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Jay Doran , Beth Leonard THE POWER OF STORY: HOW LEGAL AID NARRATIVES AFFECT PERCEPTIONS OF POVERTY 15 Seattle Journal for Social Justice 333 (Fall, 2016) Federally funded civil legal aid was established in the 1960s as a resource for low-income populations experiencing legal issues that threatened their health, housing, family structure, personal safety, and financial security. Despite private and public investment of both time and money in civil legal aid, the critical need for legal services... 2016 Relevant (Poverty)
Reuben Jonathan Miller , Amanda Alexander THE PRICE OF CARCERAL CITIZENSHIP: PUNISHMENT, SURVEILLANCE, AND SOCIAL WELFARE POLICY IN AN AGE OF CARCERAL EXPANSION 21 Michigan Journal of Race and Law 291 (Spring 2016) INTRODUCTION. 291 I. On Carceral Citizenship. 295 II. Putting Mass Supervision in its Place. 297 III. Policing Suitable Targets. 300 IV. On Risk and Responsibility. 303 V. Of Penological Interests and Varied Stakes. 306 VI. On Rights and Responsibility. 309 CONCLUSION. 311 2016 Relevant (Poverty)
John N. Robinson III WELFARE AS WRECKING BALL: CONSTRUCTING PUBLIC RESPONSIBILITY IN LEGAL ENCOUNTERS OVER PUBLIC HOUSING DEMOLITION 41 Law and Social Inquiry 670 (Summer, 2016) Scholarship on welfare privatization illustrates how the process often curtails and undermines public responsibility for the poor. In this article, I examine how recipients, policy makers, and judges participate in the legal process as a means of challenging and defending privatization. I look at cases of litigation initiated by public housing... 2016 Relevant (Poverty)
Lisa R. Pruitt WELFARE QUEENS AND WHITE TRASH 25 Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal 289 (Spring 2016) I. INTRODUCTION. 289 II. A BRIEF HISTORY OF WHITE TRASH. 291 III. WHITENESS IN CRITICAL RACE THEORY. 295 IV. CALLS FOR GREATER VISIBILITY OF WHITE POVERTY, BUT WITH WHAT CONSEQUENCES?. 299 V. HOW CAN WE ATTRACT MORE PUBLIC AND GOVERNMENT SUPPORT FOR THE POOR?. 304 VI. CONCLUSION. 309 The welfare queen is widely recognized as a racialized... 2016 Relevant (Poverty)
Ann Cammett WELFARE QUEENS REDUX: CRIMINALIZING BLACK MOTHERS IN THE AGE OF NEOLIBERALISM 25 Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal 363 (Spring 2016) The recent outcry that has accompanied the killing of black men and boys has had the effect of shedding light on the ways in which black people are vilified in order to justify the fear and loathing of others. Historically, the high proportion of arrests and prosecutions of African American men also has shaped the discourse of crime itself,... 2016 Relevant (Poverty)
Kelly Elizabeth Orians "I'LL SAY I'M HOME, I WON'T SAY I'M FREE": PERSISTENT BARRIERS TO HOUSING, EMPLOYMENT, AND FINANCIAL SECURITY FOR FORMERLY INCARCERATED PEOPLE IN LOW-INCOME COMMUNITIES OF COLOR 25 National Black Law Journal 23 (2016) I. Introduction. 24 II. Context: Traditional Approaches to Reentry. 35 A. Controlling Employer Access to Information About Conviction History. 36 B. Rehabilitating People Who Are Convicted. 42 C. Providing Employers Incentives to Hire Formerly Incarcerated People and Focusing on Community Development More Generally.. 45 III. Using Conviction... 2016  
Kristin Niver CHANGING THE FACE OF URBAN AMERICA: ASSESSING THE LOW-INCOME HOUSING TAX CREDIT 102 Virginia Law Review Online 48 (June, 2016) ON June 25, 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court held that Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) allocations could violate the Fair Housing Act (FHA) if used to perpetuate racially concentrated poverty. On the heels of this decision, on July 8, 2015, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) issued its final rule on the FHA's... 2016  
