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Jorge O. Elorza ABSENTEE LANDLORDS, RENT CONTROL AND HEALTHY GENTRIFICATION: A POLICY PROPOSAL TO DECONCENTRATE THE POOR IN URBAN AMERICA 17 Cornell Journal of Law & Public Policy 1 (Fall 2007) Empirical data overwhelmingly suggests that the presence of middle- and working-class homeowners is beneficial for inner-city communities. Yet, absentee landlords have a systematic financial advantage over resident landlords when it comes to purchasing homes in blighted neighborhoods. This advantage has disastrous effects for inner cities, as the... 2007 Relevant (Poverty)
Justine M. Cannon ACCOUNTABILITY IN RECONSTRUCTION: THE NEED FOR FEDERAL INVOLVEMENT IN POST-DISASTER RECONSTRUCTION TO PROTECT HOUSING INTERESTS OF POOR AND MINORITY RESIDENTS 47 Santa Clara Law Review 93 (2007) When a major disaster devastates a region, the cost of both emergency assistance to residents and reconstruction of damaged infrastructure can be exorbitant. Congress has maintained some form of federal disaster relief program for nearly two centuries to assist states in these efforts. The current program provides qualifying states no less than... 2007 Relevant (Poverty)
Marisa Chappell, Oregon State University BLAME WELFARE: IGNORE POVERTY AND INEQUALITY. BY JOEL F. HANDLER AND YEHESKEL HASENFELD. NEW YORK: CAMBRIDGE UNIV. PRESS, 2007. PP. XIII+401. $80.00 CLOTH; $29.99 PAPER 41 Law and Society Review 988 (December, 2007) Despite its clumsy and potentially misleading title, Handler and Hasenfeld's Blame Welfare: Ignore Poverty and Inequality provides a useful synthesis of recent research on welfare, poverty, and the low-wage labor market in the United States in service of the authors' thesis, that the nation must reject the symbolic politics of welfare reform and... 2007 Relevant (Poverty)
  CONSTITUTIONAL LAW -- FOURTH AMENDMENT -- NINTH CIRCUIT UPHOLDS CONDITIONING RECEIPT OF WELFARE BENEFITS ON CONSENT TO SUSPICIONLESS HOME VISITS. -- SANCHEZ V. COUNTY OF SAN DIEGO, 464 F.3D 916 (9TH CIR. 2006). 120 Harvard Law Review 1996 (May, 2007) Americans have an uneasy relationship with welfare. Still haunted by President Reagan's image of the welfare queen, the public has bemoaned the existence of undeserving recipients--in particular those who commit welfare fraud. Counties, seeking to minimize the incidence of fraud, have established verification procedures that inherently infringe... 2007 Relevant (Poverty)
Timothy Overton EMPTY LAWS MAKE FOR EMPTY STOMACHS: HOLLOW PUBLIC HOUSING LAWS IN UTAH AND OTHER STATES FORCE THE NATION'S POOR TO CHOOSE BETWEEN ADEQUATE HOUSING AND LIFE'S OTHER NECESSITIES 21 BYU Journal of Public Law 495 (2007) Section 8, the projects, vouchers, rental assistance, affordable housing, the tax credit, low-income housing and moderate-income housing are all words or terms used to describe forms of public housing. Public housing programs are designed to provide housing or housing assistance to persons and families with very low to moderate income, to elderly... 2007 Relevant (Poverty)
Senator John Edwards ENDING POVERTY: THE GREAT MORAL ISSUE OF OUR TIME 25 Yale Law and Policy Review 337 (Spring 2007) This is an important moment in time for our country. The focus of this Essay will be on poverty. But we cannot address an issue like poverty without answering a few basic questions--questions we ought to be asking ourselves and answers we ought to be demanding from our leaders about how we as a nation are going to confront the very real and very... 2007 Relevant (Poverty)
Andrea Freeman FAST FOOD: OPPRESSION THROUGH POOR NUTRITION 95 California Law Review 2221 (December, 2007) Fast food has become a major source of nutrition in low-income, urban neighborhoods across the United States. Although some social and cultural factors account for fast food's overwhelming popularity, targeted marketing, infiltration into schools, government subsidies, and federal food policy each play a significant role in denying inner-city... 2007 Relevant (Poverty)
