. Domestic... |
2003 |
Yes |
| Pearson Liddell, Jr. , Stevie Watson , William D. Eshee, Jr. |
WELFARE REFORM IN MISSISSIPPI: TANF POLICY AND ITS IMPLICATIONS |
11 American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy and the Law 1107 (2003) |
Introduction. 1108 I. A Brief History of Welfare Reform. 1109 II. TANF Policies. 1115 A. Welfare to Work. 1115 1. Accountability of Contractors. 1117 2. Welfare Recipients as Employees. 1118 3. Livable Wage. 1120 4. Education. 1123 III. Challenges in Mississippi: Problems and Criticisms of TANF Policy. 1123 A. Single Mothers. 1123 B. Livable Wage... |
2003 |
Yes |
| Marian Wright Edelman |
WHY DON'T WE HAVE THE WILL TO END CHILD POVERTY? |
10 Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy 273 (Summer, 2003) |
The day after Dr. Martin Luther King's assassination on April 4, 1968, the pent-up rage, hurt, and grief of poor Black communities exploded in riots across America. As smoke swirled through the air of Washington, D.C., I visited several public schools to urge children not to loot, risk arrest, and jeopardize their futures. A 12-year-old boy looked... |
2003 |
Yes |
| Otis B. Grant |
ARE THE INDIGENT TOO POOR FOR BANKRUPTCY? A CRITICAL LEGAL INTERPRETATION OF THE THEORY OF FRESH START WITHIN A LAW AND ECONOMICS PARADIGM |
33 University of Toledo Law Review 773 (Summer 2002) |
WHILE campaigning for the United States Presidency, George W. Bush urged Americans to embrace a new era of personal responsibility. Now that he is in office we get a chance to see Bush's theme of responsibility manifest into policy. The self-proclaimed compassionate conservative championed the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 2001, in which he asserted... |
2002 |
Yes |
| Melanie D. Acevedo |
CLIENT CHOICES, COMMUNITY VALUES: WHY FAITH-BASED LEGAL SERVICES PROVIDERS ARE GOOD FOR POVERTY LAW |
70 Fordham Law Review 1491 (March, 2002) |
The summer of 1968 found the city of Chicago in flames, literally and metaphorically. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated on April 4, followed by Robert Kennedy in June. The Near North neighborhood, which includes the massive Cabrini Green public housing complex, was no exception to the anger and sometimes violent unrest. In response, the... |
2002 |
Yes |
| Mark Matthew Graham |
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE VICTIMS AND WELFARE "REFORM": THE FAMILY VIOLENCE OPTION IN ILLINOIS |
5 Journal of Gender, Race and Justice 433 (Spring 2002) |
I. Introduction II. Domestic Violence and Welfare A. The Problem of Poverty and Domestic Abuse B. The Prevalence of Domestic Violence Among Welfare Recipients C. The Impact of Domestic Violence on Welfare Recipients III. AFCD and Domestic Violence IV. Welfare Reform, TANF, and Domestic Violence V. TANF and The Family Violence Option A. The... |
2002 |
Yes |
| Beth Loy, Ph.D. |
EXPLORING A "NON-TRADITIONAL" CONTENDER IN THE BATTLE FOR EQUITABLE JUSTICE: INTRODUCING ECONOMIC WELFARE BIAS |
11 Kansas Journal of Law & Public Policy 395 (Winter 2002) |
The existence of certain judicial biases is widely accepted, as is the source of these biases: bigotry. The exploration of more covert biases and the factors that stimulate them, however, remains untouched. One bias, rooted heavily in modern day capitalism, and its potential impact on the federal judiciary has been overlooked. This paper introduces... |
2002 |
Yes |
| Kenneth K. Wong |
FEDERAL EDUCATIONAL POLICY AS AN ANTI-POVERTY STRATEGY |
16 Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy 421 (2002) |
The federal government has played a primary role in improving schooling opportunities for children of poverty. Since the 1960s, the federal government has relied on several major educational programs that are designed to promote racial integration, protect the educational rights of the handicapped, assist non-native English learners, and provide... |
