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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)
Kami Chavis Simmons FUTURE OF THE FOURTH AMENDMENT: THE PROBLEM WITH PRIVACY, POVERTY AND POLICING 14 University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class 240 (Fall 2014) For decades, the reasonable expectation of privacy has been the primary standard by which courts have determined whether a search has occurred within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment. The Supreme Court's recent decision in U.S. v. Jones, however, has reinvigorated the physical trespass doctrine's importance when determining whether there has... 2014 Relevant (Poverty)
Michael Phillips, Collin College GORDON K. MANTLER, POWER TO THE POOR: BLACK-BROWN COALITION & THE FIGHT FOR ECONOMIC JUSTICE, 1960-1974, CHAPEL HILL: UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA PRESS, 2013. PP. 362. $34.95 CLOTH (ISBN 978-0-8078-3851-8). PETE DANIEL, DISPOSSESSION: DISCRIMINATION AGAINST AFRICAN AMERICAN FARMERS IN THE AGE OF CIVIL RIGHTS, CHAPEL HILL: UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA PRESS, 2013. PP. 352. $34.95 CLOTH (ISBN 978-1-4696-0201-1) 32 Law and History Review 441 (May, 2014) Two recent books released by the University of North Carolina Press imaginatively and provocatively reveal underexplored chapters of twentieth century African American civil rights history. In Power to the Poor: Black-Brown Coalition & the Fight for Economic Justice, 1960-1974, Gordon Mantler turns conventional wisdom on its head. He argues that... 2014 Relevant (Poverty)
Shannon Fruth HAS THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT INSULATED STATES FROM EQUAL PROTECTION NORMS THROUGH WELFARE REFORM? 35 Journal of Legal Medicine 467 (July-September, 2014) The law knows no finer hour than when it cuts through formal concepts and transitory emotions to protect unpopular citizens against discrimination and persecution. Mohamed Aliessa, a lawful immigrant from Syria, lived and worked in New York City with his wife and children for many years. In December of 1997, Mr. Aliessa was struck by a car and... 2014 Relevant (Poverty)
Francine J. Lipman , Dawn Davis HEAL THE SUFFERING CHILDREN: FIFTY YEARS AFTER THE DECLARATION OF WAR ON POVERTY 34 Boston College Journal of Law & Social Justice 311 (Spring, 2014) Fifty years ago, President Lyndon B. Johnson declared the War on Poverty. Since then, the federal tax code has been a fundamental tool in providing financial assistance to poor working families. Even today, however, thirty-two million children live in families that cannot support basic living expenses, and sixteen million of those live in... 2014 Relevant (Poverty)
Pamela Cardullo Ortiz HOW A CIVIL RIGHT TO COUNSEL CAN HELP DISMANTLE CONCENTRATED POVERTY IN AMERICA'S INNER CITIES 25 Stanford Law and Policy Review 163 (2014) Introduction. 163 I. The Challenge of Concentrated Poverty. 165 A. Why Place Matters. 167 B. Theories and Solutions. 169 C. Addressing Concentrated Poverty as a Legal Problem. 173 II. Civil Right to Counsel. 173 III. How a Civil Right to Counsel Addresses Concentrated Poverty. 177 A. Housing. 177 B. Employment. 181 C. How Important Is It to Have... 2014 Relevant (Poverty)
Farida Ali LIMITING THE POOR'S RIGHT TO PUBLIC SPACE: CRIMINALIZING HOMELESSNESS IN CALIFORNIA 21 Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy 197 (Spring, 2014) Homelessness in the United States has increased substantially since the financial crisis of 2008, which brought widespread unemployment and foreclosures to cities across the nation. California has not been immune to this impact. Indeed, California has the largest homeless population in the United States, representing almost 21% of the nation's... 2014 Relevant (Poverty)
M. Alexander Pearl OF "TEXANS" AND "CUSTERS": MAXIMIZING WELFARE AND EFFICIENCY THROUGH INFORMAL NORMS 19 Roger Williams University Law Review 32 (Winter 2014) Professor Robert Ellickson (Yale) theorized that the informal norms of a close-knit community maximize aggregate welfare and Professor Barak Richman (Duke) identified two distinct types of private ordering systems: shadow of law and order without law. Under the Ellickson-Richman structure, many Indian tribes qualify as close-knit groups where... 2014 Relevant (Poverty)