Michele Estrin Gilman FIGHTING POVERTY WITH FAITH: REFLECTIONS ON TEN YEARS OF CHARITABLE CHOICE 10 Journal of Gender, Race and Justice 395 (Spring 2007) In 1996, welfare reform legislation spurred heated debates over tough new work requirements for welfare recipients and lifetime limits on welfare benefits. Advocates sought to eliminate dependency on government; opponents feared widespread impoverishment of women and children. In the midst of the uproar, then-Senator John Ashcroft quietly inserted... 2007 Relevant (Poverty)
Nekima Levy-Pounds FROM THE FRYING PAN INTO THE FIRE: HOW POOR WOMEN OF COLOR AND CHILDREN ARE AFFECTED BY SENTENCING GUIDELINES AND MANDATORY MINIMUMS 47 Santa Clara Law Review 285 (2007) Through a string of recent decisions, the U.S. Supreme Court has drawn attention to the adverse consequences that flow from the enforcement of harsh federal sentencing guidelines and mandatory minimums used to punish drug offenders. In United States v. Booker, the Court drastically altered the strictures of these guidelines by pronouncing them to... 2007 Relevant (Poverty)
Charles Clotfelter, Helen F. Ladd, Jacob Vigdor, Justin Wheeler HIGH-POVERTY SCHOOLS AND THE DISTRIBUTION OF TEACHERS AND PRINCIPALS 85 North Carolina Law Review 1345 (June, 2007) Although many factors combine to make a successful school, most people agree that quality teachers and school principals are among the most important requirements for success, especially when success is defined by the ability of the school to raise the achievement of its students. The central question for this study is how the quality of the... 2007 Relevant (Poverty)
Lisa R. Pruitt MISSING THE MARK: WELFARE REFORM AND RURAL POVERTY 10 Journal of Gender, Race and Justice 439 (Spring 2007) This article considers welfare reform's impact in rural America. Professor Pruitt asserts that federal welfare reform legislation, the Personal Responsibility Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA), reflects an urban political agenda that failed to consider rural realities. Based on her analysis of two particular populations--those living in... 2007 Relevant (Poverty)
Amy L. Wax MUSICAL CHAIRS AND TALL BUILDINGS: TEACHING POVERTY LAW IN THE 21ST CENTURY 34 Fordham Urban Law Journal 1363 (May, 2007) America has not yet abolished poverty. The definition and proper measure of poverty have long been a subject of controversy, and there is no consensus on how many people in the United States are poor. But no one denies that the poor continue to be with us. This is unlikely to change soon. It does not follow from this that poverty should be... 2007 Relevant (Poverty)
Henry M. Levin ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN POVERTY AND CURRICULUM 85 North Carolina Law Review 1381 (June, 2007) Poverty and educational failure have been inextricably linked in American education. Students from low-income backgrounds experience relatively low levels of academic achievement and fewer years of educational attainment relative to students from higher-income categories. This Article analyzes the degree to which this educational disadvantage is... 2007 Relevant (Poverty)
Russell W. Rumberger PARSING THE DATA ON STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT IN HIGH-POVERTY SCHOOLS 85 North Carolina Law Review 1293 (June, 2007) The growth of state and federal accountability systems has fueled more interest into research on understanding both the causes and the solutions to the widespread disparities in student achievement. This study utilized data from a longitudinal study of elementary school students to examine trends in student achievement over the first six years of... 2007 Relevant (Poverty)
