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Poverty
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Human Rights at Home Blog
Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty to Wind up his Official U.S. Visit on Friday — Tune In
Over the past two weeks, the UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty, Philip Alston, has traveled across the U.S. speaking with government officials, NGOs and everyday people about poverty in…
Human Rights at Home Blog
Buddhist Economics: Anticipating the Visit of the UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty
by Margaret Drew With an upcoming focus on extreme poverty, discussion must be had on how economic decisions are made in the US. Buddhist economics looks for a "middle way"…
Workers’ Compensation Law Prof Blog
A Sociologist Takes on Legal Financial Obligations: “A Pound of Flesh” (2016)
Lawyers and mediators in the workers’ compensation system struggling with settling cases often encounter major roadblocks: legal obligations from other spheres of the injured worker’s life. These obligations must…
Human Rights at Home Blog
Human Rights and Trade
by Lauren Carasik In anticipation of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights’ country visit to the U.S. in December, the International Corporate Accountability Roundtable sent a…
The Right Coast
Trudeau Minister: Abortion Anti-Poverty ‘Tool | The Daily Caller
The Trudeau government is dismissing severe criticism from the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops over the administration s linkage of foreign aid with abortion funding.via dailycaller.com
The Right Coast
Millennials & Poverty — Success Sequence Must Be Followed | National Review
But what if large causes of poverty are not matters of material distribution but are behavioral bad choices and the cultures that produce them? If so, policymakers must rethink their…
The Right Coast
Millennials & Poverty — Success Sequence Must Be Followed | National Review
But what if large causes of poverty are not matters of material distribution but are behavioral bad choices and the cultures that produce them? If so, policymakers must rethink their…
Race and the Law Prof Blog
Stop Blaming “Fatherlessness” for Destroying the Black Community
Image credit - Shutterstock via Think ProgressFather’s Day is a time to celebrate the special men in our lives who furnish us with bad jokes and good advice. But in…
The Right Coast
Big Bird and Balanced Budgets | Scragged
We're spending four times as much money fighting poverty as wouldbe needed to give all the "poor" people enough to lift them out ofpoverty. Instead of helping the poor, the…
The Right Coast
Big Bird and Balanced Budgets | Scragged
We're spending four times as much money fighting poverty as wouldbe needed to give all the "poor" people enough to lift them out ofpoverty. Instead of helping the poor, the…