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Exploring The Conflicts Within Carceral Feminism: A Call To Revocalize The Women Who Continue To Suffer, Krishna De La Cruz
Exploring The Conflicts Within Carceral Feminism: A Call To Revocalize The Women Who Continue To Suffer, Krishna De La Cruz
The Scholar: St. Mary's Law Review on Race and Social Justice
Abstract forthcoming.
Two Direct Rights Of Action In Child Support Enforcement, Margaret Ryznar
Two Direct Rights Of Action In Child Support Enforcement, Margaret Ryznar
Catholic University Law Review
No abstract provided.
Reconsidering The Mythical Advantages Of Cohabitation: Why Marriage Is More Efficient Than Cohabitation, Eric P. Voigt
Reconsidering The Mythical Advantages Of Cohabitation: Why Marriage Is More Efficient Than Cohabitation, Eric P. Voigt
Indiana Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Institute Brief: Achieving Quality Services: A Checklist For Evaluating Your Agency, Doris Hamner, Jaimie Ciulla Timmons, David Hoff
Institute Brief: Achieving Quality Services: A Checklist For Evaluating Your Agency, Doris Hamner, Jaimie Ciulla Timmons, David Hoff
The Institute Brief Series, Institute for Community Inclusion
This checklist can help staff and directors at One-Stop Career Centers and state and private agencies evaluate the quality and responsiveness of their services to job seekers with disabilities. Areas covered include access to resources, agency culture, coordination, and consumer-directedness.
Welfare Devolution And State Constitutions, Helen Hershkoff
Welfare Devolution And State Constitutions, Helen Hershkoff
Fordham Law Review
No abstract provided.
Representing Race Outside Of Explicitly Racialized Contexts, Naomi R. Cahn
Representing Race Outside Of Explicitly Racialized Contexts, Naomi R. Cahn
Michigan Law Review
Welfare "as we know it" ended in 1996, a victim of a conservatism that views welfare recipients as lazy and immoral. One aspect of welfare that is, however, unlikely to experience radical change is child support. More vigorous child support enforcement has become an increasingly important component of federal welfare reform bills over the past two decades because of the twin hopes of fiscal and parental responsibility: first, that child support will reimburse welfare costs, and second, that fathers will take more responsibility for their children. Child support programs within the welfare system perpetuate a negative perception of poor people. …
Immigration Reform: Seeking The Right Reasons., Lamar Smith, Edward R. Grant
Immigration Reform: Seeking The Right Reasons., Lamar Smith, Edward R. Grant
St. Mary's Law Journal
The legacy of immigration to the United States permeates the debate over current immigration policy. Because our self-definition as a nation is at stake in this debate, the issue of immigration arouses our deepest sentiments regarding the communities in which we live. We do not need to search far back in our history to find examples of imprudent law-making. Both the 1924 and 1925 immigration laws were motivated in large part by purposes which eventually undermined the principles on which they rested. These acts serve as prime examples of how employing erroneous reasons to enact even well-intentioned laws can be …
Ending Welfare, Leaving The Poor To Face New Risk, Jeffrey S. Lehman, Sheldon Danziger
Ending Welfare, Leaving The Poor To Face New Risk, Jeffrey S. Lehman, Sheldon Danziger
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Fathers, The Welfare System, And The Virtues And Perils Of Child-Support Enforcement, David L. Chambers
Fathers, The Welfare System, And The Virtues And Perils Of Child-Support Enforcement, David L. Chambers
Articles
For half a century, Aid to Families with Dependent Children ("AFDC")' -the program of federally supported cash assistance to low-income families with children-has been oddly conceived. Congress has chosen to make assistance available almost solely to low-income single-parent families, not all low-income parents with children. At first many of the eligible single parents were women whose husbands had died. Over time, a growing majority were women who had been married to their children's father but who had separated or divorced. Today, to an ever increasing extent, they are women who were never married to the fathers of their children.2
Preserving The Purchasing Power Of Child Support Awards: Can The Use Of Escalator Clauses Be Justified After The Family Support Act?, Sarah K. Funke
Preserving The Purchasing Power Of Child Support Awards: Can The Use Of Escalator Clauses Be Justified After The Family Support Act?, Sarah K. Funke
Indiana Law Journal
No abstract provided.
