Author | Title | Citation | Summary | Year | Relevancy |
Naresh C. Singh |
LEGAL EMPOWERMENT OF THE POOR: MAKING THE LAW WORK FOR EVERYONE |
103 American Society of International Law Proceedings 147 (March 25-28, 2009) |
The livelihoods of the poor (as for the non-poor) are based on the activities, assets, and entitlements available to them, which they can use to get themselves out of poverty. Activities include working for an employer (labor) or for oneself (entrepreneurship). Assets include human, social, natural, and physical and economic capital--and the... |
2009 |
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Amy L. Wax |
NORM CHANGE OR JUDICIAL DECREE? THE COURTS, THE PUBLIC, AND WELFARE REFORM |
32 Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy 45 (Winter, 2009) |
The topic for this panel--the relationship between community values and judicial decision making--calls to mind Supreme Court cases on high-profile issues that have provoked strong criticism from the public. Decisions regarding church-state relations, abortion, free speech, government regulation of property rights, and affirmative action are recent... |
2009 |
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Lynette Roberson |
PAID STERILIZATIONS FOR POOR WOMEN: COERCING THEM OUT OF POVERTY |
3 Southern Regional Black Law Students Association Law Journal 84 (Spring, 2009) |
Nadya Suleman, a 33-year-old woman, gave birth to octuplets in January 2009. Each infant survived the birth and continues to grow healthier (as of the time of publication). Suleman has received much media attention and public support for this medical miracle. However, the public soon discovered that the young mother was single, unemployed, living... |
2009 |
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Andrew P. MacArthur |
PAY TO PLAY: THE POOR'S PROBLEMS IN THE BAPCPA |
25 Emory Bankruptcy Developments Journal 407 (2009) |
One-third of all bankruptcies are filed by individuals whose income is below the poverty level. When Congress debated the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act (BAPCPA), most senators felt that the BAPCPA was mainly a middle-class issue, leading to little debate involving the effects on the poor. Unfortunately, the BAPCPA... |
2009 |
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Debra Lyn Bassett |
POVERTY AND GLOBAL RURALISM |
13 Journal of Gender, Race and Justice 1 (Fall 2009) |
Developing solutions to rural poverty is particularly challenging for two primary reasons: the lack of homogeneity across rural areas and discrimination against rural areas. In developing policies and programs to combat rural poverty, the temptation is to strive for an overarching plan--one plan applied consistently across all rural areas. However,... |
2009 |
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Joseph A. Rosenberg |
POVERTY, GUARDIANSHIP, AND THE VULNERABLE ELDERLY: HUMAN NARRATIVE AND STATISTICAL PATTERNS IN A SNAPSHOT OF ADULT GUARDIANSHIP CASES IN NEW YORK CITY |
16 Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy 315 (Spring, 2009) |
I. Introduction: Dignity and Death. 316 II. Autonomy and Protection: Overview of Adult Guardianships. 323 A. Guardianships and Decision Making Capacity. 326 B. A Model Statute: Article 81 of the New York Mental Hygiene Law. 327 III. Social Justice and Experiential Learning: Guardianship Practice in a Clinical Setting. 330 A. Social Justice Mission... |
2009 |
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Robert Hornstein |
TEACHING LAW STUDENTS TO COMFORT THE TROUBLED AND TROUBLE THE COMFORTABLE: AN ESSAY ON THE PLACE OF POVERTY LAW IN THE LAW SCHOOL CURRICULUM |
35 William Mitchell Law Review 1057 (2009) |
I walked a mile with Pleasure; She chattered all the way, But left me none the wiser For all she had to say. I walked a mile with Sorrow And ne'er a word said she; But oh, the things I learned from her When Sorrow walked with me. In September of 2008, Associate Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia addressed a gathering of the Federalist Society at... |
2009 |
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Kaaryn Gustafson |
THE CRIMINALIZATION OF POVERTY |
