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Direct Cash Transfers And Tax Policy: Reporting Cash Transfers For Maximum Benefit To The Recipients, Jacqueline Lainez Flanigan
Direct Cash Transfers And Tax Policy: Reporting Cash Transfers For Maximum Benefit To The Recipients, Jacqueline Lainez Flanigan
Book Chapters
Unconditional direct cash transfers (DCTs) are supported by a vast national and international evidence base. They have been shown to have a positive impact on health outcomes, school attendance, child development, household spending, and poverty reduction (Morton et. al., 2020). For young people experiencing homelessness or housing instability, DCTs offer a promising approach for moving swiftly to safe, permanent housing and starting on pathways to independence. While a DCT can be an important source of support and financial safety net, there is currently no express exemption from income for DCTs, potentially impacting a young person’s tax burden. Ultimately, this could …
Performance Oversight Hearing For The Metropolitan Police Department , February 17, 2022, Katherine S. Broderick
Performance Oversight Hearing For The Metropolitan Police Department , February 17, 2022, Katherine S. Broderick
D.C. Council Testimony
Statement of the District Task Force on Jails and Justice Before the Committee on the Judiciary and Public Safety of the Council of the District of Columbia. Performance Oversight Hearing for the Metropolitan Police Department. February 17, 2022.
Critical Interviewing, Laila L. Hlass, Lindsay M. Harris
Critical Interviewing, Laila L. Hlass, Lindsay M. Harris
Journal Articles
Critical lawyering—also at times called rebellious, community, and movement lawyering—attempts to further social justice alongside impacted communities. While much has been written about the contours of this form of lawyering and case examples illustrating core principles, little has been written about the mechanics of teaching critical lawyering skills. This Article seeks to expand critical lawyering theory, and in doing so, provide an example of a pedagogical approach to teaching what we term “critical interviewing.” Critical interviewing means using an intersectional lens to collaborate with clients, communities, interviewing partners, and interpreters in a legal interview. Critical interviewers identify and take into …
Reframing Radical Religion, Vanita Saleema Snow
Reframing Radical Religion, Vanita Saleema Snow
Journal Articles
Like a thief in the night,1 politicians have stolen religion for their deceptive vices, using the term “radicalization” or “terrorism” to meet their needs.2 See Sahar F. Aziz, Caught in a Preventive Dragnet: Selective Counterterrorism in a Post-9/11 America, 47 GONZ. L. REV. 429, 481 (2012) (discussing how a police report equates “Muslim religiosity with radicalization toward terrorism”); David A. Bosworth, American Crusade: The Religious Roots of the War on Terror, 7 BARRY L. REV. 65, 65 (2006) (noting that American news and popular culture often portray religious people as “narrow-minded bigots out to destroy everything good and decent”); Ned …
The New Gospel Of Wealth: On Social Impact Bonds And The Privatization Of Public Good, Etienne C. Toussaint
The New Gospel Of Wealth: On Social Impact Bonds And The Privatization Of Public Good, Etienne C. Toussaint
Journal Articles
Since Andrew Carnegie penned his famous Gospel of Wealth in 1889, corporate philanthropists have championed considerable public good around the world, investing in a wide range of social programs addressing a diversity of public issues, from poverty to healthcare to criminal justice. Nevertheless, the problem of “the Rich and the Poor,” as termed by Andrew Carnegie in his famous essay, remains unsolved. Socially conscious investors have recently called for America to reimagine a new “gospel of wealth”, one that not only grapples with the what of social injustice, but also explores the how and the why of systemic social and …
Reimagining Accountability: A Move Toward Re-Entrenching The Higher Education Act, Twinette L. Johnson
Reimagining Accountability: A Move Toward Re-Entrenching The Higher Education Act, Twinette L. Johnson
Journal Articles
In 1964, while delivering his "Great Society Speech"' at the University of Michigan, President Lyndon B. Johnson stated that, "[e]ach year, more than 100,000 high school graduates, with proven ability, do not enter college because they cannot afford it." 2 In 1964, there were 1,037,000 students enrolled in college, according to the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). 3 By 1965, President Johnson signed into law the Higher Education Act4 (HEA or the Act). "[T]he Act sought to bridge the ... gap for [economically and socially disadvantaged] citizens ... by providing [them] the means to pursue higher education." 5 The …
Incarceration To Incorporation: Economic Empowerment For Returning Citizens Through Social Impact Bonds, Etienne C. Toussaint
Incarceration To Incorporation: Economic Empowerment For Returning Citizens Through Social Impact Bonds, Etienne C. Toussaint
Journal Articles
No abstract provided.
