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Below are the tables of contents for current issues of the Georgetown Journal of Poverty Law and Policy.


Volume XVI, Number 1, Winter 2009

Articles

Reconciling People and Place in Housing and Community Development Policy, by Nestor M. Davidson

National Affordable Housing Trust Fund Legislation: The Subprime Mortgage Crisis Also Hits Renters, by Peter W. Salsich

McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act Subtitle B —Education for Homeless Children and Youths Program: Turning Good Law into Effective Education, by John H. Wong, Lynda Thistle Elliott, Shelley Reed, Wendy Ross, Patricia McGuirk, Louis Tallarita, and Kim Chouinard

Stakeholder Participation in New Governance: Lessons from Chicago’s Public Housing Reform Experiment, by Lisa T. Alexander

 Great Scot!: The Scottish Plan to End Homelessness and Lessons for the Housing Rights Movement in the U.S., by Eric S. Tars and Caitlin Egleson

 Notes

 Making Lemonade: Restructuring the Transfer Provisions of the No Child Left Behind Act, by Jane Dimyan-Ehrenfeld

 Piecing the Puzzle Together: Post-Olmstead Community-Based Alternatives for Homeless People with Severe Mental Illness, by Meghan Moore


Volume XV, Number 3, Fall 2008

Symposium Issue

“The First Wealth is Health”: The Nexus of Health, Poverty, and the Law

Foreword

 Socioeconomic Disparities in Health: A Symposium on the Relationships Between Poverty and Health, by Lawrence O. Gostin

Articles

Poverty, Food Security, and the Right to Health, by Robert S. Lawrence, Iris Chan, and Emily Goodman

Propinquity Matters: How Better Health, Urbanization, and Income Grew Together, 1870-2008, by William McGreevey, Arnab Acharya, Jeffrey S. Hammer, and Landis MacKellar

What Is Urban Health Policy and What’s Law Got To Do With It?, by Larry I. Palmer

Poverty, Socioeconomic Position, and Cancer Disparities: Global Challenges and Opportunities, by Howard K. Koh, Sarah Massin-Short, Loris J. Elqura, and Christine M. Judge

One is the Loneliest Number: Proposals for Promoting Group Coverage Among Low-Income Americans, by Karen Davenport and Meredith King

Slouching Toward Health Reform: Insights from the Battle over SCHIP, by Sara Rosenbaum

Public Health Legal Services: A New Vision, by David I. Schulman, Ellen Lawton, Paul R. Tremblay, Randye Retkin, and Megan Sandel

Beyond Sex: Legal Reform for HIV/AIDS and Poverty Reduction, by Rudolf V. Van Puymbroeck

 Obesity, Poverty, and the Built Environment: Challenges and Opportunities, by Wendy C. Perdue

Growing the Toolbox: Diverse Strategies for Public Interest Lawyers in Campaigns to Expand Access to Health Care for Low-Income People, by John Bouman

 Note

Enslaved by Pain: How the U.S. Public Health System Adds to Disparities in Pain Treatment for African-Americans , by Dania Palanker

 


Volume XV, Number 2, Fall 2008

Articles

Is There a Progressive Alternative to Conservative Welfare Reform?, by Philip Harvey

A Truly Good Work: Turning to Restorative Justice for Answers to the Welfare-to-Work Dilemma, by Marie A. Failinger

Expanding the EITC for Single Workers and Couples Without Children: Tax Relief for All Low-Wage Workers, by Daniel P. Gitterman, Lucy S. Gorham, Jessica L. Dorrance

 Notes

Reagan’s National Labor Relations Board: An Incomplete Revolution, by Vanessa Waldref

 Workers of the World, Unite?: Politics of Guestworker Protection and U.S. Worker Protection in the Current U.S. Guestworker Debate, by Laura Massie

