| Author | Title | Citation | Summary | Year | Key Terms in Title or Summary |
| Jasmin Sethi |
LESSONS FOR SOCIAL SCIENTISTS AND POLITICIANS: AN ANALYSIS OF WELFARE REFORM |
17 Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy 5 (Winter, 2010) |
C1-3Table of Contents I. Introduction. 5 II. Background. 9 III. The Relevance of Social Science. 12 IV. Welfare Recipients and the Culture of Poverty. 13 A. William Julius Wilson and Theories about Poverty. 13 B. Charles Murray and the Myth of the Welfare Queen. 15 V. Theories and Evidence about Employability: the Rational Actor and Expectancy... |
2010 |
Yes |
| Tara J. Melish |
MAXIMUM FEASIBLE PARTICIPATION OF THE POOR: NEW GOVERNANCE, NEW ACCOUNTABILITY, AND A 21 CENTURY WAR ON THE SOURCES OF POVERTY |
13 Yale Human Rights and Development Law Journal 1 (2010) |
In 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson called for a Nationwide War on the Sources of Poverty to strike away the barriers to full participation in our society. Central to that war was an understanding that given poverty's complex and multi-layered causes, identifying, implementing, and monitoring solutions to it would require the maximum feasible... |
2010 |
Yes |
| W. Lawson Konvalinka |
MORE THAN A POOR LAWYER: A STUDY IN POVERTY LAW |
89 Texas Law Review 449 (December, 2010) |
Unfortunately, law school teaches students to focus on money rather than on justice. This sentiment, though bold in proclamation, is keenly felt by students and faculty interested in poverty law. Every year, law schools receive thousands of applications from interested candidates avowing that their sole purpose in coming to law school is to seek... |
2010 |
Yes |
| Eric V. Hull |
POISONING THE POOR FOR PROFIT: THE INJUSTICE OF EXPORTING ELECTRONIC WASTE TO DEVELOPING COUNTRIES |
21 Duke Environmental Law and Policy Forum 1 (Fall 2010) |
I think the economic logic behind dumping a load of toxic waste in the lowest wage country is impeccable and we should face up to that. Technological innovation coupled with planned product obsolescence has fostered a throwaway culture that has made electronic waste the fastest growing segment of the municipal waste stream in the United States.... |
2010 |
Yes |
| Lisa R. Pruitt |
SPATIAL INEQUALITY AS CONSTITUTIONAL INFIRMITY: EQUAL PROTECTION, CHILD POVERTY AND PLACE |
71 Montana Law Review 1 (Winter 2010) |
This is the first in a series of articles that maps legal conceptions of (in)equality onto the socio-geographical concept of spatial inequality, with a view to generating legal remedies for those living in places marked by socioeconomic disadvantage. In particular, this article considers whether the funding and delivery of government services at... |
2010 |
Yes |
| Bridgette Baldwin |
STRATIFICATION OF THE WELFARE POOR: INTERSECTIONS OF GENDER, RACE, & "WORTHINESS" IN POVERTY DISCOURSE AND POLICY |
6 Modern American 4 (Spring, 2010) |
On average, we black women have bigger, better problems than any other women alive. We bear the burden of being seen as pretenders to the thrones of both femininity and masculinity, endlessly mocked by the ambiguously gendered crown-of-thorns imagery of queen Madame Queen, snap queen, welfare queen, quota queen, Queenie Queen, Queen Queen Queen.... |
2010 |
Yes |
| James A. Long |
THE LOW-INCOME HOUSING TAX CREDIT IN NEW JERSEY: NEW OPPORTUNITIES TO DECONCENTRATE POVERTY THROUGH THE DUTY TO AFFIRMATIVELY FURTHER FAIR HOUSING |
66 New York University Annual Survey of American Law 75 (2010) |
The federal Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) program has produced over one million rental housing units from 1995 to 2005, most of which are affordable to low-income tenants. Developers of low-income rental housing apply for federal income-tax credits to subsidize their affordable housing units through a competitive process administered by the... |
2010 |
Yes |
| Henry Rose |
THE POOR AS A SUSPECT CLASS UNDER THE EQUAL PROTECTION CLAUSE: AN OPEN CONSTITUTIONAL QUESTION |
