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A Mile Away, A World Apart: Life Expectancy Inequality In The United States, Scott A. Budow May 2022

A Mile Away, A World Apart: Life Expectancy Inequality In The United States, Scott A. Budow

DePaul Journal for Social Justice

No abstract provided.


Charles Reich: Due Process In The Eye Of The Receiver, Harold Hongju Koh Jan 2021

Charles Reich: Due Process In The Eye Of The Receiver, Harold Hongju Koh

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.


Trapped In Tragedies: Childhood Trauma, Spatial Inequality, And Law, David Dante Troutt Mar 2018

Trapped In Tragedies: Childhood Trauma, Spatial Inequality, And Law, David Dante Troutt

Marquette Law Review

Each year, psychological trauma arising from community and domestic violence, abuse, and neglect brings profound psychological, physiological, and academic harm to millions of American children, disproportionately poor children of color. This Article represents the first comprehensive legal analysis of the causes of and remedies for a crisis that can have lifelong and epigenetic consequences. Using civil rights and local government law, this Article argues that children’s reactions to complex trauma represent the natural symptomatology of severe structural inequality—legally sanctioned environments of isolated, segregated poverty. The sources of psychological trauma may be largely environmental, but the traumatic environments themselves are caused …


Fighting For Fair Fares In New York City Through Civil Society Enforcement Of Title Vi, Sara Amri Jan 2017

Fighting For Fair Fares In New York City Through Civil Society Enforcement Of Title Vi, Sara Amri

Journal of Law and Policy

Low-income New Yorkers rely heavily on public transportation to travel around the city. However, riding the New York City subway system is becoming increasingly unaffordable. New York City’s Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) has set forth plans to implement semiannual fare increases. No alleviation has been provided, however, to New Yorkers living at or below the federal poverty level, despite the discounts provided to other groups regardless of their income. The inability to travel can have a devastating impact on the upward mobility of poor New Yorkers, and, alarmingly, fare increases appear to have a disparate impact on low-income people of …


Fighting For Fair Fares In New York City Through Civil Society Enforcement Of Title Vi, Sara Amri Jan 2017

Fighting For Fair Fares In New York City Through Civil Society Enforcement Of Title Vi, Sara Amri

Journal of Law and Policy

Low-income New Yorkers rely heavily on public transportation to travel around the city. However, riding the New York City subway system is becoming increasingly unaffordable. New York City’s Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) has set forth plans to implement semiannual fare increases. No alleviation has been provided, however, to New Yorkers living at or below the federal poverty level, despite the discounts provided to other groups regardless of their income. The inability to travel can have a devastating impact on the upward mobility of poor New Yorkers, and, alarmingly, fare increases appear to have a disparate impact on low-income people of …


The Costs Of The Pay-To-Play Model In High School Athletics, Micah Bucy Jan 2013

The Costs Of The Pay-To-Play Model In High School Athletics, Micah Bucy

University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class

No abstract provided.


Comments: Symposium On Strategies To End Poverty And Inequality, Barbara Arnwine, Jo-Ann Wallace Mar 2007

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 Mar 2007

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 Mar 2007

Keynote Address: Symposium On Strategies To End Poverty And Inequality, Tom Perez

University of the District of Columbia Law Review

No abstract provided.


Comments: Symposium On Strategies To End Poverty And Inequality, Emma Coleman Jordan Mar 2007

Comments: Symposium On Strategies To End Poverty And Inequality, Emma Coleman Jordan

University of the District of Columbia Law Review

No abstract provided.