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Poverty
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Education Law Prof Blog
Recent scholarship
Michael B. Katz (Penn) and Mike Rose (UCLA), eds.: Public Education Under Siege (Penn Press 2013)Public Education Under Siege is a new compilation of essays edited by Michael B. Katz, Walter…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Study Shows Poverty is the Real Danger to Children Exposed to Cocaine In Utero
Salon: Long Term Study Debunks Myth of the "Crack Baby", by Katie McDonough:After nearly 25 years of research, one of the nation’s largest long-term studies on the so-called “crack baby”…
PropertyProf Blog
Map of the Day: Economic Mobility
By propertyprof
This map shows the chance that a child raised in the bottom fifth rose to the top fith of the economic ladder:Here's some analysis from Slate:Something a number of people…
Education Law Prof Blog
Education and Social Mobility
By Derek Black
By now, many of you have probably heard or read about the new study on social mobility, which is said to be the most comprehenisve study of it kind to…
Education Law Prof Blog
New Report on Achievement Gaps: Purports to Finding Shrinking Race Gap While Other Gaps Expand
By Derek Black
A new report by Education Sector details changes in the the achievement gap as measured by the National Assessment of Educational Progress. Between 2003 and 2011 on 4th and 8th…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Income and Poverty Characteristics of Immigrants in the United States
Access to gainful employment is one of the most powerful forces shaping how immigrants and their families fare once they arrive in a new country. Such opportunity provides not only…
ImmigrationProf Blog
AALS Workshop on Poverty, Immigration and Property, June 10-12 in San Diego
The AALS Workshop on Poverty, Immigration and Property will be held June 10-12 in San Diego.The workshop brings together three communities of scholars: poverty, immigration and property to address historical…
PropertyProf Blog
Poverty Moves to the Suburbs
By propertyprof
Emily Badger reports:[O]ver the last decade, suburbs have increasingly become home to America's poor. Between 2000 and 2011, the population living in American cities below the poverty line increased by…
Sentencing Law and Policy
New ACLU of Ohio report documents “contemporary debtors’ prisons”
Main April 5, 2013New ACLU of Ohio report documents "contemporary debtors’ prisons"As reported in this local article, headlined "Poor unfairly jailed for failing to pay fines, report says," a new…
PropertyProf Blog
House the Poor in Cages?
By propertyprof
That's the approach that Hong Kong as taken:For many of the richest people in Hong Kong, one of Asia's wealthiest cities, home is a mansion with an expansive view from…