| Author | Title | Citation | Summary | Year | Key Terms in Title or Summary |
| Comments Of Barbara Arnwine, Jo-Ann Wallace, Executive Director, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, President and CEO, National Legal Aid And Defender Association |
STRATEGIES FOR ENDING POVERTY AND INEQUALITY GROUP |
10 University of the District of Columbia Law Review 161 (Spring 2007) |
MS. ARNWINE: Thank you so much. You can always tell where the mutual admiration society resides. I am a deep and abiding friend and admirer of Dean Shelley Broderick. As we celebrate this wonderful accreditation, it is good to reflect on the many struggles of this great law school over the years to earn this accreditation. Movingly, it is also a... |
2007 |
Yes |
| Reed Collins |
STROLLING WHILE POOR: HOW BROKEN-WINDOWS POLICING CREATED A NEW CRIME IN BALTIMORE |
14 Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy 419 (Fall, 2007) |
As the practice of zero-tolerance policing strategies has surged across American cities, there has been no shortage of law review articles questioning the legality of the stop and frisk tactics used by many police officers, who often hold only vague suspicions of misconduct by the people they accost and search on the street. In an article... |
2007 |
Yes |
| Alina Das |
THE ASTHMA CRISIS IN LOW-INCOME COMMUNITIES OF COLOR: USING THE LAW AS A TOOL FOR PROMOTING PUBLIC HEALTH |
31 New York University Review of Law and Social Change 273 (2007) |
In an age of progressive medicine and medical technology, an epidemic has been growing in American cities. While the causes of the disease are largely unknown, its prevalence and severity vary dramatically by race and socio-economic status. The impact of the disease captured the attention of national and local public health officials in the... |
2007 |
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| Justin Stec |
THE DECONCENTRATION OF POVERTY AS AN EXAMPLE OF DERRICK BELL'S INTEREST-CONVERGENCE DILEMMA: WHITE NEUTRALITY INTERESTS, PRISONS, AND CHANGING INNER CITIES |
2 Northwestern Journal of Law & Social Policy 30 (Summer, 2007) |
The idea of deconcentrating the poor from neighborhoods of concentrated poverty has arisen as a concept and policy position in the last twenty years to become part of the language and mental framework surrounding the alleviation of disparate conditions in a spatialized urban lens. Areas of concentrated poverty (where over forty percent of the... |
2007 |
Yes |
| Lupe S. Salinas , Dr. Robert H. Kimball |
THE EQUAL TREATMENT OF UNEQUALS: BARRIERS FACING LATINOS AND THE POOR IN TEXAS PUBLIC SCHOOLS |
14 Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy 215 (Spring, 2007) |
Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men,the balance-wheel of the social machinery. Some in our society promote the idea of natural deficiencies among the various ethnic and socio-economic groups. We emphatically disagree with such claims. We look at a process that negotiates the... |
2007 |
Yes |
| Laurie Pompa |
THE FAMILY VIOLENCE OPTION IN TEXAS: WHY IT IS FAILING TO AID DOMESTIC VIOLENCE VICTIMS ON WELFARE AND WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT |
16 Texas Journal of Women and the Law 241 (Spring 2007) |
I. Introduction. 242 II. The Relationship Between Poverty and Domestic Violence. 243 A. The Prevalence of Domestic Violence Among Welfare Recipients. 243 B. The Interplay Between Race, Domestic Violence and Welfare. 245 III. General Welfare Relief Available to Domestic Violence Victims. 246 A. Understanding the Personal Responsibility and Work... |
2007 |
Yes |
| Martha F. Davis |
THE PENDULUM SWINGS BACK: POVERTY LAW IN THE OLD AND NEW CURRICULUM |
34 Fordham Urban Law Journal 1391 (May, 2007) |
