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Matthew D. Adler EQUITY BY THE NUMBERS: MEASURING POVERTY, INEQUALITY, AND INJUSTICE 66 Alabama Law Review 551 (2015) Introduction. 551 I. Equity Metrics: An Overview. 559 A. Inequality Metrics. 560 B. Social Welfare Functions. 566 C. Poverty Metrics. 569 D. Social-Gradient Metrics. 573 E. A Summary. 576 II. Why the Pigou-Dalton Principle? A Generic Justification. 579 III. What Is The Best Currency for the Pigou-Dalton Principle?. 583 IV. Should the Pigou-Dalton... 2015 Yes
Alexandra Natapoff GIDEON'S SERVANTS AND THE CRIMINALIZATION OF POVERTY 12 Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law 445 (Spring, 2015) Table of Contents I. Introduction. 445 II. The Criminalization of the Welfare State. 450 III. Putting Welfare Back Into Criminal Law Enforcement. 453 A. Specialty Courts. 454 B. Community Prosecution. 455 C. Police. 456 IV. The Bridging Role of Public Defenders. 459 V. Crime, Poverty, Legal Roles and Rules. 462 Every day, in public defender offices... 2015 Yes
John J. Infranca HOUSING RESOURCE BUNDLES: DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE AND FEDERAL LOW-INCOME HOUSING POLICY 49 University of Richmond Law Review 1071 (May, 2015) Less than one in four income-eligible households receives some form of rental assistance from the federal government. In contrast with other prominent public benefit programs--including Temporary Aid to Needy Families (TANF) and unemployment insurance--no time limit is placed on the assistance provided through the Department of Housing and Urban... 2015  
Marc-Tizoc González HUNGER, POVERTY, AND THE CRIMINALIZATION OF FOOD SHARING IN THE NEW GILDED AGE 23 American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy and the Law 231 (2015) Introduction. 232 I. New Gilded Age?. 236 A. Critiquing the Imagery of Poverty in the New Gilded Age: Inequality in America . 238 B. What was Gilt? - The White Supremacy and Imperialism of the First Gilded Age. 245 1. What was Gilt? - The Ending of Radical Reconstruction, Destruction of Interracial Labor Populism, and Rise of Jim Crow. 250 2.... 2015 Yes
Michael David Williams LAND COSTS AS NON-ELIGIBLE BASIS: ARBITRARY RESTRICTIONS ON STATE POLICYMAKING AUTHORITY IN THE LOW-INCOME HOUSING TAX CREDIT PROGRAM 18 NYU Journal of Legislation and Public Policy 335 (2015) Introduction. 336 I. The Location Decision. 339 A. Quantity Versus Quality. 339 B. The Importance of Neighborhood. 343 1. Education. 347 2. Health. 348 3. Economic Self-Sufficiency. 349 4. Public Safety. 350 II. Incentives in the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Program. 351 A. The Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Program. 352 1. Applicable Fraction and... 2015  
Matthew Stockwell ON THE FRINGE OF DISABILITY: GENETICS, OBESITY, POVERTY, PREGNANCY AND THEIR PLACE IN SOCIETY 3 Mid-Atlantic Journal on Law and Public Policy 118 (Summer, 2015) Disability is part of the human condition. Almost every one of us will be permanently or temporarily disabled at some point in life. We must do more to break the barriers which segregate people with disabilities, in many cases forcing them to the margins of society. ~ WHO Director-General Dr. Margaret Chan I. INTRODUCTION. 118 II. EXAMPLE. 119... 2015 Yes
Stephen Wizner POVERTY LAW, POLICY, AND PRACTICE JULIET M. BRODIE, CLARE PASTORE, EZRA ROSSER & JEFFREY SELBIN. ASPEN/WOLTERS KLUWER, 2014 22 Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy 441 (Winter, 2015) What should law students learn about poverty and its relationship to law? What is the doctrinal or theoretical subject matter that justifies a separate course in law and poverty? Are there laws and legal issues that specifically or uniquely relate to people living in poverty? Does law play a role in creating and maintaining poverty? Can law reduce... 2015 Yes
Jaime Alison Lee POVERTY, DIGNITY, AND PUBLIC HOUSING 47 Columbia Human Rights Law Review 97 (Winter 2015) C1-2Table of Contents I. Introduction II. Culturalism and its Harms III. Countering Culturalism with Dignity a. Conditions Cases and The Due Process Revolution b. Applications in Public Housing i. Conditions ii. Adjudications iii. Rulemaking c. Culturalist Challenges to Procedure d. The Persistence of Culturalism IV. Extending Dignity a. Dignity... 2015 Yes
Alexander Wohl POVERTY, EMPLOYMENT, AND DISABILITY 32 GPSolo 74 (July/August, 2015) At a time when many U.S. policymakers increasingly are focused on the issue of poverty and economic disparity as an important and neglected social problem, a particularly striking set of statistics is one often ignored: the disproportionately high level of poverty among Americans with disabilities. It is just the latest outgrowth of a long history... 2015 Yes