Anthony V. Alfieri PATERNALISTIC INTERVENTIONS IN CIVIL RIGHTS AND POVERTY LAW: A CASE STUDY OF ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE 112 Michigan Law Review 1157 (April, 2014) Against Autonomy: Justifying Coercive Paternalism. By Sarah Conly. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2013. Pp. viii, 194. Cloth, $95; paper, $32.99. Low-income communities of color in Miami and in cities across the nation both share aspirations of equal justice and democratic participation and suffer the burdens of legal underrepresentation and... 2014 Relevant (Poverty)
Eldar Shafir POVERTY AND CIVIL RIGHTS: A BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS PERSPECTIVE 2014 University of Illinois Law Review 205 (2014) The International Bill of Human Rights recognizes a universal entitlement to the continuous improvement of living conditions. A dignified existence is a common concern of modern civilization and of the social sciences. But the mindset that emerges when we have too little creates challenges that often impede the improvement of living conditions.... 2014 Relevant (Poverty)
Alexander Wohl POVERTY, EMPLOYMENT, AND DISABILITY: THE NEXT GREAT CIVIL RIGHTS BATTLE 40-AUG Human Rights 18 (August, 2014) 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 (not to mention a perceived potent political tool), a particularly striking set of statistics is one often ignored--the disproportionately high level of poverty among Americans with disabilities.... 2014 Relevant (Poverty)
Maurice R. Dyson PROMISE ZONES, POVERTY, AND THE FUTURE OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS: CONFRONTING THE CHALLENGES OF SOCIOECONOMIC INTEGRATION & SCHOOL CULTURE IN HIGH-POVERTY SCHOOLS 2014 Michigan State Law Review 711 (2014) C1-2Table of Contents Introduction. 712 I. It Takes A Village: Enter the Promise Zones Initiative. 714 II. Gentrification & Integration: Challenges & Alternatives to the Place-Based Approach. 721 III. The Quest to Replicate Success. 726 IV. The Harmful Impact of School-Wide Culture in High-Poverty & Minority Schools. 729 Conclusion. 735 2014 Relevant (Poverty)
Steven J. Knox RECONSTRUCTING AN END TO CONCENTRATED POVERTY 16 Journal of Law in Society 223 (Fall, 2014) C1-2Table of Contents I. Introduction. 224 II. The Emergence of Concentrated Poverty. 226 A. Spatial Distribution of Race, or Racial Spatialization?. 226 B. A Working Definition of Concentrated Poverty. 227 C. Concentrated Poverty in Detroit. 228 III. Section 1 of the Thirteenth Amendment. 232 A. Section 1 of the Thirteenth Amendment Grants Courts... 2014 Relevant (Poverty)
Dayne Johnson SECTION 342 OF THE DODD-FRANK ACT DOES NOT ADEQUATELY CONSIDER EDUCATION AND POVERTY 57 Howard Law Journal 1071 (Spring 2014) INTRODUCTION. 1072 I. BACKGROUND ON THE DODD-FRANK ACT. 1073 A. The Formation of the Office of Minority and Women Inclusion Thru Section 342. 1076 B. Affirmative Actions Taken by OMWI to Create Opportunity for Minorities and Women. 1078 II. OBSTACLES FACING MINORITIES AND WOMEN. 1078 A. Increasing Early Childhood Education for Minorities and Women.... 2014 Relevant (Poverty)
Gay McDougall TACKLING POVERTY AND INEQUALITY GLOBALLY 40-AUG Human Rights 23 (August, 2014) The international community has been engaged in a historic discourse about poverty and inequality both between countries and within countries around the world. The discussion was launched by former United Nations (UN) Secretary General Kofi Annan in 2000 with his successful effort to get world leaders and heads of state to commit to implementing... 2014 Relevant (Poverty)
John Baber THANK YOU SIR, MAY I HAVE ANOTHER: THE ISSUE OF THE UNSUSTAINABILITY OF LOW INCOME HOUSING TAX CREDITS AND PROPOSED SOLUTIONS 4 University of Baltimore Journal of Land and Development 39 (Fall, 2014) The Federal Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) program is currently the nation's largest federal subsidy for the development and rehabilitation of affordable housing, having created or preserved over 2.5 million housing units and distributed over $7.5 billion in federal tax credits to developers of and investors in affordable housing from the... 2014 Relevant (Poverty)