 Hazardous Child Labor as a Crime against Humanity: An Investigation into the Potential Role of the International Criminal Court in Prosecuting Hazardous Child Labor as Slavery, by Emily Camastra

Big Box Living Wage Ordinances: Upholding Our Constitutive Commitment to a Remunerative Job , by Stephanie Wagner

A Slaughterhouse Nightmare: Psychological Harm Suffered by Slaughterhouse Employees and the Possibility of Redress through Legal Reform, by Jennifer Dillard

 Conference Transcript

Wealth Inequality and the Eroding Middle Class: A Conference of the University of North Carolina Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity and the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy

Welcome and Introduction, by John C. Boger, Marion G. Crain and Praveen Fernandes

Keynote Address, by Robert Kuttner

Rising Wealth Inequality: Why We Should Care, by Lisa A. Keister, Joel F. Handler, Lingxin Hao, Mark R. Rank, Alan Reynolds and John Schmitt

Labor Markets, Income Inequality and Globalization, by Catherine L. Fisk, Frances L. Ansley, Ron Bloom, Judith A. Scott, Harley Shaiken and Louis Uchitelle

How Law Constructs Health Patterns, by Stephen P. Berzon, Ana Avendaño, Jonathan B. Forman, Kent Greenfield, Patricia A. McCoy and Ann M. O’Leary

Charting Our Next Steps: Removing Obstacles to Change, by Melody Barnes, Mary Beth Maxwell, John Quinterno, Michael Selmi and Michael Zweig

 


Volume XV, Number 1, Spring 2008

Articles

School Choice and the (Ir)rational Parent, by Susan L. DeJarnatt

Fair Fare?: Food as Contested Terrain in U.S. Prisons and Jails, by Avi Brisman

Minority Entrepreneurs in Bankruptcy, by Rafael Efrat

Note

National Standards and NCLB: The Promise of State Compacts, by Irfan Murtuza

 


Volume XIV, Number 3, Fall 2007

Notes

Beyond Balancing the Budget: Tax Reform to Increase Equity and Reduce Poverty in the Commonwealth of Virginia, by Julie Gathers

Strolling While Poor: How Broken-Windows Policing Created a New Crime in Baltimore, by Reed Collins

Poverty, Migration, and Trafficking in Persons

Article

Distinguishing Poverty and Trafficking: Lessons from Field Research in Mumbai, by Svati P. Shah

Appellate Brief

An Appeal of a T Visa Denial, by Ivy Lee

Notes

Masters and Servants in America: The Ineffectiveness of Current United States Anti-Trafficking Policy in Protecting Victims of Trafficking for the Purposes of Domestic Servitude, by Kevin Shawn Hsu

Compulsory Voluntary Repatriation: Why Temporary Protection For Sudanese Asylum-Seekers In Cairo Amounts to Refoulement, by Lauren Fouda

From Bilingual Education to OELALEAALEPS: How the No Child Left Behind Act Has Undermined English Language Learners' Access to a Meaningful Education, by Bethany Li

 


Volume XIV, Number 2, Spring 2007

Beyond Testing: Underlying Barriers to Education

Articles

The Equal Treatment of Unequals: Barriers Facing Latinos and the Poor in Texas Public Schools, by Lupe S. Salinas and Dr. Robert H. Kimball

Actually, We Are Leaving Children Behind: How Changes to Title I Under the No Child Left Behind Act Have Helped Relieve Public Schools of the Responsibility for Taking Care of Disadvantaged Students' Needs, by Emily Suski

School-Based Outreach and Heightened Food Stamp Participation: Is There a Promising Partnership?, by Theodore Sky

Notes

Finding the Winning Numbers: State Lotteries for Education and Their Impact on the Poor, by Kana A. Ellis

Building on Traditional Lawyering by Organizing Parent Power: An Emerging Dimension of Early Childhood Advocacy, by Allison Harper

Tuition-based All-Day Kindergartens in the Public Schools: A Moral and Constitutional Critique, by Luke van Houwelingen