Edward M. Thomas PLAYING CHICKEN AT THE WTO: DEFENDING AN ANIMAL WELFARE-BASED TRADE RESTRICTION UNDER GATT'S MORAL EXCEPTION 34 Boston College Environmental Affairs Law Review 605 (2007) The European Parliament recently adopted a proposal mandating higher welfare standards for chicken used in meat production, including a provision that would regulate or prohibit the importation of chicken not produced with the same high standards. Final passage of such a law would likely raise a World Trade Organization (WTO) complaint by... 2007 Relevant (Poverty)
Troy E. Elder POOR CLIENTS, INFORMED CONSENT, AND THE ETHICS OF REJECTION 20 Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics 989 (Fall, 2007) C1-3Table of Contents I. Introduction. 990 II. The (Modernists') Rationing Conundrum. 993 A. THE POSITIVISTS. 994 B. THE RIGHTS THEORIST. 996 C. THE COMMUNITARIAN. 999 III. Informed Consent. 1002 A. PATIENT INFORMED CONSENT. 1003 B. CLIENT INFORMED CONSENT. 1004 IV. Food Stamps and Foucault: The Theoretics of Practice Movement. 1007 V. A Theoretics... 2007 Relevant (Poverty)
Susan Vivian Mangold POOR ENOUGH TO BE ELIGIBLE? CHILD ABUSE, NEGLECT, AND THE POVERTY REQUIREMENT 81 Saint John's Law Review 575 (Summer 2007) An abused or neglected child must be poor to be eligible for federal funds for foster care maintenance payments. The income eligibility criteria forces agency workers to focus on the poverty status of a child's family. The agency should instead focus exclusively on the child and family's safety and service needs. The income eligibility assessment... 2007 Relevant (Poverty)
Jason A. Gillmer POOR WHITES, BENEVOLENT MASTERS, AND THE IDEOLOGIES OF SLAVERY: THE LOCAL TRIAL OF A SLAVE ACCUSED OF RAPE 85 North Carolina Law Review 489 (January, 2007) This Article analyzes in detail a case involving a slave accused of raping a white woman in the 1850s to offer a provocative challenge to our basic assumptions about sex and race in the slave South. Joining a new group of cultural-legal historians, the author looks beyond the legal language of Southern legislatures and high courts, and focuses... 2007 Relevant (Poverty)
Leah J. Tulin POVERTY AND CHRONIC CONDITIONS DURING NATURAL DISASTERS: A GLIMPSE AT HEALTH, HEALING, AND HURRICANE KATRINA 14 Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy 115 (Winter, 2007) This Note examines the provision of emergency health care services to people living with chronic health conditions from a perspective of social justice. After establishing the persistent connection between poverty and chronic health conditions, the Note uses the experience of New Orleans residents during Hurricane Katrina as a window into the... 2007 Relevant (Poverty)
Helen Hershkoff POVERTY LAW AND CIVIL PROCEDURE: RETHINKING THE FIRST-YEAR COURSE 34 Fordham Urban Law Journal 1325 (May, 2007) The administration of American justice is not impartial, the rich and the poor do not stand on an equality before the law, the traditional method of providing justice has operated to close the doors of the courts to the poor, and has caused a gross denial of justice in all parts of the country to millions of persons. This Essay explores whether and... 2007 Relevant (Poverty)
Michael A. Rebell POVERTY, "MEANINGFUL" EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY, AND THE NECESSARY ROLE OF THE COURTS 85 North Carolina Law Review 1467 (June, 2007) Through state standards-based education reform initiatives and the Federal No Child Left Behind Act, the United States has made an unprecedented and extraordinary commitment to ensuring that all children will meet challenging academic proficiency standards. To date, however, little progress has been made toward meeting this ambitious mandate,... 2007 Relevant (Poverty)