Post-Ferguson Social Engineering: Problem-Solving Justice Or Just Posturing, Mae C. Quinn
Post-Ferguson Social Engineering: Problem-Solving Justice Or Just Posturing, Mae C. Quinn
Journal Articles
No abstract provided.
18th Annual Joseph L. Rauh, Jr. Lecture, Eric H. Holder Jr.
18th Annual Joseph L. Rauh, Jr. Lecture, Eric H. Holder Jr.
University of the District of Columbia Law Review
No abstract provided.
Changing Federal Statutory Proposals To Address Domestic Violence At Work: Creating A Societal Response By Making Businesses A Part Of The Solution, Marcy L. Karin
Journal Articles
Over five million acts of domestic violence are committed every year.1 The prevalence of these acts makes domestic violence “the leading cause of injury to women.”2 Detrimental wherever they occur, these acts are not limited to the privacy of one’s home. Instead, domestic violence regularly and repeatedly spills over to the “public” workplace.For example, Francescia La Rose’s former boyfriend called her supervisor and threatened to come to the office to kill La Rose if she was not fired. Her employer responded by warning La Rose to keep her personal problems out of the workplace. The next day, the ex-boyfriend walked …
Comments: Symposium On Strategies To End Poverty And Inequality, Barbara Arnwine, Jo-Ann Wallace
Comments: Symposium On Strategies To End Poverty And Inequality, Barbara Arnwine, Jo-Ann Wallace
University of the District of Columbia Law Review
No abstract provided.
Comments: Symposium On Strategies To End Poverty And Inequality, Edgar Cahn, Florence Wagman Roisman
Comments: Symposium On Strategies To End Poverty And Inequality, Edgar Cahn, Florence Wagman Roisman
University of the District of Columbia Law Review
No abstract provided.
Keynote Address: Symposium On Strategies To End Poverty And Inequality, Tom Perez
Keynote Address: Symposium On Strategies To End Poverty And Inequality, Tom Perez
University of the District of Columbia Law Review
No abstract provided.
Love You Madly: The Life And Times Of The Neighborhood Legal Services Program Of Washington, D.C., Brian Gilmore
Love You Madly: The Life And Times Of The Neighborhood Legal Services Program Of Washington, D.C., Brian Gilmore
University of the District of Columbia Law Review
This article is a brief historical examination of the origins of the Neighborhood Legal Services Program and an analysis of the work of the program as a federally-funded legal services program for forty years. Part I of this article examines the history of the program in the early years and the birth of the "neighborhood" concept in legal services. Part II analyzes the key precedent-setting housing cases the program litigated in the 1960's and 1970's. Part III addresses the criticisms of the program and reviews legal services in general. For instance, almost immediately from its inception, the idea of neighborhood-based …
Comments: Symposium On Strategies To End Poverty And Inequality, Emma Coleman Jordan
Comments: Symposium On Strategies To End Poverty And Inequality, Emma Coleman Jordan
University of the District of Columbia Law Review
No abstract provided.
Independent Paralegals Can Fill The Gap In Unmet Legal Services For The Low-Income Community, Thais E. Mootz
Independent Paralegals Can Fill The Gap In Unmet Legal Services For The Low-Income Community, Thais E. Mootz
University of the District of Columbia Law Review
No abstract provided.
Legal Services Attorneys As Partners In Community Economic Development: Creating Wealth For Poor Communities Through Cooperative Economics, Laurie A. Morin
Legal Services Attorneys As Partners In Community Economic Development: Creating Wealth For Poor Communities Through Cooperative Economics, Laurie A. Morin
University of the District of Columbia Law Review
No abstract provided.
