Author | Title | Citation | Summary | Year | Key Terms in Title or Summary |
Nicky Rousseau, University of the Western Cape |
SPEAK OUT ON POVERTY: HEARING, INAUDIBILITY, AND CITIZENSHIP IN POST-APARTHEID SOUTH AFRICA |
42 PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review 210 (November, 2019) |
In 1998, Speak Out on Poverty held hearings across South Africa shortly after the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) completed eighteen months of highly publicized, nationwide hearings at which victims testified. Speak Out challenged the TRC's focus on overt political violations, seen to occlude forms of structural violence central to... |
2019 |
Yes |
Gerald S. Dickinson |
STATE CONSTITUTIONAL GENERAL WELFARE DOCTRINE |
40 Cardozo Law Review 2943 (August, 2019) |
It is black-letter law that the U.S. Supreme Court's takings doctrine presupposes exercises of eminent domain are in pursuit of valid public uses that require just compensation. But, neither federal doctrine nor the text of the Takings Clause offers any additional constraints. The story of the Supreme Court's takings jurisprudence is, in other... |
2019 |
Yes |
Anjaleck Flowers |
THE IMPLIED PROMISE OF A GUARANTEED EDUCATION IN THE UNITED STATES AND HOW THE FAILURE TO DELIVER IT EQUITABLY PERPETUATES GENERATIONAL POVERTY |
45 Mitchell Hamline Law Review 1 (2019) |
I. Introduction. 2 II. History of the Implied Guarantee of Free Education Under the Law. 4 A. Compulsory State Education Laws. 5 B. Plyer v. Doe. 7 C. Anti-Discrimination Education Laws and Equity Standards. 8 D. Minnesota's Compulsory Education Laws. 12 1. Minnesota's Constitutional Provisions Addressing Compulsory Education. 12 2. Cruz-Guzman v.... |
2019 |
Yes |
Anthony V. Alfieri |
THE POVERTY OF CLINICAL CANONIC TEXTS |
26 Clinical Law Review 53 (Fall, 2019) |
This essay revisits the foundational vision--the deep stock story--of poverty and the poor in clinical legal education against the backdrop of the new sociology of poverty. Long imparted by clinical faculty and invoked by student advocates in defense of the indigent, that stock story adverts to mainstream social science descriptions of... |
2019 |
Yes |
Brandon L. Greene |
TOO RICH TO BE POOR: THE HYPOCRISY OF INDIGENCY DETERMINATIONS |
24 Berkeley Journal of Criminal Law 1 (Fall, 2019) |
How we decide who is indigent has severe consequences for historically marginalized and underserved populations. Yet many of the rubrics for determining indigency and eligibility for services have been put into place without enough deep inquiry into how to best serve the populace in light of the diverse factors impacting their lives. In this way,... |
2019 |
Yes |
Anna Kerregan |
WELFARE REFORM & THE DEVALUATION OF WOMEN'S WORK |
12 DePaul Journal for Social Justice 1 (Summer, 2019) |
Women do not get a fair share when it comes to an economic assessment of their input. They are consistently overrepresented in impoverished communities and are much more likely than men to receive public assistance. This Article therefore posits a widely acknowledged anti-poverty strategy, Guaranteed Basic Income, to help support women's... |
2019 |
Yes |
Alix Bruce |
WHEN YOUR COLONIZERS ARE HYPOCRITES: FEDERAL POVERTY "SOLUTIONS" AND INDIGENOUS SURVIVAL OF SEX TRAFFICKING IN INDIAN COUNTRY |
76 National Lawyers Guild Review 140 (Fall/Winter, 2019) |
In the last four years, there has been a veritable explosion of media attention on the problem of human trafficking in Indian country. The rate of missing and murdered Indigenous women in the United States has always been high, but with more attention being paid to it not only by mainstream media outlets but by both the federal government and the... |
2019 |
Yes |
Dayna Bowen Matthew |
"LESSONS FROM THE OTHER AMERICA" TURNING A PUBLIC HEALTH LENS ON FIGHTING RACISM AND POVERTY |
49 University of Memphis Law Review 229 (Fall, 2018) |
