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Poverty
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Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Abortion Increasingly Concentrated Among Poor Women
Guttmacher Institute news release: Abortion Has Become More Concentrated Among Poor Women:Rising Poverty, Economic Recession May Be Factors The proportion of abortion patients who were poor increased by almost 60%—from…
Land Use Prof Blog
Schargrodsky and Galiani on Property Rights for the Poor
Ernesto Schargrodsky (Universidad Torcuato Di Tella) and Sebastian Galiani (Washington U--Economics) have posted Property Rights for the Poor: Effects of Land Titling. The abstract:Secure property rights are considered a key determinant of…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
The Cost of Teen Pregnancy
MSNBC.com: A baby changes everything: The true cost of teen pregnancy’s uptick, by Kari Huus:Nate Howell has approximately 76 days toadjust to his new reality. That is when he is…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
An Overview of Gender and Poverty: Looking at Empirical Evidence
Mayra Buvinic, Monica Das Gupta, and Ursula Casabonne of The World Bank have posted Gender, Poverty and Demography: An Overview on SSRN. Here is the abstract:Much has been written on…
Sentencing Law and Policy
“Hard Times, Hard Time: Retributive Justice for Unjustly Disadvantaged Offenders”
Main November 24, 2009"Hard Times, Hard Time: Retributive Justice for Unjustly Disadvantaged Offenders"The title of this post is the title of this new paper on SSRN from Stuart Green. As…
Land Use Prof Blog
Right to the City
I recently received the fall 2009 newsletter of the Poverty & Race Research Action Council. Among many timely and interesting articles, the newsletter includes a piece titled "Right to the…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Under Siege: Life for Low-Income Latinos in the South
The Southern Poverty Law Center reports on life for Latinos in the New South:"In Tennessee, a young mother is arrested and jailed when she asks to be paid for her work in…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Undocumented Children Twice as Likely to Live in Poverty, a Study Finds
Growing numbers of children of illegal immigrants are being born in this country, and they are nearly twice as likely to live in poverty than those with American-born parent reports…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Poverty, Class & Economic Justice
By ConLawProf initials at end of post
Obama spoke today in Ft Myers, Florida today about the economic crisis, emphasizing jobs, housing and health. The HHS has just released the 2009 Federal Poverty guidelines. With the economic…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Question of the Day: How Will President Obama Treat the Haitians?
Over the last few decades, people from Haiti have come to the shores of the United States because of violence, persecution, crushing poverty, and natural disasters. And they long have…