34 Nova Law Review 407 (Spring, 2010) |
Both judges and legal scholars assert that the United States Supreme Court has held that the poor are neither a quasi-suspect nor a suspect class under the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. They further assert that this issue was decided by the Supreme Court in San Antonio Independent School... |
2010 |
Yes |
| Robert Hornstein |
THE RIGHT TO COUNSEL IN CIVIL CASES REVISITED: THE PROPER INFLUENCE OF POVERTY AND THE CASE FOR REVERSING LASSITER v. DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES |
59 Catholic University Law Review 1057 (Summer, 2010) |
I. Trouble So Hard: The Struggle to Establish a Right to Civil Gideon. 1065 II. Why Bad Facts Should Have Made Good Law: Revisiting the Lassiter Decision Through the Prism of the Undeserving Poor. 1072 III. A Matter of Policy over Precedent. 1089 IV. Twisting It Wrong to Make It Right: Justice Stewart's Due Process Analysis. 1092 V. A Return to... |
2010 |
Yes |
| Ann M. Piccard |
THE UNITED STATES' FAILURE TO RATIFY THE INTERNATIONAL COVENANT ON ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS: MUST THE POOR BE ALWAYS WITH US? |
13 Scholar: St. Mary's Law Review on Minority Issues 231 (Winter 2010) |
I. Must the Poor be Always with Us?. 232 II. ICESCR: The Potential for Change. 234 III. U.S. Poverty Today: The Poor Are with Us. 237 A. Law, Poverty, and Litigation. 237 B. Economics, Law, and Poverty. 246 IV. Why ICESCR, and Why Now. 250 A. Internalization of International Norms. 250 B. Law, Morality, and Culture. 253 C. Progressive Realization... |
2010 |
Yes |
| Khiara M. Bridges |
TOWARDS A THEORY OF STATE VISIBILITY: RACE, POVERTY, AND EQUAL PROTECTION |
19 Columbia Journal of Gender and Law 965 (2010) |
In the state of New York, uninsured pregnant women with incomes falling below 200% of the federal poverty line are eligible to enroll in the Prenatal Care Assistance Program (PCAP), a Medicaid program that pays the prenatal healthcare expenses of women who meet the program's qualifications. The aims of PCAP/Medicaid are laudable; it was passed in... |
2010 |
Yes |
| Rachel Cohen |
TWO STEPS FORWARD, ONE STEP BACK: EVALUATING THE HEALTHY MARRIAGE INITIATIVE IN LIGHT OF AMERICA'S WELFARE HISTORY |
17 Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy 145 (Winter, 2010) |
I Introduction. 145 II Marginalizing Black Men in Society since 1862. 147 III. Why We Think Marriage Works. 151 IV. The Reason Women Don't Marry. 152 A. Low-Income Women Still Value Marriage as an Institution. 152 B. Financial and Educational Disparities Between Men and Women Prevent Marriage. 153 V Turning the Tide: Addressing the Issue. 157 A.... |
2010 |
Yes |
| John Bronsteen, Christopher Buccafusco, Jonathan S. Masur |
WELFARE AS HAPPINESS |
98 Georgetown Law Journal 1583 (August, 2010) |
C1-3Table of Contents L1-2Introduction . L31585 I. A Happiness-Based Approach to Well-Being. 1588 a. weak welfarism. 1589 b. happiness and the subjective experience of life. 1590 c welfare as happiness. 1591 d. feeling vs. evaluating and the choice of the time interval. 1592 1. Determining Worth by Aggregating Moments. 1593 2. Moment-by-Moment... |
2010 |
Yes |
| Kevin Brown |
CAN PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL BOARDING SCHOOLS IN GHANA BE THE NEXT EDUCATIONAL REFORM MOVEMENT FOR LOW-INCOME URBAN MINORITY PUBLIC SCHOOL STUDENTS? |
19 Temple Political & Civil Rights Law Review 91 (Fall 2009) |
The past twenty-five years has witnessed the collapse of the Soviet Union, the end of the Cold War, the rise in importance of international trade, dramatic increases in immigration to the United States bringing people from diverse countries who did not previously come in large numbers to America, tremendous advances in communication technologies... |
2009 |
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| Janet Thompson Jackson |
CAPITALIZING ON DIGITAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP FOR LOW-INCOME RESIDENTS AND COMMUNITIES |