I. Introduction. 230 II. The Other America. 233 A. Lesson #1: The Fundamental Problem of Racism in America Will Not Be Solved By Addressing Poverty Alone. 234 B. Lesson #2: Public Health Provides a Comprehensive Framework for Addressing Persistent Consequences of Racism and Poverty. 239 1. Public Health Analysis of Residential Segregation. 240 i.... |
2018 |
Yes |
Danielle Keats Citron |
A POOR MOTHER'S RIGHT TO PRIVACY: A REVIEW |
98 Boston University Law Review 1139 (September, 2018) |
Introduction. 1140 I. Privacy Rights and Poor Mothers. 1143 A. Dispossession. 1144 B. Due Process Turn. 1148 II. A New Privacy. 1152 A. The Scholarship of Charles Reich. 1152 B. Due Process Rights for the Poor. 1155 C. Beyond the Constitution. 1157 III. Law, Context, and Reciprocity. 1161 A. Technologies of Perfect Surveillance. 1161 B.... |
2018 |
Yes |
Jessica Eisen |
BEYOND RIGHTS AND WELFARE: DEMOCRACY, DIALOGUE, AND THE ANIMAL WELFARE ACT |
51 University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform 469 (Spring, 2018) |
The primary frameworks through which scholars have conceptualized legal protections for animals--animal rights and animal welfare--do not account for socio-legal transformation or democratic dialogue as central dynamics of animal law. The animal rights approach focuses on the need for limits or boundaries preventing animal use, while the... |
2018 |
Yes |
Cortney E. Lollar |
CRIMINALIZING (POOR) FATHERHOOD |
70 Alabama Law Review 125 (2018) |
Introduction. 126 I. A Fundamentally Flawed Child Support System. 132 A. The Structure of the Child Support System. 133 B. Debunking the Myth of the Deadbeat Dad. 139 II. Failure to Pay Child Support is the New Debtors' Prison. 142 A. An Exception to the Legal Prohibition Against Debtors' Prisons?. 145 B. Criminal Prosecution as a Sanction for... |
2018 |
Yes |
Jill C. Engle |
IMPROVING OUTCOMES IN CHILD POVERTY AND WELLNESS IN APPALACHIA IN THE "NEW NORMAL" ERA: INFUSING EMPATHY INTO LAW |
120 West Virginia Law Review 1047 (Spring, 2018) |
I. Introduction. 1047 II. Appalachia: A Paradox of Poverty and Declining Health. 1049 A. Child Poverty and Poor Health in Appalachia. 1050 B. Child Poverty in the U.S.: A Paradox of Deprivation Within Wealth. 1052 C. Public Health and Poverty Reduction: Wellness and the Role of Empathy. 1054 III. ACA Efforts and Impact. 1056 A. The ACA: A Federal... |
2018 |
Yes |
Tal D. Eisenzweig |
IN THE SHADOW OF CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES: NONCITIZEN PARENTS AND THE CHILD-WELFARE SYSTEM |
128 Yale Law Journal Forum 482 (November 21, 2018) |
This Essay argues that the noncitizen parent exists between two often-conflicting legal identities: that of an immigrant and that of a parent. In immigration law, the noncitizen parent is viewed as immigrant first. By contrast, the family law system privileges the parent-child relationship and the best interest of the child. Yet because... |
2018 |
Yes |
Madeline Curtis |
INCONCEIVABLE: HOW BARRIERS TO INFERTILITY TREATMENT FOR LOW-INCOME WOMEN AMOUNT TO REPRODUCTIVE OPPRESSION |
25 Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy 323 (Winter, 2018) |
I. Introduction. 324 II. The Landscape of Infertility. 325 A. The Types of Fertility Treatments. 325 B. Costs of Fertility Treatments and Current Insurance Coverage. 327 III. Low-Income Women and the Cumulative Effect. 329 A. Underlying Medical Conditions. 330 B. Environmental Factors. 331 C. Lack of Access to Health Care. 333 IV. Barriers to... |
2018 |
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Katie R. Billings, Department of Sociology, University of Massachusetts Amherst |
NAVIGATING CONFLICT: HOW YOUTH HANDLE TROUBLE IN A HIGH-POVERTY SCHOOL. BY CALVIN MORRILL AND MICHAEL MUSHENO. CHICAGO: THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS, 2018 |
52 Law and Society Review 551 (June, 2018) |