99 Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 643 (Summer 2009) |
The welfare system and the criminal justice system in the United States are becoming ever more tightly interwoven. Scholars, however, have not yet examined the processes involved in these developments and what these developments mean for both the welfare system and for criminal jurisprudence. Many people, including welfare recipients, treat the... |
2009 |
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Ashley B. Antler |
THE ROLE OF LITIGATION IN COMBATING OBESITY AMONG POOR URBAN MINORITY YOUTH: A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF PELMAN V. MCDONALD'S CORP. |
15 Cardozo Journal of Law & Gender 275 (Winter 2009) |
Childhood obesity is one of the most dire public health threats facing this country today. This epidemic disproportionately impacts low-income urban minority youth, and several environmental factors may contribute to the disparity in obesity rates. While there is broad debate about which legal tactics can most effectively shape public policy to... |
2009 |
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Wendy A. Bach |
WELFARE REFORM, PRIVATIZATION, AND POWER: RECONFIGURING ADMINISTRATIVE LAW STRUCTURES FROM THE GROUND UP |
74 Brooklyn Law Review 275 (Winter, 2009) |
A few years ago, I was sitting across the table from a group of lawyers representing the New York City welfare department. We were discussing monitoring a settlement, negotiated after six, hard-fought years of litigation. Like most test-case litigation, the case consumed, over the years, enormous advocacy resources from multiple financially... |
2009 |
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Joel F. Handler |
WELFARE, WORKFARE, AND CITIZENSHIP IN THE DEVELOPED WORLD |
5 Annual Review of Law and Social Science 71 (2009) |
comparative welfare, delegation, privatization, active labor market policies This review discusses the changes in welfare policies and the role of law in those changes in the United States and the developed world. In 1996, the U.S. Congress and President Clinton committed to ending welfare as we know it and changed welfare to workfare. Under the... |
2009 |
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Ron Haskins |
WHAT WORKS IS WORK: WELFARE REFORM AND POVERTY REDUCTION |
4 Northwestern Journal of Law & Social Policy 30 (Winter, 2009) |
This is an essay about how the 1996 welfare reform law and other policies contributed to the sharpest decline in child poverty since the early 1970s. The story is told in the context of the nation's long struggle to reduce poverty and the factors that have made it so difficult to make progress against poverty. These factors involve both forces over... |
2009 |
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Kevin Brown |
CAN PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL BOARDING SCHOOLS IN GHANA BE THE NEXT EDUCATIONAL REFORM MOVEMENT FOR LOW-INCOME URBAN MINORITY PUBLIC SCHOOL STUDENTS? |
19 Temple Political & Civil Rights Law Review 91 (Fall 2009) |
The past twenty-five years has witnessed the collapse of the Soviet Union, the end of the Cold War, the rise in importance of international trade, dramatic increases in immigration to the United States bringing people from diverse countries who did not previously come in large numbers to America, tremendous advances in communication technologies... |
2009 |
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Janet Thompson Jackson |
CAPITALIZING ON DIGITAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP FOR LOW-INCOME RESIDENTS AND COMMUNITIES |
112 West Virginia Law Review 187 (Fall, 2009) |
I. Introduction. 187 II. The Digital Divide. 189 A. Statistics on Access and Use. 189 B. Access v. Quality of Use. 192 1. Challenges Faced by Adults. 192 2. Challenges Faced by Youth. 195 III. Low-Income Individuals and Communities Can Capitalize on Digital Entrepreneurship. 195 A. Boost Effective Access to Technology. 195 B. Build a Ladder for... |
2009 |
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Sarah Spangler Rhine |
CRIMINALIZATION OF HOUSING: A REVOLVING DOOR THAT RESULTS IN BOARDED UP DOORS IN LOW-INCOME NEIGHBORHOODS IN BALTIMORE, MARYLAND |
