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Full-Text Articles in Social Welfare Law
An "Age Of [Im]Possibility": Rhetoric, Welfare Reform, And Poverty, Lisa A. Crooms
An "Age Of [Im]Possibility": Rhetoric, Welfare Reform, And Poverty, Lisa A. Crooms
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Joel F. Handler, The Poverty of Welfare Reform and Mark Robert Rank, Living on the Edge: The Realities of Welfare in America
How Will Welfare Recipients Fare In The Labor Market?, Jeffrey S. Lehman, Sheldon Danziger
How Will Welfare Recipients Fare In The Labor Market?, Jeffrey S. Lehman, Sheldon Danziger
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Stepping Into The Projects: Lawmaking, Storytelling, And Practicing The Politics Of Identification, Lisa A. Crooms
Stepping Into The Projects: Lawmaking, Storytelling, And Practicing The Politics Of Identification, Lisa A. Crooms
Michigan Journal of Race and Law
In her article, "The Black Community," Its Lawbreakers, and a Politics of Identification, Professor Regina Austin proposes a paradigm to move the Black community beyond a "manifestation of a nostalgic longing for a time when blacks were clearly distinguishable from whites and concern about the welfare of the poor was more natural than our hairdos.” Austin's politics of identification provides the conceptual framework through which the Black community can reconstitute itself in accordance with its own principles, which may or may not be those embraced by the mainstream. This article considers Professor Regina Austin’s politics of identification as practiced by …
Welfare Reform And Child Care: A Proposal For State Legislation, Clare Huntington
Welfare Reform And Child Care: A Proposal For State Legislation, Clare Huntington
Faculty Scholarship
Without subsidized child care, Dianne Williams, the mother of an eighteen-month-old son, would never have left welfare and earned the post-secondary degree that led to her current job as a senior secretary; Tammy Stinson, a U.S. Air Force veteran and 29-year-old mother of two children, would spend up to $150 of her weekly $200 salary on child care, increasing the likelihood she would turn to welfare or live in poverty; Jerry Andrews, a graduate of a government-funded early childhood education program, might not earn $31,200 a year and be working towards an engineering degree. These individuals are lucky. The vast …