Morrill and Musheno take readers into a multiethnic and multiracial, high-poverty school in the U.S. Southwest to demonstrate how youth handle peer trouble, which they define as interpersonal and institutional conflict. Using 16 years of ethnographic fieldwork, Morrill and Musheno investigate the social structures at New West High School (NWHS)... |
2018 |
Yes |
Daniel Behn , Tarald Laudal Berge , Malcolm Langford |
POOR STATES OR POOR GOVERNANCE? EXPLAINING OUTCOMES IN INVESTMENT TREATY ARBITRATION |
38 Northwestern Journal of International Law and Business 333 (Spring, 2018) |
Is investment treaty arbitration (ITA) tarnished by a bias against developing states? The international investment regime relies heavily on arbitration for the enforcement of its substantive rules but critique has risen as the number of foreign investor claims have stacked up in recent years. Current empirical research is ambiguous in its... |
2018 |
Yes |
Eric Grossfeld |
POVERTY OF THE MIND: EAST RAMAPO'S EDUCATIONAL EMERGENCY |
11 Albany Government Law Review 425 (2017-2018) |
Education . beyond all other devices of human origin, is a great equalizer of the conditions of men,--[sic] the balance wheel of the social machinery. - Horace Mann Education has been an integral part of both an individual's self-realization and the human fabric since the dawn of time. It is a linchpin of self-determination and social... |
2018 |
Yes |
Sonya C. Bishop |
POVERTY, MENTAL HEALTH, AND TECHNOLOGY: USING MEDICAID § 1315A INNOVATION GRANTS TO TEST OUT OWN-TIME TELEMENTAL HEALTH TECHNOLOGY |
90 Temple Law Review 467 (Spring, 2018) |
I never thought of myself as depressed so much as paralyzed by hope. - Maria Bamford The behavioral health crisis looms, but popular culture teaches us that technology can heal all woes. Americans retain unfettered access to technologies that solve nonexistent problems. Terrified by the possibility of out-of-focus photos of your gerbil? Fear no... |
2018 |
Yes |
Xochitl Rodriguez |
POVERTY'S POISON: CONTAMINATED DRINKING WATER, ITS EFFECT ON IMPOVERISHED YOUTH AND MEDICAID'S ROLE |
28 Annals of Health Law Advance Directive 235 (Fall, 2018) |
Environmental racism is structural violence promulgated by the exploitation of those without resources by those in economic and political power. The United States' legacy of racism and discrimination promotes inequalities by ensuring that minority and economically destitute populations remain stereotyped and locked in poverty. These stereotypes... |
2018 |
Yes |
Michele Goodwin, Erwin Chemerinsky |
PREGNANCY, POVERTY, AND THE STATE THE POVERTY OF PRIVACY RIGHTS BY KHIARA M. BRIDGES STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2017 |
127 Yale Law Journal 1270 (March, 2018) |
INTRODUCTION 1272 I. RACE, CLASS, AND THE LOSS OF FAMILY AND REPRODUCTIVE PRIVACY 1281 A. Depriving Poor Mothers of Privacy Rights 1284 B. The Value of Privacy Rights 1293 C. The State as a Negative Messenger Against the Poor 1298 II. THE LEGALIZATION OF THE MORAL DISREGARD FOR WOMEN'S REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH AND RIGHTS 1305 A. Moral Corruption Against... |
2018 |
Yes |
Matt J. Barnett |
QUEERING THE WELFARE STATE: PARADIGMATIC HETERONORMATIVITY AFTER OBERGEFELL |
93 New York University Law Review 1633 (December, 2018) |
Although lesbian, gay, bisexual, and queer people in the United States of America have experienced significant changes in their legal rights over the previous decade, they are still disproportionately likely to live in poverty. The Supreme Court's 2015 decision in Obergefell v. Hodges granted LGBQ individuals access to the institution of marriage... |
2018 |
Yes |
Clanitra Stewart Nejdl |
RACE, POVERTY, AND BAIL: AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY |
38 Northern Illinois University Law Review 487 (Summer, 2018) |
I. Introduction. 487 II. Annotations. 488 |
2018 |
Yes |
Patrick Thronson |