Myriam Gilles CLASS WARFARE: THE DISAPPEARANCE OF LOW-INCOME LITIGANTS FROM THE CIVIL DOCKET 65 Emory Law Journal 1531 (2016) At root, equal justice is simply the notion that law and the courts should be fair, even if life isn't. -- Justice Earl Johnson, Jr., California Court of Appeal In recent years, much attention has been paid to the startling disparities in income and wealth in contemporary U.S. society. The enormous concentration of economic power in the top 1% is... 2016  
Aimee Constantineau FAIR FOR WHOM? WHY DEBT-COLLECTION LAWSUITS IN ST. LOUIS VIOLATE THE PROCEDURAL DUE PROCESS RIGHTS OF LOW-INCOME COMMUNITIES 66 American University Law Review 479 (December, 2016) Debt collection has burgeoned into a thriving industry over the past decade, and it is estimated to be a $13 billion dollar business today. Yet, most of the 35% of American adults who owe an average debt of $5000 do not even know that a creditor is trying to collect the debt. In St. Louis, Missouri, over 100,000 judgments were handed down in debt... 2016  
Sarah Steadman FROM OUT TO IN: THE OPPORTUNITY AND NEED FOR CLINICAL LAW PROGRAMS TO EFFECTIVELY SERVE LOW-INCOME LGBT INDIVIDUALS 26 Southern California Review of Law & Social Justice 1 (Fall, 2016) Although the recent legalization of same-sex marriage in the U.S. is heartening for lesbians and gays, the resulting discriminatory legislative backlash against the LGBT population shows that this community continues to be marginalized and at risk. Over two hundred anti-LGBT bills have been introduced in state legislatures since January 2016. North... 2016  
Brooke McGee PREGNANCY AS PUNISHMENT FOR LOW-INCOME SEXUAL ASSAULT VICTIMS: AN ANALYSIS OF SOUTH DAKOTA'S DENIAL OF MEDICAID-FUNDED ABORTION FOR RAPE AND INCEST VICTIMS AND WHY THE HYDE AMENDMENT MUST BE REPEALED 27 George Mason University Civil Rights Law Journal 77 (Fall, 2016) Beginning at dawn, Jane drives over 450 miles from her small town of Buffalo, South Dakota to Sioux Falls, South Dakota to obtain an abortion for an unintended pregnancy. Spending over seven hours in her car without a break, Jane arrives at the only clinic that offers abortion services in the state. Once there, she meets with the doctor scheduled... 2016  
Deborah N. Archer , Tamara C. Belinfanti WE BUILT IT AND THEY DID NOT COME: USING NEW GOVERNANCE THEORY IN THE FIGHT FOR FOOD JUSTICE IN LOW-INCOME COMMUNITIES OF COLOR 15 Seattle Journal for Social Justice 307 (Fall, 2016) Meet Anthony. Anthony is eighteen years old and lives with his mother, Mary, in Anacostia, a residential neighborhood in Southeast Washington, D.C. There are no supermarkets in his neighborhood--the closest grocery store is 20 minutes away by bus. One or two corner stores in the neighborhood sell milk, cereal, and other packaged foods. Mary shops... 2016  
Stephen Wizner POVERTY LAW, POLICY, AND PRACTICE JULIET M. BRODIE, CLARE PASTORE, EZRA ROSSER & JEFFREY SELBIN. ASPEN/WOLTERS KLUWER, 2014 22 Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy 441 (Winter, 2015) What should law students learn about poverty and its relationship to law? What is the doctrinal or theoretical subject matter that justifies a separate course in law and poverty? Are there laws and legal issues that specifically or uniquely relate to people living in poverty? Does law play a role in creating and maintaining poverty? Can law reduce... 2015 Most Relevant
Stephen B. Bright THE ROLE OF RACE, POVERTY, INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY, AND MENTAL ILLNESS IN THE DECLINE OF THE DEATH PENALTY 49 University of Richmond Law Review 671 (March, 2015) Capital punishment is a difficult and sensitive topic because it involves terrible tragedies, the murder of innocent people, loss and suffering, and the passions of the moment. It is used in only a very small percentage of cases in which it could be imposed and is currently in decline. Six states have recently abandoned it, and the number of death... 2015 Most Relevant
