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Interesting Papers being Presented

Posted on March 05, 2008
The Legal Scholarship Blog does a daily report of papers being presented at law schools across the country and two recent presentations might be of interest. First, Jacob Hacker presents on March 6th at his own university (Yale) a draft...

Marion Crane changing schools but Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity staying at UNC

Posted on March 04, 2008
As reported by Brian Leiter, Prof. Marion Crane is moving from UNC to Wash U/St. Louis, but according to Prof. Crane, the Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity is staying at UNC and the school will be picking a new...

Stigma and School Free Lunch Programs

Posted on March 01, 2008
The N.Y. Times has a new article on the stigma associated with free lunch programs that are structured in ways that make recipients identifiable relative to other students; this problem echoes the problems of food stamps pre-EBT cards and such...

Paper on Privatization of Social Welfare, focused on Housing

Posted on February 28, 2008
A paper worth checking out that is not exactly new, but still worth checking out is the following one from Nestor Davidson, "Relational Contracts in the Privatization of Social Welfare: The Case of Housing," 24 Yale L. & Pol'y Rev....

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Interesting Book: Fighting Poverty in the US and Europe: A World of Difference

Posted on February 27, 2008
There is an interesting book that might be worth checking out (it has been out for a little while but I hadn't seen it until I got a random Amazon.com ad today): Alberto Alesina & Edward L. Glaeser, Fighting Poverty...

William F. Buckley Jr. died at age 82 today.

Posted on February 27, 2008
One of the pillars of American conservatism, William F. Buckley, Jr., died today. See NYTimes story here. For more on Buckley, see "The Buckley Effect," NYTimes Oct. 2, 2005. For more of his writing, on any number of issues, see...

Sameer M. Ascher on Law Clinics and the Poor

Posted on February 26, 2008
Sameer M. Asher has posted an interesting paper, "Law Clinics and Collective Mobilization," to SSRN. Here is the abstract: Poor people are not served well by the kinds of advocacy currently taught and reinforced in most law clinics. The canonical...

Interesting photos perhaps good for classes

Posted on February 23, 2008
An email forward with interesting photos on weekly food expenditures across countries is making its way around and has made it to a number of blogs. Here is a link to the photos. I haven't been able to find the...

Another Economic Mobility Project Publication AND Helpful Urban Institute Lit Review

Posted on February 20, 2008
From their email announcement (do check out the lit reviews at the end of this posting): The Economic Mobility Project released five new chapters in its continuing series on economic mobility and the status of the American Dream. The new...

Very Good Krugman Editorial

Posted on February 18, 2008
Paul Krugman has a new op-ed on poverty, "Poverty is Poison," NY Times, Feb. 18, 2008 that if I was not afraid of violating rights held by the Times I would post in its entirety. It is worth reading! -E.R....

UDC Law Review Symposium on Katrina

Posted on February 17, 2008
The University of the District of Columbia Law Review is hosting, "Katrina's Wake: Emergency Preparedness and Response from the Bayou to the Beltway," on Feb. 29, 2008, and they will also be sharing photos taken in the wake of Katrina...

SALT Teaching Conference: "Teaching for Social Change" March 14-15, 2008

Posted on February 14, 2008
"Teaching for Social Change" is the theme of this year's SALT teaching conference. Hosted at the Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice, Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California at Berkeley, the conference will be packed with new...

Library Listings of Poverty Law Resources

Posted on February 13, 2008
Many libraries have put together pages focusing on Poverty law and I am going to start making a list that I am happy to update with any additional pages that are sent to my email. Univ. of Minnesota Law Library's...

Epstein arguing against state based redistributions

Posted on February 13, 2008
Richard Epstein, I would bet will find a fairly unsympathetic audience in readers of this blog (in one of my law school classes the professor was very direct in saying that Epstein was assigned to provide the foil to the...

Boston Review on Ending Urban Poverty and Middle Class (Warren) issues

Posted on February 12, 2008
In their Forums and Special Issues section, the Boston Review includes a couple of articles on urban poverty plus a number of articles on the middle class: Dalton Conley, Ending Urban Poverty Introduction Patrick Sharkey, The Inherited Ghetto Stefanie DeLuca,...

CNN on What is Middle Class

Posted on February 12, 2008
CNN.com has posted an short intro definition piece on defining the Middle Class. -E.R. erosser@wcl.american.edu

Resource on Black/White disparities & New Paper on Discrimination in Low Wage Jobs

Posted on February 10, 2008
Conference Papers posted online The Chicago Workshop on Black-White Inequality has posted a large number of papers presented at their earlier meetings, an advantage of which is that these papers are both sorted into panel topics and cover a significant...

