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Nicole Stelle Garnett THE ROAD FROM WELFARE TO WORK: INFORMAL TRANSPORTATION AND THE URBAN POOR 38 Harvard Journal on Legislation 173 (Winter, 2001) Individuals struggling to move from welfare to work face numerous obstacles. This Article addresses one of those obstacles: lack of transportation. Without reliable transportation, many welfare recipients are unable to find and maintain jobs located out of the reach of traditional forms of public transportation. Professor Garnett argues that... 2001 Relevant (Poverty)
Sherrilyn A. Ifill WEAVING A SAFETY NET: POOR WOMEN, WELFARE, AND WORK IN THE CHICKEN AND CATFISH INDUSTRIES 1 Margins: Maryland's Interdisciplinary Publication on Race, Religion, Gender, and Class 23 (Spring, 2001) The 1990s ushered in the largest and most sustained economic boom in U.S. history. This robust economic picture has been marked by the maintenance of low unemployment rates. Nationally, the unemployment rate has remained at, near or below five percent for the past eight years. Yet another indicator of American economic prosperity has been the... 2001 Relevant (Poverty)
Robert J. Ambrogi , Director American Lawyer Media News Service New York City, New York WEB SITES SUPPORT POVERTY LAWYERS 45-OCT Res Gestae 26 (October, 2001) For lawyers who work on behalf of the poor and disadvantaged, the Web provides critical support. Whether offering occasional pro bono services or devoting themselves full-time to public interest law, lawyers can use the Web to find practice guides, advocacy tools and legal updates. Last month's column (at p. 24) looked at some of the broader,... 2001 Relevant (Poverty)
Athena Mutua WHY RETIRE THE FEMINIZATION OF POVERTY CONSTRUCT? 78 Denver University Law Review 1179 (2001) The feminization of poverty concept should be retired, if it has not already been so. It should be retired, even though the concept has been extremely powerful as a discursive construct. In a phrase, the idea captured a seemingly universal phenomenon, inspired theoretical research into the nexus between women and poverty, and summoned coalitions... 2001 Relevant (Poverty)
Marcus J. Lock INCREASING ACCESS TO JUSTICE: EXPANDING THE ROLE OF NONLAWYERS IN THE DELIVERY OF LEGAL SERVICES TO LOW-INCOME COLORADANS 72 University of Colorado Law Review 459 (Spring 2001) Over the past century, our nation has made substantial progress in achieving racial and gender equality. Yet, with the arrival of the new millennium, economic discrimination still thrives in America. Nowhere is this more evident than in the judicial system. The most repugnant manifestation of the judiciary's economic discrimination is the lack of... 2001  
Marni Hussong PROTECTING THE TAX-EXEMPT STATUS OF HOUSING DEVELOPERS PARTICIPATING IN LOW-INCOME HOUSING TAX CREDIT PARTNERSHIPS 76 Washington Law Review 243 (January, 2001) The Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) is an important source of federal funding for developers of affordable housing for low-income persons. Although for-profit and nonprofit developers compete for credits, the federal government reserves ten percent of the credits for nonprofit, tax-exempt developers. Exempt developers often sell the... 2001  
Eric J. Gouvin RURAL LOW-INCOME HOUSING AND MASSACHUSETTS CHAPTER 40B: A PERSPECTIVE FROM THE ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS 23 Western New England Law Review 3 (2001) The Massachusetts Low and Moderate Income Housing Act (Act) was enacted in 1969 to promote the construction of low-income housing in restrictively zoned Massachusetts communities. It seeks to achieve its goal by providing a builder's remedy which, in effect, overrides local zoning ordinances. The local Zoning Board of Appeals (ZBA), in deciding... 2001  
