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Learning To Work: A Functional Approach To Welfare And Higher Education, Martha Davis
Learning To Work: A Functional Approach To Welfare And Higher Education, Martha Davis
Martha F. Davis
The current welfare law mandates participation in designated work activities at the expense of education for welfare recipients, particularly discouraging pursuit of higher education while, at the same time, emphasizing marriage. On the eve of the 2010 reauthorization of welfare reform, this article challenges the assumption underlying the 1996 welfare law and its 2005 reauthorization that work and education are wholly distinct concepts and activities. Indeed, both educational theory and workforce development policies have reflected this conceptual and functional common ground between work and education for decades. Similarly, peer nations and international law squarely acknowledge the ways in which these …
The Child Exclusion In A Global Context, Martha Davis
The Child Exclusion In A Global Context, Martha Davis
Martha F. Davis
Twenty-two states now exclude children born to women on welfare from the calculation of families' welfare benefits. This program of subsistence benefit withholding is known as the “family cap” or the “child exclusion;” children denied benefits under the program are called “cap babies.” After reporting on the status and context of child exclusion policies in the U.S., including evidence of their disparate racial impact, this article examines child exclusion policies through a global lens. The United Nations has urged all countries to develop formal population policies and over the past two decades, most have. The U.S. has not done so, …
Health Law Hearings Offer Live Case Study, Martine Powers, Martha Davis
Health Law Hearings Offer Live Case Study, Martine Powers, Martha Davis
Martha F. Davis
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