Clare Huntington THE CHILD-WELFARE SYSTEM AND THE LIMITS OF DETERMINACY 77 Law and Contemporary Problems 221 (2014) To read Robert Mnookin's seminal 1975 article, Child-Custody Adjudication: Judicial Functions in the Face of Indeterminacy, is to see a blueprint for legislative action. To a remarkable degree, the reforms Mnookin proposed to the child-welfare system are what Congress and the states adopted in the following two decades. And yet reading Mnookin's... 2014 Relevant (Poverty)
Michele Estrin Gilman THE RETURN OF THE WELFARE QUEEN 22 American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy and the Law 247 (2014) Introduction. 247 I. Welfare in the 2012 Campaign. 248 II. The History of the Welfare Queen. 256 III. The Truth About TANF. 266 IV. A New Vision for Welfare. 274 Conclusion. 279 2014 Relevant (Poverty)
Anne Fleming THE RISE AND FALL OF UNCONSCIONABILITY AS THE "LAW OF THE POOR" 102 Georgetown Law Journal 1383 (June, 2014) What happened to unconscionability? Here's one version of the story: The doctrine of unconscionability experienced a brief resurgence in the mid-1960s at the hands of naive, left-liberal, activist judges, who used it to rewrite private consumer contracts according to their own sense of justice. These folks meant well, no doubt, much like... 2014 Relevant (Poverty)
Susannah Camic Tahk THE TAX WAR ON POVERTY 56 Arizona Law Review 791 (Fall, 2014) In recent years, the war on poverty has moved in large part into the tax code. Scholarship has started to note that the tax laws, which once exacerbated the problem of poverty, have become increasingly powerful tools that the federal government uses to fight against it. Yet questions remain about how this new tax war on poverty works, how it is... 2014 Relevant (Poverty)
Shiri Regev-Messalem TRAPPED IN RESISTANCE: COLLECTIVE STRUGGLE THROUGH WELFARE FRAUD IN ISRAEL 48 Law and Society Review 741 (December, 2014) This paper offers a qualitative empirical examination of the noncompliance of Israeli female welfare recipients with welfare laws and authorities. The paper demonstrates that their behavior, defined as welfare fraud by the law, is a limited form of collective resistance to the Israeli welfare state. Although the acts of welfare fraud that the... 2014 Relevant (Poverty)
Tomiko Brown-Nagin TWO AMERICAS IN HEALTHCARE: FEDERALISM AND WARS OVER POVERTY FROM THE NEW DEAL-GREAT SOCIETY TO OBAMACARE 62 Drake Law Review 981 (Fourth Quarter 2014) The Supreme Court's decision sustaining the Affordable Care Act has inspired commentary applauding the Court for preserving the social safety net instituted and expanded during the New Deal and the Great Society. That narrative, as far as it goes, is accurate; but its double-edged meaning has not been fully understood until now, this Article shows.... 2014 Relevant (Poverty)
Jane S. Schacter UNEQUAL INEQUALITIES? POVERTY, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, AND THE DYNAMICS OF CONSTITUTIONAL LAW 2014 Utah Law Review 867 (2014) As we think about the future role the judicial branch will play in our governance, we might consider one important function of the courts: addressing claims of constitutional inequality. In this Article, I explore this question by juxtaposing two claims of inequality that have been pressed by advocates-- one concerning sexual orientation, the other... 2014 Relevant (Poverty)
Peter Edelman WHY IS IT SO HARD TO END POVERTY IN AMERICA? 40-AUG Human Rights 2 (August, 2014) Forty-six million people in poverty. Fifteen million more since the year 2000. An increase of nearly 50 percent in the new century. Fifty years since we declared war on poverty. Are we losing the war? Why aren't we doing better? We've actually done a lot that works and what we've done is making a huge difference. Without the policies and programs... 2014 Relevant (Poverty)
Nathan Newman HOW BIG DATA ENABLES ECONOMIC HARM TO CONSUMERS, ESPECIALLY TO LOW-INCOME AND OTHER VULNERABLE SECTORS OF THE POPULATION 18 Journal of Internet Law 11 (December, 2014) Data has been called the new oil of the information age, an asset used by corporations to reshape markets and increase their market power and profits. On the Internet, there is an increase in big data platforms such as Google, Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and others that accumulate ever increasing information on consumer behavior, interests, and... 2014  