THE ALARMING INCREASE IN MATERNAL MORTALITY IN THE UNITED STATES AND ITS DISPROPORTIONATE IMPACT ON PEOPLE OF COLOR AND PEOPLE LIVING IN POVERTY |
2018-FALL Trial Reporter (Maryland) 8 (Fall, 2018) |
The United States is experiencing an alarming increase in maternal mortality, which disproportionately affects members of racial minority groups and people living in poverty. Greater knowledge of this phenomenon can help practitioners to contextualize their clients' experiences and empower juries to reach verdicts that motivate crucial improvements... |
2018 |
Yes |
Neda Saghafi |
THE AMERICAN DECLARATION OF THE RIGHTS AND DUTIES OF MAN: USING A HUMAN RIGHTS FRAMEWORK TO DECONSTRUCT SYSTEMIC POLICE MISCONDUCT AGAINST LOW-INCOME WOMEN OF COLOR |
10 Northeastern University Law Review 502 (Summer, 2018) |
The history of hierarchical identities has become enmeshed in U.S. policing. Given the multiple forms of discrimination that arise from intersecting identities, low-income women of color are at high risk of police misconduct. The existence of violent, hegemonic masculinity in police culture, in conjunction with problematic policing policies, such... |
2018 |
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Andrew Hammond |
THE IMMIGRATION-WELFARE NEXUS IN A NEW ERA? |
22 Lewis & Clark Law Review 501 (2018) |
The Trump Administration's immigration policy is one of the most hotly contested areas of American law. However, few have explored the Administration's interest in using the obscure doctrine of public charge to further its agenda. Public charge determinations allow immigration authorities to prevent individuals from entering the country as well as... |
2018 |
Yes |
Dorothy E. Roberts |
THE MOST SHOCKING AND INHUMAN INEQUALITY: THINKING STRUCTURALLY ABOUT POVERTY, RACISM, AND HEALTH INEQUITIES |
49 University of Memphis Law Review 167 (Fall, 2018) |
I. Introduction. 167 II. Social Inequality and the Structure of Health Disparities. 170 III. How Poverty and Racism Intersect to Produce Health Injustice. 175 IV. Health Disparities and Biological v. Structural Explanations of Inequality. 178 V. Conclusion. 181 |
2018 |
Yes |
Susannah Camic Tahk |
THE NEW WELFARE RIGHTS |
83 Brooklyn Law Review 875 (Spring, 2018) |
Participating in the tax system gives rise to rights. These rights range from a fundamental property right in a tax refund to the robust taxpayer rights found in statutes. In the past three decades, Congress and the IRS have continued to protect, strengthen and build on these rights. Several foundational ideas underlie all the taxpayer rights and... |
2018 |
Yes |
Jake R. Miller |
WEEDING OUT SOCIAL WELFARE ORGANIZATIONS AND THE PUBLIC POLICY DOCTRINE |
10 Kentucky Journal of Equine, Agriculture, and Natural Resources Law 219 (2017-2018) |
Twenty-nine states and the District of Columbia have legalized some form of marijuana use and trade. This, however, has received federal push back. The Internal Revenue Service (IRS), for example, prohibits marijuana businesses from taking trade or business deductions in connection with the sale of marijuana. This, of course, is an exception to the... |
2018 |
Yes |
Richard M. Re |
"EQUAL RIGHT TO THE POOR" |
84 University of Chicago Law Review 1149 (Summer, 2017) |
By law, federal judges must swear or affirm that they will do equal right to the poor and to the rich. This frequently overlooked oath, which I call the equal right principle, has historical roots dating back to the Bible and entered US law in a statute passed by the First Congress. Today, the equal right principle is often understood to... |
2017 |
Yes |
Jill E. Adams, Melissa Mikesell |
AND DAMNED IF THEY DON'T: PROTOTYPE THEORIES TO END PUNITIVE POLICIES AGAINST PREGNANT PEOPLE LIVING IN POVERTY |
18 Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law 283 (Symposium, 2017) |