2002 |
Yes |
| Marshalita Sims-Peterson , Melva L. Ware |
FROM RISK TO PROMISE: CHANGING THE EDUCATION CONTRACT FOR POOR CHILDREN AND CHILDREN OF COLOR |
9 Widener Law Symposium Journal 121 (2002) |
[E]ducation is perhaps the most important function of state and local governments. . . . It is required in the performance of our most basic public responsibilities[.] . . . It is the very foundation of good citizenship [.] . . . It is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he is denied the opportunity. . . where... |
2002 |
Yes |
| Angela Hooton |
FROM WELFARE RECIPIENT TO CHILDCARE WORKER: BALANCING WORK AND FAMILY UNDER TANF |
12 Texas Journal of Women and the Law 121 (Fall 2002) |
I. Introduction. 122 II. Welfare Reform: From Welfare Recipient to Worker. 125 A. A Need for Change. 125 B. Statutory Highlights. 126 III. The Greatest Barrier to TANF's Success: Childcare. 127 A. Inadequacies in the Work Force. 129 B. Inadequacies in Meeting Low-Income Parents' Childcare Needs. 131 1. Access to Care. 134 a. The Different Types of... |
2002 |
Yes |
| Cyrus Vakili-Zad |
HAS GOVERNMENT FUNDING OF TMCS DIVERTED PUBLIC HOUSING TENANTS FROM PURSUING A NATIONAL MOVEMENT TO REDUCE POVERTY? |
11-WTR Journal of Affordable Housing & Community Development Law 135 (Winter, 2002) |
In 1975, the Ford Foundation and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) formed the National Resident Management Demonstration program. This program was designed to promote tenant management within public housing developments experiencing both physical and social deterioration. Under this program, supported by HUD funding,... |
2002 |
Yes |
| Sahil Godiwala |
KILLING THE SCAPEGOAT: HOW THE POOR ARE MANIPULATED IN THE RIGHT TO DIE DEBATE |
9 Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy 453 (Summer, 2002) |
There is no greater mystery than the moment of death, and for centuries, law and society have revered it as a point of great honesty, clarity, and freedom. However, there are limits on what the dying may do: paradoxically, a terminally ill patient loses choice and autonomy at the most crucial moment. Society allows a dying person to make many... |
2002 |
Yes |
| Duncan Kennedy |
LEGAL ECONOMICS OF U.S. LOW INCOME HOUSING MARKETS IN LIGHT OF "INFORMALITY" ANALYSIS |
4 Journal of Law in Society 71 (Fall, 2002) |
This essay proposes a general framework for understanding the phenomenon of neighborhood transitions in low income housing markets in large urban areas. It is an attempt to bring to bear on typical Unitedstatesean phenomena the insights of a number of legal and nonlegal disciplines and subdisciplines that have up to now had little to say to one... |
2002 |
Yes |
| Karen Syma Czapanskiy |
PARENTS, CHILDREN, AND WORK-FIRST WELFARE REFORM: WHERE IS THE C IN TANF? |
61 Maryland Law Review 308 (2002) |
One of these mornin's, you're goin' to rise up singin', Then you'll spread yo' wings an' you'll take to the sky. But till that mornin', ther's a-nuttin' can harm you With Daddy & Mammy standin' by. Jan and Pat were born in the same hospital in January 1997. Jan's mother, Jean, a single twenty-one-year-old woman who had finished two years of... |
2002 |
Yes |
| Kenneth L. Karst |
POVERTY AND RIGHTS: A PRE-MILLENNIAL TRIPTYCH |
16 Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy 399 (2002) |
Come the Millennium, . . . . So began a common form for expressing a wish, when I was young. Often these words introduced an aspiration that was understood by speaker and listener alike to be utopian, a lovely but impossible dream. Come the Millennium, we might have said, all Americans will enjoy freedom from want. All the authors in this... |
2002 |
Yes |
| Marni M. Hussong |
PROTECTING EXEMPT STATUS IN LOW-INCOME HOUSING TAX CREDIT PARTNERSHIPS |
13 TAXATION OF EXEMPTS 275 (May/June, 2002) |
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... |
