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James W. Fox Jr. CITIZENSHIP, POVERTY, AND FEDERALISM: 1787-1882 60 University of Pittsburgh Law Review 421 (WINTER 1999) I. Introduction. 422 II. The Founding. 427 A. Citizenship and Federalism: National Subjectship and Local Citizenship. 429 B. Egalitarianism and Citizenship. 436 C. Republicanism, Virtue, and Citizenship. 440 III. Tiered and Exclusionary Citizenship and the New Republic. 443 A. The Constitution and Boundaries of Class and Race. 443 B. Women and... 1999 Relevant (Poverty)
Ruth Gana Okediji COPYRIGHT AND PUBLIC WELFARE IN GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE 7 Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies 117 (Fall, 1999) Globalization has moved copyright to the center stage of international economic policy. Most scholars agree that a distinction between internationalization and globalization is that the latter is impelled by the exponential increase in flows of information across national boundaries occasioned by information technology. If the international era was... 1999 Relevant (Poverty)
Terry A.C. Gray DE-CONCENTRATING POVERTY AND PROMOTING MIXED-INCOME COMMUNITIES IN PUBLIC HOUSING: THE QUALITY HOUSING AND WORK RESPONSIBILITY ACT OF 1998 11 Stanford Law and Policy Review 173 (Winter, 1999) Those concerned about ensuring decent, affordable housing for the least well off members of our society must also be concerned with the dramatic changes in the georacial demographics of poverty. In the context of rising housing costs, declining real wages, job shortages, and the shift from a manufacturing to a service-based economy, racially-biased... 1999 Relevant (Poverty)
R. Brent Walton ELLICKSON'S PARADOX: IT'S SUICIDE TO MAXIMIZE WELFARE 7 New York University Environmental Law Journal 153 (1999) Not too long ago, twenty-nine reindeer were deposited on St. Matthew Island, one of the Pribilof Islands off the coast of Alaska. Over the course of several years, and in the absence of natural predators, this herd of reindeer flourished, and their population exploded. Living on an isle without predators, nary a sign of a grizzly bear or man,... 1999 Relevant (Poverty)
Michele L. Landis FATE, RESPONSIBILITY, AND "NATURAL" DISASTER RELIEF: NARRATING THE AMERICAN WELFARE STATE 33 Law and Society Review 257 (1999) This essay argues that the history of the American welfare state is inextricably bound up with disaster relief. It focuses on the New Deal, which was justified using numerous precedents drawn from the previous 150 years of federal disaster relief. After sketching this early history, including the development of a compelling moral narrative of fault... 1999 Relevant (Poverty)
Sheryll D. Cashin FEDERALISM, WELFARE REFORM, AND THE MINORITY POOR: ACCOUNTING FOR THE TYRANNY OF STATE MAJORITIES 99 Columbia Law Review 552 (April, 1999) The ideals of federalism contributed significantly to the passage of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, which repealed the AFDC entitlement program and devolved broad authority to the states to design and administer programs for welfare reform. Professor Cashin challenges the federalist, a priori assumption... 1999 Relevant (Poverty)
Tonya L. Brito FROM MADONNA TO PROLETARIAT: CONSTRUCTING A NEW IDEOLOGY OF MOTHERHOOD IN WELFARE DISCOURSE 44 Villanova Law Review 415 (1999) THE story of America's welfare system is the story of transformed images of women and their roles in society. At the inception of welfare, the dominant image of women on welfare was that of the Madonna-like mother whose role in society was to care for and nurture her child. Society believed that mothering was a full-time vocation and, as a result,... 1999 Relevant (Poverty)
Marie A. Failinger KEEPING FAITH: AN ESSAY ON THE RIGHT TO TRAVEL, THE POOR AND THE ETHICAL DEMANDS OF CONSTITUTIONAL STARE DECISIS 5 Loyola Poverty Law Journal 27 (Spring, 1999) The Supreme Court seems poised to consider overturning a constitutional doctrine that had been once considered unimpeachable: the Court's ruling in Shapiro v. Thompson that the right to travel bars durational residency barriers for citizens seeking welfare benefits in their new states. This almost 30-year-old doctrine, along with Goldberg v.... 1999 Relevant (Poverty)