Stephen Loffredo POVERTY, INEQUALITY, AND CLASS IN THE STRUCTURAL CONSTITUTIONAL LAW COURSE 34 Fordham Urban Law Journal 1239 (May, 2007) Poverty, economic inequality, class, and distributional justice are issues embedded in our constitutional history. They have animated important developments in our constitutional understandings and hold deep, though frequently unacknowledged, significance for constitutional theory and doctrine. Historically, considerations of poverty, inequality,... 2007 Relevant (Poverty)
Mark R. Rank RETHINKING THE SCOPE AND IMPACT OF POVERTY IN THE UNITED STATES 6 Connecticut Public Interest Law Journal 165 (Spring/Summer, 2007) In considering various aspects of tax policies for the working poor, a helpful place to begin is through understanding the scope of American poverty. For many Americans, the image of poverty is that of people on the fringes of society-single mothers with four or five children, inner city black males, high school dropouts, the homeless, and so on... 2007 Relevant (Poverty)
Michael A. Millemann SETTING AN AGENDA FOR THE FUTURE DELIVERY OF LEGAL SERVICES TO THE POOR IN MARYLAND 7 University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class 215 (Fall 2007) On October 11, 2007, The University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class sponsored a symposium on the delivery of legal services to the poor in Maryland in recognition of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Maryland Legal Services Corporation. In the afternoon of that all-day program, there was a roundtable discussion about... 2007 Relevant (Poverty)
Comments Of Barbara Arnwine, Jo-Ann Wallace, Executive Director, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, President and CEO, National Legal Aid And Defender Association STRATEGIES FOR ENDING POVERTY AND INEQUALITY GROUP 10 University of the District of Columbia Law Review 161 (Spring 2007) MS. ARNWINE: Thank you so much. You can always tell where the mutual admiration society resides. I am a deep and abiding friend and admirer of Dean Shelley Broderick. As we celebrate this wonderful accreditation, it is good to reflect on the many struggles of this great law school over the years to earn this accreditation. Movingly, it is also a... 2007 Relevant (Poverty)
Reed Collins STROLLING WHILE POOR: HOW BROKEN-WINDOWS POLICING CREATED A NEW CRIME IN BALTIMORE 14 Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy 419 (Fall, 2007) As the practice of zero-tolerance policing strategies has surged across American cities, there has been no shortage of law review articles questioning the legality of the stop and frisk tactics used by many police officers, who often hold only vague suspicions of misconduct by the people they accost and search on the street. In an article... 2007 Relevant (Poverty)
Justin Stec THE DECONCENTRATION OF POVERTY AS AN EXAMPLE OF DERRICK BELL'S INTEREST-CONVERGENCE DILEMMA: WHITE NEUTRALITY INTERESTS, PRISONS, AND CHANGING INNER CITIES 2 Northwestern Journal of Law & Social Policy 30 (Summer, 2007) The idea of deconcentrating the poor from neighborhoods of concentrated poverty has arisen as a concept and policy position in the last twenty years to become part of the language and mental framework surrounding the alleviation of disparate conditions in a spatialized urban lens. Areas of concentrated poverty (where over forty percent of the... 2007 Relevant (Poverty)
Lupe S. Salinas , Dr. Robert H. Kimball THE EQUAL TREATMENT OF UNEQUALS: BARRIERS FACING LATINOS AND THE POOR IN TEXAS PUBLIC SCHOOLS 14 Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy 215 (Spring, 2007) Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men,the balance-wheel of the social machinery. Some in our society promote the idea of natural deficiencies among the various ethnic and socio-economic groups. We emphatically disagree with such claims. We look at a process that negotiates the... 2007 Relevant (Poverty)
