Topic
Poverty
295 published works
In the Legal Interest
Law Meets Life: A Classroom Simulation on Poverty and Due Process
On April 9, 2025 students in Professor Carla Pratt’s Constitutional Law class participated in an interactive poverty simulation using the Missouri Poverty Simulation Kit, recently acquired by the OU Law…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Online Talk Featuring Khiara M. Bridges on “Expecting Inequity: Race, Class, and Reproductive Justice”
By Jamie Abrams
See the below announcement of an online program hosted by The Gibson-Banks Center for Race and the Law and the Law & Health Care Program at University of Maryland Carey…
Nonprofit Law Prof Blog
Study: Some Nonprofit Workers Live in Poverty, Struggle Financially
Writing in TheNonProfitTimes, Paul Clolery reports on a 2022 study conducted by United For Alice and Independent Sector. United For Alice is a U.S. research organization, led by United Way of…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Yvette Butler on “Survival Labor”
By Jamie Abrams
Yvette Butler has published Survival Labor in volume 112 of the California Law Review. The abstract is excerpted below. The piece relies on feminist theory in building its reasoning. This Article…
IAALS Blog
The Hidden Struggle: The Middle Class Struggles to Afford Legal Help
By Jessica Bednarz, Roya Samarghandi
In April, the Wall Street Journal highlighted an alarming trend: the increasing number of calls to 211 emergency helplines by those struggling to afford basic needs. This trend reflects a…
The Faculty Lounge
CFP: Combatting Poverty Through Federal Tax Policy, Pittsburgh Tax Review
Pittsburgh Tax Review Call for Papers:Combatting Poverty Through Federal Tax Policy Fall 2024 Special Issue According to the U.S. Census, in 2022 there were over 37 million people in the…
Tristan’s Landlord-Tenant Law Blog
Matt Desmond, Author of "Evicted" Has Some Detractors, Including Myself.
I apologize for getting on my soapbox here, but most of you are either landlords or spend more than 40 hours a week representing landlords or working with them. If…
21st Century Taxation
Tax System Changes Can Help Reduce Poverty
Today I received information from the National Academies on their new report, Reducing Intergenerational Poverty, Sept 2023. It defines "intergenerational poverty," provides demographics of this poverty, describes education and health…
The Right Coast
America’s poverty rate soared last year. Children were among the worst hit. – CBS News
Millions of American families fell into poverty last year as the well of government-funded pandemic aid dried up and incomes shrank, according to new data from the U.S. Census. Children…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Gender Violence as a Penalty of Poverty
By Tracy Thomas
Deborah Weissman, Gender Violence as a Penalty of Poverty, 54 Miami Inter-Amer. L. Rev. 29 (2022)The matter of gender violence, including intimate partner violence (IPV), has long been categorized as…