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Full-Text Articles in Social Welfare Law
Dependency By Law: Poverty, Identity, And Welfare Privatization, Frank Munger
Dependency By Law: Poverty, Identity, And Welfare Privatization, Frank Munger
Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies
Privatization of welfare reflects the political pressure to limit public responsibility for protection of social citizenship. Recent welfare reforms incorporate three classic market-like privatization mechanisms--contracting out services forcing allocation of a limited pool of benefits, and deregulation. Deregulation entails strategic diversion and disqualification of large numbers of would-be applicants who are left without alternatives to the labor market. In this article I discuss an empirical study of the effects of deregulation of welfare on the self-perceptions of recipients. Interviews with recipients and with low-wage health care workers, former recipients, show that, criticisms of welfare notwithstanding, they have embraced welfare reform's …
Katrina, The Constitution, And The Legal Question Doctrine, Robin West
Katrina, The Constitution, And The Legal Question Doctrine, Robin West
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
In this paper I will not develop the case for constitutionally protected welfare rights - I have tried to do that elsewhere. Instead, I want to explore the tension between what I will take to be at least a plausible account of the state's Constitutional obligations to the poor, and what seems to me as at least equally self-evident, to wit, that no American court will discover and then impose such Constitutional obligations upon recalcitrant state or federal legislators. My conclusion will be pragmatic. I want to urge those who feel likewise regarding the Constitutional obligations of state actors, to …