Poverty Law Prof Blog

Features news, cases, books and analysis relating to poverty law.

Author: Ezra Rosser, an assistant professor of law at Washington College of Law, American University, and Lowell Kent Hull, an adjunct associate professor of law at Notre Dame Law School, edit Poverty Law Prof Blog, which is part of the Law Professor Blogs Network.

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Recent Posts from Poverty Law Prof Blog

Downward Mobility: The Formerly Middle Class
The popular press (and to some degree academics as well) likes to focus on the middle class squeeze, see House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform page on the Middle Class Squeeze here, which when…
New paper on Inter-Nation Equity (through Tax)
Kim Brooks has posted "Inter-Nation Equity: The Development of an Important but Underappreciated International Tax Value" to SSRN. Having been impressed by a related presentation by Kim Brooks at the Valparaiso Law, Poverty, & Economic…
American Enterprise Institute publications of interest on poverty
The American Enterprise Institute has two newer books that might be of interest, even if their stance is not that of most of the reports posted (the political perspective of the AEI can be found…
Report of interest: Towards a Shared Recovery
Report: Towards Shared Recovery, by the Coalition on Human Needs and ActNow Emergency Campaign for America's Priorities, presents an economic package which would both boost the economy and help those most in need. The press…
Return to Keynesian Economics and Bottom-Up Bailout?
What the Obama post-victory economic plan will be is not known at this moment (the campaign version is here), but could it mean a return to Keynesian economics? Or to the New Deal--or the New…
Worth Reading: Krugman on Obama and Progressive Agenda (plus editorial on shelters)
See Paul Krugman (winner of the Nobel prize), "The Obama Agenda," New York Times, Nov. 7, 2008. Another editorial of note (thanks to Stephanie Humphries): Editorial, "Good Neighbors," New York Times, Nov. 7, 2008 (noting…
Good blog posting with audio links on the financial crisis
Posted by William Henderson on the Empirical Legal Studies Blog... -E.R. erosser@wcl.american.edu
Two new articles of interest posted to SSRN
From SSRN Economic Inequality and Law Abstracts: William E. Forbath, The Politics of Race, Rights and Needs -- And the Perils of a Democratic Victory in Post-Welfare America, 20 Yale Journal of Law and Feminism…
'08 Mayors' Action Forum on Poverty Report
The United States Conference of Mayors' Sep. 2008 Report, "National Action Agenda on Poverty for the Next President of the United States" can be found here. It is very short but interesting. Thanks go to…
Overview of the economy and the election thanks to "Good"
Readers of this blog, VOTE. Please. I found a link from Starbucks of all places to "Good" which has a overview of election issues and of the economy (from the goodsheet) that might be of…