Rachel Batterson "STATES' RIGHTS" AND SELF-SUFFICIENCY OR FEDERALLY-IMPOSED DRACONIA? THE PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY AND WORK OPPORTUNITY RECONCILIATION ACT'S IMPACT ON VERMONT'S WELFARE POLICY 7 Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy 21 (Winter, 2000) As of July 1, 2001, Vermont will be required to match its welfare policies with those required by the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996. This Note questions the wisdom of requiring Vermont to reshape its welfare system in a manner which would remove several of the safety nets it currently has in place to assist... 2000 Most Relevant
Sheri M. Danz A NONPUBLIC FORUM OR A BRUTAL BUREAUCRACY? ADVOCATES' CLAIMS OF ACCESS TO WELFARE CENTER WAITING ROOMS 75 New York University Law Review 1004 (October, 2000) In this Note, Sheri Danz evaluates the impact of the evolution of the public forum doctrine on advocates' claims of access to welfare centers. Welfare agencies often prohibit legal advocates from associating with and educating welfare applicants on welfare center grounds. Recently, courts have applied the public forum doctrine to uphold welfare... 2000 Most Relevant
Reginald Leamon Robinson RACE CONSCIOUSNESS: CAN THICK, LEGAL CONTEXTUAL ANALYSIS ASSIST POOR, LOW-STATUS WORKERS OVERCOME DISCRIMINATORY HURDLES IN THE FAST FOOD INDUSTRY? A REPLY TO REGINA AUSTIN 34 John Marshall Law Review 245 (Fall 2000) Racists are people who are afraid. [T]he general effect of the dominance-subjection relation is to destroy both parties, each by the other, and each in a specific manner. Though the corrosive suffering of the victim is wholly incommensurate with and overshadows the psychic deformation of the victimizer, one nevertheless does not transform oneself... 2000 Most Relevant
Philip Harvey AN ANALYSIS OF THE PRINCIPAL STRATEGIES THAT HAVE INFLUENCED THE DEVELOPMENT OF AMERICAN EMPLOYMENT AND SOCIAL WELFARE LAW DURING THE 20TH CENTURY 21 Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law 677 (2000) I. Introduction. 678 II. Responses to Joblessness. 686 A. The Behavioralist Approach. 686 B. The Job Shortage Approach. 689 C. The Structuralist Approach. 694 III. Assessing the Strategies. 701 A. Job Seekers and Job Vacancies. 702 B. Wage Rates and Unemployment Rates: Supply and Demand Analysis. 709 C. Macroeconomic Barriers to Full Employment.... 2000 Relevant (Poverty)
April Land CHILDREN IN POVERTY: IN SEARCH OF STATE AND FEDERAL CONSTITUTIONAL PROTECTIONS IN THE WAKE OF WELFARE "REFORMS" 2000 Utah Law Review 779 (2000) The faces of the human suffering caused by welfare reform are faces of children. Children, along with their parents, are going without basic necessities. Hundreds of thousands of children have already lost access to welfare benefits, and thus, their basic means of subsistence, as a result of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity... 2000 Relevant (Poverty)
Saenz v. Roe, 526 U.S. 489 (1999), Bradley A. Meyer CONSTITUTIONAL LAW--RIGHT TO TRAVEL: THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT INVALIDATES A STATUTE REQUIRING WELFARE RECIPIENTS TO RESIDE IN A STATE FOR ONE YEAR BEFORE RECEIVING FULL BENEFITS 76 North Dakota Law Review 427 (2000) In 1992, hoping to make a modest reduction in its vast welfare budget, California enacted section 11450.03 of its Welfare and Institutions Code (section 11450.03). The statute was part of an experimental project that amended one of California's most expensive programs, Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC). As amended, the AFDC program... 2000 Relevant (Poverty)
Mark C. Weber DISABILITY AND THE LAW OF WELFARE: A POST-INTEGRATIONIST EXAMINATION 2000 University of Illinois Law Review 889 (2000) Recent years have seen dramatic changes in the way persons with disabilities are treated by the government. Current programs, however, still fail to adequately meet the needs of such individuals In this article, Professor Weber explores the law of welfare relating to persons with disabilities and examines developments in disability theory. He... 2000 Relevant (Poverty)