Poverty law was a creation of the 1960s and in a broad sense, an outgrowth of the civil rights movement. Building on the civil rights movement's strategy of using law to effect social change, poverty lawyers sought to move beyond the civil and political rights agenda that was the movement's hallmark to issues of economic justice. The trajectory of... |
2007 |
Yes |
| John B. Kirkwood |
THE ROBINSON-PATMAN ACT AND CONSUMER WELFARE: HAS VOLVO RECONCILED THEM? |
30 Seattle University Law Review 349 (Winter 2007) |
The Robinson-Patman Act is the black sheep of antitrust. Like much other New Deal legislation, the principal purpose of the Robinson-Patman Act (the Act) was protectionist. Instead of trying to enhance competition for the benefit of consumers, like other antitrust laws, the Act's predominant goal was to protect small business from competition. It... |
2007 |
Yes |
| Laura R. Goldin |
THE SAFETY NET REVISITED? THE CONTINUING IMPACT OF WELFARE REFORM IN NEW YORK CITY AND NATIONWIDE |
14 Cardozo Journal of Law & Gender 97 (Fall 2007) |
I say to those on welfare: For too long, our welfare system has undermined the values of family and work, instead of supporting them. Congress and I are near agreement on sweeping welfare reform. We agree on time limits, tough work requirements, and the toughest possible child support enforcement. But we must also provide child care so that mothers... |
2007 |
Yes |
| Joel Berg |
WELFARE REFORM: THE PROMISE UNFULFILLED |
11 Journal of Gender, Race and Justice 47 (Fall 2007) |
Delivered on October 14, 2006 at the University of Iowa College of Law Journal of Gender, Race & Justice Symposium on Welfare Reform Liberals warned it would throw millions of children into poverty. Conservatives claimed it would end a culture of dependency that was supposedly the root cause of poverty in America. They were both wrong. Ten years... |
2007 |
Yes |
| Teresa Kominos |
WHAT DO MARRIAGE AND WELFARE REFORM REALLY HAVE IN COMMON? A LOOK INTO TANF MARRIAGE PROMOTION PROGRAMS |
21 Saint John's Journal of Legal Commentary 915 (Spring-Summer 2007) |
In 1996, Congress passed a welfare reform bill that aimed to end welfare as we know it. This bill replaced Aid to Families with Dependant Children, a decades-old welfare bill. Congress passed the Personal Responsibility and Work Reconciliation Act of 1996, which created the block grant system of Temporary Aid to Needy Families (TANF). TANF... |
2007 |
Yes |
| Khiara M. Bridges |
WILY PATIENTS, WELFARE QUEENS, AND THE REITERATION OF RACE IN THE U.S. |
17 Texas Journal of Women and the Law 1 (Fall 2007) |
I. Introduction. 1 II. On Wily Patients. 4 A. Patient Stupidity. 4 B. Patient Duplicity. 6 III. On Wily Patients and Welfare Queens. 12 A. Implicit Racializations: A Genealogy of the Welfare Queen's Blackness. 15 1. Race and Deservingness. 16 2. Deservingness and Capitalism. 19 3. Capitalism and American -ness. 20 4. American -ness and... |
2007 |
Yes |
| Xavier de Souza Briggs, Margery Austin Turner |
ASSISTED HOUSING MOBILITY AND THE SUCCESS OF LOW-INCOME MINORITY FAMILIES: LESSONS FOR POLICY, PRACTICE, AND FUTURE RESEARCH |
1 Northwestern Journal of Law & Social Policy 25 (Summer, 2006) |
In the social policy field, where complex goals and seemingly intractable problems often make it hard to generate useful answers about what works, there is an understandable tendency to label demonstration programs either successes or failures. In the context of assisted housing mobility initiatives, such as the court-ordered Gautreaux... |
2006 |
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| Richard Hardack |
BAD FAITH: RACE, RELIGION AND THE REFORMATION OF WELFARE LAW |
4 Cardozo Public Law, Policy and Ethics Journal 539 (August, 2006) |
I believe [in the] premise [that competition is always better than state control] as a matter of religious faith. -- Phillip Romero, Dean of The University of Oregon Business School I believe in God and I believe in free markets. -- Kenneth Lay This article focuses, in three sections, on the policy considerations, cultural constructions, and legal... |