Patrick Paul Walsh, Ciara Whelan, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland and LICOS, Katholicke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, The Economics of Industry Group, London School of Economics, London, UK, and LICOS, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium LOSS LEADING AND PRICE INTERVENTION IN MULTIPRODUCT RETAILING: WELFARE OUTCOMES IN A SECOND-BEST WORLD 19 International Review of Law & Economics 333 (September, 1999) We examine whether loss leading pricing strategies in multiproduct retailing should be a target of antitrust policy. Loss leading is modeled in the presence of imperfect competition and consumer information in a stage game framework. We show that price constraints, used as a second-best instrument, targeted at loss leading can interact with market... 1999 Relevant (Poverty)
Claude E. Barfield ; Mark A. Groombridge PARALLEL TRADE IN THE PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY: IMPLICATIONS FOR INNOVATION, CONSUMER WELFARE, AND HEALTH POLICY 10 Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal 185 (Autumn 1999) Based upon an extensive analysis of the most recent economic and legal literature, the goal of this article is to evaluate the impact of parallel trade on the pharmaceutical industry and on the intellectual property protection granted through the patent system. Parallel trade occurs when differences in national economic, social, legal or regulatory... 1999 Relevant (Poverty)
Roderick M. Hills, Jr. POVERTY, RESIDENCY, AND FEDERALISM: STATES' DUTY OF IMPARTIALITY TOWARD NEWCOMERS 1999 Supreme Court Review 277 (1999) Must states provide the same benefits to new and long-term residents? The U.S. Supreme Court recently answered this question in Saenz v Roe, holding that California cannot discriminate against recently arrived indigent residents by paying them lower welfare benefits than indigents who had resided in the state for more than one year. According to... 1999 Relevant (Poverty)
Peter B. Edelman SO-CALLED "WELFARE REFORM": LET'S TALK ABOUT WHAT'S REALLY NEEDED TO GET PEOPLE JOBS 17 Law & Inequality: A Journal of Theory and Practice 217 (Winter, 1999) It is so important, with all of the controversy over welfare reform going on out there, to be positive and to figure out what we are going to do to move ahead, not just to lament what did happen. And, of course, it is really important that we are having this conversation about a systemic approach to welfare reform under the sponsorship of an entity... 1999 Relevant (Poverty)
Marguerite L. Spencer TEARING DOWN WALLS AND BUILDING LIVES: A SYSTEMIC APPROACH TO WELFARE REFORM 17 Law & Inequality: A Journal of Theory and Practice 201 (Winter, 1999) Numerous barriers, which are heightened in, or particular to, segregated communities of concentrated poverty, prevent current welfare reform from working. To address these spatial impediments to effective welfare reform, the University of Minnesota Law School's Institute on Race and Poverty hosted a conference entitled Tearing Down Walls and... 1999 Relevant (Poverty)
Vada Waters Lindsey THE BURDEN OF BEING POOR: INCREASED TAX LIABILITY? THE TAXATION OF SELF-HELP PROGRAMS 9 Kansas Journal of Law & Public Policy 225 (Winter, 1999) One of the primary objectives of this country's tax system is to ensure that every taxpayer pays an equitable share of taxes on gross income. In carrying out that objective, Congress promotes vertical equity and horizontal equity. Also embedded in the tax system is a promotion of various social and economic interests. The IRS and courts have... 1999 Relevant (Poverty)
Lloyd C. Anderson THE CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT OF POOR PEOPLE TO APPEAL WITHOUT PAYMENT OF FEES: CONVERGENCE OF DUE PROCESS AND EQUAL PROTECTION IN M.L.B. V. S.L.J. 32 University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform 441 (Spring 1999) In this Article, Professor Lloyd Anderson examines the recent decision M.L.B. v. S.L.J., in which the United States Supreme Court held that due process and equal protection converge to require that states cannot require indigent parents who seek to appeal decisions terminating their parental rights to pay court costs they cannot afford. Noting that... 1999 Relevant (Poverty)
Peter B. Edelman THE IMPACT OF WELFARE REFORM ON CHILDREN: CAN WE GET IT RIGHT BEFORE THE CRUNCH COMES? 60 Ohio State Law Journal 1493 (1999) Current claims of success for the new federal welfare law are misleading. Large numbers of welfare leavers have not found work, and many who find jobs lose them or earn so little they do not escape poverty. State sanctioning and termination policies have pushed many off the welfare rolls. Ample funds are available for sensible welfare policies and... 1999 Relevant (Poverty)
