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Poverty
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PropertyProf Blog
YLJ Fourm Publishes Eviction Essays
While at the Texas A&M University Property Schmooze in February, one book title was mentioned at least 10 times: Matthew Desmond's (Harvard) Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (2016). I…
Sentencing Law and Policy
“Want to fix gun violence in America? Go local.”
Main January 10, 2017"Want to fix gun violence in America? Go local."The title of this post is the headline of this new Guardian special report that does an impressive job…
The Right Coast
Venezuela seizes Christmas toys to distribute to poor – BBC News
Venezuelan authorities have arrested two toy company executives and seized almost four million toys, which they say they will distribute to the poor.Officials accused the company of hoarding toys and…
The Right Coast
Why the Left Isn t Talking About Rural American Poverty – Rural America
What seldom gets talked about and when it is, often with irreverent humor and contempt is the poverty of rural America, particularly rural white America: Appalachia, the Ozarks, the Mississippi…
The Faculty Lounge
Free Tax Justice CLE
From colleagues over at the Surly Subgroup, this notice of a free webinar co-sponsored by the ABA Tax Section and the ABA Civil Rights and Social Justice Section: 20 Years…
Innovative Law Student
Moving Beyond A Legal Solution: The Houston/Marshall Plan for Community Justice
Our civil justice system is facing a crisis. Millions of poor Americans have legal needs that go unmet. From domestic violence, unlawful evictions, to the loss of veterans' health or…
The Shriver Brief
Despite Ongoing Budget Impasse, Progress Against Poverty in Illinois
By John Bouman
Government, at all levels, has a critical role to play in securing justice and opportunity for people in poverty or otherwise at risk. So as Congress remains highly polarized and…
The Right Coast
Chinese kids who climb 2,500-foot ladder may get stairs – LA Times
Most of China's poorest people are from long-marginalized minority groups or are farmers and herders living in the mountainous southwest, where rope bridges, aerial runways, canoes and cliffside ladders remain crucial to accessing the…
Elder Law Prof Blog
Older and Poorer? Local Governments Need to Plan
By rmorgan
Governing ran an article last month, An Older, Poorer America Is Coming, The article opensThe percentage of older Americans living below the federal poverty line has decreased by two-thirds since…
The Shriver Brief
More Americans Live on Less
By Dan Lesser
If you stopped at Starbucks for a cup of coffee on your way in to work today, you have already spent more than what many in the United States subsist…