9 University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class 333 (Fall 2009) |
In Baltimore, Maryland, the residents of several neighborhoods are being systematically displaced. Residents are not being driven out of poor and undesirable neighborhoods by development or gentrification, but they are being forced out nonetheless. They are moving out of their neighborhoods into new housing: the Maryland Criminal Justice System.... |
2009 |
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Sonje Hawkins |
DESERT IN THE CITY: THE EFFECTS OF FOOD DESERTS ON HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES OF LOW-INCOME INDIVIDUALS |
19 Annals of Health Law Advance Directive 116 (Fall, 2009) |
Food is necessary for the very existence of human beings, but food is not always a privilege that all enjoy. The lack of access to healthy foods is a silent problem in the United States that has been largely dwarfed by starvation in other areas of the world. A growing amount of research has begun to surface surrounding areas in the U.S. with little... |
2009 |
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Dorcas R. Gilmore |
EXPANDING OPPORTUNITIES FOR LOW-INCOME YOUTH: MAKING SPACE FOR YOUTH ENTREPRENEURSHIP LEGAL SERVICES |
18-SPG Journal of Affordable Housing & Community Development Law 321 (Spring, 2009) |
A generation without the hope of a stable job is a burden for the whole of society. Poor employment in the early stages of a young person's career can harm job prospects for life. Young people in the United States are on the verge of losing the economic advantages gained by their parents. The loss of wealth resulting from the 2008 foreclosure... |
2009 |
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Pooja Gehi |
STRUGGLES FROM THE MARGINS: ANTI-IMMIGRANT LEGISLATION AND THE IMPACT ON LOW-INCOME TRANSGENDER PEOPLE OF COLOR |
30 Women's Rights Law Reporter 315 (Winter 2009) |
My client, Pina, is a transgender woman from Nicaragua and an asylee. A few years ago she was at a friend's house when a police raid occurred. All of the women, including Pina, were arrested for prostitution despite the fact that they were inside a house, playing cards at the time of the arrest. Once arrested, Pina was taken to a men's jail on... |
2009 |
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Katayoon Majd, Patricia Puritz |
THE COST OF JUSTICE: HOW LOW-INCOME YOUTH CONTINUE TO PAY THE PRICE OF FAILING INDIGENT DEFENSE SYSTEMS |
16 Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy 543 (Symposium Issue 2009) |
There can be no equal justice where the kind of trial a man gets depends on the amount of money he has. I don't have a real lawyer. I have a public defender.-juvenile client No right is more fundamental for youth in delinquency cases than the right to counsel. In 1967, the United States Supreme Court held in In re Gault that this right belongs... |
2009 |
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Michelle Wilde Anderson |
CITIES INSIDE OUT: RACE, POVERTY, AND EXCLUSION AT THE URBAN FRINGE |
55 UCLA Law Review 1095 (June, 2008) |
Are county governments capable stewards of urban life? Across the country, millions of low-income households live in urban enclaves that rely on county government for their most proximate tier of general purpose local government. Material conditions in many of these neighborhoods are reminiscent of early twentieth-century rural poverty, while... |
2008 |
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Harold A. McDougall |
HURRICANE KATRINA: A STORY OF RACE, POVERTY, AND ENVIRONMENTAL INJUSTICE |
51 Howard Law Journal 533 (Spring 2008) |
[Katrina] in a matter of hours exposed a dense tangle of previously hidden fault lines on race, national security, public health, the economy, and the environment. --Mike Tidwell Hurricane Katrina resulted in what is now one of the worst natural disasters to hit the United States. Katrina left flooded and contaminated [drinking] water... |
2008 |
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Rose Ernst |
LOCALIZING THE "WELFARE QUEEN" TEN YEARS LATER: RACE, GENDER, PLACE, AND WELFARE RIGHTS |