Bret D. Asbury "BACKDOOR TO EUGENICS"? THE RISKS OF PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS FOR POOR, BLACK WOMEN 23 Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy 1 (Fall 2015) This article is situated at the intersection of three of the conference's stated subject areas: Race and Healthcare, Reproductive Rights, and Race and the Family. My recent research has focused on the manner in which pregnant women who learn of fetal genetic abnormalities prenatally receive counseling as they decide whether to terminate or bring... 2015 Relevant (Poverty)
Thomas H. Koenig, Michael L. Rustad DIGITAL SCARLET LETTERS: SOCIAL MEDIA STIGMATIZATION OF THE POOR AND WHAT CAN BE DONE 93 Nebraska Law Review 592 (2015) I. Introduction. 593 II. The Benefits and Hidden Costs of Expanded Social Media Access. 602 A. Race, Class, and Internet Access. 602 B. The Persistence of the Digital Divide. 603 C. The Social Media Digital Divide. 604 D. The Benefits of Increased Social Media Access. 606 1. The Internet as an Engine of Equality. 606 2. Providing Economic and... 2015 Relevant (Poverty)
R.J. Delahunty DOES ANIMAL WELFARE TRUMP RELIGIOUS LIBERTY? THE DANISH BAN ON KOSHER AND HALAL BUTCHERING 16 San Diego International Law Journal 341 (Spring, 2015) Western European governments since the eighteenth century Enlightenment have frequently enacted laws and regulations that have adverse effects (sometimes intended) on traditional Jewish ritual practices, including Sabbath observance, dress, and dietary practices. Regulations of the latter kind have often been adopted in the name of sparing animals... 2015 Relevant (Poverty)
Alexia Herwig , Gregory Shaffer EDITORS' INTRODUCTION: TRADE, ANIMAL WELFARE, AND INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES: A SYMPOSIUM ON THE WTO EC--SEAL PRODUCTS CASE 108 AJIL Unbound 282 (March, 2014-July, 2015) The World Trade Organization (WTO) Appellate Body's (AB) decision in the EC-- Seal Products case of May 2014 has stirred considerable debate among legal academics regarding several of its findings and interpretations. The decision touches upon hotly debated issues in WTO law's reading and application that have broad public policy implications. The... 2015 Relevant (Poverty)
Dr. Mel Cousins EQUAL PROTECTION: IMMIGRANTS' ACCESS TO HEALTHCARE AND WELFARE BENEFITS 12 Hastings Race and Poverty Law Journal 21 (Winter 2015) The adoption of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (hereinafter PRWORA) led to considerable litigation over immigrants' rights to welfare benefits and access to health care. The approaches adopted by different courts (both federal and state) diverged significantly based on the various statutory schemes... 2015 Relevant (Poverty)
Matthew D. Adler EQUITY BY THE NUMBERS: MEASURING POVERTY, INEQUALITY, AND INJUSTICE 66 Alabama Law Review 551 (2015) Introduction. 551 I. Equity Metrics: An Overview. 559 A. Inequality Metrics. 560 B. Social Welfare Functions. 566 C. Poverty Metrics. 569 D. Social-Gradient Metrics. 573 E. A Summary. 576 II. Why the Pigou-Dalton Principle? A Generic Justification. 579 III. What Is The Best Currency for the Pigou-Dalton Principle?. 583 IV. Should the Pigou-Dalton... 2015 Relevant (Poverty)
Alexandra Natapoff GIDEON'S SERVANTS AND THE CRIMINALIZATION OF POVERTY 12 Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law 445 (Spring, 2015) Table of Contents I. Introduction. 445 II. The Criminalization of the Welfare State. 450 III. Putting Welfare Back Into Criminal Law Enforcement. 453 A. Specialty Courts. 454 B. Community Prosecution. 455 C. Police. 456 IV. The Bridging Role of Public Defenders. 459 V. Crime, Poverty, Legal Roles and Rules. 462 Every day, in public defender offices... 2015 Relevant (Poverty)