Kenneth D. Heath THE SYMMETRIES OF CITIZENSHIP: WELFARE, EXPATRIATE TAXATION, AND STAKEHOLDING 13 Georgetown Immigration Law Journal 533 (Summer, 1999) The legal tie between persons and their governments--citizenship--is by and large the product of chance, at least for those who do not change their status voluntarily. It arises by accident of birth in a particular location or to particular parents who owe their own citizenship to similar contingencies. Despite its arbitrary character, citizenship... 1999 Relevant (Poverty)
Kevin J. Miller WELFARE AND THE MINIMUM WAGE: ARE WORKFARE PARTICIPANTS "EMPLOYEES" UNDER THE FAIR LABOR STANDARDS ACT? 66 University of Chicago Law Review 183 (Winter, 1999) When President Clinton signed into law the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA), he fulfilled his promise to end welfare as we know it. The most significant change the PRWORA made was to increase dramatically the work requirements for welfare recipients. This increase is to be achieved through... 1999 Relevant (Poverty)
Helen Hershkoff WELFARE DEVOLUTION AND STATE CONSTITUTIONS 67 Fordham Law Review 1403 (March, 1999) IN 1996, Congress and the President ended welfare as we know it, eliminating Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) as a federal entitlement and substituting instead a block grant program that devolves responsibility to the states to design and implement assistance programs for needy families. The Personal Responsibility and Work... 1999 Relevant (Poverty)
Shannon DeRouselle WELFARE REFORM AND THE ADMINISTRATION FOR CHILDREN'S SERVICES: SUBJECTING CHILDREN AND FAMILIES TO POVERTY AND THEN PUNISHING THEM FOR IT 25 New York University Review of Law and Social Change 403 (1999) The repercussions of welfare reform cannot be easily determined. On the surface, welfare reform seeks to teach parents lessons about independence, hard work, and the value of marriage. Having learned such values, the children of former welfare recipients, removed from the harmful influences of welfare dependence, will be less likely to depend on... 1999 Relevant (Poverty)
john a. powell WELFARE REFORM FOR REAL PEOPLE: ENGAGING THE MORAL AND ECONOMIC DEBATE 17 Law & Inequality: A Journal of Theory and Practice 211 (Winter, 1999) This conference is really about you, the participants, and how to make the welfare-to-work effort work for real people with real and disparate needs. Many people in our society are less concerned about what happens to people on welfare, or those who have recently gotten off welfare, but are instead only concerned with reducing the welfare roll. The... 1999 Relevant (Poverty)
Jacqueline M. Montejano WHEN WELFARE REFORM CROSSES THE LINE: A LOOK BEHIND THE SCENES OF SAENZ V. ROE AND CALIFORNIA'S BATTLE OVER DURATIONAL RESIDENCY REQUIREMENTS 4 Texas Forum on Civil Liberties & Civil Rights 275 (Summer/Fall 1999) On January 13th of this year, the United States Supreme Court heard oral argument in Anderson v. Roe, a California case from the Ninth Circuit that held in the balance the survival of such Brennan-era doctrines as welfare rights and the constitutional right to travel on one side, and the limits of the Clinton Administration's Welfare Reform... 1999 Relevant (Poverty)
Bruce A. Green FOREWORD: RATIONING LAWYERS: ETHICAL AND PROFESSIONAL ISSUES IN THE DELIVERY OF LEGAL SERVICES TO LOW-INCOME CLIENTS 67 Fordham Law Review 1713 (April, 1999) BY now, it is a commonplace observation that many people in this country cannot afford a lawyer to assist them in addressing their legal problems, either because they have very little money or because the cost of legal assistance is too high given the funds available to them. It is also commonly understood that the present level of government and... 1999  
Corinne A. Carey CRAFTING A CHALLENGE TO THE PRACTICE OF DRUG TESTING WELFARE RECIPIENTS: FEDERAL WELFARE REFORM AND STATE RESPONSE AS THE MOST RECENT CHAPTER IN THE WAR ON DRUGS 46 Buffalo Law Review 281 (WINTER 1998) Autonomy is the death knell of authority, and authority knows it: hence the ceaseless warfare of authority against the exercise, both real and symbolic, of autonomy-that is, against suicide, against masturbation, against self-medication . . . Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are... 1998 Most Relevant
DENISE C. MORGAN THE LESS POLITE QUESTIONS: RACE, PLACE, POVERTY AND PUBLIC EDUCATION 1998 Annual Survey of American Law 267 (1998) Does money matter? The debate over whether there is a link between monetary inputs and educational outcomes has been the subject of innumerable books, academic conferences, and research studies. However, lurking behind that polite, seemingly innocent, empirical question are two much less polite, more emotionally charged, and deeply political... 1998 Most Relevant