Introduction. 284 I. Damned If They Do and Damned If They Don't: How the Poor get Punished for Reproductive Decisions. 286 A. Cash Aid Recipients Who Bear Children. 287 B. Medicaid Patients Who Need Abortions. 289 C. People Who End Their Own Pregnancies. 292 II. The New Paradigm to Expand Access, Options, and Resources for Pregnant People Living in... |
2017 |
Yes |
Mariana Mora, Center for Research and Higher Studies in Social Anthropology, Mexico City |
AYOTZINAPA AND THE CRIMINALIZATION OF RACIALIZED POVERTY IN LA MONTAÑA, GUERRERO, MEXICO |
40 PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review 67 (May, 2017) |
This article situates the dramatic case of the forced disappearance of forty-three peasant and indigenous students from the teachers college, Ayotzinapa, in the city of Iguala, in Guerrero, on September 26, 2014, in a broader context of state violence in Mexico. What are the forces that operate to classify indigenous and peasant lives as waste,... |
2017 |
Yes |
Michael Stamm |
BETWEEN A ROCK AND DISCRIMINATORY PLACE: HOW SENTENCING GUIDELINES AND MANDATORY MINIMUMS SHOULD BE EMPLOYED TO REDUCE POVERTY DISCRIMINATION IN THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM |
24 Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy 399 (Spring, 2017) |
Engraved into the United States Supreme Court Building are the words, Equal justice under law. For indigent defendants, this maxim is far from true. Indigent defendants experience discrimination at every stage of the criminal justice system because of their lower economic status. People living in poverty are arrested more often, receive... |
2017 |
Yes |
Chanae L. Wood |
BLACK AND POOR: THE GRAVE CONSEQUENCES OF UTAH v. STRIEFF |
30 Saint Thomas Law Review 68 (Fall, 2017) |
Suppose a nineteen-year-old Black male, Jason, decides to watch a late night movie with friends. The group of friends meet on the corner outside of the local convenience store. However, Jason arrives early. Out of habit, he paces back and forth, as he waits for the others to arrive. Two police officers, patrolling the area for drug activity, notice... |
2017 |
Yes |
Anne M. Robertson |
BLOWING PAST MINNESOTA NICE: NEW OPPORTUNITIES ARISE TO UTILIZE DISPARATE-IMPACT THEORY AND PRACTICE IN TWIN CITIES LOW-INCOME HOUSING DISCRIMINATION LITIGATION |
43 Mitchell Hamline Law Review 63 (2017) |
I. Introduction. 64 II. Housing Discrimination: What Legal Aid Sees in the Twin Cities. 67 III. The Supreme Court's 2015 Stamp of Approval for Fair-Housing Disparate-Impact Claims' Cognizability in Texas Department of Housing & Community Affairs v. Inclusive Communities Project, Inc. 69 A. New Jersey Legal Aid Defends Fair-Housing Rights for Low-... |
2017 |
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Meghan Looney Paresky |
CHANGING WELFARE AS WE KNOW IT, AGAIN: REFORMING THE WELFARE REFORM ACT TO PROVIDE ALL DRUG FELONS ACCESS TO FOOD STAMPS |
58 Boston College Law Review 1659 (November, 2017) |
Approximately half a million Americans are currently incarcerated for drug convictions at the state and federal level. President Clinton's 1996 enactment of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) affects this enormous class of individuals by including a provision that places a lifetime ban on access... |
2017 |
Yes |
Emily A. Benfer |
CONTAMINATED CHILDHOOD: HOW THE UNITED STATES FAILED TO PREVENT THE CHRONIC LEAD POISONING OF LOW-INCOME CHILDREN AND COMMUNITIES OF COLOR |
41 Harvard Environmental Law Review 493 (2017) |
Lead poisoning has plagued society for centuries, dating back to the Roman Empire. Children and adults exposed to the neurotoxin regularly experience an elevated risk for permanent brain damage, disability, and, at higher levels, death. Despite scientific evidence of the dangers of lead, the heavy metal was commonly used throughout civilization and... |
2017 |
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Nantiya Ruan |
CORPORATE MASTERS & LOW-WAGE SERVANTS: THE SOCIAL CONTROL OF WORKERS IN POVERTY |