Practitioner's Essay

The Journey of a Teacher, by Julie Gilgoff

 


Volume XIV, Number 1, Winter 2007

Symposium Issue

Our Eyes Are Watching: The Impact of Natural Disasters on Impoverished Communities

Introduction

The World After Katrina: Eyes Wide Shut?, by Peter Edelman

Articles

Using Law to Reduce Vulnerability to Natural Disasters, by John Handmer, Elsie Loh, and Wei Choong

Dialectics of Vulnerability and Resilience, by B. E. Aguirre

Natural Disasters, the Best Friend of Poverty, by Claude de Ville de Goyet and André Griekspoor

Notes

The Promise of a Better Way: Biometric Voter Identification and the Homeless, by Jennifer M. Walrath

Poverty and Chronic Conditions During Natural Disasters: A Glimpse at Health, Healing, and Hurricane Katrina, by Leah J. Tulin

Fixing a Hole Where the Rain Gets In: The Case for a National Homeowner's Insurance Plan, by Robert M. Finley

A Different World: Financial Determinants of Well-Being in New Orleans in Black and White, by Andrene Smith

 


Volume XIII, Number 3, Fall 2006

Urban Underclasses: Roots and Branches

Introduction

Entrenched Poverty, Social Mixing, and the "Geography of Opportunity": Lessons for Policy and Unanswered Questions, by Xavier de Souza Briggs

Articles

The Paradox of the Drug Elimination Program in New York City Public Housing, by Jeffrey Fagan, Garth Davies, and Jan Holland

Introduction: HIV/AIDS and Poverty in the Nation's Capital, by Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy

Improving the District of Columbia's Response to a Public Health Crisis, by DC Appleseed Center and Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

Notes and Comments

An Ownership Society for All: Community Development Financial Institutions as the Bridge Between Wealth Inequality and Asset-Building Policies, by Sarah Molseed

Can the New Bankruptcy Law Benefit Debtors, Too? Interpreting the 2005 Bankruptcy Act to Clean Up the Credit-Counseling Industry and Save Debtors from Chronic Poverty, by Allen Mattison

Nowhere to Go: The Impacts of City Ordinances Criminalizing Homelessness, by Donald Saelinger

Gendering the Gentrification of Public Housing: HOPE VI's Disparate Impact on Lowest-Income African American Women, by Danielle Pelfrey Duryea

Continuing the Conversations: School Integration by Race and Socioeconomic Status in Gentrifying Neighborhoods, by Matthe M. Cregor

 


Volume XIII, Number 2, Summer 2006

After Incarceration

Note

Poverty: The Most Challenging Condition of Prisoner Release, by Wender Heller

Policy Perspective

Failed Reentry: The Challenges of Back-end Sentencing, by Jeremy Travis and Kirsten Christiansen

Note

Finding Work: How to Approach the Intersection of Prisoner Reentry, Employment, and Recidivism, by Christopher Stafford

Article

Rethinking "Rational Discrimination" Against Ex-Offenders, by Jocelyn Simonson

Article

Expanding Collateral Sanctions: The Hidden Costs of Aggressive Child Support Enforcement Against Incarcerated Parents, by Ann Cammett

Note

He's On Parole...But You Still Can't Come In: A Parolee's Reaction to Georgia v. Randolph, by James M. Binnall

Policy Perspective

The Insanity of Incarceration and the Maddening Reentry Process: A Call for Change and Justice for Males with Mental Illness in United States Prisons, by Bonnie J. Sultan

Policy Research Bulletin

Substance Abuse Treatment in Prison and Community Reentry: Breaking the Cycle of Drugs, Crime, Incarceration, and Recidivism?, by William D. Bales, Shanna Van Slyke, and Thomas G. Blomberg


Volume XIII, Number 1, Winter 2006

Articles

Rural Housing and Code Enforcement: Navigating between Values and Housing Types, by Ezra Rosser