The Unconstitutional Conditions Doctrine And Mandating Norplant For Women On Welfare Discourse, Laurence C. Nolan
The Unconstitutional Conditions Doctrine And Mandating Norplant For Women On Welfare Discourse, Laurence C. Nolan
American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law
No abstract provided.
Classifications That Disadvantage Newcomers And The Problem Of Equality, Robert C. Farrell
Classifications That Disadvantage Newcomers And The Problem Of Equality, Robert C. Farrell
University of Richmond Law Review
For those concerned with the substantial fiscal problems of government, we have a solution. The solution is - Newcomers. Newcomers are those who will become part of our community in the future but who are not here yet. Like unidentified holders of a contingent remainder, newcomers are not yet around to vote, to peddle influence, or to protect their turf. Since newcomers are not here to complain, now is the time to shift burdens onto their shoulders. Make them pay a larger share of taxes. Assign to them a smaller share of government largesse. Thanks to disarray in American policy …
The Earned Income Tax Credit As A Tax Expenditure: An Alternative To Traditional Welfare Reform, Timothy J. Eifler
The Earned Income Tax Credit As A Tax Expenditure: An Alternative To Traditional Welfare Reform, Timothy J. Eifler
University of Richmond Law Review
Welfare has become a common topic of concern recently as President Clinton and his political adversaries begin battle over the second major element of Clinton's agenda for reform. As a necessary corollary to, and a direct complement of the health care proposal, the welfare system presents the next area that requires reform for a truly effective agenda for change.
Foreword: The Many Contexts Of Welfare Reform, Jeffrey S. Lehman
Foreword: The Many Contexts Of Welfare Reform, Jeffrey S. Lehman
University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform
To nourish the ongoing debate, the editors of the University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform have drawn together contributions from four law professors who have substantial expertise concerning the American welfare state. All of the Articles that compose this Symposium are animated by a desire to broaden our frame of reference for evaluating welfare reform. I believe that their shared project is important. Efforts to change AFDC will send ripples through the multiple legal structures that buoy our public systems of income support and wealth redistribution.
Disentitling The Poor: Waivers And Welfare "Reform", Susan Bennett, Kathleen A. Sullivan
Disentitling The Poor: Waivers And Welfare "Reform", Susan Bennett, Kathleen A. Sullivan
University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform
This Article examines the purposes underlying the statutory grant of authority to Health and Human Services (HHS) to exempt states from the requirements of the statute, the important role that the Social Security Act has played as a source of rights for welfare recipients, the current wave of exemptions granted by HHS, and the lack of standards for review of state waiver proposals. Finally, this Article recommends the development of procedures and standards for review by HHS and urges that adherence to the core values of the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program is essential in evaluating the …
Reforming Welfare Through Social Security, Stephen D. Sugarman
Reforming Welfare Through Social Security, Stephen D. Sugarman
University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform
In this Article, I first want to illustrate the connection between Social Security and AFDC-to explain the Social Security program and to demonstrate how it contributes to the welfare problem. More importantly, I then want to offer a reform proposal that builds on Social Security as a way to begin to eliminate AFDC and the current welfare problem. Simply put, I propose that Social Security should provide benefits to children with absent parents on the same basic terms on which it now provides benefits to children with deceased, disabled, or retired parents.
