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Opening Doors: Preventing Youth Homelessness Through Housing And Education Collaboration, Courtney L. Anderson
Opening Doors: Preventing Youth Homelessness Through Housing And Education Collaboration, Courtney L. Anderson
Courtney L Anderson
This article will contribute to the general literature on homelessness by recommending that permanent supportive housing units for homeless children, youth and families provide education services in order to prevent and end homelessness among families, youth and children. I will explain how the legal framework for such housing requires a broad interpretation of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, and assert that federal programs provide a foundation for the creation of such housing. Identifying and educating homeless youth is particularly challenging as the majority of homeless youth live on the streets or in the homes of others, suffer from serious mental …
Immigration Policy And Low Wage Workers: The Influence Of American Unionism, Vernon Briggs
Immigration Policy And Low Wage Workers: The Influence Of American Unionism, Vernon Briggs
Vernon M Briggs Jr
Public testimony by Prof. Briggs given at the Hearing before the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, October 30, 2003.
Immigration Policy And Low Wage Workers: The Influence Of American Unionism, Vernon Briggs
Immigration Policy And Low Wage Workers: The Influence Of American Unionism, Vernon Briggs
Vernon M Briggs Jr
Public testimony by Prof. Briggs given at the Hearing before the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, October 30, 2003.
"Offer To Sell" As A Policy Tool, Lucas S. Osborn
"Offer To Sell" As A Policy Tool, Lucas S. Osborn
Lucas S. Osborn
Gone are the days when the term “offer” is confined to first-year contracts courses and the intricacies of contract formation. The offer concept has quietly migrated throughout the law. It now regulates behavior in areas as diverse as criminal law, environmental law, securities law, and intellectual property law. Despite its wide diffusion, the offer concept remains largely unstudied as a legal concept outside of its contract-law environment. This Article begins to fill that gap. The Article begins by deconstructing the meaning of a traditional contract-law “offer” to determine its policy role in contract law, and then compares that role with …