11 Journal of Gender, Race and Justice 181 (Winter 2008) |
Mysheda Autry sits on a linoleum floor, watching her three children play with toys from a nearby milk crate. She is pregnant. This photo, featured in The New York Times, marked the tenth anniversary of welfare reform. The caption beneath the photo reads, Today is the 10th anniversary of the law intended to wean poor women off welfare. But Mysheda... |
2008 |
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Bekah Mandell |
RACE AND STATE-LEVEL EARNED INCOME TAX CREDITS: ANOTHER CASE OF WELFARE RACISM? |
10 Rutgers Race & the Law Review 1 (Special Edition 2008) |
The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA), with its focus on conditioning welfare benefits on workforce participation, marked a complete overhaul of sixty years of federal social policy in the U.S. In the wake of the 1996 welfare reform and the national shift towards the recommodification of welfare ,... |
2008 |
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Stephen B. Bright |
THE FAILURE TO ACHIEVE FAIRNESS: RACE AND POVERTY CONTINUE TO INFLUENCE WHO DIES |
11 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law 23 (December, 2008) |
Despite the promise of Equal Justice Under Law etched on the Supreme Court building, the outcomes of criminal cases continue to be influenced by race and poverty. Race comes into play in the discretionary decisions made by actors, primarily prosecutors, in how cases are treated. It is often hard to ferret out the effect of racial animus on cases... |
2008 |
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William E. Forbath |
THE POLITICS OF RACE, RIGHTS, AND NEEDS--AND THE PERILS OF A DEMOCRATIC VICTORY IN POST-WELFARE AMERICA: SOME REFLECTIONS ON THE WORK OF FELICIA KORNBLUH |
20 Yale Journal of Law & Feminism 195 (2008) |
Our first black or first woman President might well help reinvigorate the centuries-old category of the undeserving poor and help refasten it on poor women of color. That is a likely, though unintended, consequence of the kinds of social policies both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama promise to pursue in the post-welfare world of early... |
2008 |
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Anthony V. Alfieri |
(UN)COVERING IDENTITY IN CIVIL RIGHTS AND POVERTY LAW |
121 Harvard Law Review 805 (January, 2008) |
Introduction. 806 I. Covering and Uncovering Identity. 809 A. Defining Covering and Uncovering. 810 1. Covering Defined. 810 2. Uncovering Defined. 813 B. Identifying Costs of Covering and Benefits of Uncovering. 814 1. Individual Costs/Benefits. 814 2. Collective Costs/Benefits. 815 C. Identifying Costs of Uncovering and Benefits of Covering.... |
2008 |
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Marie A. Failinger |
A TRULY GOOD WORK: TURNING TO RESTORATIVE JUSTICE FOR ANSWERS TO THE WELFARE-TO-WORK DILEMMA |
15 Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy 209 (Summer, 2008) |
The welfare work debate is a long-standing and seemingly endemic part of any program of public assistance, one of the enduring themes of Western public assistance programs. For its longevity and the fierceness of debate around the subject, it competes only with one other theme in modern welfare history: the exclusion of strangers seeking public aid... |
2008 |
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Rudolf V. Van Puymbroeck, J.D. |
BEYOND SEX: LEGAL REFORM FOR HIV/AIDS AND POVERTY REDUCTION |
15 Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy 781 (Fall, 2008) |
If I've learned anything during the AIDS years, it's that, no matter who you are or what you earn, it's always difficult to live with HIV. But living with both HIV disease and poverty is brutally painful. The twin pandemics of HIV and AIDS continue to exact a tremendous toll in human suffering and welfare. In 2007, some thirty-three million... |
2008 |
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David Steib |
CAN "FAMILY VALUES" LIFT AMERICANS OUT OF POVERTY? |
9 Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law 447 (2008) |