2002 |
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| Naomi Cahn |
RACE, POVERTY, HISTORY, ADOPTION, AND CHILD ABUSE: CONNECTIONS |
36 Law and Society Review 461 (2002) |
Dorothy Roberts, Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare. New York: Basic Books, 2001. x + 349 pages. $26.00 cloth; $16.50 paper. E. Wayne Carp, ed., Adoption in America: Historical Perspectives. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2002. $57.50 cloth. P rofessor Dorothy Roberts, the Kirkland and Ellis Professor of Law at Northwestern... |
2002 |
Yes |
| Stephen B. Bright |
RACE, POVERTY, THE DEATH PENALTY, AND THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE LEGAL PROFESSION |
1 Seattle Journal for Social Justice 73 (Spring/Summer, 2002) |
There is a growing debate in the United States about the wisdom of capital punishment. Separate from the question of whether the state should kill, this debate involves issues of race, the quality of legal representation for people facing the death penalty, and the risk of executing innocent people. Are people being sentenced to death because of... |
2002 |
Yes |
| Dru Stevenson |
SHOULD ADDICTS GET WELFARE? ADDICTION & SSI/SSDI |
68 Brooklyn Law Review 185 (Fall, 2002) |
For a brief period in our nation's history, drug abusers and alcoholics could receive disability cash assistance and free medical coverage from the federal government by proving that their addiction was severe enough to disable them from holding any job. From 1972 until 1994, addicts could, with certain qualifications, receive benefits under Social... |
2002 |
Yes |
| Mark Tushnet |
STATE ACTION, SOCIAL WELFARE RIGHTS, AND THE JUDICIAL ROLE: SOME COMPARATIVE OBSERVATIONS |
3 Chicago Journal of International Law 435 (Fall 2002) |
Consider the following cases: (1) A man employed by a private college informs his employer (in response to an inquiry) that he is gay. The employer fires him. The former employee sues the college, claiming that the college's action violates the nation's constitutional requirement that everyone be treated equally. (2) A hearing-impaired person seeks... |
2002 |
Yes |
| Thomas W. Ross |
THE FAITH-BASED INITIATIVE: ANTI-POVERTY OR ANTI-POOR? |
9 Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy 167 (Winter, 2002) |
The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little. The public debate concerning the expansion of Charitable Choice and other planks of President Bush's Faith-Based Initiative thus far has centered on constitutionality, feasibility, and civil... |
2002 |
Yes |
| Randal S. Jeffrey |
THE IMPORTANCE OF DUE PROCESS PROTECTIONS AFTER WELFARE REFORM: CLIENT STORIES FROM NEW YORK CITY |
66 Albany Law Review 123 (2002) |
The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 threatens the due process protections that, for over thirty years, have applied to public assistance programs throughout the country. This article will demonstrate, through an exploration of New York City's administration of its cash assistance programs and the consequence... |
2002 |
Yes |
| Christine N. Cimini |
THE NEW CONTRACT: WELFARE REFORM, DEVOLUTION, AND DUE PROCESS |
61 Maryland Law Review 246 (2002) |
In 1996 Congress passed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (Welfare Reform Act or PRWORA), claiming that fundamental and revolutionary changes were necessary to cure the perceived intractable problems of the welfare system. The problems identified by Congress included long-term dependency on welfare benefits, large... |
2002 |
Yes |
| David Dolinko |
THE PERILS OF WELFARE ECONOMICS |
97 Northwestern University Law Review 351 (Fall 2002) |
[I]f there is to be a normative economics, from which prescriptive propositions and policies can be derived that are applicable to a particular society, then it cannot be raised on any presuppositions that do not accord with whatever ethical consensus remains in that society. One implication of this statement is that wherever propositions raised on... |