Marc-Tizoc González HUNGER, POVERTY, AND THE CRIMINALIZATION OF FOOD SHARING IN THE NEW GILDED AGE 23 American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy and the Law 231 (2015) Introduction. 232 I. New Gilded Age?. 236 A. Critiquing the Imagery of Poverty in the New Gilded Age: Inequality in America . 238 B. What was Gilt? - The White Supremacy and Imperialism of the First Gilded Age. 245 1. What was Gilt? - The Ending of Radical Reconstruction, Destruction of Interracial Labor Populism, and Rise of Jim Crow. 250 2.... 2015 Relevant (Poverty)
Matthew Stockwell ON THE FRINGE OF DISABILITY: GENETICS, OBESITY, POVERTY, PREGNANCY AND THEIR PLACE IN SOCIETY 3 Mid-Atlantic Journal on Law and Public Policy 118 (Summer, 2015) Disability is part of the human condition. Almost every one of us will be permanently or temporarily disabled at some point in life. We must do more to break the barriers which segregate people with disabilities, in many cases forcing them to the margins of society. ~ WHO Director-General Dr. Margaret Chan I. INTRODUCTION. 118 II. EXAMPLE. 119... 2015 Relevant (Poverty)
Jaime Alison Lee POVERTY, DIGNITY, AND PUBLIC HOUSING 47 Columbia Human Rights Law Review 97 (Winter 2015) C1-2Table of Contents I. Introduction II. Culturalism and its Harms III. Countering Culturalism with Dignity a. Conditions Cases and The Due Process Revolution b. Applications in Public Housing i. Conditions ii. Adjudications iii. Rulemaking c. Culturalist Challenges to Procedure d. The Persistence of Culturalism IV. Extending Dignity a. Dignity... 2015 Relevant (Poverty)
Alexander Wohl POVERTY, EMPLOYMENT, AND DISABILITY 32 GPSolo 74 (July/August, 2015) At a time when many U.S. policymakers increasingly are focused on the issue of poverty and economic disparity as an important and neglected social problem, a particularly striking set of statistics is one often ignored: the disproportionately high level of poverty among Americans with disabilities. It is just the latest outgrowth of a long history... 2015 Relevant (Poverty)
Jennifer E.K. Kendrex PUNISHING THE POOR THROUGH WELFARE REFORM: CRUEL AND UNUSUAL? 64 Duke Law Journal Online 121 (March, 2015) In America's earliest days, punishment for being poor extended beyond poverty's unpleasant, concomitant circumstances--nagging hunger, tattered clothing, vagrancy--to include community-inflicted sentences such as banishment, whippings, and auctioning off the poor like slaves. American attitudes towards the impoverished may have transitioned from... 2015 Relevant (Poverty)
Elizabeth L. MacDowell REIMAGINING ACCESS TO JUSTICE IN THE POOR PEOPLE'S COURTS 22 Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy 473 (Spring, 2015) Access to justice efforts have been focused more on access than justice, due in part to the framing of access to justice issues around the presence or absence of lawyers. This article argues that access to justice scholars and activists should also think about social justice and provides a roadmap for running a legal services program geared toward... 2015 Relevant (Poverty)
Joy Moses REVISITING THE WAR ON POVERTY: HOW POLICY CAN BETTER SHAPE THE INCOME AND WAGES OF FAMILIES WITH CHILDREN 18 University of the District of Columbia Law Review 78 (Spring, 2015) Fifty years ago, President Lyndon B. Johnson launched a War on Poverty while delivering his first State of the Union address on January 8, 1964. His language conveyed ambitious plans to recreate American society: This budget, and this year's legislative program, are designed to help each and every American citizen fulfill his basic hopes--his... 2015 Relevant (Poverty)
