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Dickens Redux: How American Child Labor Law Became A Con Game, Seymour Moskowitz
Dickens Redux: How American Child Labor Law Became A Con Game, Seymour Moskowitz
Law Faculty Publications
Millions of American teens are employed today in a variety of workplaces. The jobs they hold typically provide little human capital for their future economic self·sufficiency, and pose substantial immediate and long-term safety, academic, and behavioral risks for this generation. This Article seeks to answer the question of how American law and society reached this situation, which has such disastrous effects for working youth, their families, and society as a whole. Three main themes are developed:
1. Child labor has always been part of the American economy, from colonial times until today. While there have been more than 150 years …
Intent And Empirics: Race To The Subprime, Carol N. Brown
Intent And Empirics: Race To The Subprime, Carol N. Brown
Law Faculty Publications
The United States’ history of racially discriminatory banking, housing, and property policies created a community of black Americans accustomed to exploitative financial services and vulnerable to victimization by subprime lenders. My thesis is that black borrowers are experiencing a new iteration of intentional housing discrimination in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries; lenders identified a vulnerable 'emerging market' of black homeowners and borrowers and knowingly targeted them to receive subprime or predatory loan products when equally situated white borrowers were given superior, prime mortgage products. This Article explores how disparate lending practices coupled with banking deregulation undermined the Congressional push for …