24 Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice 103 (Fall, 2017) |
C1-2Table of Contents I. Introduction. 104 II. Poverty Governance as a Means of Social Control. 110 A Brief History of American Poverty Governance. 110 1. Poor Masters and Poorhouses: Early Colonial America. 110 2. Moralistic Campaigns to Improve Poor People: Nineteenth Century and Early Twentieth Century Poverty Policy. 114 3. Regulating the Poor... |
2017 |
Yes |
Norman I. Silber |
DISCOVERING THAT THE POOR PAY MORE: RACE RIOTS, POVERTY, AND THE RISE OF CONSUMER LAW |
44 Fordham Urban Law Journal 1319 (November, 2017) |
Introduction. 1319 I. Unraveling Dreams for a Great Society. 1320 II. Race and Economic Justice. 1321 III. The Search for Good Explanations. 1322 IV. Explaining Urban Unrest as Consumer Revolt. 1325 Conclusion. 1327 |
2017 |
Yes |
Taifha N. Baker |
HOW TOP LAW SCHOOLS CAN RESUSCITATE AN INCLUSIVE CLIMATE FOR MINORITY AND LOW-INCOME LAW STUDENTS |
9 Georgetown Journal of Law & Modern Critical Race Perspectives 123 (Fall, 2017) |
Diversity is being invited to the party. Inclusion is being asked to dance. --Vernâ Myers, Esq., TED Talk presenter, nationally-recognized diversity expert specializing in law school and law firm diversity trainings, and Principal of Vernâ Myers Consulting Group, LLC. C1-3Table of Contents L1-2Introduction . L3124 I. Defining Terms: Minority and... |
2017 |
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Judge Lisa Foster (Ret.) |
INJUSTICE UNDER LAW: PERPETUATING AND CRIMINALIZING POVERTY THROUGH THE COURTS |
33 Georgia State University Law Review 695 (Spring, 2017) |
In 1962, in a speech to the American Bar Association, former Attorney General Robert Kennedy asked, do . minorities or people who speak our language imperfectly . or those who are poor really receive the same protection before the courts as the rest of our citizens? [A]ll too often, he said, they do not. Today, our justice system is no longer... |
2017 |
Yes |
Anthony V. Alfieri |
INNER-CITY ANTI-POVERTY CAMPAIGNS |
64 UCLA Law Review 1374 (December, 2017) |
This Article offers a defense of outsider, legal-political intervention and community triage in inner-city anti-poverty campaigns under circumstances of widespread urban social disorganization, public and private sector neglect, and nonprofit resource scarcity. In mounting this defense, the Article revisits the roles of lawyers, nonprofit legal... |
2017 |
Yes |
Jonathan Simon |
IS MASS INCARCERATION HISTORY? FROM THE WAR ON POVERTY TO THE WAR ON CRIME: THE MAKING OF MASS INCARCERATION IN AMERICA. BY ELIZABETH HINTON. CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS: HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2016. 464 PAGES. $29.95 |
95 Texas Law Review 1077 (April, 2017) |
Introduction: The End of Mass Incarceration The Owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk. Despite Hegel's ultimately reassuring premise, it never seemed inevitable that the emergence of mass incarceration as a proper historical subject would occur simultaneously with its institutional and political demise. History, as a... |
2017 |
Yes |
Alice O'Connor, University of California, Santa Barbara |
KAREN M. TANI, STATES OF DEPENDENCY: WELFARE, RIGHTS, AND AMERICAN GOVERNANCE, 1935-1972 (NEW YORK: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2016). PP. XIII + 427. $34.99 (PAPERBACK). ISBN: 978-1-107-43408-0 |
57 American Journal of Legal History 257 (June, 2017) |
In this vigorously argued book, Karen Tani offers a revisionist history of the system of federally-funded poor relief put in place by the Social Security Act of 1935 and anchored in the Old Age Assistance and Aid to Dependent Children (later Aid to Families with Dependent Children, or AFDC) programs. In Tani's view this system was both... |
2017 |
Yes |
Joseph Robinson Jr. |