Sixteen years ago, Republican Vice President Dan Quayle created a media stir by attacking the popular fictional TV character Murphy Brown for having a child out of wedlock. Quayle launched the criticism during a speech about the 1992 race riots in Los Angeles, which he stated were caused by the breakdown of family structure. In relation to this... |
2008 |
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Judith Browne-Dianis, Anita Sinha |
EXILING THE POOR: THE CLASH OF REDEVELOPMENT AND FAIR HOUSING IN POST-KATRINA NEW ORLEANS |
51 Howard Law Journal 481 (Spring 2008) |
Katrina was a tragedy, but its aftermath presents the most exciting urban opportunity since San Francisco in 1906. Pioneers, please apply. Hurricane Katrina caused a crisis of a magnitude never before seen on U.S. soil. With thousands dead and hundreds of thousands displaced, policymakers swiftly presented the tragedy as an opportunity for New... |
2008 |
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Catherine Jean Archibald |
FORBIDDEN BY THE WTO? DISCRIMINATION AGAINST A PRODUCT WHEN ITS CREATION CAUSES HARM TO THE ENVIRONMENT OR ANIMAL WELFARE |
48 Natural Resources Journal 15 (Winter, 2008) |
Sometimes countries make distinctions between seemingly identical products because of the different impact that each product's processing method has on the environment and/or on animal welfare. When used appropriately, these distinctions can be a powerful force toward positive environmental change, sustainable development, and increased animal... |
2008 |
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Tammi D. Jackson |
FREE SOCIAL SERVICES: WHERE DO I ENROLL? -- tHE tRUE COST WELFARE RECIPIENTS AND UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS HAVE ON THE U.S. ECONOMY |
13 Public Interest Law Reporter 271 (Summer 2008) |
Each year the United States government budgets billions of dollars to fund welfare reform and immigration policy. Are the services and resources provided to welfare recipients and undocumented immigrants draining the U.S. economy? Or do the taxes paid and contributions to the economy from these two groups outweigh the social services they receive?... |
2008 |
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Bridgette Baldwin |
IN SUPREME JUDGMENT OF THE POOR: THE ROLE OF THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT IN WELFARE LAW AND POLICY |
23 Wisconsin Journal of Law, Gender & Society 1 (Spring 2008) |
Welfare reform punishes the poor for being poor. Our responsibility . . . is to end poverty as we know it, not welfare. S. Clara Kim At its onset, welfare was reserved almost exclusively for white women. At that time, poverty was understood to be a cause of temporary societal inequity, and welfare was a socially-acceptable solution to those... |
2008 |
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Julie A. Nice |
NO SCRUTINY WHATSOEVER: DECONSTITUTIONALIZATION OF POVERTY LAW, DUAL RULES OF LAW, & DIALOGIC DEFAULT |
35 Fordham Urban Law Journal 629 (April, 2008) |
Poverty Law in the United States subsists within a constitutional framework that constructs a separate and unequal rule of law for poor people. Across constitutional doctrines, poor people suffer diminished protection, with their claims for liberty and equality formally receiving the least judicial consideration and functionally being routinely... |
2008 |
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Howard K. Koh , Sarah Massin-Short , Loris J. Elqura , Christine M. Judge |
POVERTY, SOCIOECONOMIC POSITION, AND CANCER DISPARITIES: GLOBAL CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES |
15 Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy 663 (Fall, 2008) |
Cancer is a leading cause of death worldwide and will continue to be a major contributor to the chronic disease burden. Addressing the rising global burden of cancer demands a coordinated worldwide approach. However, this challenge first requires understanding the disproportionate burden falling upon poor and low socioeconomic position (SEP)... |
2008 |
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Felicia Kornbluh |
REDISTRIBUTION, RECOGNITION, AND GOOD CHINA: ADMINISTRATIVE JUSTICE FOR WOMEN WELFARE RECIPIENTS BEFORE GOLDBERG V. KELLY |
20 Yale Journal of Law & Feminism 165 (2008) |