2006 |
Yes |
| Nekima Levy-Pounds |
BEATEN BY THE SYSTEM AND DOWN FOR THE COUNT: WHY POOR WOMEN OF COLOR AND CHILDREN DON'T STAND A CHANCE AGAINST U.S. DRUG-SENTENCING POLICY |
3 University of Saint Thomas Law Journal 462 (Spring 2006) |
I. Introduction. 463 II. Case of Kemba Smith as a Paradigm of Problems Within the War on Drugs . 467 A. Kemba the Kingpin and Mandatory Minimums. 468 B. Prosecutors as Gatekeepers to Freedom for Defendants. 470 1. Conspiracy Charges and the Catch-22. 470 2. Substantial Assistance and the Girlfriend Problem . 472 3. Ineffective Attempts at... |
2006 |
Yes |
| Sagit Mor |
BETWEEN CHARITY, WELFARE, AND WARFARE: A DISABILITY LEGAL STUDIES ANALYSIS OF PRIVILEGE AND NEGLECT IN ISRAELI DISABILITY POLICY |
18 Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities 63 (Winter 2006) |
Hidden and disregarded for too long, we are demanding not only rights and equal opportunity, but are demanding that the academy take on the nettlesome question of why we've been sequestered in the first place. Throughout the last century, the modern welfare state has been widely considered a major source of rescue and relief for people with... |
2006 |
Yes |
| Homer C. La Rue, Lela P. Love |
CLASSROOM CONVERSATIONS ABOUT RACE, POVERTY AND SOCIAL STATUS IN THE AFTERMATH OF KATRINA |
13 Dispute Resolution Magazine 22 (Fall, 2006) |
In the wake of the New Orleans hurricanes and the ensuing dislocations and hardships for countless people, the disparate impact of the disaster highlighted issues of race, poverty and social inequalities. The different experiences of rich and poor, black and white, resulting from the catastrophe created fissures in relationships among different... |
2006 |
Yes |
| Janet Simmonds |
COERCION IN CALIFORNIA: EUGENICS RECONSTITUTED IN WELFARE REFORM, THE CONTRACTING OF REPRODUCTIVE CAPACITY, AND TERMS OF PROBATION |
17 Hastings Women's Law Journal 269 (Summer 2006) |
In an era where courts are reaffirming landmark right to privacy decisions, such as Griswold v. Connecticut, Eisenstadt v. Baird, and Roe v. Wade, and expanding the scope of a constitutionally protected right to privacy, it is seemingly unthinkable to imagine that the exercise of such rights is being legally perverted to promote eugenic ideals.... |
2006 |
Yes |
| Jesse L. White, Jr. |
COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND POVERTY ALLEVIATION: AN OVERVIEW OF PANEL 4 |
10 Employee Rights and Employment Policy Journal 121 (2006) |
Much of the traditional literature and discussion on poverty in America has focused on the individual and/or the family. A lot of this territory has been covered in the earlier panels of the conference: public programs (like AFDC, Medicaid, food stamps, Head Start, etc), wage and income policies (like the earned income tax credit, Social Security,... |
2006 |
Yes |
| Daniel P. Gitterman |
CONFRONTING POVERTY: WHAT ROLE FOR PUBLIC PROGRAMS?: AN OVERVIEW OF PANEL 1 |
10 Employee Rights and Employment Policy Journal 9 (2006) |
The overall theme of this session was how public social safety net programs, including tax credits, can help alleviate poverty in the United States. Broadly understood, the public social safety net in the U.S. comprises a set of programs, benefits, and supports designed to maintain a minimum level of financial resources and to ensure that people do... |
2006 |
Yes |
| Solangel Maldonado |
DEADBEAT OR DEADBROKE: REDEFINING CHILD SUPPORT FOR POOR FATHERS |
39 U.C. Davis Law Review 991 (March, 2006) |
C1-3Table of Contents L1-2Introduction . R3993. I. Fathers Matter. 996 II. Nonresident Fathers' Contributions. 1000 A. Child Support. 1000 B. Nonfinancial Contributions. 1004 III. Redefining Child Support. 1008 A. Dominant v. Community Norms. 1008 B. Involved Fathering. 1012 L1-2Conclusion . R31022. |
