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    The Unrealized Promise of Goldberg v. Kelly 

    Weinert, Nathan C.
    Goldberg v. Kelly was an important case for welfare rights lawyers. It unquestionably gave them something to cheer about because it ensured that people like John Kelly could not lose their welfare benefits because of a ...
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    IMF Conditionality and the Economic, Social and Cultural Rights of the Poor in Developing Countries 

    Ndoping, Judith
    The policies that countries agree to follow as a condition for borrowing from the IMF have a profound impact on economic and social rights safeguarded by the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights ...
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    The Privatization of Social Service Programs 

    Collins, Milton R.
    The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PWRORA) represented a major shift in the national welfare system. It allows states the option of providing welfare-related services to the ...
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    Socioeconomic and Geographical Inequalities in Mental Health Combining Social and Health Sector Perspectives 

    Kurkis, Gregory M.
    Through personal observations and discussion with both practitioners and administrators, I developed an informed perspective on many of the issues that exist at the intersection of poverty and mental health. At the conclusion ...
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    Zero Hunger: President Luiz Inacio "Lula" da Silva's Bold Reform of Public Assistance in Brazil 

    Brown, Mackenzie
    This paper seeks to better understand the existing programs that comprise Fome Zero and how the current programs have positively impacted the impoverished in Brazil. Because of the program's weaknesses, this paper also ...
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    An Unlikely Opposition: Examining Political Threats to the American Welfare State 

    Wilson, Jordan
    . . . the paper opens with a consideration of the harms of a political trend hostile to government social spending. Based on evidence from the current U.S. model as well as European welfare states, I assume that government ...
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    Race and Welfare: The Unspoken Variable 

    Timoll, Jason A.
    In order to analyze racial discrimination in the distribution of government welfare benefits, one must establish whether or not such problems exists, whether and how they may be documented, whether the problem is isolated ...
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    Social Service Vouchers: Eliminating Poverty by Including Sectarians in a Constitutional Manner 

    Wood, Clayton S.
    In the first section of the paper I will begin by describing the state of welfare at the end of the old system, then I will discuss the changes that were made to the system, and then I will discuss the system as it is set ...
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    Hugo Chávez's Anti-Poverty Legacy: A Complicated Case 

    Greenberg, Ali
    This paper aims to assess the positive and negative legacies of Chávez's anti-poverty policies and their future in a nation on the brink of resource exhaustion and political deterioration. It will first provide a review ...
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    Food Freedom: Combatting Paternalism in SNAP 

    Akin, Laurie Allison
    The purpose of this paper was to state the case that we ought not to restrict sugar-sweetened beverages from SNAP because it would be ineffective, stigmatizing, paternalistic, and would violate human capabilities. Moving ...
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