112 West Virginia Law Review 187 (Fall, 2009) |
I. Introduction. 187 II. The Digital Divide. 189 A. Statistics on Access and Use. 189 B. Access v. Quality of Use. 192 1. Challenges Faced by Adults. 192 2. Challenges Faced by Youth. 195 III. Low-Income Individuals and Communities Can Capitalize on Digital Entrepreneurship. 195 A. Boost Effective Access to Technology. 195 B. Build a Ladder for... |
2009 |
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| Peter B. Edelman |
CHANGING THE SUBJECT: FROM WELFARE TO POVERTY TO A LIVING INCOME |
4 Northwestern Journal of Law & Social Policy 14 (Winter, 2009) |
For nearly forty years, the dominant political discourse about poverty in the United States has focused on welfare rather than poverty itself, even as disparities between the wealthiest and those at the bottom widened spectacularly. With the new century and a new administration, public attention has returned to issues of poverty and inequality.... |
2009 |
Yes |
| Marjorie E. Kornhauser |
COGNITIVE THEORY AND THE DELIVERY OF WELFARE BENEFITS |
40 Loyola University Chicago Law Journal 253 (Winter 2009) |
When it comes to the topic of wealth and income inequality, Americans seemingly agree on nothing other than its existence. They even differ as to whether the inequality is bad. Those who agree it is bad disagree about what, if anything, should be done about it. Those who agree something should be done disagree about whether the government should do... |
2009 |
Yes |
| Sarah Spangler Rhine |
CRIMINALIZATION OF HOUSING: A REVOLVING DOOR THAT RESULTS IN BOARDED UP DOORS IN LOW-INCOME NEIGHBORHOODS IN BALTIMORE, MARYLAND |
9 University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class 333 (Fall 2009) |
In Baltimore, Maryland, the residents of several neighborhoods are being systematically displaced. Residents are not being driven out of poor and undesirable neighborhoods by development or gentrification, but they are being forced out nonetheless. They are moving out of their neighborhoods into new housing: the Maryland Criminal Justice System.... |
2009 |
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| Sonje Hawkins |
DESERT IN THE CITY: THE EFFECTS OF FOOD DESERTS ON HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES OF LOW-INCOME INDIVIDUALS |
19 Annals of Health Law Advance Directive 116 (Fall, 2009) |
Food is necessary for the very existence of human beings, but food is not always a privilege that all enjoy. The lack of access to healthy foods is a silent problem in the United States that has been largely dwarfed by starvation in other areas of the world. A growing amount of research has begun to surface surrounding areas in the U.S. with little... |
2009 |
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| Nareissa Smith |
EATIN' GOOD? NOT IN THIS NEIGHBORHOOD A LEGAL ANALYSIS OF DISPARITIES IN FOOD AVAILABILITY AND QUALITY AT CHAIN SUPERMARKETS IN POVERTY-STRICKEN AREAS |
14 Michigan Journal of Race and Law 197 (Spring 2009) |
Many Americans--especially the poor--face severe hurdles in their attempts to secure the most basic of human needs--food. One reason for this struggle is the tendency of chain supermarkets to provide a limited selection of goods and a lower quality of goods to patrons in less affluent neighborhoods. Healthier items such as soy milks, fresh fish,... |
2009 |
Yes |
| Dorcas R. Gilmore |
EXPANDING OPPORTUNITIES FOR LOW-INCOME YOUTH: MAKING SPACE FOR YOUTH ENTREPRENEURSHIP LEGAL SERVICES |
18-SPG Journal of Affordable Housing & Community Development Law 321 (Spring, 2009) |
A generation without the hope of a stable job is a burden for the whole of society. Poor employment in the early stages of a young person's career can harm job prospects for life. Young people in the United States are on the verge of losing the economic advantages gained by their parents. The loss of wealth resulting from the 2008 foreclosure... |
2009 |