Laurie Pompa THE FAMILY VIOLENCE OPTION IN TEXAS: WHY IT IS FAILING TO AID DOMESTIC VIOLENCE VICTIMS ON WELFARE AND WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT 16 Texas Journal of Women and the Law 241 (Spring 2007) I. Introduction. 242 II. The Relationship Between Poverty and Domestic Violence. 243 A. The Prevalence of Domestic Violence Among Welfare Recipients. 243 B. The Interplay Between Race, Domestic Violence and Welfare. 245 III. General Welfare Relief Available to Domestic Violence Victims. 246 A. Understanding the Personal Responsibility and Work... 2007 Relevant (Poverty)
Martha F. Davis THE PENDULUM SWINGS BACK: POVERTY LAW IN THE OLD AND NEW CURRICULUM 34 Fordham Urban Law Journal 1391 (May, 2007) Poverty law was a creation of the 1960s and in a broad sense, an outgrowth of the civil rights movement. Building on the civil rights movement's strategy of using law to effect social change, poverty lawyers sought to move beyond the civil and political rights agenda that was the movement's hallmark to issues of economic justice. The trajectory of... 2007 Relevant (Poverty)
John B. Kirkwood THE ROBINSON-PATMAN ACT AND CONSUMER WELFARE: HAS VOLVO RECONCILED THEM? 30 Seattle University Law Review 349 (Winter 2007) The Robinson-Patman Act is the black sheep of antitrust. Like much other New Deal legislation, the principal purpose of the Robinson-Patman Act (the Act) was protectionist. Instead of trying to enhance competition for the benefit of consumers, like other antitrust laws, the Act's predominant goal was to protect small business from competition. It... 2007 Relevant (Poverty)
Laura R. Goldin THE SAFETY NET REVISITED? THE CONTINUING IMPACT OF WELFARE REFORM IN NEW YORK CITY AND NATIONWIDE 14 Cardozo Journal of Law & Gender 97 (Fall 2007) I say to those on welfare: For too long, our welfare system has undermined the values of family and work, instead of supporting them. Congress and I are near agreement on sweeping welfare reform. We agree on time limits, tough work requirements, and the toughest possible child support enforcement. But we must also provide child care so that mothers... 2007 Relevant (Poverty)
Joel Berg WELFARE REFORM: THE PROMISE UNFULFILLED 11 Journal of Gender, Race and Justice 47 (Fall 2007) Delivered on October 14, 2006 at the University of Iowa College of Law Journal of Gender, Race & Justice Symposium on Welfare Reform Liberals warned it would throw millions of children into poverty. Conservatives claimed it would end a culture of dependency that was supposedly the root cause of poverty in America. They were both wrong. Ten years... 2007 Relevant (Poverty)
Teresa Kominos WHAT DO MARRIAGE AND WELFARE REFORM REALLY HAVE IN COMMON? A LOOK INTO TANF MARRIAGE PROMOTION PROGRAMS 21 Saint John's Journal of Legal Commentary 915 (Spring-Summer 2007) In 1996, Congress passed a welfare reform bill that aimed to end welfare as we know it. This bill replaced Aid to Families with Dependant Children, a decades-old welfare bill. Congress passed the Personal Responsibility and Work Reconciliation Act of 1996, which created the block grant system of Temporary Aid to Needy Families (TANF). TANF... 2007 Relevant (Poverty)
Khiara M. Bridges WILY PATIENTS, WELFARE QUEENS, AND THE REITERATION OF RACE IN THE U.S. 17 Texas Journal of Women and the Law 1 (Fall 2007) I. Introduction. 1 II. On Wily Patients. 4 A. Patient Stupidity. 4 B. Patient Duplicity. 6 III. On Wily Patients and Welfare Queens. 12 A. Implicit Racializations: A Genealogy of the Welfare Queen's Blackness. 15 1. Race and Deservingness. 16 2. Deservingness and Capitalism. 19 3. Capitalism and American -ness. 20 4. American -ness and... 2007 Relevant (Poverty)
Katrin C. Rowan ANTI-EXCLUSIONARY ZONING IN PENNSYLVANIA: A WEAPON FOR DEVELOPERS, A LOSS FOR LOW-INCOME PENNSYLVANIANS 80 Temple Law Review 1271 (Winter 2007) In 1974, seven landowners proposed to develop several thousand units of apartments, townhouses, and mobile homes in Buckingham Township, an outer suburb of Philadelphia. The 1970 census indicated that Buckingham was home to only 5150 residents and 1609 housing units. The proposed housing would have increased the number of Buckingham's housing units... 2007  