2002 |
Yes |
| Anna Marie Smith |
THE SEXUAL REGULATION DIMENSION OF CONTEMPORARY WELFARE LAW: A FIFTY STATE OVERVIEW |
8 Michigan Journal of Gender & Law 121 (2002) |
Introduction. 122 Part I. The Moralistic Dimension of the Deserving Poor /Undeserving Poor Distinction. 125 Part II. Mandatory Paternity Identification and ChildSupport Enforcement Cooperation. 138 A. Child Support Enforcement as a Solution to Poverty: The Implications for Poor Women and Their Children. 138 B. The Findings and Analysis. 145... |
2002 |
Yes |
| Tamara R. Piety |
THE WAR ON THE POOR--NEWS FROM THE FRONT: DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT V. RUCKER© |
38 Tulsa Law Review 385 (Winter 2002) |
Blame it on Johnson. He may have launched the War on Poverty but it appears that the only sentiment surviving from that era is that war makes for a terrific metaphor for political projects. The substantive goals of the Johnson era War on Poverty--the belief that hard-core poverty and America cannot co-exist without the former diminishing the... |
2002 |
Yes |
| Jon D. Michaels |
TO PROMOTE THE GENERAL WELFARE: THE REPUBLICAN IMPERATIVE TO ENHANCE CITIZENSHIP WELFARE RIGHTS |
111 Yale Law Journal 1457 (April, 2002) |
In the 1960s and 1970s, progressive lawyers and scholars aggressively campaigned to secure the recognition and protection of substantive welfare rights. Invoking welfare as a new property right, they pressed the courts to declare affirmative guarantees to entitlements as varied as financial assistance, adequate housing, and education. But despite... |
2002 |
Yes |
| Dean Spade |
UNDESERVING ADDICTS: SSI/SSD AND THE PENALTIES OF POVERTY |
5 Howard Scroll: The Social Justice Law Review 89 (Spring, 2002) |
We're in a war. Former Los Angeles Police Chief Daryl Gates. Since the late 1980's, American media and politicians have produced and participated in a moral panic around the issue of illegal drug use. This panic has generated vivid pictures in the American imagination of drug users as a morally depraved, irresponsible, and willfully criminal... |
2002 |
Yes |
| Rick Santorum |
WEALTH CREATION IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM: TRANSFORMING POVERTY IN AMERICA |
16 Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy 383 (2002) |
When causes of poverty are discussed--lack of educational resources, drug abuse, racism, family breakdown--one that is often overlooked is access to capital and barriers to wealth creation. In the last century, poverty among the elderly was one of the defining social problems. However, today's growing disparity between the rich and poor is one of... |
2002 |
Yes |
| Carole M. Hirsch |
WHEN THE WAR ON POVERTY BECAME THE WAR ON POOR, PREGNANT WOMEN: POLITICAL RHETORIC, THE UNCONSTITUTIONAL CONDITIONS DOCTRINE, AND THE FAMILY CAP RESTRICTION |
8 William and Mary Journal of Women and the Law 335 (Winter, 2002) |
The natural and proper timidity and delicacy which belongs to the female sex evidently unfit it for many of the occupations of civil life. The constitution of the family organization, which is founded in the divine ordinance, as well as in the nature of things, indicates the domestic sphere as that which properly belongs to the domain and functions... |
2002 |
Yes |
| Joel F. Handler |
"ENDING WELFARE AS WE KNOW IT": THE WIN/WIN SPIN OR THE STENCH OF VICTORY |
5 Journal of Gender, Race and Justice 131 (Fall 2001) |
The delegates at the Democratic Party convention of 2000 roared with approval when President Clinton announced that his Administration had ended welfare as a way of life. The welfare rolls have fallen by half since 1996, when the new law was adopted. They are presently at their lowest levels. Of 1.6 million parents still on assistance, nearly a... |