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| Kevin Outterson |
FOREWORD--WILL HPV VACCINES PREVENT CERVICAL CANCERS AMONG POOR WOMEN OF COLOR?: GLOBAL HEALTH POLICY AT THE INTERSECTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW |
35 American Journal of Law & Medicine 247 (2009) |
Cervical cancer is a disease of social inequality. Women with access to effective screening and treatment rarely die from cervical cancer. The burden of cervical cancer mortality falls most heavily among the poorer women of the world. Cervical cancer starkly illustrates global inequality across race, sex and class. Cervical cancer... |
2009 |
Yes |
| Julie A. Nice |
FORTY YEARS OF WELFARE POLICY EXPERIMENTATION: NO ACRES, NO MULE, NO POLITICS, NO RIGHTS |
4 Northwestern Journal of Law & Social Policy 1 (Winter, 2009) |
Forty years ago, the tide turned against the War on Poverty, and poor people have never recovered. Many factors contributed to the demise of that historic effort to eliminate poverty. The urgent need to understand these factors has increased today as the nation appears to be facing an economic crisis of historic proportion. Surely one of the most... |
2009 |
Yes |
| Felicia Kornbluh |
IS WORK THE ONLY THING THAT PAYS? THE GUARANTEED INCOME AND OTHER ALTERNATIVE ANTI-POVERTY POLICIES IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE |
4 Northwestern Journal of Law & Social Policy 61 (Winter, 2009) |
In the years since 1996, welfare has largely ceased to be an issue in mainstream national debate. Welfare reform, a goal of Democratic and Republican administrations and legislatures from the late 1960s to the middle 1990s, has likewise virtually ceased to exist as an object of political attention. In a sense, then, and to a degree that my... |
2009 |
Yes |
| David Ray Papke |
KEEPING THE UNDERCLASS IN ITS PLACE: ZONING, THE POOR, AND RESIDENTIAL SEGREGATION |
41 Urban Lawyer 787 (Fall, 2009) |
It has become fashionable to argue that the preferences and choices of Americans living in metropolitan areas are changing. Contemporary middle and upper-class Americans, the argument goes, no longer want to live in suburban subdivisions, work in office parks, and shop in enclosed malls. One-third of all homeowners now express a preference for... |
2009 |
Yes |
| Naresh C. Singh |
LEGAL EMPOWERMENT OF THE POOR: MAKING THE LAW WORK FOR EVERYONE |
103 American Society of International Law Proceedings 147 (March 25-28, 2009) |
The livelihoods of the poor (as for the non-poor) are based on the activities, assets, and entitlements available to them, which they can use to get themselves out of poverty. Activities include working for an employer (labor) or for oneself (entrepreneurship). Assets include human, social, natural, and physical and economic capital--and the... |
2009 |
Yes |
| Amy L. Wax |
NORM CHANGE OR JUDICIAL DECREE? THE COURTS, THE PUBLIC, AND WELFARE REFORM |
32 Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy 45 (Winter, 2009) |
The topic for this panel--the relationship between community values and judicial decision making--calls to mind Supreme Court cases on high-profile issues that have provoked strong criticism from the public. Decisions regarding church-state relations, abortion, free speech, government regulation of property rights, and affirmative action are recent... |
2009 |
Yes |
| Lynette Roberson |
PAID STERILIZATIONS FOR POOR WOMEN: COERCING THEM OUT OF POVERTY |
3 Southern Regional Black Law Students Association Law Journal 84 (Spring, 2009) |
Nadya Suleman, a 33-year-old woman, gave birth to octuplets in January 2009. Each infant survived the birth and continues to grow healthier (as of the time of publication). Suleman has received much media attention and public support for this medical miracle. However, the public soon discovered that the young mother was single, unemployed, living... |
2009 |
Yes |
| Andrew P. MacArthur |
PAY TO PLAY: THE POOR'S PROBLEMS IN THE BAPCPA |