Introduction. 165 I. Fair Hearings and Poverty Law Scholarship: The Need for New Categories. 169 II. Who Brought Fair Hearings and How?. 173 III. Why Women Brought Fair Hearings. 176 IV. Consumer Citizenship and Welfare Justice. 179 V. How Fair the Hearing?. 182 VI. Bargaining in the Shadow of the Hearing: Redistribution. 183 VII. Achieving... |
2008 |
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Goodwin Liu |
RETHINKING CONSTITUTIONAL WELFARE RIGHTS |
61 Stanford Law Review 203 (November, 2008) |
A generation ago, Harvard law professor Frank Michelman advanced an influential and provocative vein of scholarship theorizing the content and justiciability of constitutional welfare rights. Michelman's writings, which endure as the most insightful and imaginative work in this area, sought to anchor the Supreme Court's welfare rights jurisprudence... |
2008 |
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Lucia A. Silecchia |
THE "PREFERENTIAL OPTION FOR THE POOR": AN OPPORTUNITY AND A CHALLENGE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL DECISION-MAKING |
5 University of Saint Thomas Law Journal 87 (Winter 2008) |
I. Introduction. 88 II. The Limits of the Current Environmental Debate. 94 III. The Preferential Option for the Poor: A Brief Overview. 100 IV. Implications of the Preferential Option for Catholic Social Teaching on the Environment. 109 A. Human Life and Dignity Must Remain at the Forefront of Any Consideration of Environmental Questions. 111 B.... |
2008 |
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John Hart |
THE POOR OF THE PLANET AND THE PLANET OF THE POOR: ECOLOGICAL ETHICS AND ECONOMIC LIBERATION |
5 University of Saint Thomas Law Journal 144 (Winter 2008) |
I. Thomas Paine and Adam Smith. 147 II. The Market and Social Justice. 152 III. The Preferential Option for the Poor: Latin American Origins. 155 IV. Preferential Option for the Poor: U.S. Church Advocacy. 158 A. Strangers and Guests: Midwestern Catholic Bishops. 158 B. Economic Justice for All: U.S. Catholic Bishops. 160 C. Renewing the Earth:... |
2008 |
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Sarah Steinheimer |
WELFARE REFORM AND SEXUAL REGULATION BY ANNA MARIE SMITH. CAMBRIDGE: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2007. 292 PP. $29.99 PAPER. |
23 Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law & Justice 225 (2008) |
In her new book, Welfare Reform and Sexual Regulation feminist political theorist, Anna Marie Smith examines how the government attempts to use the welfare system to directly and indirectly influence the decisions poor women make about their intimate and familial relationships. She persuasively argues that under the guise of providing poor women... |
2008 |
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Michele Estrin Gilman |
WELFARE, PRIVACY, AND FEMINISM |
39 University of Baltimore Law Forum 1 (Fall 2008) |
The whole system is based on the assumption that you are trying to screw [welfare officials] over. There are constant check-ins and impossibly long lists of verifications' to submit to the state in order to back your story; inquisitions involving a battery of questions asked by countless supervisors behind closed doors when it appears that your... |
2008 |
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Angela Littwin |
BEYOND USURY: A STUDY OF CREDIT-CARD USE AND PREFERENCE AMONG LOW-INCOME CONSUMERS |
86 Texas Law Review 451 (February, 2008) |
I. Introduction. 453 II. Methodology. 456 III. Advantages of Increased Access to Credit Cards. 457 A. Usefulness in Emergencies. 457 1. Ease of Obtaining Funds. 459 2. Lack of Stigma at Time of Borrowing. 461 3. Versatility. 461 4. Comparison to Credit Cards. 462 B. A Payment Card for the Unbanked. 462 C. Access to a Financial Tool of the Middle... |
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Angela Littwin |
BEYOND USURY: A STUDY OF CREDIT-CARD USE AND PREFERENCE AMONG LOW-INCOME CONSUMERS |
86 Texas Law Review See Also 451 (March 12, 2008) |