Louis S. Rulli EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION LITIGATION UNDER THE ADA FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE POOR: CAN THE PROMISE OF TITLE I BE FULFILLED FOR LOW-INCOME WORKERS IN THE NEXT DECADE? 9 Temple Political & Civil Rights Law Review 345 (Spring 2000) Introduction. 346 I. The ADA Is Not Self-Executing. 353 II. Outcome Data in Title I Litigation. 359 A. The National Study. 362 B. The Eastern District of Pennsylvania. 365 III. Are the Disabled Poor Protecting Their Rights Under the ADA?. 375 A. In Forma Pauperis Status. 376 B. Lawyers Representing the Poor. 376 C. Employment Positions at Issue.... 2000 Relevant (Poverty)
Marc Jolin GOOD CAUSE EVICTION AND THE LOW INCOME HOUSING TAX CREDIT 67 University of Chicago Law Review 521 (Spring, 2000) Since its inception in 1986, the Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) has emerged as the federal government's largest affordable housing development program. The LIHTC was enacted as part of the shift toward localized and privatized federal social programs that occurred during the Reagan Administration. In some respects the LIHTC's design... 2000 Relevant (Poverty)
Cynthia Negrey, Annisah Um'rani, Stacie Golin, and Barbara Gault JOB TRAINING UNDER WELFARE REFORM: OPPORTUNITIES FOR AND OBSTACLES TO ECONOMIC SELF-SUFFICIENCY AMONG LOW-INCOME WOMEN 7 Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy 347 (Summer, 2000) In Job Training Under Welfare Reform, the authors set forth the preliminary results of a study conducted by the Institute for Women's Policy Research regarding the effects of the 1996 welfare reform with respect to job training. As the 1996 welfare reform bill has emphasized short-term job-readiness training, rather than long-term education, fewer... 2000 Relevant (Poverty)
Herbert Hovenkamp KNOWLEDGE ABOUT WELFARE: LEGAL REALISM AND THE SEPARATION OF LAW AND ECONOMICS 84 Minnesota Law Review 805 (April, 2000) The modern welfare state could hardly function without making judgments about how well off or happy its citizens are. Society's public and even many of its private institutions make such judgments all the time. Governments devise progressive income taxes, which are designed to capture more wealth from those who are well off and less from the... 2000 Relevant (Poverty)
Laurie A. Morin LEGAL SERVICES ATTORNEYS AS PARTNERS IN COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: CREATING WEALTH FOR POOR COMMUNITIES THROUGH COOPERATIVE ECONOMICS 5 University of the District of Columbia Law Review 125 (Fall 2000) Cooperation is the authentic integration of people in the economic and social process that shapes a new social order; the cooperators must make this objective extend to all those that hunger and thirst for justice in the working world. The Legal Services Program (LSP) created by the Office of Economic Opportunity in 1965 held out the promise of... 2000 Relevant (Poverty)
Yoko Miyashita MICROFINANCE AND POVERTY ALLEVIATION: LESSONS FROM INDONESIA'S VILLAGE BANKING SYSTEM 10 Pacific Rim Law & Policy Journal 147 (December, 2000) Indonesia needs an aggressive poverty reduction strategy to counter the 1997 Asian financial crisis, which has propelled millions of its citizens into poverty. Microfinance is a proven method of reducing poverty and has been successfully used within Indonesia in government-supported programs. In addition to continuing its state-run... 2000 Relevant (Poverty)
Shruti Rana RESTRICTING THE RIGHTS OF POOR MOTHERS: AN INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS CRITIQUE OF "WORKFARE" 33 Columbia Journal of Law and Social Problems 393 (Summer, 2000) Now we are turning the clock back, and some of my colleagues are calling this reform. Senator Paul Wellstone, (D) Minnesota In every society, the work that women do is undervalued and unrecognized. Despite women's demands for recognition of their work and worth in both social and economic realms, for many women the situation is not improving. Even... 2000 Relevant (Poverty)