25 Emory Bankruptcy Developments Journal 407 (2009) |
One-third of all bankruptcies are filed by individuals whose income is below the poverty level. When Congress debated the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act (BAPCPA), most senators felt that the BAPCPA was mainly a middle-class issue, leading to little debate involving the effects on the poor. Unfortunately, the BAPCPA... |
2009 |
Yes |
| Debra Lyn Bassett |
POVERTY AND GLOBAL RURALISM |
13 Journal of Gender, Race and Justice 1 (Fall 2009) |
Developing solutions to rural poverty is particularly challenging for two primary reasons: the lack of homogeneity across rural areas and discrimination against rural areas. In developing policies and programs to combat rural poverty, the temptation is to strive for an overarching plan--one plan applied consistently across all rural areas. However,... |
2009 |
Yes |
| Joseph A. Rosenberg |
POVERTY, GUARDIANSHIP, AND THE VULNERABLE ELDERLY: HUMAN NARRATIVE AND STATISTICAL PATTERNS IN A SNAPSHOT OF ADULT GUARDIANSHIP CASES IN NEW YORK CITY |
16 Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy 315 (Spring, 2009) |
I. Introduction: Dignity and Death. 316 II. Autonomy and Protection: Overview of Adult Guardianships. 323 A. Guardianships and Decision Making Capacity. 326 B. A Model Statute: Article 81 of the New York Mental Hygiene Law. 327 III. Social Justice and Experiential Learning: Guardianship Practice in a Clinical Setting. 330 A. Social Justice Mission... |
2009 |
Yes |
| Khiara M. Bridges |
QUASI-COLONIAL BODIES: AN ANALYSIS OF THE REPRODUCTIVE LIVES OF POOR BLACK AND RACIALLY SUBJUGATED WOMEN |
18 Columbia Journal of Gender and Law 609 (2009) |
This Article analyzes the relationship between the struggle for the recognition of Black women's reproductive rights in the United States and the fight for racial justice. Specifically, it argues that the problematization of poor Black women's fertility--evidenced by the depiction of single Black motherhood as a national crisis, the condemnation of... |
2009 |
Yes |
| Kiran Nagulapalli |
STRICTLY FOR THE DOGS: A FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT ANALYSIS OF THE RACE BASED FORMATION AND ENFORCEMENT OF ANIMAL WELFARE LAWS |
11 Rutgers Race & the Law Review 217 (2009) |
Only when the most marginalized minorities are protected are we all safe. These words should echo in the minds of all; but instead fall upon deaf ears. Despite various safeguards constructed to ensure the equal protection of minorities, the United States of America is a land of majority rule, and the race of that majority is white.... |
2009 |
Yes |
| Pooja Gehi |
STRUGGLES FROM THE MARGINS: ANTI-IMMIGRANT LEGISLATION AND THE IMPACT ON LOW-INCOME TRANSGENDER PEOPLE OF COLOR |
30 Women's Rights Law Reporter 315 (Winter 2009) |
My client, Pina, is a transgender woman from Nicaragua and an asylee. A few years ago she was at a friend's house when a police raid occurred. All of the women, including Pina, were arrested for prostitution despite the fact that they were inside a house, playing cards at the time of the arrest. Once arrested, Pina was taken to a men's jail on... |
2009 |
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| Robert Hornstein |
TEACHING LAW STUDENTS TO COMFORT THE TROUBLED AND TROUBLE THE COMFORTABLE: AN ESSAY ON THE PLACE OF POVERTY LAW IN THE LAW SCHOOL CURRICULUM |
35 William Mitchell Law Review 1057 (2009) |
I walked a mile with Pleasure; She chattered all the way, But left me none the wiser For all she had to say. I walked a mile with Sorrow And ne'er a word said she; But oh, the things I learned from her When Sorrow walked with me. In September of 2008, Associate Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia addressed a gathering of the Federalist Society at... |
2009 |
Yes |
| Katayoon Majd, Patricia Puritz |
THE COST OF JUSTICE: HOW LOW-INCOME YOUTH CONTINUE TO PAY THE PRICE OF FAILING INDIGENT DEFENSE SYSTEMS |
16 Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy 543 (Symposium Issue 2009) |