Mirko Bagaric RICH OFFENDER, POOR OFFENDER: WHY IT (SOMETIMES) MATTERS IN SENTENCING 33 Law & Inequality: A Journal of Theory and Practice 1 (Winter, 2015) The problem of economically and socially disadvantaged offenders is one of the most perplexing issues in sentencing. It is a worldwide phenomenon that people from disadvantaged backgrounds are convicted of more crimes and sentenced to imprisonment than other people. It has been suggested that this often occurs for reasons that are not within the... 2015 Relevant (Poverty)
Karen M. Tani STATES' RIGHTS, WELFARE RIGHTS, AND THE "INDIAN PROBLEM": NEGOTIATING CITIZENSHIP AND SOVEREIGNTY, 1935-1954 33 Law and History Review 1 (February, 2015) What distinguishes the American Indians from other native groups is . the nature of their relationship with a government which, while protecting their welfare and their rights, is committed to the principles of tribal self-government and the legal equality of races. Felix S. Cohen, Chairman, Board of Appeals, United States Department of Interior... 2015 Relevant (Poverty)
Proshanti Banerjee THE HARM PRINCIPLE AT PLAY: HOW THE ANIMAL WELFARE ACT FAILS TO PROTECT ANIMALS ADEQUATELY 15 University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class 361 (Fall 2015) A walk down the street in any urban setting presents a number of common scenarios. Some of the most distinct features of a city are social inequalities relating to wealth and power, non-agricultural production, and a heavy population within a restricted space. However, there are other subtle undertones occurring in a city that are not obvious to a... 2015 Relevant (Poverty)
  THE NEW PROFILING: WHY PUNISHING BASED ON POVERTY AND IDENTITY IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL AND WRONG 2015 Federal Sentencing Reporter 1911734 (April 1, 2015) Let's begin with a thought experiment. Suppose a judge is sentencing two co-defendants, Jones and Smith, for a smallscale cocaine trafficking offense, having found that both were equal contributors to their conspiracy. Neither has a criminal record, both express sincere remorse, and no mandatory minimum applies. The judge sentences Jones to... 2015 Relevant (Poverty)
Spencer Rand THE REAL MARRIAGE PENALTY: HOW WELFARE LAW DISCOURAGES MARRIAGE DESPITE PUBLIC POLICY STATEMENTS TO THE CONTRARY--AND WHAT CAN BE DONE ABOUT IT 18 University of the District of Columbia Law Review 93 (Spring, 2015) Couples regularly complain about marriage penalties, discovering that the tax consequences of marrying make the cost of marriage prohibitive. Although attempts were made in the last decade to reduce those penalties for the middle class, the poor were not helped by these changes. Along with tax penalties, including low-income wage earners facing... 2015 Relevant (Poverty)
Starla J. Williams VIOLENCE AGAINST POOR AND MINORITY WOMEN & THE CONTAINMENT OF CHILDREN OF COLOR: A RESPONSE TO DOROTHY E. ROBERTS 24 Widener Law Journal 289 (2015) Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy. On Friday, August 1, 2014--as I reflected on my remarks for this symposium-- an eight-year-old, little boy was found dead in his home two doors down from my house on Green Street. His mother and father were taken into custody by the Harrisburg police as his five brothers and... 2015 Relevant (Poverty)
Conor Colasurdo WELFARE ON FIRE: THE EARNED INCOME TAX CREDIT IS NOT ENOUGH TO EXTINGUISH POVERTY 54 Journal of Catholic Legal Studies 1 (2015) Introduction. 2 I. A Marxist Pope? The Francis-Rawlsian Framework for Social Institutions Based on Human Dignity. 5 II. Welfare Without Stigma? The EITC in Action. 9 A. Legal Aspects of the EITC. 10 B. Political History of the EITC. 11 C. Political Rhetoric and the Popularity of the EITC. 13 III. As the Big Gun in the War on Poverty, the EITC Is a... 2015 Relevant (Poverty)