Michele L. Landis "LET ME NEXT TIME BE 'TRIED BY FIRE"': DISASTER RELIEF AND THE ORIGINS OF THE AMERICAN WELFARE STATE 1789-1874 92 Northwestern University Law Review 967 (Spring, 1998) I applied to Congress for relief, but instead of bread I received a stone. My case was admitted to be a hard one, but it was said not to be harder than others had to submit to, and that, to grant me relief, would be opening a door, and establishing a dangerous precedent. But I am unable to see why it would be opening a wider door, or... 1998 Relevant (Poverty)
Louis S. Rulli ACCESS TO JUSTICE AND CIVIL FORFEITURE REFORM: PROVIDING LAWYERS FOR THE POOR AND RECAPTURING FORFEITED ASSETS FOR IMPOVERISHED COMMUNITIES 17 Yale Law and Policy Review 507 (1998) Since its inception, the national legal services program has faced serious political opposition and formidable challenges to fulfilling the promise of equal access to justice for the nation's poor. The 104th Congress presented legal services programs with their most difficult challenges to date: reduced federal funding by almost one-third, the... 1998 Relevant (Poverty)
Jennifer M. Mason BUYING TIME FOR SURVIVORS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: A PROPOSAL FOR IMPLEMENTING AN EXCEPTION TO WELFARE TIME LIMITS 73 New York University Law Review 621 (May, 1998) With the passage of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (Personal Responsibility Act), states have unprecedented discretion in fashioning their social welfare programs. The Personal Responsibility Act eliminated the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program and replaced it with block grants for... 1998 Relevant (Poverty)
Bill Ong Hing DON'T GIVE ME YOUR TIRED, YOUR POOR: CONFLICTED IMMIGRANT STORIES AND WELFARE REFORM 33 Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review 159 (Winter, 1998) Modern media-driven politics are frequently an ad hoc mixture of stories and statistics. Although particular accounts of people's lives and choices often provide politicians with flesh-and-blood drama, image-centered politics frequently tend to rely upon inaccurate stereotypes. Anecdotal evidence is almost always small enough to be intrinsically... 1998 Relevant (Poverty)
David J. Kennedy DUE PROCESS IN A PRIVATIZED WELFARE SYSTEM 64 Brooklyn Law Review 231 (Spring 1998) The dust of the 1996 Presidential campaign had barely settled before Bill Clinton and Governor George Bush took aim at each other. In the spring of 1997, the Clinton Administration formally rejected Governor Bush's proposal to privatize elements of Texas' welfare, Medicaid, and Food Stamp programs. The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity... 1998 Relevant (Poverty)
Paul Boudreaux E PLURIBUS UNUM URBS: AN EXPLORATION OF THE POTENTIAL BENEFITS OF METROPOLITAN GOVERNMENT ON EFFORTS TO ASSIST POOR PERSONS 5 Virginia Journal of Social Policy and the Law 471 (Spring 1998) This article explores how metropolitan government could assist government efforts to help the urban poor. In contrast to improving the living conditions of the poor by raising levels of assistance or motivating change through reductions in such assistance, metropolitanism seeks to alter the structure of local governments in metropolitan areas in... 1998 Relevant (Poverty)
Lucie E. White FACING SOUTH: LAWYERING FOR POOR COMMUNITIES IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY 25 Fordham Urban Law Journal 813 (Summer 1998) We live in baffling times. On the one hand, many people are doing remarkable work to sustain and improve embattled communities. A new generation of activist lawyers are undertaking too many projects for any one person to keep track of, even with the most sophisticated web-browsing software. And groups that had staked out their identities on the... 1998 Relevant (Poverty)
Berta Esperanza Hernández-Truyol , Kimberly A. Johns GLOBAL RIGHTS, LOCAL WRONGS, AND LEGAL FIXES: AN INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS CRITIQUE OF IMMIGRATION AND WELFARE "REFORM" 71 Southern California Law Review 547 (March, 1998) I. INTRODUCTION. 549 II. IMMIGRATION IN THE UNITED STATES. 552 III. HUMAN RIGHTS LAW. 563 IV. INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS. 568 A. Nondiscrimination Protections Under International Human Rights Norms. 570 1. Classifications Based on Race, Ethnicity, or National Origin. 570 2. Classifications Based on Sex. 572 3. The Status of Children in... 1998 Relevant (Poverty)
