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"Bad" Mothers And Spanish-Speaking Caregivers, Annette R. Appell
"Bad" Mothers And Spanish-Speaking Caregivers, Annette R. Appell
Nevada Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Bearing Witness To Economic Injustices Of Undocumented Immigrant Families: A New Class Of "Undeserving" Poor, Francine J. Lipman
Bearing Witness To Economic Injustices Of Undocumented Immigrant Families: A New Class Of "Undeserving" Poor, Francine J. Lipman
Nevada Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Shoshone-Bannock Tribal Water Resource Code (2007), Shoshone-Bannock Tribes
Shoshone-Bannock Tribal Water Resource Code (2007), Shoshone-Bannock Tribes
Native American Water Rights Settlement Project
Tribal Water Code: 2007 Shoshone-Bannock Tribal Water Resource Code (WATR-07-S1 (2007). This Code establishes the Tribal Water Resources Commission and the Tribal Water Resources Dept; provides water allocation guidelines; structures a license and permitting system; determines effects of non-use and attempted adverse possession; provides penalties and enforcement; and sets up hearings and appeals. [Source: http://www.shoshonebannocktribes.com/elements/documents/water/2007-Sec-Int-Water-Code.pdf]
Fighting Poverty With Faith: Reflections On Ten Years Of Charitable Choice, Michele E. Gilman
Fighting Poverty With Faith: Reflections On Ten Years Of Charitable Choice, Michele E. Gilman
All Faculty Scholarship
Since 1996, the federal government has undertaken major initiatives to fund religious organizations to deliver social services. These programs, called charitable choice, continue to expand and now account for over $2 billion in social welfare spending. However, charitable choice blurs the lines between church and state and is thus highly controversial. This article reflects on ten years of experience with charitable choice and assesses the impact and effectiveness of these programs. There is little empirical evidence that faith-based social services are superior to secular programs. Moreover, religious grantees, and congregations in particular, are often unable to manage large federal grants …
Child Support Harming Children: Subordinating The Best Interests Of Children To The Fiscal Interests Of The State, Daniel L. Hatcher
Child Support Harming Children: Subordinating The Best Interests Of Children To The Fiscal Interests Of The State, Daniel L. Hatcher
All Faculty Scholarship
This Article examines the government policy of seeking reimbursement of welfare costs through child support enforcement. Under our welfare program, Temporary Aid to Needy Families (TANF), custodial parents applying for benefits are required to establish child support obligations against the absent parents and to assign the resulting child support payments to the government. As a result, half of the $105 billion in national child support debt is owed to the government rather than to children. The government's fiscal interests are in direct conflict with the best interests of the children - the controlling legal standard in child support matters. The …
What Is The Use Of International Law? International Law As A 21st Century Guardian Of Welfare, Emmanuelle Jouannet
What Is The Use Of International Law? International Law As A 21st Century Guardian Of Welfare, Emmanuelle Jouannet
Michigan Journal of International Law
The thesis of this Essay is that international law currently represents a welfare-driven and bio-political structuring mode for international society which not only counterbalances liberal economic globalization, but also draws from it. This inquiry offers a political interpretation of contemporary international law to clarify its functioning and the effects of its legal rationality, as well as to answer the question of its efficacy. An evolution has taken place for at least a century and has only attainted partial completion. It is the fruit of modernity that constantly projects its aspirations, its unity, and its contradictions onto the international legal system. …
Cooperative Federalism And Healthcare Reform: The Medicare Part D 'Clawback' Example, Elizabeth Weeks Leonard
Cooperative Federalism And Healthcare Reform: The Medicare Part D 'Clawback' Example, Elizabeth Weeks Leonard
Scholarly Works
This symposium article recounts recent litigation by several states over a provision of the Medicare Modernization Act Part D prescription drug benefit: The clawback, which requires states to pay the a potentially substantial portion of new federal program. I then examine the unique federalism implications of the clawback for ongoing state and federal health reform initiatives.
In spring 2006, several states petitioned the United States Supreme Court for original jurisdiction to hear a challenge to one provision of the new Medicare Part D prescription drug law. The federal government, while taking over prescription drug coverage for dually eligible beneficiaries, required …
Contract Law And Distribution In The Age Of Welfare Reform, Daniela Caruso
Contract Law And Distribution In The Age Of Welfare Reform, Daniela Caruso
Faculty Scholarship
This Article tracks the ongoing adaptation of U.S. contract law to the 1990s’ contraction of the welfare state. Some courts strive to compensate for the shortage of welfare services and to pursue redistributive goals. This Article provides examples of this trend and then analyzes the non-linear relation between doctrines, judicial redistribution, and welfare politics in both case law and scholarship. Finally, this Article discusses the role of socially sensitive judicial discourse in light of contemporary welfare politics and explains its continuing importance.
Missing The Mark: Welfare Reform And Rural Poverty, Lisa Pruitt
Missing The Mark: Welfare Reform And Rural Poverty, Lisa Pruitt
Lisa R Pruitt
This article, written for a symposium assessing the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) a decade after its passage, considers welfare reform’s impact in rural America. Professor Pruitt asserts that federal welfare reform legislation reflects an urban political agenda that failed to consider rural realities. Based on her analysis of two particular populations—those living in persistent poverty and those in female-headed households—she concludes that PRWORA has exacerbated rural poverty. While PRWORA’s focus was on work and time limits on assistance, it gave individual states latitude to design and implement programs tailored to their economic and demographic circumstances. Pruitt …