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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
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
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