2006 |
Yes |
| Shilesh Muralidhara |
DEFICIENCIES OF THE LOW-INCOME HOUSING TAX CREDIT IN TARGETING THE LOWEST-INCOME HOUSEHOLDS AND IN PROMOTING CONCENTRATED POVERTY AND SEGREGATION |
24 Law & Inequality: A Journal of Theory and Practice 353 (Summer 2006) |
Affordable public housing has been an issue at the forefront of public policy in the United States since the Great Depression era. The social, political, and economic benefit of adequate housing for citizens at all income-levels has long been recognized. Nevertheless, despite almost seventy years worth of effort to remedy the dearth of affordable... |
2006 |
Yes |
| Debra Lyn Bassett |
DISTANCING RURAL POVERTY |
13 Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy 3 (Spring, 2006) |
In fall 2005, the televised horrors of Hurricane Katrina's aftermath frightened, mostly African-American survivors huddling on rooftops awaiting rescue, without food or water, abandoned for five desperate days, herded into the Superdome with an astonishing lack of planning that left the survivors surrounded by dead bodies, sewage, stench, and... |
2006 |
Yes |
| Charles M. A. Clark |
ECONOMIC JUSTICE AND WELFARE REFORM: WAS WELFARE REFORM AN EXAMPLE OF PRUDENTIAL JUDGMENT IN PUBLIC POLICY? |
4 University of Saint Thomas Law Journal 1 (Summer 2006) |
After extensive discussion and debate, President Bill Clinton signed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act, replacing AFDC (Aid to Families with Dependant Children) with TANF (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families). The push to end welfare as we know it was fueled by a desire to reduce the costs of welfare programs... |
2006 |
Yes |
| Xavier de Souza Briggs |
ENTRENCHED POVERTY, SOCIAL MIXING, AND THE "GEOGRAPHY OF OPPORTUNITY": LESSONS FOR POLICY AND UNANSWERED QUESTIONS |
13 Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy 403 (Fall, 2006) |
How does place shape the human experience and the well-being and life prospects of children and families, including the poor? And how should policies in housing and other arenas respond to these place effects, reducing ghetto segregationnow a worldwide phenomenaand persistent poverty, which is one of segregation's terrible social costs?... |
2006 |
Yes |
| Rebekah J. Smith |
FAMILY CAPS IN WELFARE REFORM: THEIR COERCIVE EFFECTS AND DAMAGING CONSEQUENCES |
29 Harvard Journal of Law & Gender 151 (Winter, 2006) |
Welfare reform is a political force that has held American family policy in its grip for the past decade. A particularly problematic component of such reform efforts is the policy of establishing family caps or child exclusions. Family caps end the traditional system of welfare benefits that increase with family size and instead freeze the... |
2006 |
Yes |
| Lee A. Harris |
FROM VERMONT TO MISSISSIPPI: RACE AND CASH WELFARE |
38 Columbia Human Rights Law Review 1 (Fall 2006) |
This Article's primary objective is to assess the influence of race on the provision of cash assistance to the poor. Specifically, I argue that state choices in the distribution of cash assistance are motivated by the relative number of African-American welfare families present in states. I employ a form of statistical analysis known as... |
2006 |
Yes |
| Seema Ramesh Shah |
HAVING LOW INCOME HOUSING TAX CREDIT QUALIFIED ALLOCATION PLANS TAKE INTO ACCOUNT THE QUALITY OF SCHOOLS AT PROPOSED FAMILY HOUSING SITES: A PARTIAL ANSWER TO THE RESIDENTIAL SEGREGATION DILEMMA? |
39 Indiana Law Review 691 (2006) |
Is it possible that the largest federal subsidy program in the nation is being administered in such a way as to perpetuate racial and ethnic segregation in urban and suburban America? State housing agencies that administer the Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) program, the largest federal subsidy program for constructing and rehabilitating... |
