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The Earned Income Tax Credit: The Means Tested Welfare That Works, Maha Sadek

Public Interest Law Reporter

The Earned Income Tax Credit ("EITC") is a means tested "refundable tax credit for lower-income workers," that was introduced in 1975. This article will focus on the federal EITC through a brief history, its current eligibility requirements, and the possibility of an expansion for childless workers.

Is Mediation The Future For Settling Disputes?, Fabiola De Armas

Public Interest Law Reporter

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Thousands Of Immigrants Face Deportation, Jon Santiago

Public Interest Law Reporter

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The Effects Of The New Tax Law On Health Care, Jennifer Straka

Public Interest Law Reporter

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Public Interest Law Reporter

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Restorative Justice In Illinois: A Holistic Approach To Reformation And Juveniles In Conflict With The Law, Emily Knox

Public Interest Law Reporter

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Regulating The Porn Industry: Change From The Inside, Claire Mellish

Public Interest Law Reporter

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Predatory Student Lending: The Disparate Impact On Minorities' Higher Education Plans, Brei'a Womack

Public Interest Law Reporter

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The Wealth Gap: Through The Lens Of Governmental Policies And Racial Inequality In Housing, Tara Carone

Public Interest Law Reporter

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Criminal Law And Mental Illness, Marisa Tisbo

Public Interest Law Reporter

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How Trump's Land Of The Free Turned Into The Home Of The Cages For Immigrant Families Seeking Asylum, Christina Mendoza

Public Interest Law Reporter

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The Fight To Be Equal And Equally Different, Melissa Dupor

Public Interest Law Reporter

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Driving On The Edge: How Municipal Fines For Traffic Violations Negatively Affect Marginalized Communities, Mariah Woodson

Public Interest Law Reporter

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How To Win An Election: An Analysis Of The Power Of Social Media In Politics, Kevin Anderson

Public Interest Law Reporter

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The Plan For Transformation: How A Plan With Lofty Goals Has Underperformed And Forever Changed Public Housing In Chicago, Kenya Barbara

Public Interest Law Reporter

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New Mexico’S Renewable Portfolio Standard: Analysis Of Existing Policy Design Elements And Compliance Obligations Beyond 2020, Gabriel Pacyniak

Faculty Scholarship

This white paper analyzes two elements of New Mexico’s current Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) in advance of the state legislature’s consideration of an RPS expansion in the 2019 legislative session. First, the paper surveys key policy design elements of the current RPS, compares those elements to other state RPSs, and identifies “policy considerations” that may inform legislative or regulatory action. Among the findings from this part of the analysis are that: 1) other states have set much higher RPS targets; 2) that New Mexico’s RPS has uniquely restrictive cost-containment measures that limit cost impacts but also prohibit the full RPS …

The Cambridge Handbook Of Social Enterprise Law, Lloyd Histoshi Mayer

Books

Book Chapters

Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer, Creating a Tax Space for Social Enterprise, in The Cambridge Handbook of Social Enterprise Law 157 (Benjamin Means & Joseph W. Yockey eds., 2018)

While still relatively few in number compared to traditional nonprofit and for-profit organizations, the rise of social enterprises represents a possible disruption of not only existing models of doing business but also areas of law that in many respects have seen little fundamental change for decades. One such area is domestic tax law, where social enterprises currently find themselves subject to the rules of for-profit activities and entities. Here, both scholars …

Feeding The Eco-Consumer, Alexia Brunet Marks

Publications

There is a lot of talk about making our food system more “sustainable,” and eco-consumers — those who consider environmental sustainability as an important purchasing priority — are making themselves heard. This growing consumer segment is rapidly gaining national attention for moving more sustainable products to the market, and for its willingness to pay more for these options. However, while economists normally predict that higher prices lead profit-minded suppliers to enter a market to meet a new and growing demand, this transition is not occurring at the pace one would expect.

This Article argues that land tenure status — whether …

Regulatory Cooperation In International Trade And Its Transformative Effects On Executive Power, Elizabeth Trujillo

Faculty Scholarship

As international trade receives the brunt of local discontent with globalization trends and recent changes by the Trump administration have put into question the viability of such trade arrangements moving forward, there has been a clear trend in using international trade fora for managing regulatory barriers on economic development. This paper will discuss this recent trend in international trade toward increased regulatory cooperation through the creation of formalized transnational regulatory bodies, such as the U.S.-EU Regulatory Cooperation Body that was being discussed in the TTIP negotiations and comparable ones in the Canadian-EU Trade Agreement as well as U.S.-Mexico and U.S.- …

Non-Enforcement Takings, Timothy M. Mulvaney

Faculty Scholarship

The non-enforcement of existing property laws is not logically separable from the issue of unfair and unjust state deprivations of property rights at which the Constitution's Takings Clause takes aim. This Article suggests, therefore, that takings law should police allocations resulting from non-enforcement decisions on the same "fairness and justice" grounds that it polices allocations resulting from decisions to enact and enforce new regulations. Rejecting the extant majority position that state decisions not to enforce existing property laws are categorically immune from takings liability is not to advocate that persons impacted by such decisions should be automatically or even regularly …