Amy L. Wax RETHINKING WELFARE RIGHTS: RECIPROCITY NORMS, REACTIVE ATTITUDES, AND THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF WELFARE REFORM 63-SPG Law and Contemporary Problems 257 (Winter/Spring 2000) A spate of recent reports on President Clinton's 1996 welfare reform initiative, the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRA), indicates that the new welfare regime appears to be working. Although results vary by state, welfare rolls have dropped dramatically as many former recipients have gone to work. It remains to... 2000 Relevant (Poverty)
Rosemary Salomone RICH KIDS, POOR KIDS, AND THE SINGLE-SEX EDUCATION DEBATE 34 Akron Law Review 209 (2000) Over the past decade, the subject of publicly supported, single-sex education has generated considerable debate in legal and policy circles. Since 1996, much of that debate has centered around the Supreme Court's decision in the Virginia Military Institute case and how that case intersects with Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. In VMI,... 2000 Relevant (Poverty)
Patricia Cole and Sarah M. Buel SAFETY AND FINANCIAL SECURITY FOR BATTERED WOMEN: NECESSARY STEPS FOR TRANSITIONING FROM WELFARE TO WORK 7 Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy 307 (Summer, 2000) In Safety and Financial Security for Battered Women, Patricia Cole and Sarah M. Buel discuss, with a reliance on anecdotal evidence, family violence and its impact upon the transition from welfare to work under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program established by the 1996 welfare reform. This Briefing Paper highlights many aspects of... 2000 Relevant (Poverty)
Cynthia R. Mabry SECOND CHANCES: INSURING THAT POOR FAMILIES REMAIN INTACT BY MINIMIZING SOCIOECONOMIC RAMIFICATIONS OF POVERTY 102 West Virginia Law Review 607 (Spring 2000) I. INTRODUCTION. 608 II. DEFINING NEGLECT FOR TERMINATION PURPOSES. 610 III. STATISTICAL DATA ON NEGLECT AND CHILDREN LIVING IN POVERTY. 612 A. Neglect Statistics. 612 B. Counting Children Who Live in Poverty. 614 IV. CAUSES OF CHILD NEGLECT IN POOR FAMILIES. 616 A. Economic Conditions. 616 1. Poverty. 616 2. Reductions in Aid to Families with... 2000 Relevant (Poverty)
Alicia L. Mioli SHEFF V. O'NEILL: THE CONSEQUENCE OF EDUCATIONAL TABLE-SCRAPS FOR POOR URBAN MINORITY SCHOOLS 27 Fordham Urban Law Journal 1903 (August, 2000) It never ceases to amaze me that the courts are so willing to assume that anything that is predominantly black must be inferior. During the 1998-1999 school year, 95.6% of students in the public schools in Hartford, Connecticut were minorities. Compared to statistics from 1967, racial segregation in Hartford public schools has increased. The racial... 2000 Relevant (Poverty)
Donna Coker SHIFTING POWER FOR BATTERED WOMEN: LAW, MATERIAL RESOURCES, AND POOR WOMEN OF COLOR 33 U.C. Davis Law Review 1009 (Summer, 2000) LatCrit Theory invites scholarship that centers the experiences of Latinas/os while tying those experiences to the project of social justice for all. This Essay treats as central the experiences of Latinas and other women of color who are battered by intimate partners and suggests a test for evaluating anti-domestic violence measures that builds on... 2000 Relevant (Poverty)
Rigel Oliveri STATUTORY RAPE LAW AND ENFORCEMENT IN THE WAKE OF WELFARE REFORM 52 Stanford Law Review 463 (January, 2000) The recent national efforts at reforming the welfare system and new research on the connection between teen pregnancy and statutory rape have led many states to enact stricter laws against statutory rape and to increase the enforcement of existing laws. Punitive statutory rape laws are being viewed more and more as a mechanism for shrinking the... 2000 Relevant (Poverty)