Liz Clark Rinehart ZONED FOR INJUSTICE: MOVING BEYOND ZONING AND MARKET-BASED LAND PRESERVATION TO ADDRESS RURAL POVERTY 23 Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy 61 (Fall, 2015) C1-2Table of Contents Introduction. 62 I. The Distinct Problems of Rural Communities. 63 A. Environmental Challenges: The Myth of the Pristine Countryside. 64 1. Sprawl. 64 2. Agricultural Pollution. 66 B. Social and Economic Problems. 68 1. Demographics. 68 2. Children, Families, and Welfare Programs. 69 3. Jobs. 70 4. Financial Infrastructure and... 2015 Relevant (Poverty)
John J. Infranca HOUSING RESOURCE BUNDLES: DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE AND FEDERAL LOW-INCOME HOUSING POLICY 49 University of Richmond Law Review 1071 (May, 2015) Less than one in four income-eligible households receives some form of rental assistance from the federal government. In contrast with other prominent public benefit programs--including Temporary Aid to Needy Families (TANF) and unemployment insurance--no time limit is placed on the assistance provided through the Department of Housing and Urban... 2015  
Michael David Williams LAND COSTS AS NON-ELIGIBLE BASIS: ARBITRARY RESTRICTIONS ON STATE POLICYMAKING AUTHORITY IN THE LOW-INCOME HOUSING TAX CREDIT PROGRAM 18 NYU Journal of Legislation and Public Policy 335 (2015) Introduction. 336 I. The Location Decision. 339 A. Quantity Versus Quality. 339 B. The Importance of Neighborhood. 343 1. Education. 347 2. Health. 348 3. Economic Self-Sufficiency. 349 4. Public Safety. 350 II. Incentives in the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Program. 351 A. The Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Program. 352 1. Applicable Fraction and... 2015  
Ann Shalleck THOUGHT AND ADVOCACY ABOUT STUDENT DEBT: REPRESENTATION OF LOW-INCOME BORROWERS IN LAW SCHOOL CLINICAL PROGRAMS 48 Suffolk University Law Review 751 (2015) The legal academy, through clinical legal education, has the potential to make a distinctive contribution to thought and advocacy about student debt. Clinical education can further, in immediate and powerful ways, the classic research, teaching, and service missions of legal education by addressing the problems posed by student debt for society and... 2015  
Gene Nichol RACE, POVERTY, AND "CURRENT CONDITIONS" 49 Wake Forest Law Review 791 (Fall 2014) I have been a constitutional law professor for a very long time. So it's not surprising, perhaps, that when the United States Supreme Court handed down the Shelby County decision--invalidating a core component of the iconic Voting Rights Act --I would receive some media calls about the opinion. Over and again, folks brought up Chief Justice... 2014 Most Relevant
Wendy A. Bach THE HYPERREGULATORY STATE: WOMEN, RACE, POVERTY, AND SUPPORT 25 Yale Journal of Law & Feminism 317 (2014) Introduction. 318 I. The Failures of Liberal Theory and the Idea of the Supportive State. 320 A. The Autonomous Subject and the Vulnerable Subject. 322 B. Towards a More Responsive State. 326 II. Hyperregulation and Poverty. 329 A. A Bit of Social Welfare History. 330 B. Privacy Deprivation and Criminalization as the Price of Support. 331 C. From... 2014 Most Relevant
Jaime Bouvier WHY URBAN AGRICULTURE CAN BE CONTROVERSIAL: EXPLORING THE CULTURAL ASSOCIATION OF URBAN AGRICULTURE WITH BACKWARDNESS, RACE, GENDER, AND POVERTY 91 University of Detroit Mercy Law Review 205 (Fall 2014) In the past decade, many people, especially young people, are seeking to bring agriculture into cities. They are doing so by increasing connections between nearby farmers and city dwellers and creating farmer's markets. They are also creating community gardens, market gardens, and even urban farms. Additionally, they are gardening and raising... 2014 Most Relevant
Patience A. Crowder (SUB)URBAN POVERTY AND REGIONAL INTEREST CONVERGENCE 98 Marquette Law Review 763 (Winter, 2014) Poverty has expanded from America's urban cores to its inner and outer suburban rings. In the midst of spreading hardship, new opportunities for confronting questions of regional equity are emerging, such as how best to govern our regional spaces for the benefit of all regional constituents, including the poor, middle class, and affluent. To date,... 2014 Relevant (Poverty)