The Many Contexts Of Welfare Reform, Jeffrey S. Lehman
The Many Contexts Of Welfare Reform, Jeffrey S. Lehman
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
The Income Tax Treatment Of Social Welfare Benefits, Jonathan Barry Forman
The Income Tax Treatment Of Social Welfare Benefits, Jonathan Barry Forman
University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform
Part I of this Article describes the major social welfare programs in the United States. Part II outlines the basic structure of the federal income tax and describes how social welfare benefits are treated by the income tax system. Finally, Part III surveys some recent proposals to tax particular social welfare benefits and considers the arguments for and against taxing such benefits. The Article concludes that the need for new revenue sources will push the federal government to reconsider the tax treatment of social welfare benefits.
The Limits Of Social Policy, Cary Coglianese
The Limits Of Social Policy, Cary Coglianese
Michigan Law Review
A Review of The Limits of Social Policy by Nathan Glazer
Due Process In The Administration Of General Assistance: Are Written Standards Protecting The Indigent?, Cynthia J. Reichard
Due Process In The Administration Of General Assistance: Are Written Standards Protecting The Indigent?, Cynthia J. Reichard
Indiana Law Journal
No abstract provided.
The Treatment Of Mandatory Tax Withholdings In Calculating Afdc Benefits: Fairness As A Relevant Inference In Ascertaining Congressional Intent, Michigan Law Review
The Treatment Of Mandatory Tax Withholdings In Calculating Afdc Benefits: Fairness As A Relevant Inference In Ascertaining Congressional Intent, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
This Note contends that the more appropriate construction of the statute is to view mandatory tax withholdings as nonincome and nonwork expense items. Part I traces the pre-OBRA legislative and administrative history and examines the judicial interpretations of 42 U.S.C. section 602(a)(7) "income" and section 602(a)(8) "earned income." It concludes that under the "availability" principle, tax withholdings have always been regarded as nonincome items distinct from work expenses. It contends that, notwithstanding contradictory language in the regulations implementing section 602(a)(8), the status of tax withholdings as nonincome items under section 602(a)(7) is controlling. Part II considers the legislative history and …
The Coming Curtailment Of Compulsory Child Support, David L. Chambers
The Coming Curtailment Of Compulsory Child Support, David L. Chambers
Articles
Absent parents ought to contribute to the support of their minor children and states can appropriately invoke the force of law to compel them to do so. Stated so generally, even absent parents behind in their payments would probably agree. Since so many others agree as well, and since the numbers of single-parent children have mushroomed, systems of governmentally compelled support in this country have grown enormously. By the early part of the next century, if current laws remain in force and current population trends continue, most of America's children on any given day will be entitled to support from …
Challenging Exclusionary Zoning Practices
Challenging Exclusionary Zoning Practices
University of Richmond Law Review
Municipal zoning ordinances are often used to exclude from a community persons of a lower socio-economic status than the existing residents. Such practices, known collectively as exclusionary zoning, have come under increasing attack as the shortage of decent housing, in the United states becomes more severe.
Aid To Families With Unborn Dependent Children: May The States Withhold Benefits?, Michigan Law Review
Aid To Families With Unborn Dependent Children: May The States Withhold Benefits?, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
This note will examine whether the duty to provide aid to unborn children should be imposed on all states participating in the AFDC program. It will first consider the argument that denying such benefits violates the equal protection clause of the fourteenth amendment, but the bulk of the note will be devoted to an interpretation of the relevant provisions of the Social Security Act. The statutory analysis requires several steps. First, it is necessary to examine and interpret the cases in which the Supreme Court has analyzed the legitimacy of state-imposed eligibility conditions. The focus will then shift to the …
Afdc Eligibility Conditions Unrelated To Need: The Impact Of Dublino, John Timothy Mccaulay
Afdc Eligibility Conditions Unrelated To Need: The Impact Of Dublino, John Timothy Mccaulay
Indiana Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Maintaining Welfare Families' Income In Kentucky: A Study Of The Relationship Between Afdc Grants And Support Payments From Absent Parents, Woodford L. Gardner Jr.
Maintaining Welfare Families' Income In Kentucky: A Study Of The Relationship Between Afdc Grants And Support Payments From Absent Parents, Woodford L. Gardner Jr.
Kentucky Law Journal
No abstract provided.