Equal Rights Advocates THE BROKEN PROMISE:WELFARE REFORM TWO YEARS LATER 15 Berkeley Women's Law Journal 14 (2000) You've spent twenty years telling them [employers] we are lazy, and now you want them to hire us? --A Focus Group Participant When President Clinton signed federal welfare reform into law in 1996, he promised that it would reduce the welfare rolls and increase independence. Many welfare recipients remember hearing him talk about both ending... 2000 Relevant (Poverty)
Louise A. Howells THE DIMENSIONS OF MICROENTERPRISE: A CRITICAL LOOK AT MICROENTERPRISE AS A TOOL TO ALLEVIATE POVERTY 9-WTR Journal of Affordable Housing & Community Development Law 161 (Winter, 2000) Can poverty be eliminated by making business loans to people living in poverty? Providing loans to small businesses is not a new idea. What is new, however, is the concept of alleviating poverty with small amounts of credit, thereby enabling poor persons to engage in very small businesses. Microenterprise programs provide small loans, training,... 2000 Relevant (Poverty)
FLORENCE WAGMAN ROISMAN THE LAWYER AS ABOLITIONIST: ENDING HOMELESSNESS AND POVERTY IN OUR TIME 19 Saint Louis University Public Law Review 237 (2000) We see dimly in the Present what is small and what is great, Slow of faith how weak an arm may turn the iron helm of fate, But the soul is still oracular; amid the market's din. . . . Homelessness and poverty are formidable institutions which appear[] to be . . . invulnerable and could never be abolished. Ending homelessness and poverty are... 2000 Relevant (Poverty)
Matthew Diller THE REVOLUTION IN WELFARE ADMINISTRATION: RULES, DISCRETION, AND ENTREPRENEURIAL GOVERNMENT 75 New York University Law Review 1121 (November, 2000) In this Article, Professor Diller examines the tremendous changes in the administrative structure of the welfare system that have occurred since 1996. The new administrative model emerging from welfare reform eschews reliance on rules and instead invests ground-level agency personnel with substantial discretion. This shift redistributes power... 2000 Relevant (Poverty)
Shauhin A. Talesh WELFARE MIGRATION TO CAPTURE HIGHER BENEFITS: FACT OR FICTION? 32 Connecticut Law Review 675 (Winter, 2000) For all the great purposes for which the Federal government was formed, we are one people, with one common country. We are all citizens of the United States; and, as members of the same community, must have the right to pass and repass through every part of it without interruption, as freely as in our own States. Implicit in the concept of freedom,... 2000 Relevant (Poverty)
Creola Johnson WELFARE REFORM AND ASSET ACCUMULATION: FIRST WE NEED A BED AND A CAR 2000 Wisconsin Law Review 1221 (2000) Introduction. 1222 I. Theoretical Framework and Justification for Individual Development Accounts (IDAs). 1226 A. Different Asset Accumulation Welfare Policies for the Poor and Non-poor. 1227 B. Asset Accumulation Theory and Its Individual and Societal Benefits. 1229 C. Congressional Adoption of an Asset-Based Welfare Policy in the Form of IDAs.... 2000 Relevant (Poverty)
April L. Cherry WELFARE REFORM AND THE USE OF STATE POWER IN THE PROSTITUTION OF POOR WOMEN 48 Cleveland State Law Review 67 (2000) In the short time we have together today I would like to talk about the connection between welfare reform as we know it, and the potential for increased state support for the prostitution of women. In particular, I would like to discuss the work requirements found in both federal and state welfare reform statutory schemes. I worry that these work... 2000 Relevant (Poverty)