Vien Truong ADDRESSING POVERTY AND POLLUTION: CALIFORNIA'S SB 535 GREENHOUSE GAS REDUCTION FUND 49 Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review 493 (Summer 2014) Introduction. 493 I. California's Environmental Movement Has Inadequately Addressed the Needs of Disadvantaged Communities. 497 A. Disproportionate Impacts of Climate Change on Disadvantaged Communities. 497 B. Many Environmental Policies and Resources Bypass Low-Income Communities. 499 II. Unresolved Issues in AB 32 Led to Senate Bill 535 (de... 2014 Relevant (Poverty)
Joan M. Shaughnessy AN ESSAY ON POVERTY AND CHILD NEGLECT: NEW INTERVENTIONS 21 Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice 5 (Fall 2014) Millions of America's children are suffering in extreme poverty and hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions of those children are also the victims of child neglect. The intertwined problems of child poverty and child neglect have been a concern of policy makers and scholars since the advent of the modern child welfare system. Reliance on... 2014 Relevant (Poverty)
Zanita E. Fenton BASTARDS! . . . . AND THE WELFARE PLANTATION 17 Journal of Gender, Race and Justice 9 (Winter 2014) The legitimacy status of children has been a deterrent for extramarital liaisons, has guaranteed the social reputation of the father, and has facilitated intergenerational transfers of wealth. Historically, illegitimacy status has assisted in gender subordination and control over female sexuality and reproduction; it has made social class standing... 2014 Relevant (Poverty)
Sheila R. Foster BREAKING UP PAYDAY: ANTI-AGGLOMERATION ZONING AND CONSUMER WELFARE 75 Ohio State Law Journal 57 (2014) In the last decade, dozens of local governments have enacted zoning ordinances designed to limit the concentration of payday lenders and other alternative financial services providers (AFSPs), such as check-cashing businesses and auto title loan shops, in their communities. The main impetus for these ordinances is to shield economically vulnerable... 2014 Relevant (Poverty)
Wouter Vandenhole CHILD POVERTY AND CHILDREN'S RIGHTS: AN UNEASY FIT? 22 Michigan State International Law Review 609 (2014) Introduction. 609 I. Children's Rights and Child Poverty. 611 A. A Right to Protection Against Poverty. 612 B. A Children's Rights-Based Approach to Poverty. 615 1. Concept of Poverty. 616 2. Human Rights-Poverty Nexus. 617 3. Children's Rights and Poverty. 619 C. Is Child Poverty a Violation of Children's Rights?. 626 D. Challenges for a... 2014 Relevant (Poverty)
Ann Cammett DEADBEAT DADS & WELFARE QUEENS: HOW METAPHOR SHAPES POVERTY LAW 34 Boston College Journal of Law & Social Justice 233 (Spring, 2014) Since the 1960s, racialized metaphors describing dysfunctional parents have been deployed by conservative policymakers to shape the way that the public views anti-poverty programs. The merging of race and welfare has eroded support for a robust social safety net, despite growing poverty and economic inequality throughout the land. This... 2014 Relevant (Poverty)
Jason S. Rathod EMERGING MARKETS, VANISHING ACCOUNTABILITY: HOW POPULATIONS IN POOR COUNTRIES CAN USE AGGREGATE LITIGATION TO VINDICATE THEIR RIGHTS 24 Transnational Law & Contemporary Problems 69 (Winter 2014) The United States government, multilateral institutions such as the World Bank, and other actors collectively spend billions of dollars annually on international development assistance earmarked as rule of law aid. The professed aim of this aid is principally to lay a legal foundation for a free market economy, attracting large multinational... 2014 Relevant (Poverty)
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