2001 |
Yes |
| Susan Bisom-Rapp |
AN OUNCE OF PREVENTION IS A POOR SUBSTITUTE FOR A POUND OF CURE: CONFRONTING THE DEVELOPING JURISPRUDENCE OF EDUCATION AND PREVENTION IN EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION LAW |
22 Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law 1 (2001) |
I. Introduction. 2 II. Evolution of the Jurisprudence of Education and Prevention. 6 III. The New Jurisprudence in Context: Regulations by the Regulated. 13 A. The Sum and Substance of Anti-Discrimination Training Programs. 15 1. Sexual Harassment Training in Context. 17 2. Diversity Training in Context. 20 B. Anti-Discrimination Training and the... |
2001 |
Yes |
| Amy E. Hirsch |
BRINGING BACK SHAME: WOMEN, WELFARE REFORM, AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE |
10 Temple Political & Civil Rights Law Review 417 (Spring 2001) |
The right wing drive to bring back shame has dramatically affected the legal systems poor women interact with most often--welfare, the criminal justice system, and family courts. In each of these areas, poor women are increasingly stigmatized; their behavior is viewed with rising suspicion and hostility; and efforts to control their sexual and... |
2001 |
Yes |
| William E. Forbath |
CONSTITUTIONAL WELFARE RIGHTS: A HISTORY, CRITIQUE AND RECONSTRUCTION |
69 Fordham Law Review 1821 (April, 2001) |
INTRODUCTION. 1822 I. THE IDEA OF WELFARE RIGHTS DOESN'T LIVE IN THIS WORLD ANYMORE. 1824 II. THE SOCIAL CITIZENSHIP TRADITION. 1827 A. Two Egalitarian Traditions. 1827 B. Populists and Progressives: The Original Republican-Pragmatist Synthesis. 1828 C. The New Deal Constitution of Social Citizenship: At the Very Hub. . . is the Right to Have a... |
2001 |
Yes |
| Barbara L. Bezdek |
CONTRACTUAL WELFARE: NON-ACCOUNTABILITY AND DIMINISHED DEMOCRACY IN LOCAL GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS FOR WELFARE-TO-WORK SERVICES |
28 Fordham Urban Law Journal 1559 (June, 2001) |
The Welfare State of the mid-twentieth century has been supplanted by the rise of the Contractual State, miring welfare reform in the United States in this worldwide reinvention of government. Moving people from welfare to work became a primary goal of federal welfare policy with the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act... |
2001 |
Yes |
| Susan L. Thomas |
'ENDING WELFARE AS WE KNOW IT,' OR FAREWELL TO THE RIGHTS OF WOMEN ON WELFARE? A CONSTITUTIONAL AND HUMAN RIGHTS ANALYSIS OF THE PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY ACT |
78 University of Detroit Mercy Law Review 179 (Winter 2001) |
To be poor in the United States in the early years of the new century places a woman in an extraordinarily difficult position. Her options for managing this crisis are few. She has to depend on her own emotional strengths and on her severely limited financial resources. Public assistance programs provide little help and penalize women who are not... |
2001 |
Yes |
| Stephanie A. Ades , James R. Hays |
EVALUATING THE POOR PERFORMER |
19 ACCA Docket 50 (March, 2001) |
You receive the interoffice memorandum reminding you that annual performance appraisals are due in two weeks. You detest this time of year, and your first thought is to call your financial planner and ask him whether you can retire immediately. You are not even close to a comfortable retirement, so you begrudgingly resolve to sit down and prepare... |
2001 |
Yes |
| Louis Kaplow , Steven Shavell |
FAIRNESS VERSUS WELFARE |
114 Harvard Law Review 961 (February, 2001) |
I. Introduction. 967 II. Welfare Economics and Notions of Fairness. 976 A. Welfare Economics. 977 1. Individuals' Well-being. 979 2. Social Welfare and Individuals' Well-being. 985 3. Comments on Social Welfare and the Distribution of Income. 989 4. Concluding Remark. 998 B. Notions of Fairness. 999 1. The Basic Nature of Notions of Fairness. 999... |
2001 |
Yes |