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Earned Income Tax Credit Portability: Respecting The Autonomy Of American Families, Mary Leto Pareja
Earned Income Tax Credit Portability: Respecting The Autonomy Of American Families, Mary Leto Pareja
Faculty Scholarship
The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) was a key component of the welfare reform movement that began in the 1970s and expanded in the 1990s. Politicians and the public saw the EITC as a helping hand to working families -- a way to make work pay.' The EITC today is the single largest federal anti-poverty program in the United States. Although the EITC clearly is targeted at families with children, it is not optimally structured to improve child welfare. The current rules limit EITC eligibility to a taxpayer who lives with a child more than six months of the year, …
The Affordability Paradox: How Consumer Bankruptcy's Greatest Weakness May Account For Its Surprising Success, Angela Littwin
The Affordability Paradox: How Consumer Bankruptcy's Greatest Weakness May Account For Its Surprising Success, Angela Littwin
William & Mary Law Review
When the 2005 Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act (BAPCPA) made consumer bankruptcy more expensive for all debtors, it inadvertently reignited a debate about how to make the system more affordable for its neediest beneficiaries. Even before BAPCPA, consumer bankruptcy suffered from the irony that those who needed it the most were often too poor to take advantage of its relief.
The seemingly obvious solution to this problem is to eliminate the major cost that consumer bankruptcy filers bear, that of paying their own lawyers. But in our rush to undo the harm caused by BAPCPA’s worsening of the …
Why Does It Matter Where I Live? Welfare Reform, Equal Protection, And The Maryland Constitution, Karen Czapanskiy
Why Does It Matter Where I Live? Welfare Reform, Equal Protection, And The Maryland Constitution, Karen Czapanskiy
Karen Czapanskiy
A key feature of welfare reform in 1996 was the replacement of a national entitlement to a minimum economic provision for each poor family by a system under which states enjoy considerable flexibility in deciding whether and under what terms to provide for families in poverty. Some states devolved that authority further down the chain to local or private organizations. In Maryland, the state neither devolved authority to local jurisdictions nor retained it at the state level. Instead, the state placed a large measure of authority for program design and implementation in the hands of state officials whose offices are …
Is There A Progresssive Alternative To Conservative Welfare Reform?, Philip L. Harvey
Is There A Progresssive Alternative To Conservative Welfare Reform?, Philip L. Harvey
Philip L. Harvey
Progressive scholars have been strongly critical of conservative trends in the design and administration of public assistance programs in market societies, but it is far from clear what they would propose instead. Believing that it takes something to replace something, this article assess two different progressive strategies for eliminating poverty and promoting individual freedom that could serve as replacements for existing public assistance regimes. The first proposal is that all members of society be guaranteed an unconditional basic income without imposing any work requirements in exchange for the benefit. Such a benefit could be provided either in the form of …
Tanf And Its Implications On The Autonomy Of Indigent Single Mothers, Tanisha L. Jackson
Tanf And Its Implications On The Autonomy Of Indigent Single Mothers, Tanisha L. Jackson
William & Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice
No abstract provided.
Why Family Cap Laws Just Aren't Getting It Done, Kelly J. Gastley
Why Family Cap Laws Just Aren't Getting It Done, Kelly J. Gastley
William & Mary Law Review
No abstract provided.
The Continuing Crisis In Affordable Housing: Systemic Issues Requiring Systemic Solutions, Paulette J. Williams
The Continuing Crisis In Affordable Housing: Systemic Issues Requiring Systemic Solutions, Paulette J. Williams
Fordham Urban Law Journal
This article compares programs designed to provide rental housing and programs designed to promote homeownership and attempts to determine which of the existing programs better promotes economic security among the population both are designed to benefit. Part II presents a framework for a discussion of affordable housing policy issues, outlining the complex environment of affordable housing development, and the multiple interests that need to be involved in developing any coherent policy. Part III gives a short history of public housing policies from 1937 to the end of the twentieth century. Part IV discusses the major rental housing programs, including the …
Efficiency And Social Citizenship: Challenging The Neoliberal Attack On The Welfare State, Martha T. Mccluskey
Efficiency And Social Citizenship: Challenging The Neoliberal Attack On The Welfare State, Martha T. Mccluskey
Indiana Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Of Child Welfare And Welfare Reform: The Implications For Children When Contradictory Policies Collide, Kay P. Kindred
Of Child Welfare And Welfare Reform: The Implications For Children When Contradictory Policies Collide, Kay P. Kindred
William & Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice
No abstract provided.
The Americans With Disabilities Act As Welfare Reform, Samuel R. Bagenstos
The Americans With Disabilities Act As Welfare Reform, Samuel R. Bagenstos
William & Mary Law Review
No abstract provided.
When The War On Poverty Became The War On Poor, Pregnant Women: Political Rhetoric, The Unconstitutional Conditions Doctrine, And The Family Cap Restrictions, Carole M. Hirsch
When The War On Poverty Became The War On Poor, Pregnant Women: Political Rhetoric, The Unconstitutional Conditions Doctrine, And The Family Cap Restrictions, Carole M. Hirsch
William & Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice
No abstract provided.
Singled Out: A Critique Of The Representation Of Single Motherhood In Welfare Discourse, Parvin R. Huda
Singled Out: A Critique Of The Representation Of Single Motherhood In Welfare Discourse, Parvin R. Huda
William & Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice
No abstract provided.
Models For Safe Child Support Enforcement, Susan Notar, Viki Turetesky
Models For Safe Child Support Enforcement, Susan Notar, Viki Turetesky
American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law
No abstract provided.
America's Uneasy Relationship With The Working Poor, A. Mechele Dickerson
America's Uneasy Relationship With The Working Poor, A. Mechele Dickerson
Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Families Without Paradigms: Child Poverty And Out-Of-Home Placement In Historical Perspective, Catherine J. Ross
Families Without Paradigms: Child Poverty And Out-Of-Home Placement In Historical Perspective, Catherine J. Ross
GW Law Faculty Publications & Other Works
In this Article, Prof. Ross argues that no single paradigm of family relationships adequately serves the emotional needs of children who enter the foster care system due to the poverty of their parents. According to Prof. Ross, the needs of such children are increasingly at issue because of the likely effect on poor families of interactions between the Personal Responsibility Act (PRA) and the Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA). Reliable data is not yet available on children who are moved into foster care as their families lose welfare benefits or on those who are placed in adoptive homes in …
Welfare Reform And Immigration: Attempting To Find A Domestic Answer To A Global Question, Kostas A. Poulakidas
Welfare Reform And Immigration: Attempting To Find A Domestic Answer To A Global Question, Kostas A. Poulakidas
Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies
No abstract provided.
The Liberty Impact Of The New Property, Charles A. Reich
The Liberty Impact Of The New Property, Charles A. Reich
William & Mary Law Review
No abstract provided.
A Cultural Historian's Reading Of Charles Reich's Impact On The Contemporary Discourse On "Welfare", Brigitte Fleischmann
A Cultural Historian's Reading Of Charles Reich's Impact On The Contemporary Discourse On "Welfare", Brigitte Fleischmann
William & Mary Law Review
No abstract provided.
Independent Professional Power And The Search For A Legal Ideology With A Progressive Bite, Bryant G. Garth
Independent Professional Power And The Search For A Legal Ideology With A Progressive Bite, Bryant G. Garth
Indiana Law Journal
No abstract provided.