LIVE BLACK . RETIRE POOR . DIE EARLY: HOW SOCIAL SECURITY AS AN INSTITUTION CONTINUES TO PERPETUATE THE SOCIAL RACISM OF THE 1930S |
24 Elder Law Journal 487 (2017) |
Social Security has a disparate impact on minorities. The expected rate of return for a white twenty-year-old male is over twice the rate of return that an African-American twenty-year-old male can expect. Legislative history and the circumstances surrounding the passing of the Social Security Act of 1935 indicate that there was intent to... |
2017 |
Yes |
Wendy A. Bach |
POOR SUPPORT / RICH SUPPORT: (RE)VIEWING THE AMERICAN SOCIAL WELFARE STATE |
20 Florida Tax Review 495 (2017) |
Since at least the 1970s a variety of scholars have redefined the U.S. social welfare state to include not only traditional benefit programs (for example, Food Stamps and Social Security) but also a variety of tax benefits that are hidden or submerged forms of welfare for the wealthy. Including these benefits in the overall picture of U.S.... |
2017 |
Yes |
Mary Madden , Michele Gilman , Karen Levy , Alice Marwick |
PRIVACY, POVERTY, AND BIG DATA: A MATRIX OF VULNERABILITIES FOR POOR AMERICANS |
95 Washington University Law Review 53 (2017) |
This Article examines the matrix of vulnerabilities that low-income people face as a result of the collection and aggregation of big data and the application of predictive analytics. On one hand, big data systems could reverse growing economic inequality by expanding access to opportunities for low-income people. On the other hand, big data could... |
2017 |
Yes |
Philip C. Aka , Chidera V. Oku , Murna Habila |
PROMOTING RETIREMENT SECURITY FOR LOW-INCOME WORKERS IN ILLINOIS: AN ANALYSIS AND LESSONS FOR OTHER STATES |
51 Akron Law Review 367 (2017) |
I. Introduction. 368 II. Defining Retirement Security and Low-Income Workers. 376 III. The Janus-Face Nature of Retirement (In)Security in Illinois and Its Ramifications for Low-Income Workers. 378 A. Private-Sector Face. 379 B. Public-Sector Face. 383 C. Ramifications for Low-Income Workers. 389 IV. Six Saving Techniques for Promoting Retirement... |
2017 |
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Sruti Swaminathan |
REACTION TO: WE CAN'T BREATHE: HOW TOP LAW SCHOOLS CAN RESUSCITATE AN INCLUSIVE CLIMATE FOR MINORITY & LOW-INCOME STUDENTS |
9 Georgetown Journal of Law & Modern Critical Race Perspectives 153 (Fall, 2017) |
Taifha N. Baker powerfully uses her own experience as an African-American law student from a welfare-reliant household studying at a top law school to highlight the lack of institutional inclusivity that fosters a harmful environment for minority and low-income students. Baker's Note is unique in that it challenges institutions to not only increase... |
2017 |
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Daniel L. Hatcher |
REMEMBERING ANTI-ESSENTIALISM: RELATIONSHIP DYNAMICS STUDY AND RESULTING POLICY CONSIDERATIONS IMPACTING LOW-INCOME MOTHERS, FATHERS, AND CHILDREN |
35 Law & Inequality: A Journal of Theory and Practice 239 (Summer, 2017) |
The Relationship Dynamics and Social Life Study (RDSL) is a new and important longitudinal study that examines the relationships, and the partners, of young unmarried women who become pregnant. One of the particularly concerning findings of the RDSL is that the relationships resulting in pregnancies were more likely to include intimate partner... |
2017 |
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Sanford F. Schram |
REVISIONIST HISTORY AND THE CONTRADICTIONS OF THE NEOLIBERAL WELFARE STATE |
52 Tulsa Law Review 599 (Spring, 2017) |
Felice Batlan, Women and Justice for the Poor: A History of Legal Aid, 1863-1945 (Cambridge University Press 2015). Pp. 250. Hardcover $98.00. Paperback $33.99.9. Eva Bertram, The Workfare State: Public Assistance Politics from the New Deal to the New Democrats (University of Pennsylvania Press 2015). Pp. 336. Hardcover $75.00. The welfare state as... |
2017 |
Yes |