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The Lack Of Childcare And Its Impact In America, Anni Wang

Poverty Law Conference & Symposium

Child care is expensive. The average cost of child care in the United States can range from 9- 36% of a family’s income, depending on where they live. We are the only industrialized country that does not offer some kind paid family leave. For one of the richest countries in the world, child poverty rates have remained increasingly high in America. The lack of affordable child care has become a national crisis, with daycare costing more than in-state university tuition in half of the country.

Lowering costs and providing better access to high quality childcare can significantly increase parents’ employment …

Utilizing Estate Plans To Achieve Economic Justice, Geber Penate

Poverty Law Conference & Symposium

Bayview has been the home to many black families for decades. However, the inability of title-holders to create distribution plans for their estate before their death has contributed to their ultimate displacement. When a title-holder of property dies, their property is required to go through a court system known as probate. The probate court system has various functions ranging from identifying assets, calculating any owed taxes and fees, and distributing property. The only way to avoid probate is through the execution of a probate-avoidance distribution document, which is mentioned in further detail below. The probate court system, to say the …

Poverty Law Symposium 2018, Michele Benedetto Neitz

Poverty Law Conference & Symposium

Presentations:

Ladie Adriano: “Child Support Enforcement and the Incarcerated Obligor”

Stephanie Huang: “Civil Gideon for Family Law”

Devin Fathi: “Systematic Inequality of the Third Gender”

Gisele Martinez: “California’s Death Penalty and Proposition 66”

Jordan Davis: “Legalize It: Cash Crop or Tool of Economic Oppression”

Harris Emran: “Support Your Local Bondsman; Get Arrested”

Maneesha Birdee: “More Housing Near Public Transit: Relocating the Bay Area’s Poor”

Douglas Blatecky: “Safe Injection Sites in San Francisco”

Minna Fernan: “Criminalization of Homeless People in San Francisco is not the Answer”

John Adams: “When Yesterday’s Choices are Making for Tomorrow’s Bad Decisions: How California may Tackle …

2016 Poverty Law Symposium, Michele Benedetto Neitz

Poverty Law Conference & Symposium

Poverty Law Symposium
April 20, 2016 12-4 PM

Presentation Schedule:

12:00 PM- Lunch
12:20 PM- Emily Champlin "The Myth of the Welfare Queen: Reproductive Oppression in the Welfare System"
12:40 PM- Stephany Arzaga “An Increase in Immigrant Homeless Youth: A Consequence of the Federal Government’s Failure to Properly Protect Immigrant Refugee Youth”
1:00 PM- Veronica Kontilis “Civil Gideon in San Francisco: Strengthening Protections for Low-income Tenants”
1:20 PM- Break
1:35 PM- Alafia Delahaye "Local Control Funding Formula: A Continuum of Discrimination Against Minority Youth"
1:55 PM- Joey Faber “Avoiding Probate – The Benefits of Proper Estate Planning for Working-Poor”
2:15 …

Education Disparities Based On Wealth: Struggles Facing Poor Aspiring Lawyers, Angelica Torres

Student Publications

This paper will focus on my lack of knowledge about how growing up poor would make my own struggle to become a lawyer – especially a lawyer hoping to one day serve her own community – seem cluttered with unending obstacles. Given the costs of becoming a lawyer, and given that poverty disproportionately affects minorities, it is easy to understand why diversity is still lacking in the legal profession. Furthermore, because of the economic obstacles the poor face from the very beginning, attempting to work in the public interest field can add to the lists of challenges by disincentivizing those …

Poverty Law In The Law School Curriculum Is Focus Of Major Conference At Golden Gate University School Of Law On March 19-20, Jill Goetz

Press Releases

Golden Gate University School of Law and the Society of American Law Teachers (SALT) proudly present "Vulnerable Populations and Economic Realities: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Law Teaching," a two-day conference on poverty law that will be held at the School of Law on Friday, March 19 and Saturday, March 20, 2010. Academics and practitioners from legal education, the social sciences, and the news media will share new data and theories about our most vulnerable populations and explore critical issues facing these groups in an interdisciplinary context for use in law teaching.