I. Introduction. 453 II. Methodology. 456 III. Advantages of Increased Access to Credit Cards. 457 A. Usefulness in Emergencies. 457 1. Ease of Obtaining Funds. 459 2. Lack of Stigma at Time of Borrowing. 461 3. Versatility. 461 4. Comparison to Credit Cards. 462 B. A Payment Card for the Unbanked. 462 C. Access to a Financial Tool of the Middle... |
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Erika B. Navarro |
NO SUCH THING AS FREE LUNCH: SUPPLEMENTING FEDERAL NUTRITION LAWS TO EFFECTIVELY COMBAT OBESITY IN MINORITY AND LOW-INCOME CHILDREN |
9 Rutgers Race & the Law Review 365 (2008) |
The bottom line is we've got too many kids too overweight and they're walking time bombs -Former President Bill Clinton You would be hard pressed to find anyone today who is unaware of the high obesity rates plaguing American children. The statistics are staggering: the overall number of overweight or obese children has doubled, from 15% to 30%... |
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Ryan Howell |
THROW THE "BUMS" OUT? A DISCUSSION OF THE EFFECTS OF HISTORIC PRESERVATION STATUTES ON LOW-INCOME HOUSEHOLDS THROUGH THE PROCESS OF URBAN GENTRIFICATION IN OLD NEIGHBORHOODS |
11 Journal of Gender, Race and Justice 541 (Spring 2008) |
History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquity. In the interest of disclosure, I am both a historic preservationist and a gentrifier. I own a brick Greek Revival house built in 1865 by one of Davenport, Iowa's early brick... |
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Vicki Lens |
IN THE FAIR HEARING ROOM: RESISTANCE AND CONFRONTATION IN THE WELFARE BUREAUCRACY |
32 Law and Social Inquiry 309 (Spring, 2007) |
This article explores how welfare clients use and experience the fair hearing system, the administrative mechanism for challenging denials or reductions of aid in public welfare bureaucracies. Drawing on data from in-depth interviews with clients, it explores how old-style procedural protections like fair hearings are being used to challenge... |
2007 |
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Patrice H. Kunesh |
A CALL FOR AN ASSESSMENT OF THE WELFARE OF INDIAN CHILDREN IN SOUTH DAKOTA |
52 South Dakota Law Review 247 (2007) |
Give me the strength to walk the soft earth, A relative to all that is! Give me the eyes to see and the strength to understand. - Black Elk The initial impetus for this Article began in the summer of 2005 when I moved to South Dakota to begin an appointment at the University of South Dakota School of Law. With teaching responsibilities in the areas... |
2007 |
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Ruthann Robson |
A DISCUSSION OF POVERTY AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE BETWEEN FRANCES FOX PIVEN AND STEPHEN LOFFREDO |
11 New York City Law Review 1 (Winter, 2007) |
On November 2, 2007, Frances Fox Piven, Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Political Science at the City University of New York and Stephen Loffredo, Professor of Law at the City of University of New York School of Law participated in a discussion of poverty and class. The event was planned and moderated by Professor Ruthann Robson,... |
2007 |
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Marie A. Failinger |
A HOME OF ITS OWN: THE ROLE OF POVERTY LAW IN FURTHERING LAW SCHOOLS' MISSIONS |
34 Fordham Urban Law Journal 1173 (May, 2007) |
Eighteen years ago, I (perhaps optimistically) suggested that poverty law was home at last in the legal academy. At that time, the American Association of Law Schools (AALS) Section on Poverty Law was growing, which suggested that poverty law had arrived as its own discipline. Also, Loyola New Orleans School of Law's emerging poverty law... |
2007 |
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Spencer Rand |
A POVERTY OF REPRESENTATION: THE ATTORNEY'S ROLE TO ADVOCATE FOR THE POWERLESS |
13 Texas Wesleyan Law Review 545 (Symposium 2007) |
I. Why Look at Pro Bono Rules and Representation?. 549 II. What Representation of the Poor We Provide Now. 554 A. One Attorney's Idea of Pro Bono. 554 B. A Poverty of Representation--the Dearth of Pro Bono Help. 556 III. How We Think About Poviding Help for the Poor--ABA Model Rule 6.1. 558 A. Historical Predecessors to Rule 6.1. 558 B. Model Rule... |
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