Janet Thompson Jackson CAN FREE ENTERPRISE CURE URBAN ILLS?: LOST OPPORTUNITIES FOR BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT IN URBAN, LOW-INCOME COMMUNITIES THROUGH THE NEW MARKETS TAX CREDIT PROGRAM 37 University of Memphis Law Review 659 (Summer, 2007) I. A Historical Perspective on Free Enterprise in the African-American Community. 664 A. Segregation and Black Enterprise. 665 B. The Decline of the Inner City. 669 C. The Economic Impact of the Civil Rights Movement. 670 D. Federal Community Economic Development Programs. 672 E. Minority Business Development Programs. 675 F. The Growth of... 2007  
Ann O'Leary HOW FAMILY LEAVE LAWS LEFT OUT LOW-INCOME WORKERS 28 Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law 1 (2007) Recent media attention has focused on professional women who have opted out of the paid labor market to care for their children. By contrast, the media has paid less attention to low-income women who have been required to opt in to the workforce over the past ten years as a result of the nation's overhaul of the welfare system. As women's... 2007  
Alina Das THE ASTHMA CRISIS IN LOW-INCOME COMMUNITIES OF COLOR: USING THE LAW AS A TOOL FOR PROMOTING PUBLIC HEALTH 31 New York University Review of Law and Social Change 273 (2007) In an age of progressive medicine and medical technology, an epidemic has been growing in American cities. While the causes of the disease are largely unknown, its prevalence and severity vary dramatically by race and socio-economic status. The impact of the disease captured the attention of national and local public health officials in the... 2007  
Richard Hardack BAD FAITH: RACE, RELIGION AND THE REFORMATION OF WELFARE LAW 4 Cardozo Public Law, Policy and Ethics Journal 539 (August, 2006) I believe [in the] premise [that competition is always better than state control] as a matter of religious faith. -- Phillip Romero, Dean of The University of Oregon Business School I believe in God and I believe in free markets. -- Kenneth Lay This article focuses, in three sections, on the policy considerations, cultural constructions, and legal... 2006 Most Relevant
Homer C. La Rue, Lela P. Love CLASSROOM CONVERSATIONS ABOUT RACE, POVERTY AND SOCIAL STATUS IN THE AFTERMATH OF KATRINA 13 Dispute Resolution Magazine 22 (Fall, 2006) In the wake of the New Orleans hurricanes and the ensuing dislocations and hardships for countless people, the disparate impact of the disaster highlighted issues of race, poverty and social inequalities. The different experiences of rich and poor, black and white, resulting from the catastrophe created fissures in relationships among different... 2006 Most Relevant
Janet Simmonds COERCION IN CALIFORNIA: EUGENICS RECONSTITUTED IN WELFARE REFORM, THE CONTRACTING OF REPRODUCTIVE CAPACITY, AND TERMS OF PROBATION 17 Hastings Women's Law Journal 269 (Summer 2006) In an era where courts are reaffirming landmark right to privacy decisions, such as Griswold v. Connecticut, Eisenstadt v. Baird, and Roe v. Wade, and expanding the scope of a constitutionally protected right to privacy, it is seemingly unthinkable to imagine that the exercise of such rights is being legally perverted to promote eugenic ideals.... 2006 Most Relevant
Lee A. Harris FROM VERMONT TO MISSISSIPPI: RACE AND CASH WELFARE 38 Columbia Human Rights Law Review 1 (Fall 2006) This Article's primary objective is to assess the influence of race on the provision of cash assistance to the poor. Specifically, I argue that state choices in the distribution of cash assistance are motivated by the relative number of African-American welfare families present in states. I employ a form of statistical analysis known as... 2006 Most Relevant