Mapping A Labyrinth To Justice: Lessons And Insights From Innovative Legal Services Delivery Methodologies Implemented In The District Of Columbia, Jan A, May
University of the District of Columbia Law Review
No abstract provided.
Legal Needs For The Low-Income Population In Washington, Dc, Lynn E. Cunningham
Legal Needs For The Low-Income Population In Washington, Dc, Lynn E. Cunningham
University of the District of Columbia Law Review
No abstract provided.
Dc Consortium Of Legal Service Providers: Legal Services 2000 Symposium. April 30, 1999. Remarks Of Peter Edelman, Zona Hostetler, And Ada Shen-Jaffe, Peter Edelman, Zona Hostetler, Ada Shen-Jaffe
Dc Consortium Of Legal Service Providers: Legal Services 2000 Symposium. April 30, 1999. Remarks Of Peter Edelman, Zona Hostetler, And Ada Shen-Jaffe, Peter Edelman, Zona Hostetler, Ada Shen-Jaffe
University of the District of Columbia Law Review
No abstract provided.
Co-Producing Justice: The New Imperative, Edgar S. Cahn
Co-Producing Justice: The New Imperative, Edgar S. Cahn
University of the District of Columbia Law Review
No abstract provided.
A Tragic View Of Poverty Law Practice, Paul R. Tremblay
A Tragic View Of Poverty Law Practice, Paul R. Tremblay
University of the District of Columbia Law Review
Poverty lawyers, we are told, can do as much harm as good for their clients. This humbling theme has been a fixture in the literature and research surrounding the role of lawyers for the poor for some time. The theme captures several deep truths about poverty law. It reminds us that lawyers for the poor can, and do, exclude their clients in the work that they do, view the lives of clients through the distorted prism of law training and law practice, and tend to expend their energies on remedies and processes, largely litigation oriented, which are unlikely to lead …
An Integrated Jurisprudence And Its Influence In Fighting Poverty, Kevin L. O'Shea
An Integrated Jurisprudence And Its Influence In Fighting Poverty, Kevin L. O'Shea
University of the District of Columbia Law Review
No abstract provided.
No Easy Walk To Freedom, Stephen T. Maher
No Easy Walk To Freedom, Stephen T. Maher
University of the District of Columbia Law Review
No abstract provided.
The War On Poverty: A Civilian Perspective, Edgar S. Cahn, Jean C. Cahn
The War On Poverty: A Civilian Perspective, Edgar S. Cahn, Jean C. Cahn
University of the District of Columbia Law Review
This article does two things: it articulates a vision and it lays out a specific blueprint. The core of the vision regards legal representation as "a form of enfranchisement, as an attempt to institutionalize the functions of dissent and criticism, and as a means of revitalizing the democratic process." This explains why the article triggered a movement that was perceived as going beyond the orthodox delivery of legal aid. While others legislate or purport to breath life into the democratic process, lawyers, in their unique role as advocates, discharge a constitutionally protected role. And in light of the retaliation to …
Victimization, The Poor, And Payne V. Tennessee, Richard Bender Abell
Victimization, The Poor, And Payne V. Tennessee, Richard Bender Abell
University of the District of Columbia Law Review
No abstract provided.
Beyond The New Property: The Right To Become And Remain Productive, Edgar S. Cahn
Beyond The New Property: The Right To Become And Remain Productive, Edgar S. Cahn
University of the District of Columbia Law Review
The sixties and seventies saw the creation of new rights and the expansion of old ones in response to discrimination, disenfranchisement, and poverty. The new rights were both participatory rights' and substantive rights.2 They effected a redistribution of wealth and power. Essentially, they were rights to consume and rights to share. We called these rights "The New Property."3 As we moved from an era of sustained growth and surplus to budget deficits and trade deficits, we have been less willing to address social problems by expansion of those rights. Political and judicial receptivity to further redistribution diminished sharply.' Litigation seeking …