Jennifer E.K. Kendrex PUNISHING THE POOR THROUGH WELFARE REFORM: CRUEL AND UNUSUAL? 64 Duke Law Journal Online 121 (March, 2015) In America's earliest days, punishment for being poor extended beyond poverty's unpleasant, concomitant circumstances--nagging hunger, tattered clothing, vagrancy--to include community-inflicted sentences such as banishment, whippings, and auctioning off the poor like slaves. American attitudes towards the impoverished may have transitioned from... 2015 Yes
Elizabeth L. MacDowell REIMAGINING ACCESS TO JUSTICE IN THE POOR PEOPLE'S COURTS 22 Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy 473 (Spring, 2015) Access to justice efforts have been focused more on access than justice, due in part to the framing of access to justice issues around the presence or absence of lawyers. This article argues that access to justice scholars and activists should also think about social justice and provides a roadmap for running a legal services program geared toward... 2015 Yes
Joy Moses REVISITING THE WAR ON POVERTY: HOW POLICY CAN BETTER SHAPE THE INCOME AND WAGES OF FAMILIES WITH CHILDREN 18 University of the District of Columbia Law Review 78 (Spring, 2015) Fifty years ago, President Lyndon B. Johnson launched a War on Poverty while delivering his first State of the Union address on January 8, 1964. His language conveyed ambitious plans to recreate American society: This budget, and this year's legislative program, are designed to help each and every American citizen fulfill his basic hopes--his... 2015 Yes
Mirko Bagaric RICH OFFENDER, POOR OFFENDER: WHY IT (SOMETIMES) MATTERS IN SENTENCING 33 Law & Inequality: A Journal of Theory and Practice 1 (Winter, 2015) The problem of economically and socially disadvantaged offenders is one of the most perplexing issues in sentencing. It is a worldwide phenomenon that people from disadvantaged backgrounds are convicted of more crimes and sentenced to imprisonment than other people. It has been suggested that this often occurs for reasons that are not within the... 2015 Yes
Karen M. Tani STATES' RIGHTS, WELFARE RIGHTS, AND THE "INDIAN PROBLEM": NEGOTIATING CITIZENSHIP AND SOVEREIGNTY, 1935-1954 33 Law and History Review 1 (February, 2015) What distinguishes the American Indians from other native groups is . the nature of their relationship with a government which, while protecting their welfare and their rights, is committed to the principles of tribal self-government and the legal equality of races. Felix S. Cohen, Chairman, Board of Appeals, United States Department of Interior... 2015 Yes
Proshanti Banerjee THE HARM PRINCIPLE AT PLAY: HOW THE ANIMAL WELFARE ACT FAILS TO PROTECT ANIMALS ADEQUATELY 15 University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class 361 (Fall 2015) A walk down the street in any urban setting presents a number of common scenarios. Some of the most distinct features of a city are social inequalities relating to wealth and power, non-agricultural production, and a heavy population within a restricted space. However, there are other subtle undertones occurring in a city that are not obvious to a... 2015 Yes
  THE NEW PROFILING: WHY PUNISHING BASED ON POVERTY AND IDENTITY IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL AND WRONG 2015 Federal Sentencing Reporter 1911734 (April 1, 2015) Let's begin with a thought experiment. Suppose a judge is sentencing two co-defendants, Jones and Smith, for a smallscale cocaine trafficking offense, having found that both were equal contributors to their conspiracy. Neither has a criminal record, both express sincere remorse, and no mandatory minimum applies. The judge sentences Jones to... 2015 Yes
Spencer Rand THE REAL MARRIAGE PENALTY: HOW WELFARE LAW DISCOURAGES MARRIAGE DESPITE PUBLIC POLICY STATEMENTS TO THE CONTRARY--AND WHAT CAN BE DONE ABOUT IT 18 University of the District of Columbia Law Review 93 (Spring, 2015) Couples regularly complain about marriage penalties, discovering that the tax consequences of marrying make the cost of marriage prohibitive. Although attempts were made in the last decade to reduce those penalties for the middle class, the poor were not helped by these changes. Along with tax penalties, including low-income wage earners facing... 2015 Yes