LatCrit Call for Papers and Prior Conference Papers

Posted on February 08, 2008
The LatCrit conference is a good way to share work connected to Latino issues, not surprising many papers presented there (and later published in connection with the conference) have a poverty angle. The next LatCrit No. XIII is Oct. 2-4,...

Romney's gracious exit from the campaign

Posted on February 07, 2008
It is almost not worth blogging about, but after listening to Mitt Romney's withdrawal speech from the presidential campaign (Romney campaign press release here), I thought his attack on welfare was worth noting because it seemed particularly angry as well...

Conference Announcement: Indigenous Economic Development Apr. 3, 2008

Posted on February 06, 2008
Lewis and Clark Law School is hosting a conference on "Indigenous Economic Development: Sustainability, Culture and Business," Friday, April 4, 2008 in Portland, Oregon. The speakers are: Gavin Clarkson, Matthew Fletcher, Kevin Gover, David Haddock, Stacy Leeds, Robert Miller (also...

Another paper by Jonathan Barry Forman

Posted on February 06, 2008
Jonathan Barry Forman, author of Making America Work, has posted "Managing the Beast: How Government Can Reduce Wealth Inequality" (forthcoming Georgetown J. on Poverty L. & Pol'y) to SSRN. ABSTRACT: The government can, and should, intervene in the free market...

Krugman on the difference between the Clinton and Obama Health Care plans

Posted on February 05, 2008
Paul Krugman (an unofficial Krugman site is here) has an interesting article on the health care proposals of Clinton and Obama and how the plans differ in terms of ensuring everyone is covered: "Clinton, Obama, Insurance" NYTimes Feb. 4, 2008....

New Economic Mobility Project Report on Govn't Spending on Mobility

Posted on February 04, 2008
New Economic Mobility Project Report: How Much Does the Federal Government Spend to Promote Economic Mobility and for Whom? Abstract: Education, work experience and saving enhance the opportunity for upward economic mobility. To this end, many federal investments aim to...

Journal Special Issue: Poverty Law and Law Schools - What's Working, How and Why?

Posted on January 23, 2008
The Winter 2007 issue of the Management Information Exchange Journal includes articles and features from today's leaders and top consultants in the legal services and legal education communities. This issue's Special Feature is entitled "Poverty Law and Law Schools -...

Harvard Law Review article on Poverty and Civil Rights issues

Posted on January 23, 2008
The Harvard Law Review just published: (UN)COVERING IDENTITY IN CIVIL RIGHTS AND POVERTY LAW by Anthony V. Alfieri Here is the abstract: The effective delivery of scarce legal goods to disadvantaged clients requires more than the provision of equal access,...

Candidates Obama, Edwards, and Clinton on Poverty

Posted on January 16, 2008
There is a new center for the study of poverty at Stanford, The Stanford Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality, and their first issue of Pathways: a magazine on poverty, inequality, and social policy edited by David Grusky...

Prof. Larson, I hope you are right: Legacy Admits and the Constitution's Nobility Clauses

Posted on January 15, 2008
Adam Liptak has just written an interesting N.Y. Times article on legacy admits, "A Hereditary Perk the Founding Fathers Failed to Anticipate," Jan. 15, 2008. In the article, Liptak presents the standard defense of legacy admissions practices but ends by...

Financial Aid for the Upper Class - Harvard expands its support to reach the rich

Posted on January 15, 2008
Sara Rimer and Alan Finder report that Harvard will be substantially expanding its financial aid to those whose parents make between $120-180K/year. The article, "Harvard's Aid to Reach High in Middle Class," N.Y. Times (Dec. 11, 2007), in its title....

SCHIP Brief Yale Law Journal Pocketpart Article

Posted on January 12, 2008
The Yale Law Journal Pocketpart just published an interesting brief student article on SCHIP: Manav Bhatnagar, Overcoming Deference to Administrative Regulation: Expanding the State Children?s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), 117 Yale L.J. Pocket Part 155 (2008), http://thepocketpart...

Particularly for Students: Yale Rebellious Lawyering Conference (Feb. 22-24, 2008)

Posted on January 10, 2008
Yale Law School's Rebellious Lawyering Conference is a good opportunity for progressively minded students to network and go to panels on a range of issues. Registration is now available online here. Schedule Here. Keynote address by Bill Quigley (Loyola New...

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