Distancing Rural Poverty, by Debra Bassett

Housing Vulnerability Among Rural Trailer Park Households, by Katherine MacTavish, Michelle Eley, Sonya Salamon

Regional Differences in the Effects of Welfare Reform: Evidence from an Experimental Program in Rural and Urban Minnesota, by Lisa Gennetian, Cynthia Miller, Cindy Redcross

Individual Income Tax Credits as Social Policy in Rural America, by Alan Berube

Spatial Variations in Factors Affecting Poverty: A Review of Literature, by Kathleen Miller and Jane Mosley

Practitioner Perspective

Brought Into Focus: The Factor of Mental Illness in a Rural Legal Services Practice, by Mary Irene Dickerson

Note

Promotion of a Commercially-Viable Microfinance Sector in Emerging Markets, by Aaron Jones

 


Volume XII, Number 3, Fall 2005

Articles

South Africa a Decade After Apartheid: Realizing Health Through Human Rights, by Jerome A. Singh, Michelle Govender, and Nilam Reddy

Community Development and the South Beach Success Story, by Michelle S. Viegas

Notes

Let's Stop Cheering, and Let's Get Practical: Reaching a Balanced Gentrification Agenda, by Isis Fernandez

It Takes a Village: Why Community Organizing is More Effective than Litigation Alone at Ending Discriminatory Housing Code
Enforcement, by Carla Dorsey

 


 

Volume XII, Number 2, Summer 2005

Article

Microcredit Extension in the Wake of Conflict: Rebuilding the Lives and Livelihoods of Women and Children Affected by War, by Lisa Avery

Editor’s note

Article

Equity Between the Public and Private Sectors: The Need for Compensatory Time Legislation for the Private Sector, by J. Marshall Wolman

Notes

Not Quite "Family Friendly": Amending the Fair Labor Standards Act to Provide Comp Time May Hurt Welfare Leavers and Their Families, by Melissa Felder

Systems of Oppression: The Collateral Consequences of Incarceration and Their Effects on Black Communities, by Margaret E. Finzen

Children Lost in the Drug War: A Call for Drug Policy Reform to Address the Comprehensive Needs of Family, by E. Michelle Tupper

 


 

Volume XII, Number 1, Spring 2005

Essay

Where Race Meets Class: The 21st Century Civil Rights Agenda, by Peter Edelman

Articles

Bureaucratic Disentitlement after Welfare Reform: Are Fair Hearings the Cure?, by Vicki Lens

Getting Beyond Yes to Collaborative Justice: The Role of Negotiation in Community Lawyering, by David Dominguez

The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001: The Triumph of School Choice over Racial Desegregation, by Nick Lewin

Notes

A Helping Hand: Full-Service Community Schools as a Model for Educating Low-Income Children, by Ron Lee

Fare or Unfair? The Importance of Mass Transit for America's Poor, by Patrick Moulding

The Ghetto Prison: Federal Policy Responses to Racial and Economic Segregation, by Thaddeus J. Hackworth

 


 

Volume XI, Number 3, Fall 2004

Articles

Welfare and the Politics of Race: Same Tune, New Lyrics?, by Peter Edelman

Building Assets for Women: A Guide to Designing Individual Development Accounts for Low-Income Women, by Therese S. Leung

Restoring Justice: How Congress Can Amend the One-Strike Laws in Federally-Subsidized Public Housing to Ensure Due Process, Avoid Inequity, and Combat Crime, by Paul Stinson

Notes

The Homeless Mentally Ill and Guardianship: An Assessment of Current Issues in Guardianship and Possible Application to Homeless Mentally Ill Persons, by Neha Patel

The Forgotten Type of Capital: Addressing the Social Capital Deficiency in the Inner City, by Willie Brown

Teaching and Learning in the Face of School Violence, by Joseph Lintott

 

 

Revised July 23, 2008 (SSC)