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The Threat Of The Wandering Poor: Welfare Parochialism And Its Impact On The Use Of Housing Mobility As An Anti-Poverty Strategy, Susan Bennett

Fordham Urban Law Journal

This Essay discusses how, if one accepts the premises of mobility-based anti-poverty strategies, the geographical parochialism and structural rigidity of the welfare system undermine mobility goals. The Essay also examines the possibility that current trends in housing policy will undercut anti-poverty goals.

Note: Finger Imaging: A 21st Century Solution To Welfare Fraud At Our Fingertips, James J. Killerlane Iii

Fordham Urban Law Journal

This Note describes the finger imaging process and summarizes the current New York Social Services law regarding public assistance. It also outlines the current finger imaging bill before the New York State Legislature. Part III examines and considers the two major policy arguments against the implementation of the program. Part IV outlines the legal controversy regarding finger imaging and addresses each express concern as well as constitutional issues. Part V compares New York's finger imaging legislation with similar legislation already in place in California and argues that the New York program will be as effective as California's. In conclusion, this …

Machiavelli And The Politics Of Welfare, National Health, And Old Age: A Comparative Perspective Of The Policies Of The United States And Canada, Camilla Watson

Scholarly Works

This Article maintains that in order to fully comprehend the politics of welfare, retirement security, and national health coverage, it is necessary to examine Machiavellian principles in relation to the variables of economic development and inter-party competition. If the principles of Machiavelli are applied in a slightly different and more constructive manner, they may facilitate reform of the American welfare, retirement, and national health systems. Now that the political balance in the United States has shifted from the conservative to the liberal, the time is ripe to consider reforming the entire Social Security system and instituting a comprehensive national health …

Public Health

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Politics Of Welfare: The New York City Experience, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

A Review of The Politics of Welfare: The New York City Experience by Blanche Bernstein

Welfare Law-Afdc-Agency-Caused Overpayments May Be Recouped By Reducing Grants Of Recipients Who Have "Disregarded" Income Available To Meet Their Standard Of Need, Keith E. Danish

Fordham Urban Law Journal

The Agency attempted to recoup the overpayments of a woman and her nine dependent children by reducing the family's AFDC grant, in accordance with a state regulation which authorized such recoupment where the welfare recipient had current income available in excess of the AFDC grant. The Federal District Court for the Southern District of New York held that the challenged recoupment policy did not violate the Social Security Act. The current heightened awareness that there are limits to state resources has resulted in the tightening and curtailment of welfare programs. Welfare agencies must make greater efforts to decrease errors which …

Note: The Eligibility Of The Unborn Child Under Afdc, John K. Enright

Fordham Urban Law Journal

This Note surveys recent litigation challenging the state denial of AFDC payments to pregnant women seeking benefit on behalf of their unborn children. Such decisions have focused on the issue of whether unborn children come within the definition of "dependent child" as set forth in Section 606 of the AFDC. Thus far, fourteen of seventeen reported decisions have included unborn children within the statutory definition. The Note concludes that the unborn child cases illustrate the difficulty of the rule that the Supreme Court laid out in Townsend v. Swank, which held that states must make AFDC payments to all eligible …

Book Notes, Law Review Staff

Vanderbilt Law Review

CONGRESS AND THE PUBLIC TRUST Report of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York Special Committee on Congressional Ethics New York: Atheneum, 1970. Pp. xxvii, 351. $8.95.

How TO TALK BACK TO YOUR TELEVISION SET By Nicholas Johnson Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1970. Pp. ix, 228. $5.75.

THE QUALITY OF THE URBAN ENVIRONMENT Edited by Harvey S.Perloff Washington: Resources for the Future, Inc., 1969. Pp. xiii, 332.$6.50.

WELFARE MEDICAL CARE: AN EXPERIMENT By Charles H. Goodrich, Margaret C. Olendzki, and George G. Reader Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1970. Pp. viii, 343. $7.00.

State Legislative Services: An Overview, Law Review Staff

Vanderbilt Law Review

Increasing awareness of the critical needs of the state legislatures has stimulated a number of groups to study these needs and suggest reforms. As a result of these efforts, the problems in this area are well-defined. However, all too often the states have failed to take an overview of the needs of the legislative branch; instead most efforts in this area have been directed towards the solutions of specific problems. The result has been as follows: a specific service agency will be created in response to a felt need; subsequently the agency will assume additional duties under the force of …

Book Reviews: The Lawyer And His Community, Elliott E. Cheatham

Vanderbilt Law Review

This volume is a product of the first careful study of one professional community, the bar, within a small American city, it being directed to the practicing lawyer in an anonymous middle western city of about 100,000 population. All of us concerned with the welfare and responsibilities of the American bar are in debt to Professor Handler for this book.

Public Assistance, H. E. Wetzel

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.