Myron Orfield LAND USE AND HOUSING POLICIES TO REDUCE CONCENTRATED POVERTY AND RACIAL SEGREGATION 33 Fordham Urban Law Journal 877 (March, 2006) As metropolitan areas spread over huge stretches of land, residents living at the core, particularly poor Blacks and Latinos, become increasingly isolated from the jobs and other life opportunities that are rapidly dispersing among increasingly far-flung suburbs. The concentration of existing affordable housing in central cities and older suburbs... 2006 Most Relevant
Tom I. Romero, II WAR OF A MUCH DIFFERENT KIND: POVERTY AND THE POSSESSIVE INVESTMENT IN COLOR IN THE MULTIRACIAL 1960S UNITED STATES 26 Chicana/o-Latina/o Law Review 69 (Spring 2006) William M. Taylor, Jr., Chief Judge for the United States District Court, North District of Texas, had never seen an employment discrimination case quite like Badillo v. Dallas Action Committee, Inc. According to Judge Taylor, a typical suit usually pits an individual or group of . . . minority plaintiffs against a white or Caucasian-controlled... 2006 Most Relevant
Nekima Levy-Pounds BEATEN BY THE SYSTEM AND DOWN FOR THE COUNT: WHY POOR WOMEN OF COLOR AND CHILDREN DON'T STAND A CHANCE AGAINST U.S. DRUG-SENTENCING POLICY 3 University of Saint Thomas Law Journal 462 (Spring 2006) I. Introduction. 463 II. Case of Kemba Smith as a Paradigm of Problems Within the War on Drugs . 467 A. Kemba the Kingpin and Mandatory Minimums. 468 B. Prosecutors as Gatekeepers to Freedom for Defendants. 470 1. Conspiracy Charges and the Catch-22. 470 2. Substantial Assistance and the Girlfriend Problem . 472 3. Ineffective Attempts at... 2006 Relevant (Poverty)
Sagit Mor BETWEEN CHARITY, WELFARE, AND WARFARE: A DISABILITY LEGAL STUDIES ANALYSIS OF PRIVILEGE AND NEGLECT IN ISRAELI DISABILITY POLICY 18 Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities 63 (Winter 2006) Hidden and disregarded for too long, we are demanding not only rights and equal opportunity, but are demanding that the academy take on the nettlesome question of why we've been sequestered in the first place. Throughout the last century, the modern welfare state has been widely considered a major source of rescue and relief for people with... 2006 Relevant (Poverty)
Jesse L. White, Jr. COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND POVERTY ALLEVIATION: AN OVERVIEW OF PANEL 4 10 Employee Rights and Employment Policy Journal 121 (2006) Much of the traditional literature and discussion on poverty in America has focused on the individual and/or the family. A lot of this territory has been covered in the earlier panels of the conference: public programs (like AFDC, Medicaid, food stamps, Head Start, etc), wage and income policies (like the earned income tax credit, Social Security,... 2006 Relevant (Poverty)
Daniel P. Gitterman CONFRONTING POVERTY: WHAT ROLE FOR PUBLIC PROGRAMS?: AN OVERVIEW OF PANEL 1 10 Employee Rights and Employment Policy Journal 9 (2006) The overall theme of this session was how public social safety net programs, including tax credits, can help alleviate poverty in the United States. Broadly understood, the public social safety net in the U.S. comprises a set of programs, benefits, and supports designed to maintain a minimum level of financial resources and to ensure that people do... 2006 Relevant (Poverty)
Solangel Maldonado DEADBEAT OR DEADBROKE: REDEFINING CHILD SUPPORT FOR POOR FATHERS 39 U.C. Davis Law Review 991 (March, 2006) C1-3Table of Contents L1-2Introduction . R3993. I. Fathers Matter. 996 II. Nonresident Fathers' Contributions. 1000 A. Child Support. 1000 B. Nonfinancial Contributions. 1004 III. Redefining Child Support. 1008 A. Dominant v. Community Norms. 1008 B. Involved Fathering. 1012 L1-2Conclusion . R31022. 2006 Relevant (Poverty)
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