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Poverty
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Sixth Circuit Appellate Blog
Last week at the Sixth Circuit: Suspended licenses, (Dis)honor Codes, and Re-redistricting
By Lauren Kuley
Showing no signs of a Kentucky Derby hangover (or any follow-on litigation, at least not yet), last week the court wrapped up arguments during the second half of its May…
Wills, Trusts & Estates Prof Blog
Article on Disability, Poverty, and the Policy Behind the ABLE Act
Nancy Susan Germany, Esq. recently published an Article entitled, Disability, Poverty, and the Policy Behind the ABLE Act, NAELA News Journal, September 2018. Provided below is the introduction of the…
DC Medical Malpractice & Patient Safety Blog
Obesity and poverty may stall 25-year decline in cancer deaths, experts warn
Cancer hasn’t gotten knocked out of its spot as Americans’ No. 2 killer, but health officials have delivered some good news about the disease that once was considered irreversible in…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Set It and Forget It: How Better Contraception Could Be a Key to Reducing Poverty
The New York Times (Dec. 18, 2018): Set It and Forget It: How Better Contraception Could Be a Key to Reducing Poverty, by Margot Sanger-Katz:
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
New Book: Equality for Women = Prosperity for All
By Tracy Thomas
Want Less Poverty in the World? Empower Women, VoxThe single greatest antidote to poverty and social stagnation is the emancipation of women. Wherever this has been tried, wherever women have…
Brent Britton | Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer
Present and Happy to Be Here
Present and Happy to be here Can there be anyone more present and happy to be here than Stephen Hawking in zero g? And can there be any greater poetry…
PrawfsBlawg
Poor Consumer(s) Law: The Case of High-Cost Credit and Payday Loans
Main Wednesday, August 22, 2018Poor Consumer(s) Law: The Case of High-Cost Credit and Payday LoansSamuel Becher (Victoria University), Yuval Feldman (Bar Ilan University) and I have a new paper we…
Human Rights at Home Blog
The Widening Empathy Gap
For decades those who consider the health of the nation have warned about the consequences of the widening gap between the rich and others. Along with the disappearance of the middle…
Human Rights at Home Blog
U.S. Response to UN Poverty Report: “I Really Don’t Care. Do U?”
On Friday, UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty Philip Alston, formally delivered his report on U.S. poverty and inequality to the UN Human Rights Council. Noting that UN Ambassador Nikki…
Human Rights at Home Blog
Homelessness and the Special Rapporteaur’s Report on Extreme Poverty in the US
Following up on reflections on the Philip Alston's Report on Extreme Poverty in the US, the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty issued this statement: UN Expert’s Report on Poverty…