2006 |
Yes |
| John R. Edwards |
KATRINA'S LESSONS: MOVING FORWARD IN THE FIGHT AGAINST POVERTY: AN OVERVIEW OF PANEL FIVE |
10 Employee Rights and Employment Policy Journal 151 (2006) |
The last of our poverty summit panels considered a topic that in many ways symbolizes our nation's struggles with poverty. Hurricane Katrina is a disaster that is unparalleled in our nation's history. In practically destroying New Orleans, one of our true national treasures, and in ripping through the coastline, towns, and countryside throughout... |
2006 |
Yes |
| Myron Orfield |
LAND USE AND HOUSING POLICIES TO REDUCE CONCENTRATED POVERTY AND RACIAL SEGREGATION |
33 Fordham Urban Law Journal 877 (March, 2006) |
As metropolitan areas spread over huge stretches of land, residents living at the core, particularly poor Blacks and Latinos, become increasingly isolated from the jobs and other life opportunities that are rapidly dispersing among increasingly far-flung suburbs. The concentration of existing affordable housing in central cities and older suburbs... |
2006 |
Yes |
| Daniel A. Crane |
MIXED BUNDLING, PROFIT SACRIFICE, AND CONSUMER WELFARE |
55 Emory Law Journal 423 (2006) |
Introduction. 425 I. A Taxonomy of Explanations for Mixed Bundling. 428 A. Procompetitive and Competition-Neutral Explanations. 430 1. Cost Efficiencies. 430 2. Instilling Customer Loyalty. 433 3. Eliminating Double Marginalization. 434 4. Price Discrimination. 436 5. Playing Behavioral Games. 438 6. Exploiting Fragmented Customer Decision-Making.... |
2006 |
Yes |
| Jacob Press |
POOR LAW: THE DEFICIT REDUCTION ACT'S CITIZENSHIP DOCUMENTATION REQUIREMENT FOR MEDICAID ELIGIBILITY |
8 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law 1033 (September 1, 2006) |
On February 8, 2006, President George W. Bush signed the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 (the DRA). Included in the DRA is a new requirement that federal Medicaid funding must be denied to individuals who claim U.S. citizenship but are unable to produce acceptable documentation. Entitled Improved Enforcement of Documentation Requirements, the... |
2006 |
Yes |
| Juliet M. Brodie |
POST-WELFARE LAWYERING: CLINICAL LEGAL EDUCATION AND A NEW POVERTY LAW AGENDA |
20 Washington University Journal of Law and Policy 201 (2006) |
Russell Franklin called the law school clinic from the county jail, where he was serving a nine-month sentence. He claimed his boss owed him two weeks' wages, so a law student went to the jail to interview him. Mr. Franklin had been working full-time at an auto transmission repair shop under the jail's work release program. When he quit, his boss... |
2006 |
Yes |
| Leslie Book |
PREVENTING THE HYBRID FROM BACKFIRING: DELIVERY OF BENEFITS TO THE WORKING POOR THROUGH THE TAX SYSTEM |
2006 Wisconsin Law Review 1103 (2006) |
I. Introduction. 1104 A. The Earned Income Tax Credit: Participation, Costs, and Errors. 1104 B. The Potential Backfire Risk. 1107 II. The EITC: The Basics, the Noncompliance Problem, and the Use of Commercial Preparers. 1110 A. Summary of the EITC. 1110 B. The Overclaim Problem. 1111 1. What We Know. 1111 2. What We Do Not Know. 1113 3. The Role... |
2006 |
Yes |
| Lisa A. Gennetian , Cindy Redcross, Cynthia Miller, MDRC |
REGIONAL DIFFERENCES IN THE EFFECTS OF WELFARE REFORM: EVIDENCE FROM AN EXPERIMENTAL PROGRAM IN RURAL AND URBAN MINNESOTA |
13 Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy 119 (Spring, 2006) |
Though issues of poverty affect families and children in both urban and rural areas of the United States, the plight of the urban poor rings nearer for many researchers and policymakers. In fact, child and adult poverty rates vary considerably across regions, highest in central cities and nonmetropolitan areas and lowest in the suburbs. A number of... |
2006 |
Yes |
| William P. Quigley |