Frank Munger IMMANENCE AND IDENTITY: UNDERSTANDING POVERTY THROUGH LAW AND SOCIETY RESEARCH 32 Law and Society Review 931 (1998) Welfare policy has occupied a position in public political discourse since the 1960s as in few other periods of American history. The 1996 federal welfare reform legislation that swept away Aid to Families with Dependent Children in favor of state-controlled programs supported by federal block-grant funding emerged from a momentous, long-running... 1998 Relevant (Poverty)
Richard Craswell INCOMMENSURABILITY, WELFARE ECONOMICS, AND THE LAW 146 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 1419 (June, 1998) In the philosophical literature on values and practical reason, a debate has arisen over the thesis that certain goods or values are incommensurable. This raises an obvious question for legal scholars: Would this thesis, if true, have implications for the law? Several authors have claimed that it would, by challenging various economic... 1998 Relevant (Poverty)
J. Dwight Yoder JUSTICE OR INJUSTICE FOR THE POOR?: A LOOK AT THE CONSTITUTIONALITY OF CONGRESSIONAL RESTRICTIONS ON LEGAL SERVICES 6 William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal 827 (Summer, 1998) Upon enacting the Legal Services Corporation Act in 1974, Congress created the Legal Services Corporation (LSC), which provides federal funding to grantees that perform legal services for low-income individuals. In recent years, Congress has enacted restrictions upon grantees' receipt of such federal funding, limiting the legal services these legal... 1998 Relevant (Poverty)
Jane C. Murphy LEGAL IMAGES OF MOTHERHOOD: CONFLICTING DEFINITIONS FROM WELFARE "REFORM," FAMILY, AND CRIMINAL LAW 83 Cornell Law Review 688 (March, 1998) Introduction. 689 I. The Good Mother in Law: Mothers as Caretakers. 692 A.Child Custody. 693 B.Child Protection Proceedings. 702 1. Civil Proceedings. 702 2. Criminal Proceedings. 712 a. Regulating Pregnancy. 713 b. Criminal Prosecution of Mothers for Child Abuse or Neglect. 717 c. Criminal Prosecution of Mothers for Failure to Protect. 719 II.... 1998 Relevant (Poverty)
Florence Wagman Roisman MANDATES UNSATISFIED: THE LOW INCOME HOUSING TAX CREDIT PROGRAM AND THE CIVIL RIGHTS LAWS 52 University of Miami Law Review 1011 (July, 1998) I. Introduction. 1011 II. The Low Income Housing Tax Credit Program. 1013 III. The Civil Rights Laws and the LIHTC Program. 1022 A. The Caselaw's Explication of the Duty Affirmatively to Further Title VIII. 1026 B. The Regulations' Explication of the Duty Affirmatively to Further Title VIII. 1029 IV. The Treasury's Obligations Under Title VIII... 1998 Relevant (Poverty)
Gigi Berardi NATURAL RESOURCE POLICY, UNFORGIVING GEOGRAPHIES, AND PERSISTENT POVERTY IN ALASKA NATIVE VILLAGES 38 Natural Resources Journal 85 (Winter, 1998) This paper presents an analysis regarding the causes of persistent rural poverty in Alaska Native villages. It discusses the background, structure, and function of PL 92-203, the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA), how the Act undermines Native polities and traditional natural resource utilization, and the Act's consequent contribution to... 1998 Relevant (Poverty)
Cynthia R. Farina ON MISUSING "REVOLUTION" AND "REFORM": PROCEDURAL DUE PROCESS AND THE NEW WELFARE ACT 50 Administrative Law Review 591 (Summer, 1998) After a long dry spell, the debate over procedural due process flows again. The Supreme Court has announced the first major doctrinal revision in years; Congress has gutted the regulatory program that underlay Goldberg v. Kelly; and Richard Pierce has published an essay in the Columbia Law Review prophesying a radical de-evolution of due process... 1998 Relevant (Poverty)
David A. Donahue PENALIZING THE POOR: DURATIONAL RESIDENCY REQUIREMENTS FOR WELFARE BENEFITS 72 Saint John's Law Review 451 (Spring 1998) Nearly thirty years ago, in Shapiro v. Thompson, the Supreme Court held that statutes imposing one-year durational residency requirements for payment of Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) benefits were unconstitutional denials of equal protection. The Court based its decision on the premise that such durational residency requirements... 1998 Relevant (Poverty)
Peter Edelman RESPONDING TO THE WAKE-UP CALL: A NEW AGENDA FOR POVERTY LAWYERS 24 New York University Review of Law and Social Change 547 (1998) The legal landscape confronting public interest lawyers for the poor in 1999 is quite different from the landscape of 1969. At that time, a liberal Supreme Court was considered a realistic forum for finding in the Constitution a guarantee of baseline elements of survival, and there was optimism that continued progress toward reducing poverty was... 1998 Relevant (Poverty)