Desiree C. Hensley OUT IN THE COLD: THE FAILURE OF TENANT ENFORCEMENT OF THE LOW-INCOME HOUSING TAX CREDIT 82 University of Cincinnati Law Review 1079 (Summer, 2014) I. Introduction. 1080 II. Where the Southern Crossed the Dog Sunflower County, Mississippi. 1082 III. Affordable Housing for the Poor Is an Ever-Expanding Need. 1083 IV. The Low-Income Housing Tax Credit: America's Largest Corporate Tax Shelter Is Also America's Main Vehicle for Affordable Housing Production. 1086 V. Low-Income Housing Production,... 2014  
Jeffrey C. Sun , Philip T.K. Daniel MATH AND SCIENCE ARE CORE TO THE IDEA: BREAKING THE RACIAL AND POVERTY LINES 41 Fordham Urban Law Journal 557 (December, 2013) L1-2Introduction . L3558 I. Legislation and Regulations Governing Students with Disabilities. 562 A. Early Education Laws Placing Attention on Students with Disabilities. 563 B. Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) and Amendments. 567 C. Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act (IDEIA) and No Child Left Behind (NCLB).... 2013 Most Relevant
Ericka Aiken MURDER AT FREEDOM'S GATE POVERTY, RACE, & EDUCATION IN AMERICA 5 Georgetown Journal of Law & Modern Critical Race Perspectives 31 (Spring, 2013) We have fought hard and long for integration, as I believe we should have, and I know that we will win. But I've come to believe we're integrating into a burning house .. I'm afraid that America may be losing what moral vision she may have had .. And I'm afraid that even as we integrate, we are walking into a place that does not understand that... 2013 Most Relevant
Jennifer Rosen Valverde A POOR IDEA: STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS DECISIONS CEMENT SECOND-CLASS REMEDIAL SCHEME FOR LOW-INCOME CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES IN THE THIRD CIRCUIT 41 Fordham Urban Law Journal 599 (December, 2013) L1-2Introduction . L3600 I. Identifying the Affected Population: The Relationship Between Socioeconomic Status, Disability, and Educational Outcomes. 605 A. The Links Between Socioeconomic Status, Child Development, and Educational Outcomes. 608 B. The Link Between Socioeconomic Status and Disability. 612 C. The Link between Disability and... 2013 Relevant (Poverty)
Anna Jane High CHINA'S ORPHAN WELFARE SYSTEM: LAWS, POLICIES AND FILLED GAPS 8 East Asia Law Review 127 (2013) This article presents a socio-legal analysis of the care of orphaned and other vulnerable children in China, reviewing law, policy and practice relating to state and non-state orphanages and foster homes. The analysis is first contextualized by an introduction to the demographics of children cared for in state and non-state welfare institutions;... 2013 Relevant (Poverty)
Shiri Regev-Messalem CLAIMING CITIZENSHIP: THE POLITICAL DIMENSION OF WELFARE FRAUD 38 Law and Social Inquiry 993 (Fall, 2013) This article exposes the political dimension of welfare fraud by investigating--in the context of the Israeli welfare reform of 2003--how forty-nine Israeli women who live on welfare justify welfare fraud. I find that women's justifications cannot be fully explained by traditional noncompliance theories that view welfare fraud as an individual,... 2013 Relevant (Poverty)
William M. Fischer CONDITIONAL WELFARE GRANTS TO ADDRESS TRUANCY AND CHILD EDUCATIONAL NEGLECT: UNITED STATES' EXPERIMENTS AND ECUADOR'S MANDATES 42 Journal of Law and Education 275 (Spring, 2013) If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all. Although greatly underreported, neglect is the most common type of child maltreatment, and occurs more frequently in poor families than in those of better means. Child neglect can include lack of access to education (educational neglect), as, for example, allowing chronic truancy... 2013 Relevant (Poverty)
Alfred C. Aman, Jr. GLOBALIZATION AND THE PRIVATIZATION OF WELFARE ADMINISTRATION IN INDIANA 20 Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies 377 (2013) This article explores the relationship of globalization to domestic law in the context of privatized welfare services in Indiana. It examines the ways that privatization can affect vulnerable populations such as welfare recipients by, in effect, partially dis-embedding the market from the state. It applies Karl Polanyi's conception of a double... 2013 Relevant (Poverty)