Stephen B. Bright THE ROLE OF RACE, POVERTY, INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY, AND MENTAL ILLNESS IN THE DECLINE OF THE DEATH PENALTY 49 University of Richmond Law Review 671 (March, 2015) Capital punishment is a difficult and sensitive topic because it involves terrible tragedies, the murder of innocent people, loss and suffering, and the passions of the moment. It is used in only a very small percentage of cases in which it could be imposed and is currently in decline. Six states have recently abandoned it, and the number of death... 2015 Yes
Ann Shalleck THOUGHT AND ADVOCACY ABOUT STUDENT DEBT: REPRESENTATION OF LOW-INCOME BORROWERS IN LAW SCHOOL CLINICAL PROGRAMS 48 Suffolk University Law Review 751 (2015) The legal academy, through clinical legal education, has the potential to make a distinctive contribution to thought and advocacy about student debt. Clinical education can further, in immediate and powerful ways, the classic research, teaching, and service missions of legal education by addressing the problems posed by student debt for society and... 2015  
Starla J. Williams VIOLENCE AGAINST POOR AND MINORITY WOMEN & THE CONTAINMENT OF CHILDREN OF COLOR: A RESPONSE TO DOROTHY E. ROBERTS 24 Widener Law Journal 289 (2015) Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy. On Friday, August 1, 2014--as I reflected on my remarks for this symposium-- an eight-year-old, little boy was found dead in his home two doors down from my house on Green Street. His mother and father were taken into custody by the Harrisburg police as his five brothers and... 2015 Yes
Conor Colasurdo WELFARE ON FIRE: THE EARNED INCOME TAX CREDIT IS NOT ENOUGH TO EXTINGUISH POVERTY 54 Journal of Catholic Legal Studies 1 (2015) Introduction. 2 I. A Marxist Pope? The Francis-Rawlsian Framework for Social Institutions Based on Human Dignity. 5 II. Welfare Without Stigma? The EITC in Action. 9 A. Legal Aspects of the EITC. 10 B. Political History of the EITC. 11 C. Political Rhetoric and the Popularity of the EITC. 13 III. As the Big Gun in the War on Poverty, the EITC Is a... 2015 Yes
Liz Clark Rinehart ZONED FOR INJUSTICE: MOVING BEYOND ZONING AND MARKET-BASED LAND PRESERVATION TO ADDRESS RURAL POVERTY 23 Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy 61 (Fall, 2015) C1-2Table of Contents Introduction. 62 I. The Distinct Problems of Rural Communities. 63 A. Environmental Challenges: The Myth of the Pristine Countryside. 64 1. Sprawl. 64 2. Agricultural Pollution. 66 B. Social and Economic Problems. 68 1. Demographics. 68 2. Children, Families, and Welfare Programs. 69 3. Jobs. 70 4. Financial Infrastructure and... 2015 Yes
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 Yes
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 Yes
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 Yes
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 Yes
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 Yes
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 Yes
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 Yes
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 Yes
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 Yes
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 AGAI 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 Yes
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 Yes
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 Yes
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 Yes
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  
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 Yes
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 Yes
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  
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 Yes
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 Yes
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 Yes
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 Yes
Gene Nichol RACE, POVERTY, AND "CURRENT CONDITIONS" 49 Wake Forest Law Review 791 (Fall 2014) I have been a constitutional law professor for a very long time. So it's not surprising, perhaps, that when the United States Supreme Court handed down the Shelby County decision--invalidating a core component of the iconic Voting Rights Act --I would receive some media calls about the opinion. Over and again, folks brought up Chief Justice... 2014 Yes
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 Yes
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 Yes
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 Yes
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 Yes
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 Yes
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 Yes
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