REVOLUTIONARY LAWYERING: ADDRESSING THE ROOT CAUSES OF POVERTY AND WEALTH |
20 Washington University Journal of Law and Policy 101 (2006) |
I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. We must rapidly begin the shift from a thing-oriented society to a person-oriented society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the... |
2006 |
Yes |
| Jonathon B. Tingley |
STEALING FROM THE POOR TO GIVE TO THE RICH: WHY NEW YORK SHOULD ABANDON ATTEMPTS TO COLLECT FUEL TAXES ON RESERVATIONS |
69 Albany Law Review 357 (2005-2006) |
Midsummer 1992 was a volatile period in New York State history. The State had attempted to impose and collect sales and excise taxes on fuel sold by Indian reservation businesses to non-Indian buyers. The tension that erupted between the Indians and the state government was reminiscent of the tension that existed centuries before. The tension,... |
2006 |
Yes |
| Steven H. Hobbs , Shenavia Baity |
TENDING TO THE SPIRIT: A PROPOSAL FOR HEALING THE HEARTS OF BLACK CHILDREN IN POVERTY |
26 Boston College Third World Law Journal 107 (Winter, 2006) |
This article describes the public and private responses necessary to develop skills for low-income children to succeed. In order to fully comprehend the challenges facing these children, the article begins by explaining the statistics behind childhood poverty, including that children raised in poverty perform well below average in school... |
2006 |
Yes |
| Mark R. Rank |
TOWARD A NEW UNDERSTANDING OF AMERICAN POVERTY |
20 Washington University Journal of Law and Policy 17 (2006) |
The United States currently has among the highest rates of poverty in the Western world. Whether one looks at the overall rate of poverty or rates for particular groups, whether one uses an absolute or a relative measure of poverty, whether one examines individual years or averages over time, the story is much the same. Poverty in America is... |
2006 |
Yes |
| Barak Y. Orbach |
UNWELCOME BENEFITS: WHY WELFARE BENEFICIARIES REJECT GOVERNMENT AID |
24 Law & Inequality: A Journal of Theory and Practice 107 (Winter 2006) |
Introduction. 108 I. Welfare Bureaucracies and Participation Disincentives. 115 A. Screening Mechanisms and Private Costs. 115 1. The Problem of Asymmetric Information. 115 2. Direct Screening Mechanisms. 116 3. Self-Selection Screening Mechanisms. 123 B. The Costs of Discretionary Eligibility Criteria. 126 C. Deliberate Deterrence of Potentially... |
2006 |
Yes |
| Tom I. Romero, II |
WAR OF A MUCH DIFFERENT KIND: POVERTY AND THE POSSESSIVE INVESTMENT IN COLOR IN THE MULTIRACIAL 1960S UNITED STATES |
26 Chicana/o-Latina/o Law Review 69 (Spring 2006) |
William M. Taylor, Jr., Chief Judge for the United States District Court, North District of Texas, had never seen an employment discrimination case quite like Badillo v. Dallas Action Committee, Inc. According to Judge Taylor, a typical suit usually pits an individual or group of . . . minority plaintiffs against a white or Caucasian-controlled... |
2006 |
Yes |
| Matthew D. Adler |
WELFARE POLLS: A SYNTHESIS |
81 New York University Law Review 1875 (December, 2006) |
Welfare polls are survey instruments that seek to quantify the determinants of human well-being. Currently, three welfare polling formats are dominant: contingent valuation (CV) surveys, quality-adjusted life year (QALY) surveys, and happiness surveys. Each format has generated a large, specialized, scholarly literature, but no comprehensive... |
2006 |
Yes |
| Noah Zatz |
WELFARE TO WHAT? |
57 Hastings Law Journal 1131 (June, 2006) |
Ten years ago, President Clinton fulfilled his campaign pledge to end welfare as we know it by signing sweeping federal welfare reform legislation. The replacement of Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) with Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) marked an important transformation in the character of the American welfare state.... |