Candice Hoke STATE DISCRETION UNDER NEW FEDERAL WELFARE LEGISLATION: ILLUSION, REALITY AND A FEDERALISM-BASED CONSTITUTIONAL CHALLENGE 9 Stanford Law and Policy Review 115 (Winter, 1998) Echoing a widely-held opinion of state options under the new Welfare regime, Peter Edelman recently wrote that under the new federal welfare statute, the states can now do almost anything they want. Edelman resigned from his federal administrative office in protest over President Clinton's signing of the legislation. Edelman's resignation was an... 1998 Relevant (Poverty)
Cynthia Godsoe THE BAN ON WELFARE FOR FELONY DRUG OFFENDERS: GIVING A NEW MEANING TO "LIFE SENTENCE" 13 Berkeley Women's Law Journal 257 (1998) One of the most troubling, and least discussed, provisions of the new federal welfare law is the lifetime ban on benefits to anyone convicted of a drug-related felony. Section 115 of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (Welfare Act) denies both welfare benefits and federally-funded food stamps to any... 1998 Relevant (Poverty)
Kathleen A. Bailie THE OTHER "NEGLECTED" PARTIES IN CHILD PROTECTIVE PROCEEDINGS: PARENTS IN POVERTY AND THE ROLE OF THE LAWYERS WHO REPRESENT THEM 66 Fordham Law Review 2285 (May, 1998) Lily Marlene Hernandez is a twenty-three year old Dominican native and a single mother struggling to raise her sons with child support and public assistance. One evening in January, 1998, after she put her children to sleep, Ms. Hernandez carried her trash down her apartment's cement stairs to the dumpster in a courtyard behind her building. A... 1998 Relevant (Poverty)
Megan Weinstein THE TEENAGE PREGNANCY "PROBLEM": WELFARE REFORM AND THE PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY AND WORK OPPORTUNITY RECONCILIATION ACT OF 1996 13 Berkeley Women's Law Journal 117 (1998) In the last three decades, teenage mothers have increasingly become the focus of an intense and anxious national debate over poverty and the changing nature of the American family. This anxiety has far outpaced actual changes in the teenage pregnancy rate. Indeed, when teenage pregnancy first became the subject of Congressional hearings in 1975,... 1998 Relevant (Poverty)
Lisa Axelrod THE TREND TOWARD MEDICAID MANAGED CARE: IS THE GOVERNMENT SELLING OUT THE MEDICAID POOR? 7 Boston University Public Interest Law Journal 251 (Spring 1998) With the costs of the Medicaid program still rising, federal and state governments alike are counting on managed care to ease their budgetary troubles. While strong evidence exists that managed care has the potential to save states a significant amount of money, states cannot pursue their cost-cutting objective to the exclusion of quality of care.... 1998 Relevant (Poverty)
Peter Edelman THE UNITED NATIONS CONVENTION ON THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD: IMPLICATIONS FOR WELFARE REFORM IN THE UNITED STATES 5 Georgetown Journal on Fighting Poverty 285 (Summer, 1998) I am here to talk about the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child and its implications for welfare reform in the United States. I would like to join my small voice with everyone else in saying that we ought to ratify the Convention. It's an embarrassment that while we participated in the drafting of the Convention, the United States has not... 1998 Relevant (Poverty)
Craig L. Briskin , Kimberly A. Thomas THE WAGING OF WELFARE: ALL WORK AND NO PAY? 33 Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review 559 (Summer, 1998) In Joslin, Illinois, welfare recipients come from Modesto, California at the expense of a meat packing company, which hires them to fill jobs that once belonged to unionized local workers earning over twice the pay. While the company, which has paid millions in fines for workplace safety violations and an injury suit settlement, claims it hires... 1998 Relevant (Poverty)
Nicole Huberfeld THREE GENERATIONS OF WELFARE MOTHERS ARE ENOUGH: A DISTURBING RETURN TO EUGENICS IN THE RECENT "WORKFARE" LAW 9 UCLA Women's Law Journal 97 (Fall-Winter, 1998) In this Article, Nicole Huberfeld examines recent changes in the welfare system, and considers whether these changes are consistent with the stated goals of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996. Turning to the history of workfare, Huberfeld reveals parallels between the reasoning of its proponents, and that... 1998 Relevant (Poverty)
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