Emily Bazelon , Tamara Watts WELFARE TIME LIMITS ON THE GROUND: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY OF CONNECTICUT'S JOBS FIRST PROGRAM 32 Connecticut Law Review 717 (Winter, 2000) In 1996, Congress redrew the landscape of national welfare policy. Federal lawmakers replaced a lifetime entitlement to basic government aid with time-limited benefits contingent on work. They also gave responsibility for designing and administering welfare programs to the states. The title of the new program underscored the change: welfare... 2000 Relevant (Poverty)
Nan S. Ellis and Cheryl M. Miller WELFARE WAITING PERIODS: A PUBLIC POLICY ANALYSIS OF SAENZA V. ROE 11 Stanford Law and Policy Review 343 (Spring, 2000) The history of Anglo-American poor relief is a tale of a struggle between competing beliefs. On the one hand, poor laws are enacted to provide relief to the poor, a safety net, some level of basic subsistence. On the other hand, the desire for generous grants has always been tempered by a fear that this relief will encourage the poor to continue in... 2000 Relevant (Poverty)
  WHAT IS ACCESS TO JUSTICE? IDENTIFYING THE UNMET LEGAL NEEDS OF THE POOR APRIL 6, 2000 24 Fordham International Law Journal S187 (2000) Moderator: Philip Alston, Chair, Department of Law, European University Institute, Florence, Italy Panelists: Dr. Alex Boraine, Vice-Chair, Truth and Reconciliation Commission South Africa Justice Catherine Branson, Justice, Federal Court of Australia, New South Wales, Australia Hina Jilani, Founder, Women's Legal Aid Cell, Pakistan Justice Earl... 2000 Relevant (Poverty)
Lynn E. Cunningham LEGAL NEEDS FOR THE LOW-INCOME POPULATION IN WASHINGTON, DC 5 University of the District of Columbia Law Review 21 (Fall 2000) I. Introduction. 22 II. Background. 23 A. Methodologies for Analysis. 23 B. The Low-Income Population. 24 C. What Is A Legal Need?. 25 III. Legal Needs Described by Issue Area. 26 A. Employment, Welfare and Housing. 27 1. Employment Conditions: Hours and Working Conditions. 30 2. Job Training and Job Readiness. 31 B. Income Maintenance (Welfare).... 2000  
Jason T. Vail SCHOOL VOUCHERS AND THE ESTABLISHMENT CLAUSE: IS THE FIRST AMENDMENT A BARRIER TO IMPROVING EDUCATION FOR LOW-INCOME CHILDREN? 35 Gonzaga Law Review 187 (1999/2000) I. Introduction. 188 II. School Vouchers. 192 A. Genesis of an Idea: Milton Friedman's Voucher Program. 192 B. Vouchers Become a Public Policy Issue. 197 C. The Voucher Concept is Put into Action. 202 D. Vouchers Take Root: Experiments in Wisconsin and Ohio. 204 III. Why Vouchers?. 206 A. At-Risk Students Do Better in Catholic Schools. 206 1.... 2000  
Ruth Lynch Buchwalter SHOULD 1 + 1 = 2? DOES THE STRUCTURE OF FEDERAL INCOME TAX EXPENDITURES FOR HIGHER EDUCATION DISADVANTAGE WOMEN AND LOW-INCOME INDIVIDUALS? 22 Women's Rights Law Reporter 77 (Fall/Winter 2000) Women, especially single mothers, have lower incomes and need higher education more to achieve income levels comparable to men's. The Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997 provided four new programs to help Americans pay for higher education: the Hope Scholarship Credit, the Lifetime Learning Credit, the deduction for qualified higher education interest... 2000  
John O. Calmore A CALL TO CONTEXT: THE PROFESSIONAL CHALLENGES OF CAUSE LAWYERING AT THE INTERSECTION OF RACE, SPACE, AND POVERTY 67 Fordham Law Review 1927 (April, 1999) If we are to fashion remedies for black poverty, we need to understand the origins and dynamics of inequality in the African-American community. Without disavowing the accomplishments of the civil rights movement, black leaders and policymakers now need to give more attention to remedies that will make a concrete difference in the lives of the poor... 1999 Most Relevant
Ann Southworth LAWYERS AND THE "MYTH OF RIGHTS" IN CIVIL RIGHTS AND POVERTY PRACTICE 8 Boston University Public Interest Law Journal 469 (Spring, 1999) Are civil rights and poverty lawyers single-minded and politically naive rights crusaders, as critics from the left sometimes argue? Are they the radical left brigade of American politics, as critics from the right often charge? These empirical questions lie at the heart of controversies about the limitations of litigation as a vehicle for social... 1999 Most Relevant