2006 |
Yes |
| Noah D. Zatz |
WHAT WELFARE REQUIRES FROM WORK |
54 UCLA Law Review 373 (December, 2006) |
Work is central to much of life and to many areas of law, including recent transformations in the American welfare state. Despite this pervasive importance, work is notoriously difficult to define. Yet doing so is essential to the design and functioning of a work-based welfare system. This Article provides the first comprehensive analysis of how to... |
2006 |
Yes |
| Vicki Lens |
WORK SANCTIONS UNDER WELFARE REFORM: ARE THEY HELPING WOMEN ACHIEVE SELF-SUFFICIENCY? |
13 Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy 255 (Spring 2006) |
The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity and Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) of 1996 radically reshaped the landscape of welfare for women. The changes transformed a program designed to meet the material needs of poor women and their families into one primarily focused on preventing dependency through promoting work. PRWORA includes an array of... |
2006 |
Yes |
| Ani B. Satz |
WOULD ROSA PARKS WEAR FUR? TOWARD A NONDISCRIMINATION APPROACH TO ANIMAL WELFARE |
1 Journal of Animal Law & Ethics 139 (May, 2006) |
On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks, a young African American woman, tired from a long day's work, refused to give her seat on a bus to a white man. In writing about this fateful day, Ms. Parks states, [o]ur mistreatment was just not right, and I was tired of it. The mistreatment of which Ms. Parks speaks was segregation and other racial... |
2006 |
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| Risa E. Kaufman |
BRIDGING THE FEDERALISM GAP: PROCEDURAL DUE PROCESS AND RACE DISCRIMINATION IN A DEVOLVED WELFARE SYSTEM |
3 Hastings Race and Poverty Law Journal 1 (Fall, 2005) |
What does the current federalism mean for poor and low-income people of color? Recent Supreme Court decisions limit the power of the federal government to legislate and the federal courts to provide redress, particularly in the area of civil rights. For example, the Court has invalidated federal legislation allowing individuals to seek monetary... |
2005 |
Yes |
| Vicki Lens |
BUREAUCRATIC DISENTITLEMENT AFTER WELFARE REFORM: ARE FAIR HEARINGS THE CURE? |
12 Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy 13 (Spring, 2005) |
Over thirty years ago, the Supreme Court in Goldberg v. Kelly granted welfare clients the right to a pre-termination hearing. Much has changed about the welfare system since. Welfare is no longer considered an entitlement. It is temporary and work-based. Sanctions are applied to clients who fail to comply with work requirements. As the welfare... |
2005 |
Yes |
| Rose Cuison Villazor |
COMMUNITY LAWYERING: AN APPROACH TO ADDRESSING INEQUALITIES IN ACCESS TO HEALTH CARE FOR POOR, OF COLOR AND IMMIGRANT COMMUNITIES |
8 NYU Journal of Legislation and Public Policy 35 (2004-2005) |
Luchando, creando poder popular! shouted Yorelis Vidal outside of Wyckoff Heights Medical Center (Wyckoff Hospital), a private hospital in Brooklyn, New York. On February 28, 2002, Ms. Vidal led members and supporters of Make the Road by Walking (Make the Road), a community-based organization in the Bushwick area of Brooklyn, in protesting... |
2005 |
Yes |
| J. Peter Byrne |
CONDEMNATION OF LOW INCOME RESIDENTIAL COMMUNITIES UNDER THE TAKINGS CLAUSE |
23 UCLA Journal of Environmental Law & Policy 131 (2005) |
Many and varied voices today are calling for narrowing the scope of public use in the Takings Clause. In doing so, they primarily seek to limit, in varying degrees, the constitutional authority of government to use eminent domain for urban redevelopment. For critics, found both on the right and on the left, easy recourse to condemnation unduly... |
2005 |
Yes |