There can be no equal justice where the kind of trial a man gets depends on the amount of money he has. I don't have a real lawyer. I have a public defender.-juvenile client No right is more fundamental for youth in delinquency cases than the right to counsel. In 1967, the United States Supreme Court held in In re Gault that this right belongs... |
2009 |
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| Kaaryn Gustafson |
THE CRIMINALIZATION OF POVERTY |
99 Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 643 (Summer 2009) |
The welfare system and the criminal justice system in the United States are becoming ever more tightly interwoven. Scholars, however, have not yet examined the processes involved in these developments and what these developments mean for both the welfare system and for criminal jurisprudence. Many people, including welfare recipients, treat the... |
2009 |
Yes |
| Doris Marie Provine, Arizona State University |
THE PERILS OF FEDERALISM: RACE, POVERTY, AND THE POLITICS OF CRIME CONTROL. BY LISA L. MILLER. NEW YORK: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2008. PP. V+254. $39.95 CLOTH |
43 Law and Society Review 714 (September, 2009) |
This book explores the ever-timely topic of crime control from the perspective of communities that suffer high rates of criminal violence but tend to be marginalized by the political process. Miller's target is not racism or class prejudice per se, but the structure of contemporary American federalism, which advantages policy bureaucrats,... |
2009 |
Yes |
| Ashley B. Antler |
THE ROLE OF LITIGATION IN COMBATING OBESITY AMONG POOR URBAN MINORITY YOUTH: A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF PELMAN V. MCDONALD'S CORP. |
15 Cardozo Journal of Law & Gender 275 (Winter 2009) |
Childhood obesity is one of the most dire public health threats facing this country today. This epidemic disproportionately impacts low-income urban minority youth, and several environmental factors may contribute to the disparity in obesity rates. While there is broad debate about which legal tactics can most effectively shape public policy to... |
2009 |
Yes |
| Wendy A. Bach |
WELFARE REFORM, PRIVATIZATION, AND POWER: RECONFIGURING ADMINISTRATIVE LAW STRUCTURES FROM THE GROUND UP |
74 Brooklyn Law Review 275 (Winter, 2009) |
A few years ago, I was sitting across the table from a group of lawyers representing the New York City welfare department. We were discussing monitoring a settlement, negotiated after six, hard-fought years of litigation. Like most test-case litigation, the case consumed, over the years, enormous advocacy resources from multiple financially... |
2009 |
Yes |
| Joel F. Handler |
WELFARE, WORKFARE, AND CITIZENSHIP IN THE DEVELOPED WORLD |
5 Annual Review of Law and Social Science 71 (2009) |
comparative welfare, delegation, privatization, active labor market policies This review discusses the changes in welfare policies and the role of law in those changes in the United States and the developed world. In 1996, the U.S. Congress and President Clinton committed to ending welfare as we know it and changed welfare to workfare. Under the... |
2009 |
Yes |
| Ron Haskins |
WHAT WORKS IS WORK: WELFARE REFORM AND POVERTY REDUCTION |
4 Northwestern Journal of Law & Social Policy 30 (Winter, 2009) |
This is an essay about how the 1996 welfare reform law and other policies contributed to the sharpest decline in child poverty since the early 1970s. The story is told in the context of the nation's long struggle to reduce poverty and the factors that have made it so difficult to make progress against poverty. These factors involve both forces over... |
2009 |
Yes |
| Anthony V. Alfieri |
(UN)COVERING IDENTITY IN CIVIL RIGHTS AND POVERTY LAW |
121 Harvard Law Review 805 (January, 2008) |
