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Poverty
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Civil Rights Law & Policy Blog
“Charging the Poor: Criminal Justice Debt & Modern-Day Debtors’ Prisons”
The title of this post comes from this recent paper by Professor Neil L. Sobol, the abstract of which states: Debtors’ prisons should no longer exist. While imprisonment for debt…
Education Law Prof Blog
Alabama Fails to Provide Fair Funding to Its Schools
By Derek Black
The Southern Poverty Law Center issued this press release earlier this week:Alabama's funding of public education gets mostly low marks in the recently released fifth edition of Is School Funding…
The Shriver Brief
A Tale of Two Budgets: Government Investments Are Essential to Fight Poverty
By John Bouman
It is abundantly clear that government plays an important role in ensuring the quality of life and chances for upward mobility for people in poverty. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.,…
Education Law Prof Blog
United Nations’ Working Group Raises Concerns About Treatment of African Americans in Education
By Derek Black
The United Nations’ Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent has released a statement regarding its recent visit to the United States. The visit heavily concentrated on the…
PropertyProf Blog
Dickinson on the One-Strike Rule in Housing Evictions
Gerald Dickinson (Pitt) has posted Towards a New Eviction Jurisprudence (Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law Policy) on SSRN. Here's the abstract:The One-Strike Rule, contemplated in a model lease provision, has…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
What’s the Harm? Prof. Khiara M. Bridges on The Poverty of Privacy Rights
We invited participants in the What’s the Harm? symposium to write a short piece about their presentations. Today we feature Prof. Khiara M. Bridges, whose presentation can be found here.…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
A Disadvantaged Start Hurts Boys More Than Girls
By John Kang
So reads a NYT Op-Ed: Boys are falling behind. They graduate from high school and attend college at lower rates than girls and are more likely to get in trouble, which…
Sentencing Law and Policy
“Rich Offender, Poor Offender: Why It (Sometimes) Matters in Sentencing”
Main September 21, 2015"Rich Offender, Poor Offender: Why It (Sometimes) Matters in Sentencing"The title of this post is the title of this intriguing paper by Mirko Bagaric recently posted to…
Sentencing Law and Policy
“Mass Incarceration Has Become the New Welfare”
Main September 20, 2015"Mass Incarceration Has Become the New Welfare"The title of this post is headline of this interesting recent Atlantic commentary authored by Alex Lichenstein. It is, in part,…
Legislation Law Prof Blog
U.S. Census: The Poor Are Staying Poor
By Sara Rankin
The Census Bureau issued a new annual report on poverty and income in the U.S., finding that the number of poor Americans has remained steady from 2013 to 2014. This…