Dorothy E. Roberts POVERTY, RACE, AND NEW DIRECTIONS IN 1 Washington University Journal of Law and Policy 63 (1999) Child Welfare Policy The following essay is based on a presentation by Professor Dorothy Roberts, the Spring 1999 Orthwein Scholar in Residence, who spoke on 10 March 1999 as part of an interdisciplinary panel. Most of my work over the last ten years has concerned reproductive freedom, especially the relation between race and the meaning of... 1999 Most Relevant
Mark R. Rank THE RACIAL INJUSTICE OF POVERTY 1 Washington University Journal of Law and Policy 95 (1999) The following essay is based on a presentation given by Professor Mark R. Rank on 10 March 1999 as a part of an interdisciplinary panel discussion of Professor Dorothy Roberts' paper. I would like to briefly comment and expand upon a major point that Professor Dorothy Roberts has made, both in her talk today and in her writing. She has noted that... 1999 Most Relevant
Andrew Stettner , Jews for Racial and Economic Justice A DUBIOUS FUTURE: THE CHALLENGE OF WELFARE REFORM IN NEW YORK CITY 5 Georgetown Public Policy Review 73 (Fall, 1999) This paper reports on an innovative, community-based research effort investigating the current and future impacts of welfare reform on New York City welfare recipients. The survey of 482 New York City welfare recipients conducted in 1998 examined barriers to employment, job search behavior, and the experiences of participants in New York City's... 1999 Relevant (Poverty)
Paul R. Tremblay ACTING "A VERY MORAL TYPE OF GOD": TRIAGE AMONG POOR CLIENTS 67 Fordham Law Review 2475 (April, 1999) THIS Article aims to understand the ethics and the strategy of legal services triage. Poverty lawyers will inevitably encounter more potential poor persons than they have the resources, time, and money to serve. That scarcity is a fact of life for all public interest practice and will remain so for the realistic future. The result is triage, and we... 1999 Relevant (Poverty)
Russell Engler AND JUSTICE FOR ALL--INCLUDING THE UNREPRESENTED POOR: REVISITING THE ROLES OF THE JUDGES, MEDIATORS, AND CLERKS 67 Fordham Law Review 1987 (April, 1999) UNREPRESENTED litigants are flooding the courts. In the poor people's courts, civil cases involving at least one unrepresented litigant are far more common than cases in which both sides are represented by counsel. This phenomenon is hardly surprising, given widespread reports that over eighty percent of the legal needs of the poor and working... 1999 Relevant (Poverty)
Naomi R. Cahn CHILDREN'S INTERESTS IN A FAMILIAL CONTEXT: POVERTY, FOSTER CARE, AND ADOPTION 60 Ohio State Law Journal 1189 (1999) In regards to abused and neglected children, federal policy has shifted its emphasis away from efforts to preserve the family unit, and towards efforts to create new families for these children. This policy shift is reflected in the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997, which allows for simultaneous efforts to reunite the child with his or her... 1999 Relevant (Poverty)
Robert R. Korstad ; James L. Leloudis CITIZEN SOLDIERS: THE NORTH CAROLINA VOLUNTEERS AND THE WAR ON POVERTY 62-AUT Law and Contemporary Problems 177 (Autumn 1999) During the summers of 1964 and 1965, more than 300 college students--black and white, men and women--fanned out across the state of North Carolina in a bold campaign to defeat poverty and, as they saw it, to uplift the poor. They were the foot soldiers of the North Carolina Fund (Fund), a pacesetting antipoverty program of the 1960s. The story of... 1999 Relevant (Poverty)
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