Mehrsa Baradaran HOW THE POOR GOT CUT OUT OF BANKING 62 Emory Law Journal 483 (2013) The United States currently has two banking systems--one for the rich, one for the poor. It was not always this way. In the past, the U.S. government has enlisted certain banking institutions to serve the needs of the poor and offer low-cost credit to enable low-income Americans to escape poverty. Credit unions, savings and loans, and Morris Banks... 2013 Relevant (Poverty)
Herbert Hovenkamp IMPLEMENTING ANTITRUST'S WELFARE GOALS 81 Fordham Law Review 2471 (April, 2013) The dominant view of antitrust policy in the United States is that it should promote some version of economic welfare. More specifically, antitrust promotes allocative efficiency by ensuring that markets are as competitive as they can practicably be and that firms do not face unreasonable roadblocks to attaining productive efficiency, which refers... 2013 Relevant (Poverty)
James M. Oleske, Jr. LUKUMI AT TWENTY: A LEGACY OF UNCERTAINTY FOR RELIGIOUS LIBERTY AND ANIMAL WELFARE LAWS 19 Animal Law 295 (2013) Twenty years after the United States Supreme Court's decision in Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye, Inc. v. City of Hialeah, uncertainty reigns in the lower courts and among commentators over the issue of constitutionally compelled religious exemptions. Despite the Court's general disavowal of such exemptions in Employment Division v. Smith, Lukumi... 2013 Relevant (Poverty)
Eric Cory Rosenberg MANDATORY DRUG SCREENING FOR WELFARE RECIPIENTS: FISCALLY RESPONSIBLE LIMITATION ON GOVERNMENT HANDOUTS OR CONSTITUTIONAL VIOLATION? 10 Rutgers Journal of Law & Public Policy 205 (Spring, 2013) There is a long history of political maneuvering that surrounds social welfare legislation and government entitlement programs at both the national and state level. One aspect that has received increased attention during the recent economic downturn is mandatory drug screening, which has been a tool for politicians seeking to conserve taxpayer... 2013 Relevant (Poverty)
Rebecca L. Goldberg NO SUCH THING AS A FREE LUNCH: PATERNALISM, POVERTY, AND FOOD JUSTICE 24 Stanford Law and Policy Review 35 (2013) Two recent, controversial policy initiatives have revealed conflicts among three groups that take an interest in the eating habits of the poor: anti-hunger advocates, anti-obesity advocates, and food justice advocates. These initiatives--Los Angeles's zoning ordinance banning new fast food restaurants in one low-income neighborhood and New York... 2013 Relevant (Poverty)
Nekima Levy-Pounds PAR FOR THE COURSE?: EXPLORING THE IMPACTS OF INCARCERATION AND MARGINALIZATION ON POOR BLACK MEN IN THE U.S. 14 Journal of Law in Society 29 (Winter, 2013) I. Introduction. 29 II. The War on Drugs as a War on the Black Family?. 36 A. Children of Incarcerated Parents. 42 B. Impacts on Poor Black Men. 45 C. The Connection between the Thirteenth Amendment and the Criminal Justice System. 50 III. Race, Poverty & Incarceration in Detroit. 55 IV. Collateral Consequences of Criminal Convictions. 60 V.... 2013 Relevant (Poverty)
Anne Marie Su PHYSICIAN ASSISTED SUICIDE: DEBUNKING THE MYTHS SURROUNDING THE ELDERLY, POOR, AND DISABLED 10 Hastings Race and Poverty Law Journal 145 (Winter 2013) You suffer from an incurable and progressive disease called Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). You used to lift weights at the gym but now, when you look at your hands, there is a hollow between your fingers where muscle should be. You no longer move freely as you used to because your muscles are weakening. A respirator is critical because your... 2013 Relevant (Poverty)
Paul D. Butler POOR PEOPLE LOSE: GIDEON AND THE CRITIQUE OF RIGHTS 122 Yale Law Journal 2176 (June, 2013) A low income person is more likely to be prosecuted and imprisoned post-Gideon than pre-Gideon. Poor people lose in American criminal justice not because they have ineffective lawyers but because they are selectively targeted by police, prosecutors, and law makers. The critique of rights suggests that rights are indeterminate and regressive. Gideon... 2013 Relevant (Poverty)
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