Introduction. 806 I. Covering and Uncovering Identity. 809 A. Defining Covering and Uncovering. 810 1. Covering Defined. 810 2. Uncovering Defined. 813 B. Identifying Costs of Covering and Benefits of Uncovering. 814 1. Individual Costs/Benefits. 814 2. Collective Costs/Benefits. 815 C. Identifying Costs of Uncovering and Benefits of Covering.... |
2008 |
Yes |
| Marie A. Failinger |
A TRULY GOOD WORK: TURNING TO RESTORATIVE JUSTICE FOR ANSWERS TO THE WELFARE-TO-WORK DILEMMA |
15 Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy 209 (Summer, 2008) |
The welfare work debate is a long-standing and seemingly endemic part of any program of public assistance, one of the enduring themes of Western public assistance programs. For its longevity and the fierceness of debate around the subject, it competes only with one other theme in modern welfare history: the exclusion of strangers seeking public aid... |
2008 |
Yes |
| Rudolf V. Van Puymbroeck, J.D. |
BEYOND SEX: LEGAL REFORM FOR HIV/AIDS AND POVERTY REDUCTION |
15 Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy 781 (Fall, 2008) |
If I've learned anything during the AIDS years, it's that, no matter who you are or what you earn, it's always difficult to live with HIV. But living with both HIV disease and poverty is brutally painful. The twin pandemics of HIV and AIDS continue to exact a tremendous toll in human suffering and welfare. In 2007, some thirty-three million... |
2008 |
Yes |
| Angela Littwin |
BEYOND USURY: A STUDY OF CREDIT-CARD USE AND PREFERENCE AMONG LOW-INCOME CONSUMERS |
86 Texas Law Review 451 (February, 2008) |
I. Introduction. 453 II. Methodology. 456 III. Advantages of Increased Access to Credit Cards. 457 A. Usefulness in Emergencies. 457 1. Ease of Obtaining Funds. 459 2. Lack of Stigma at Time of Borrowing. 461 3. Versatility. 461 4. Comparison to Credit Cards. 462 B. A Payment Card for the Unbanked. 462 C. Access to a Financial Tool of the Middle... |
2008 |
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| Angela Littwin |
BEYOND USURY: A STUDY OF CREDIT-CARD USE AND PREFERENCE AMONG LOW-INCOME CONSUMERS |
86 Texas Law Review See Also 451 (March 12, 2008) |
I. Introduction. 453 II. Methodology. 456 III. Advantages of Increased Access to Credit Cards. 457 A. Usefulness in Emergencies. 457 1. Ease of Obtaining Funds. 459 2. Lack of Stigma at Time of Borrowing. 461 3. Versatility. 461 4. Comparison to Credit Cards. 462 B. A Payment Card for the Unbanked. 462 C. Access to a Financial Tool of the Middle... |
2008 |
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| David Steib |
CAN "FAMILY VALUES" LIFT AMERICANS OUT OF POVERTY? |
9 Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law 447 (2008) |
Sixteen years ago, Republican Vice President Dan Quayle created a media stir by attacking the popular fictional TV character Murphy Brown for having a child out of wedlock. Quayle launched the criticism during a speech about the 1992 race riots in Los Angeles, which he stated were caused by the breakdown of family structure. In relation to this... |
2008 |
Yes |
| Michelle Wilde Anderson |
CITIES INSIDE OUT: RACE, POVERTY, AND EXCLUSION AT THE URBAN FRINGE |
55 UCLA Law Review 1095 (June, 2008) |
Are county governments capable stewards of urban life? Across the country, millions of low-income households live in urban enclaves that rely on county government for their most proximate tier of general purpose local government. Material conditions in many of these neighborhoods are reminiscent of early twentieth-century rural poverty, while... |
2008 |
Yes |
| Judith Browne-Dianis, Anita Sinha |
EXILING THE POOR: THE CLASH OF REDEVELOPMENT AND FAIR HOUSING IN POST-KATRINA NEW ORLEANS |
51 Howard Law Journal 481 (Spring 2008) |
Katrina was a tragedy, but its aftermath presents the most exciting urban opportunity since San Francisco in 1906. Pioneers, please apply. Hurricane Katrina caused a crisis of a magnitude never before seen on U.S. soil. With thousands dead and hundreds of thousands displaced, policymakers swiftly presented the tragedy as an opportunity for New... |
2008 |
Yes |